Restful Recipes

Good morning, sweet friends!! We made it through, all the plants are safe, thanks be to God!!! We are tired but we are grateful!!!

Now I can get back to some of these other good things I had to put off - like these recipes for sleep pillows and sachets!! First, let me tell you a few things about sleep pillows that you may not know. It does not actually have to be a pillow. it can be a sachet that hangs on a door knob or bedpost, as it does not have to be under your pillow to work. That being said, you can make them in sachet form for say, a baby's room, for soothing sleep without worry about a pillow in a crib. Or hang on in the guest room, or simply because some people are uncomfortable with anything under their pillow (you remember the Princess and the Pea!!). They can be made as a flat pillow, and I do not still have my pictures of some that I made, but I did them with various cotton fabrics, including vintage ticking and vintage pillow case fabric or old linen, and dressed them up with simple laces and ribbons.

Marji's Sleep Pillow

1 cup sweet woodruff
1/2 cup lavender flowers
1 cup hops flowers
1/2 cup pinhead orris root tossed with 1/2 teaspoon
oil of lavender

Flower-Mint Sleep Mix

2 cups rose petals
2 cups spearmint (Mint the Best)
1 tablespoon ground cloves
1 tablespoon pinhead orris root


Headache Pillow

2 parts lavender
1 part lemon thyme
1 part lemon verbena
1 part sweet woodruff
a pinch of rosemary


Geranium Pillow

4 parts rose scented geranium leaves
1 part lavender
1 part hops
1 or 2 drops rose geranium oil on a small piece of
cotton wool

Baby's Gentle Sleep Pillow

2 parts lavender flowers or rose petals
1 part sweet woodruff


I hope you have fun experimenting with these!! Aromatherapy is a very old practice and I am glad to see that we are coming back to it. No self-respecting Victorian lady would lay down without a frilly little pillow filled with lavender or rose petals!! Sweet dreams, my special friends, and restful thoughts of spring!!!

Blessings,
Marji