Lavender Fragranced Flower Brooches

Hi - I've had a little break from blogging as I haven't been up to too much.  August was a terrible month weatherwise, which, after the lovely hot July we had here in the UK was very disapointing!  We've had alot of rain and wind and most days you just couldn't plan anything as the weather was so changeable.  Lots of summer events were cancelled as well which was a shame. 

Anyway - it's been alittle warmer and is supposed to be 'hotting' up over the next week so this will improve my mood for sure!

I've realised we are getting closer to Christmas and I will need to start making things ready for the Christmas Market that I am organising with a friend!  I really don't know where this year has gone, it's just flown by!

I've been making some felt flower brooches and decided that I wanted them to have a fragrance to them so the middles are stuffed with lovely freshly dried lavender from my garden.  A quick squeeze to the middle of the flower releases a gorgeous lavender smell.   These will be great to put onto winter coats as they are nice and bright and the lavender will keep the moths away!!

These are available to buy over on my Facebook page for £4 each plus postage.

I think I am alittle obsessed with lavender this year!!  I bought a tray of 10 lavender plants last week as they were on special offer at Lidl for only £3 so a bargain 30p a plant!!  I've potted them all up now so just hope they grow into nice, healthy bushes.

Lavender Bottles

I'm carrying on with the 'lavender' theme today as my room is full of drying lavender and smelling gorgeous!  Today I have used fresh lavender to make a lavender bottle.

I recently found a book on lavender at a cheap bookstore that is closing down for just 50p.  As well as lots of lavender information, there are some ideas of things to make with lavender.  This idea for lavender bottles appealed to me as you use fresh lavender on the stalk and weave ribbon into it so that when it dries out, the lavenders stays inside of the woven ribbon 'bottle'.

These were made in Victorian times to use for keeping drawers and cupboards smelling fresh and lovely.

I need to get some purple ribbon to match the lavender!  It uses quite a bit of ribbon and as I have a large roll of the red gingham I used that!

I'm quite pleased with it and I'm sure that as I make more of them, my technique will improve!