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DIY: Make Your Own Winter-Scented Potpourri

Create your own potpourri with real fruit, pine cones and spices that will radiate your home with fragrance

Manuela Fucà
Manuela Fucà9 December 2016
Mi chiamo Manuela e sono una blogger appassionata di arredamento, casa e cucina. Sono una persona molto creativa e amo condividere i miei piccoli e grandi progetti di fai da te con i miei lettori, gli amici e la famiglia sul mio blog My Roseinitaly My name is Manuela and I am a blogger passionate about furniture, home and kitchen. I am a very creative person and I love to share my small and large projects of DIY with my readers, friends and family on my blog My Roseinitaly.
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Manuela Fucà
My daughter and I love to collect pine cones and decorate our home with them in the winter. We use them to create Christmas decorations and an enticing all-natural potpourri.

At this time of the year, it’s easy to find beautiful pine cones in different shapes. Combine them with an apple, an orange, star anise and cinnamon to give your home the aroma of a cake baking in the oven on a chilly evening.

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Manuela Fucà
Materials:
  • 1 apple
  • 1 orange
  • Baking pan
  • Parchment paper
  • About 20 small pine cones
  • 1 cup star anise pods
  • ½ cup chopped cinnamon sticks
Manuela Fucà
1. Cut the apple and orange horizontally into quarter-inch slices and lay them out to dry for a day.
Manuela Fucà
2. The next day, lay the slices on a baking pan lined with parchment paper. Bake at 225 degrees Fahrenheit (110 degrees Celsius) for three to four hours.
Manuela Fucà
3. Turn off the oven, open the door and let the fruit slices cool.
Manuela Fucà
They will look like this after they have dried and cooled.
Manuela Fucà
4. On a large plate, combine the dried fruit with the pine cones, star anise and cinnamon.
Manuela Fucà
The result looks stunning, and the fragrance makes any corner of the house cozy. Mix the potpourri from time to time to release its aroma.

Tip: You can put your potpourri in a glass jar and dress it up with a nice jute ribbon for a special gift.


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