Thanksgiving has many scents associated with it - the savory smell of dinner cooking, the aroma of crisp air and leaves, the delicious smell of pumpkin and pecan pies. Essential oils, too, can add to the sensory delight of Thanksgiving. Here are some tips on how to use essential oils to enhance enjoyment of the holiday.

- Before your guests arrive, set the mood in the living room or wherever your guests will be gathering by diffusing a few drops of either a blend of cinnamon, clove and orange oils, or a blend of cinnamon, clove and vanilla oils. Set out a few clove-studded oranges to add additional aroma and give a pretty visual to go with the scent wafting through the living room. These aromas will harmonize with any cooking odors that may drift in from the kitchen.

- If you have pets, a drop of geranium oil on a cotton ball in your vacuum cleaner bag will help take away pet odors.

- If you have one room set aside for children to play in, fill it with scents they love. Most children like simple aromas, and especially like citrus scents like tangerine, lemon and grapefruit. Choose one and add a few drops to a diffuser in the children's' room.

- If you are concerned about strong cooking odors, boil a large pot of water, remove it from heat and add a drop or two of clove oil. This will diminish the cooking odors, and will blend well with the scents in the other rooms.

- During dinner, enjoy the delicious food aromas!

- After dinner, use scent blends like basil and rosemary or lavender and grapefruit for a relaxing but conversation-stimulating atmosphere.

- To kill germs and minimize odors in the bathroom, use a blend of lavender and thyme. You can put a pretty little bowl of pebbles on top of the toilet or on the counter top and sprinkle a few drops of the blend on top.

- If you and your guests will be out of doors in the evening, use lemon eucalyptus oil as an insect repellent. If you can't find lemon eucalyptus, citronella will do a good job, too.

- Prevent the spread of illness in crowded sleeping rooms with a blend of eucalyptus, tea tree and lavender oils in a diffuser, or a few drops in the water of a humidifier.

- To further minimize the spread of germs during the holidays, make some natural hand sanitizer with essential oils and use it frequently. See the Resources section for a link to the article "How to Make a NATURAL Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer Using Aromatherapy."

- Create a luxurious shower experience for sleepover guests by putting a small bowl of salts with a few drops of essential oils on them in the corner of the shower. Grapefruit oil makes a refreshing shower oil, or if you want your bathroom to smell like a spa, use rosemary and geranium. A blend of juniper and rosemary will be detoxifying and energizing for anyone suffering from a food hangover.

- Anyone who has a little indigestion the day after can take an aromatic bath. Add two drops each of lavender, grapefruit, and rosemary to a tablespoon of oil and then swirl it into the bath water.
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Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries had its humble beginnings as an idea of a few artisans and craftsmen who enjoy performing with live steel fighting. As well as a patchwork quilt tent canvas. Most had prior military experience hence the name.

 

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Vendertainers that brought many things to a show and are know for helping out where ever they can.

As well as being a place where the older hand made items could be found made by them and enjoyed by all.

We expanded over the years to become well known at what we do. Now we represent over 100 artisans and craftsman that are well known in their venues and some just starting out. Some of their works have been premiered in TV, stage and movies on a regular basis.

Specializing in Medieval, Goth , Stage Film, BDFSM and Practitioner.

Patchwork Merchant Mercenaries a Dept of, Ask For IT was started by artists and former military veterans, and sword fighters, representing over 100 artisans, one who made his living traveling from fair to festival vending medieval wares. The majority of his customers are re-enactors, SCAdians and the like, looking to build their kit with period clothing, feast gear, adornments, etc.

Likewise, it is typical for these history-lovers to peruse the tent (aka mobile store front) and, upon finding something that pleases the eye, ask "Is this period?"

A deceitful query!! This is not a yes or no question. One must have a damn good understanding of European history (at least) from the fall of Rome to the mid-1600's to properly answer. Taking into account, also, the culture in which the querent is dressed is vitally important. You see, though it may be well within medieval period, it would be strange to see a Viking wearing a Caftan...or is it?

After a festival's time of answering weighty questions such as these, I'd sleep like a log! Only a mad man could possibly remember the place and time for each piece of kitchen ware, weaponry, cloth, and chain within a span of 1,000 years!! Surely there must be an easier way, a place where he could post all this knowledge...

Traveling Within The World is meant to be such a place. A place for all of these artists to keep in touch and directly interact with their fellow geeks and re-enactment hobbyists, their clientele.

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