Quick and easy.

Shiny copper pots for the holidays.

Maybe you use your copper pots every day, as I do, or you like to have them sparkle for the holidays. 

There is a painless and quick way to make them shine. 

All you need is CLR (available in every hardware store) 
coarse salt, a lemon, a sponge and gloves. 

No need to scrub,

just glide a corner of your CLR soaked sponge over pot.

Dip a lemon, cut in half, in coarse salt and rub.  

Let rest a minute. 

Wash with soap and water.  

Dry immediately or it leaves streaks. 

One more pot to go. 

Caution: do not let CLR stand on natural stone surfaces.

Unlike copper polish,  
CLR rinses clean and does not leave a residue. 

(CLR meets U.S. EPA Safer Product Standards).

I use my copper pots every day. 

They hang from bicycle hooks. 
More friendly than metal hooks. 

Wishing you a happy week.

Gina  

Rose Petal Potpourri

Do save your rose petals.

And make an old fashioned Moist Potpourri.

Loved by Gertrude Jekyll: "The dry is much the easier and quicker to make, but is neither so sweet nor so enduring".



 Making moist Rose Potpourri is very easy, it is the oldest way of making Potpourri. 

Layer rose petals and coarse non-iodized salt in a non-porous container.

Ratio of 3 to 1, petals to salt.

As more of your roses fade add them to the mix, adding more salt as well.  Keep in dark place and stir with a wooden spoon now and then. 

 This is my moist potpourri, more than 20 years old.

Still has the most divine and mysterious perfume. 

I know, it's not very pretty.

It is meant to be hidden in a beautiful and perforated container. 

You may want to add the following: Lavender Flowers, Rose Geranium Leaves, Essential Oils, Lemon Peel, Orange Peel, powdered orris root.

Your moist potpourri is ready to use in about 6 months.

Have a lovely week my dear

Blogging Friends.

Gina

Partial re-post, August 2012