Bottled Blossoms

Bottled Blossoms will be at the Craft Fair at OES 390 Faith Lodge TOMORROW:
📅 Friday, November 6
🕘 9 AM–5 PM
📍 115 Lafayette Dr, Oak Ridge, TN

Home from the forest, roots and all. 🧺
Today the little witch, Willow, is at the cottage table doing the unglamorous part: scrubbing the soil off those dandelion roots, chopping them fine, and into the pot they go — the start of a tincture that will sit and steep until it's ready to be bottled.
The black kitten, Jack, has inspected every root personally. Quality control is a serious position in this cottage.

Have you been lying awake with your mind still racing long after the lights go out? Do you want to settle into the evening and drift off easy? You should try Moonlit Serenity.

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The first truly cold night of November is coming, friends of the forest. ❄️
The little witch, Willow, wants to know — which one are you?
A) The first to light the kettle — a warm, spiced cup before anything else
B) Out the door for a walk under the early stars, scarf and all
C) A blanket, a book, and absolutely nowhere to be until morning
D) In the pantry by lantern-light, taking stock of what's left of autumn
Tell us your letter — and if you're a mix, we want the whole recipe. 🐈‍⬛ Jack has already chosen C. Jack always chooses C.

Have you been eating like Halloween never ended? Do you want your stomach to forgive you and get back to work?
You should try Belly Bliss — ginger root, lemon verbena, chamomile, and peppermint: the cottage's after-dinner peace treaty, blended for the meals that were worth it.
Teas with a Purpose — 3.2 oz jar, $20.
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🌿 Herb lesson: the dandelion didn't die. It moved house.
All summer, the dandelion spends itself above ground — leaves, flowers, seeds on the wind. But come autumn, it pulls everything it made down into one thick taproot and waits out the winter underground. That root becomes the storehouse: it's where the plant banks its summer.
That's why herbalists dig dandelion roots in the fall and not the spring. A fall root is full and rich — packed with a storable sweetness called inulin — while a spring root has already spent itself growing. Same plant, same ground. The season decides what's in the root.
So when you see bare stems and think the garden is empty… the treasure just went below. ✨

Everyone thinks the dandelions are gone. 🌼
The flowers are — but Willow knows where they went. Down. So she and Jack have taken a basket and a digging fork into the November woods, and they're coming home with roots as thick as your thumb.
Jack supervises. He is very good at finding the exact spot you are about to dig. 🐈‍⬛
What do you think they're making? Wrong answers welcome.