“Let’s go girls!” Home Spa Party with friends

Originally published in my second book, “Welcome Home,” this is the way to transform your home into a girlfriend’s spa getaway for the weekend. Treat your friends and yourself to these luxurious indulgences.

• Purchase spa products by Crabtree and Evelyn, Caswell Massey, Philosophy, Origins OR make your own.
• Clear out your living room or family room, rent or purchase yoga DVDs, and take a fitness”class.”
• Create spa gift baskets for your guests. Include: mesh sponges, pumice stones, fun nail polishes, lipsticks, magazines, and bottles of Perrier or Evian.
• Light naturally scented candles everywhere (Aveda makes some that are scented with all natural ingredients and essential oils.)
• Give each other pedicures, manicures, facials, and massages, or hire a professional massage therapist who will make home visits.
• Watch “chick flicks” such as Because I Said So, Marie Antoinette, or The Holiday, and eat popcorn sprinkled with a little parmesan cheese.
• Set up your CD player and play relaxing spa music. I like anything by Enya, Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, and “White Stones” by Secret Garden.
• Make sure everyone brings comfy jammies, slippers and robes.

• Serve Grand Wailea cucumber spa water, flavorful salads, whole grain crackers, hummus or any of your favorite, nutritious dishes.

~ Grand Wailea Cucumber Spa Water ~

1/2 gallon purified or still spring water

3 or 4 thin slices cucumber (unpeeled)

2 thin slices lemon (optional)

Place everything in a glass container with a tight fitting lid. Refrigerate for 12 hours. Serve.

Enjoy!

~Melissa

“Most of us dream of being the perfect hostess. this means being well organized far enough ahead of time to allow for a hot bath, a short rest, and time to put on a pretty frock and spray yourself with White Lilac. This never, never happens to me.” 🙂

-Gladys Taber “Stillmeadow Cookbook” 1947