HOW TO: Refill a Bath & Body Works Wallflower Bulb

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Today I'm coming atcha with this quick easy peasy tutorial on how to refill your Bath & Body Works Wallflower bulbs. 

If you are like me, you are TOTALLY in love with all things Wallflower from Bath & Body Works. No joke I could spend an entire commission from a wedding shoot on wallflowers and their accessories.And that's saying something. 

Lately, business has been slow, we spend a boat load -- see what I did there -- of cash on the cruise and a IDK if I mentioned this or not, but my husband had a serious accident and dislocated his elbow just over a month ago, so we've got the medical bills pouring in. So we are trying to really watch our nickels and dimes, more than usual. Just as fall weather started to kick in around our little rhelm here in south central Kentucky, I went ahead and purchased refills for my 4 wallflowers (Living Room, Kitchen,  Hallway, Bathroom) in the scent "LEAVES." It's my all time favorite fall fragrence from B&BW. I was so sad when we got back from vacation and saw that all of that pretty brown liquid had been used up. So I decided to wait a few weeks before buying actual LEAVES refills (gotta have them for Thanksgiving when we host some of my family!) and refill them myself. It is so super stinking easy. Let me share with you how to do it.

Ok, here's whatcha need:

Your Bulb

A Pair of pliers (I use needlenose)

A flat head screwdriver

Essential Oil (whatever scent you like best, I'm using lavendar)

Water

Patience

I don't include detailed step by step photos because it was more work taking the pictures than it is to just explain it. So here we go.....

HOW TO:

1. Unplug your wallflower from the wall and unscrew your bulb.
2.  Take your flat head screw driver and pry open the white plastic stopper. This could take some time, especially if it's never been "un-stopped" before. 
3. Use your pliers if you need to an help the stopper and the stem come out of the glass bulb.
4.  Rinse out your stem using warm water. For Heaven's sakes watch out for the little nail at the top,                   that sucker is sharp. Be sure to rinse it out THOROUGHLY otherwise your scents will mingle. Not always a good thing.
5. Squeeze out all of the water in the stem.
6. Rinse out your glass bulb with warm water.
7. Using your favorite scent of Essential Oil (I've been using lavendar) fill the bulb about 1/4th of the way up. Don't over use your Essential Oil, it's very strong.
8. Fill the rest of the bulb up with water. Stop at the widest point of the bulb. You have to leave room for the stem and the stopper.
9. Slide the stem back into the bulb and use your pliers to help slide the stopper back into place.
10. Wipe everything down, screw the bulb back into the plug and plug it all back into the outlet. 

I got all 4 plugs refilled in less than 5 minutes! 

A  normal wallflower bulb refill costs $6.50. Or you can get a 2 pack for $12.50. The essential oil I use is by Eden's Garden (you can also get a 6 pack of different scents for like $19.99, all at Amazon.com) and costs $6.25 for the bottle. It is a 10 ml bottle. I've already refilled all 4 of my bulbs twice using the Essential Oil and haven't even used a 3rd of the bottle yet. It's a terrific way to save some $$ and keep your house smelling yummy all at the same time. I still buy the refills from B&BW, especially if they are having a $3.00 sale (can't pass that up), but I mostly just buy them for the special occasions. If we are having a group of people come over, holidays, etc. For every day useage I'm perfectly content using the DIY method and refilling my bulbs. 

Hope you all enjoyed this little tutorial and use it sometime soon. I'm already enjoying the cozy scent of Lavendar and I just refilled them 10 minutes ago! Let me know what scents you come up with! Thanks for stopping by!

Happy DIYing!!

Missy

*** I'm not being perked by Bath & Body Works, Eden's Garden or Amazon.com to praise their products, I JUST LOVE THEM! 

Where In the World Have I Been?!

I bet you're thinking I've run off an abandoned you. Aren't you? Never fear. I'm here, alive. Promise.

I've been gallivanting around the Atlantic Ocean. Literally.

Yes. Aaron and I were fortunate enough to be able to go onour first vacation since we got married last week. Yeah, we've been married for 4 years and this was the very first vacation we've taken. Aaron has worked very very hard this past year in order to be able to make this vacation a special one.

We took a cruise to the Bahamas. Some people thinking a cruise is a blah vacation, and some people think it's the bees knees. This was our first experience. It was a great one.

We were lucky enough that this was a family vacation. Aaron's older sisters and their family's went with us and several of Aaron's cousins made the trek as well. We left from Jacksonville, FL on 10/5 and cruised to Nassau and Half Moon Cay. We ended up going with Carnival Cruise Line, simply because that's the line everyone else had already booked with by the time we decided to go for it.

We were slightly concerned - and when I say "slightly" I mean, we lost sleep - over the fact that there was a hurricane brewing in the Gulf and that the weather reports were saying weather in Nassau was going to be nasty, right around the time we were going to be docking for the day. So all the wives were calling back and forth trying to create Plan B's. However, the weather turned out to be BEAUTIFUL! It rained one night during dinner and then on our way home on the last day.....and that was the saddest day ever. 1) we were sailing home. 2) it ruined any chance of further burning my pasty white skin while I snoozed by the pool. 3) the bad weather caused the water to be ever-so-choppy and therefore caused lil ol' me to be ever-so-sea sick.

But never the less, that is where I have been. Planning like a mad woman and packing and travelling etc etc.

So...whats in store for this week on "The Simple Life?" Well, I'm going to let everyone in on the planning methods I used to pack and plan for the trip, not to forget how much money we saved and how we did it. I was busy all day today trying to film a video for the Simple Life Youtube Channel about how I created a pantry in my kitchen for $50. However, it's kind of hard to explain to everyone the sheer awesomeness of my little DIY Pantry when there is NO FOOD in it. I cleaned us out before the trip so nothing would spoil. So we are running on empty around here. So....that will have to wait until the next Save A Lot trip. I'm considering tackling my nasty/gross/disgusting/unorganized (yes, there is such in this OCD home) hall closet tonight, maybe tomorrow, and you could possibly be invited to join me on that little trip. But then again, maybe not.....our hall closet is a disaster. It's the whole "out of sight, out of mind," thing.

Yeah, I'm rambling......

Thanks so much for hanging in there with me!


Glad to be back on dry land....I'm still swaying. :(

Missy