Christina Blume
blumesfarm@mindspring.com 303 477 5585
Herbalist Christina Blume has been teaching in the Denver area for more than ten years at Denver Botanic Gardens, local colleges, garden centers and KMGH channel 7 Sunday mornings and Denver radio. Now offering fun herbal gift classes for your private groups. Garden groups, wedding and baby showers, birthday parties, sororities, church/spiritual groups, workplace special events and social gatherings. Classes are great fun, bring out the creative potential in all of us and you’ll always have wonderful handmade gifts on hand for birthdays, hostess gift etc. Minimum fee $275.00 which usually requires 6-10 students per class OR a higher fee per student. Classes are approximately 2 hours unless otherwise noted.
2006 Class Descriptions
Natural Skin Care
See how easy and inexpensive it is to make your own facial steams with
herbs, cleansing grains and creams, wonderful masques, including alpha
hydroxy, herbal toners and astringents, and a rich creamy moisturizer that contains far more nutrients and anti-oxidants for your skin than anything available commercially.
Learn a few tricks for blemishes and how to make an oil blend for those tiny wrinkles around the eyes as well as a healing lip balm.
$35.00 each-everyone takes home an extensive handout, bag of steaming herbs, a month supply jar of moisturizer and a pot of lip balm. After using the moisturizer from class you and your skin will never again be satisfied with anything less.
OR
$50.00 each everyone takes home all of the above plus a six weeks worth of toner, masque and under eye nutrient.
Introduction to Aromatherapy
In this class you’ll learn aromatherapy basics. A little history, methods of use and safety, blending, pathways of absorption and of course, recipes. We’ll learn about and play with lavender, rosemary, clary sage, orange, lime, peppermint, tea tree, thyme, eucalyptus, and chamomile. You will take home an extensive handout full of recipes and information for first aid, body and beauty products and even some recipes for cooking with essential oils.
$35.00 everyone takes home a spritzer and personal inhaler and 26-page notebook OR $70.00 everyone takes home the above plus a basic set of 6 essential oils.
Easy Herbal Soapmaking
This is a demonstration class where you’ll learn how easy it is to make cold process soap in your own kitchen! Homemade soap contains moisturizing glycerin and is free of the harsh preservatives and other chemicals found in commercial soaps that can be so drying and irritating to skin. You'd never believe that soapmaking was this easy! Warning: soapmaking is addictive, but you'll never lack for a birthday, hostess, or shower gift for families and friends.
$35.00 everyone takes home a box of freshly poured soap and a handout with instructions, recipes and sources for all materials needed.
Making and Using Flower Essences
Flower essences are a form of vibrational healing similar to homeopathy and acupuncture. They are incredibly simple to make and wondrously effective for emotional, psychological, behavioral problems or traits such as procrastination, hyperactivity, jealousy, fear, lack of focused creativity, depression etc. They are practical and effective for our pets and children as well. There are no contraindications for flower essences; they can be used with any other form of treatment. $35.00 everyone takes home an extensive handout and an all purpose Trauma Remedy and a 2 ounce cobalt atomizer bottle for spritzing the flower essences in rooms, cars, on pillows or pet beds.
Herbal Gifts for Mothers Day
What better gift than a basketful of handmade herbal luxuries to pamper mom? It really is so easy to make bath salts, cologne spritzer/splash, solid perfume, moisturizing and cleansing body polish, cuticle cream, tub teas, herbal body powders, foot scrub, and the wonderful sole softener. $35.00 everyone takes home an extensive handout with all the recipes and a list of suppliers, solid perfume, spritzer/cologne and a tub tea.
Herbal Gifts for the Men in Your Life
Husband, dad, grandpa, uncle, son or friend will be delighted with this basket full of fun to make, more fun to give, herbal goodies. Includes
Herbal deodorant, spray and solid, soothing aftershave for sensitive skin, cologne,
lip balm to keep his kisser soft, cooling, relaxing foot soak, antifungal cooling foot powder, therapeutic neck pillow, trauma salve, potent aching or strained muscle salve, massage oils, edible and therapeutic, mustache wax, learn how to make a saw palmetto tincture, helpful for prostate in men over 45, and a mug of shaving soap.
