hot/cold pillow

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My boyfriend loves hawaii. He just closed on some land there, and he'll have a vacation/retirement house (yurt!) there in couple of years. Meanwhile, his stateside house, has a sunporch that he's doing tastefully tropical. Its an old house, and the sunporch is badly insulated. it gets ice cold in the winter and blazing hot in the summer.

So,keeping all of that in mind, i made him what my mom calls "a pet." i don't know about that, but its basically a pillow (mine weighed in at a whopping 8.5 pounds!) with chambers (so that the contents don't all settle into one end of the pillow because of gravity!) full of long grain rice and rosemary. The rice, when heated in the microwave (for my big pillow, i experimented, its about 9 minutes in the microwave, switching the order of the chambers every 3 minutes for even heating, keeps the pillow hot for up to an hour. the rosemary makes it smell unbelievable.

i made the pillow itself out of whte cotton, then i made a case out of some hawaiian looking fabric and i finished it off with a bambooish looking button.
The "pet" can also be frozen, for a cooling effect.

I also  made homemade chocolate covered macadamia nuts.




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its hard to see, but this is the actual pillow. note chambers.



oh, i got him a movie too.                           

                              
macadamia nuts. i'm going to tell him that i fed nuts to my ferrets and they shat them out, like civets.