http://whatscookingamerica.net/Lavender.htm
7 yrs. ago we moved to our current home and the biggest problem for me back then was the spiders! I was terrified of them. To the point that if my Realtor would have told me how many were around in this city, I would not have moved here! I remember one evening I was talking to my friend back in Kansas and what do I see flying down from my ceiling? A spider!
I thought I would never get used to them, but I have. I thought that was the last of the insect problem...think again!
I love shopping but in a one income family this is not something we can do all the time. When I am able to go shopping I like to buy pieces that would match pretty much everything else I already own. One morning as I was getting ready for church I put on a blouse I had only used once before and my husband notice I had some holes on the bottom front! I was like, "no way right?!"
This continued to happen with one blouse after another. At first we thought it could be my seatbelt. All the holes are around the bottom part of my blouses. It was so hard to have to throw a way a piece of clothing I had just bought! I started to do some google search and I came up with the reason for the holes on my clothing...
As you all have probably realized I have moths in my closet! Yes, these are more annoying than scary, but just as bad!
I've tried Cedar wood, Moth balls, Homemade Carpet powders, etc, etc, etc! Nothing! One of my new blouses I bought at Anne Taylor was just ruined and I am mad!
Now, back to "I did something I never thought I would." I went to the super market and bought Vodka! Yes, you read it right my friends, I bought a bottle of Vodka! It was so embarrassing trying to figure out what to buy and praying no one I knew would see me! I felt like I had to give an explanation to anyone that saw me on why I had a bottle of Vodka on my hands! When I went to pay for it I was asked for an ID...funny I thought since I'm 41, looks like this is what's suppose to be done by law. I even asked the guy checker, how to open the bottle. He looked at me like, "you are kidding me lady." No I was not kidding!
Anyways, I'm sure you are thinking, "what's the big deal!" It's probably something others do much, but for this church going girl, it was a big deal!
As many of you, I too am addicted to Pinterest and after my last blouse got bitten I had, had enough! I went looking for a solution that would help me prevent this horrible murder on my clothing. Yes, I am also addicted to homemade solutions.
I found this blog http://www.brownpaperpackagesep.blogspot.ca/2012/05/add-some-summer-freshness-to-your.html this was actually a post about a Linen Spray with Lavendar.
One of the things I found out about preventing Moths is the use of Lavender sprays and so I went ahead and wrote down the ingredients for this Linen Spray.
This is what you need:
2 Cups Distilled Water
4 oz. Vodka
40 Drops of Essential Oil (I used Lavendar)
Check out the blog above for the instructions.
The spray smells divine and I am spraying my clothes with it as I iron it and have also sprayed my closet. I pray this helps! If not, I went to buy Vodka for nothing!
What one will do to save her clothing, I tell ya!