$35.00 everyone takes home a bottle of the aftershave for sensitive skin, a cooling foot soak and massage oil.
Herbal First Aid Kits for Hiking and Biking
In this class you’ll learn how to make herbal first aid kits for minor emergencies to carry along on biking, hiking and camping trips. Be prepared to take care of bumps, bruises, burns, stop bleeding, shock etc. You can make your kit as basic and small or comprehensive and large as you wish. Many of the remedies can be made from the herbs growing in your gardens! You can also make the kits to give to family and friends. $35.00 everyone takes home an extensive handout and a bottle of Trauma Remedy flower essence, an eyewash packet and the wound salve.
Herbal Baby Care and Gifts
Learn how easy it is (and fun) to make a basket full of natural herbal baby products to replace the chemical and preservative filled commercial products available. Belly butter for the itchy pregnant belly, healing baby powder, moisturizing milk bath, tub teas for fussy baby or baby with diaper rash, Sitz bath tub teas for newly delivered moms, refreshing baby wipes, baby massage oil, teething oil for babies sore gums, diaper rash treatment and prevention balm, medicinal teas for increasing milk flow, decreasing milk when it’s time to wean, a calming tea blend for fussy babies, and more. This is a fun class for aunts and grandmas to be and of course, mom! $35.00 everyone takes home a jar of the diaper rash balm, a tub tea, and calm baby flower essence.
Medicinal Herbs for Colds and Flu
Learn how to prepare yourself for the cold/flu season by building your immune system with astragalus. If colds and flu do strike you’ll learn how to make your own medicines. Some herbs such as lomatium root and osha are very broad-spectrum anti-virals, with an affinity for the respiratory tract. Broad-spectrum anti-virals are not even available pharmaceutically. Many of the herbs are right in your garden such as Echinacea and elderberry and mullein. Did you know that elderberry (Sambuca) is effective against 7 different strains of flu? $30.00 everyone takes home a 2 oz. tincture of anti-viral blend and a 2 oz. tincture of Echinacea, extensive handout with recipes and resources.
Holiday Herbal Gifts
Make your gift giving special this year with hand made gifts that are so easy, but very special. You’ll learn to make wonderful chai mix, holiday cocoa mix and mulling spices for cider and wine, herbal bath bags, therapeutic neck and back pillows, wonderful sole softener, cologne spritzers and linen sprays, bath salts, salad dressing kits, men’s aftershave/cologne and herb infused oils for cooking and massage! There will be something easy and wonderful for everyone on your holiday list. $30.00 everyone will take home an extensive handout with recipes an herbal bath bag, a solid perfume, and a spritzer/cologne.
Home Herbal Medicine Chest
See how easy it is to create your own home herbal medicine chest. These are herbal analogs for the over the counter medicines that we have in our homes, remedies which address acute, self limiting, everyday ailments and emergencies such as cuts, wounds, burns, infections, gastrointestinal troubles, colds, flues, fevers, earaches, cramps, motion sickness, etc. It will be demonstrated how to easily make your own herbal tinctures, salves and medicinal teas. Everyone takes home an extensive handout with a list of suppliers plus a powerful anti-viral tincture, a wound healing salve, and medicinal tea. Class fee $45.00 (This class is closer to 3 hours because thee is so much information to cover).
Natural Remedies & Herbs for Our 4-Legged Family Members
In this class basic nutrition is covered plus herbal and other complimentary therapies to treat common maladies such as poor digestion, arthritis, allergies etc. There are also wonderful flower essences available to work on behavioral/emotional problems such as jealousy, fear of thunder and fireworks, loneliness, excessive barking, hyperactivity, bully tendencies, etc. You'll learn about many effective remedies to try at home first, before scheduling that trip to the vet. Everyone takes home an extensive handout, plus trauma remedy and an atomizer bottle. Class fee $ 35.00
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