Inside: Up the ambiance of summer outdoor meals while helping keep mosquitoes at bay. These DIY insect repellant floating candle jars beautify your table and smell heavenly! Plus, a whole list of options for natural insect fighters including lemon, lime, rosemary, basil, and citronella. ⟹
I’m a sweet person. Or the mosquitos tell me so.
Pure bliss is a relaxed summer evening outdoors lingering and listening to the symphony of crickets and frogs at twilight with good friends and family gathered around the patio table.
Until everyone starts slapping themselves.
I use every weapon in my bug repellent arsenal to fight off the uninvited blood sucking dinner guests – a mosquito service, citronella oil tiki torches, right down to wrapping myself like a baby burrito in a beach towel.
I’m always looking for any additional ammo to add to ward off these tiny vampires (it’s not THAT kind of “twilight”).
So when I ran across this beautiful outdoor table luminary idea that naturally repels mosquitoes, I was drawn in.
Like a mosquito to uh, … me.
Because they looked so Ina Garten meets Williams-Sonoma meets coastal grandmother.
And bonus, they do double duty.
These decorations are not only lovely, but useful too!
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The decorative and aromatic solution to blood-sucking dinner guests.
Let’s make these super simple, super useful, super smelling table decorations!
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