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DIY Vanilla Extract

December 27, 2013

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Make, age and bottle your own vanilla extract!

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Way back in May, I did a post on how to make your own vanilla extract. Well, these bottles have been aging in the cabinet for the past seven months and it was time to bottle these babies up! With a little photo shop creativity and the perfect mini brown bottle, Justin and I created our very first batch of Bohemian Bunnie brand vanilla extract in 2 flavors–rum and vodka!

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Tucked away in the darkest cabinet, this bottle of aged rum and Madagascar vanilla beans saw daylight for the first time last week. Just in time to bottle up for Christmas.

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After the spirits and vanilla beans have aged anywhere from three months to a year, you’re ready to filter the extract. We used two easy things laying around the house…cheese cloth and a Keurig mesh coffee filter.

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The house smelled like I just baked cookies with all of these rum-soaked beans!

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We filtered the extract twice and then used the little funnel for the Keurig to bottle the extract in the sanitized bottles. Justin got creative with his drying method!

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Labels printed and ready to go! Each bottle got its own special edition number.

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Check back for more flavors from Bohemian Bunnie labs coming soon!

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Photos by Justin Zangerle

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  1. delabelle says

    December 28, 2013 at 5:30 am

    I love those labels!!

    http://www.delabellesbeautyblog.com

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    • Andrea says

      December 31, 2013 at 3:14 am

      Thanks! I thank my bf for being a photoshop pro:)

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  2. Naisenya says

    October 21, 2014 at 9:13 am

    This is great!! Where dd you get the bottles from? And did you age the vanilla in the bottles or in a larger container?

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Andrea Whitt



Andrea Whitt is an international touring and recording artist. She performs on viola, fiddle and pedal steel guitar alongside Italian artist Zucchero, toured with Shania Twain, recorded on Grammy award winning albums and has performed and recorded with dozens of other well known artists. Bohemian Bunnie was created from her passion for art, style and music. Painting since the age of two, and hoarding clothes since before she can remember, Bohemian Bunnie celebrates the intertwining of all of the arts. With Andrea’s international touring schedule, Bohemian Bunnie has become a creative journey overseas, and has been acclaimed in media and publications such as E! News, Brit + Co, and Marie Claire Taiwan.

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It’s been a while since I introduced myself. Hi! It’s been a while since I introduced myself. Hi! I’m Andrea Whitt, musician, artist, stylist and model. 
I get asked often about my pedal steel playing and thought I’d share a little of my musical journey.

My first instrument was guitar when I was 8. I was given an acoustic guitar for Christmas and by April I had taught myself a handful of songs that I had my friends sing along with me at my 9th birthday. That year I started playing viola, and went on to get my masters degree at University of Cincinnati CCM in viola performance. I was getting so tired of playing the same classical rep that I joined the jazz department. 
I moved to LA after college, and as a surprise to myself was able to support myself doing music full time. Except a gig as a spray tan artist, but that’s another story 🤣 A huge part of my musical career has been teaching private lessons, group classes and conducting youth orchestras. 

I played in rock bands, orchestras, did sessions, random gigs (many shitty ones) until I landed the gig with Shania Twain. I was hired as a violist and fiddle player. I purchased my first violin for this gig and went to local bluegrass jams to learn fiddle styles, definitely fell on my face every time. It was when I was in Shania’s band that I saw a pedal steel for the first time. I was obsessed. I immediately ordered one off of eBay and had it sent to my hotel room in Vegas. Being a Grateful Dead fan I decided the priority was to learn all of the iconic Jerry Garcia pedal steel solos. Note for note, I taught myself steel with all of Jerry’s signature licks.

Shortly after the Shania gig, I got hired to play in Zucchero’s band. A three year world tour to 48 countries. Even though I had only been playing steel for 3 years I got to perform on steel on a handful of songs every show. When you’re sitting at a new instrument in front of 20,000 people you learn fast!

Now pedal steel is just as much a part of my career as viola and fiddle. Thank you for supporting my journey, many of you have been following since my first steel post. I have lots of new announcements coming soon, thanks for joining me on this long strange trip!
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