How to use lavender in your kitchen.
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DIY Lavender Body Scrub
I stopped by my friend Mel's place on Saturday morning, and she showed me the DIY Body Scrub (lavender!) she made using these instructions.
The Lipper / Lavender Balm
I love hearing from readers who have started their own companies - love it. It's brave, and fantastic, and such an inspiration.
As an example: reader Susannah recently wrote to tell me that she started producing a line of balms called The Lipper, and that they sell...wait for it...a lavender flavor. Boom.
She sent some over for me to try, and it's lovely stuff - non-greasy, perfectly moisturizing, and, yes, smells exactly like lavender. I'm way early on this one, but it bears mentioning that this would make quite the stocking stuffer for those who are similarly obsessed with the stuff.
Lots more flavors available; check out the entire Acoustic Handmade shop here. (Susannah would also like to offer you free shipping on any order with the coupon code "ramshackleglam".)
DIY Fancy Lavender Water
You know how I’m always talking about making your own linen water? Here's a quick how-to video tutorial (click through link to view).
Oooh / Lavender Vodka Tonic
Just combine all ingredients in an ice-filled glass (or mason jar) and stir!
Try This Tuesday / Lavender Tea
I love applying lavender products externally - lavender water is a daily staple for me - and recently discovered lavender tea, which has the same lovely, soothing effect, and is a perfect way to wind down at the end of the evening.
PYO Lavender!
So it seems that New Jersey just got its very first U-Pick Lavender Farm - eek! (and yes, I'm 'eek'-ing about lavender).
DIY Wedding Favor / Lavender Sachets
I love lavender, as you may have noticed, and think that DIY lavender sachets make a beautiful (and inexpensive) gift. Just order tiny muslin bags (only $3.80 for 25 at sfherb.com) and loose lavender buds ($7.50 for a pound at sfherb.com), secure with a lovely piece of twine, and you’re done!
Lavender Linen Water
Lavender is my favorite scent for the home (for the body, I tend towards vanilla-y perfumes), and I’ve made it a habit to spritz our sheets with lavender linen water every night before we get into bed.
In Which We Reach The Limit Of My Abilities
I've gotten pretty handy over the years, mostly thanks to the presence in my life of a few Superwomen who have taught me how to do things like lay tile, resurface brick, and even demolish concrete (not the best idea for the old neck muscles, but surprisingly fun). And lord, do I wish those women lived near me still, because the house that I'm currently renting has alllllllll the project opportunities (yes, I fix up houses that I rent - you can read my rationale here).
In the course of my efforts to fix up certain elements of this house that I wasn't into, I've had some wins - painting my daughter's room, securing some maybe-going-to-fall-down ceiling panels, retiling my entryway step, suffocating weeds and replacing them with lavender and blueberry bushes, that sort of thing. But I've also had oh my god, some misses - like, for example, the linoleum kitchen floor that I covered (poorly) in stick-on tile that is MUCH better-suited to small spaces and apparently turns grey with any wear whatsoever.
Another fail: I used that same tile to cover a gross wall in the bathroom. I discovered that its stick-on powers did not extend to use on bathroom walls (or at least not somewhat uneven ones) around 2AM later that night, when I was awoken by the huge "bang" made by twenty tiles all falling off the wall and into my bathtub simultaneously. But was I to be deterred?!