Now what are you going to do with all that Lavender!!!

Now...I have not posted in my blog for a while...But that is another story. People these days seem to favor destruction in order to find out what really makes them tick...but seriously how many more Walmart stores can your future offspring endure!!! After all, almost everything has been done these days including chasing Pokémon on ones' electronic gadget at the Louvre on an expensive trip to Paris. Now,  that is a true discovery!

So, I thought about going back to roots...

Yeah let us talk about plants. Lavender to be more specific. .

As I told/shown you on one of my previous posts you can make plants out of plants. The question is what you are going to do with all those blossoms after you picked them time and time again? If you are an "annual" enthusiast, you do "nada" because you won't have any lavender to deal with anyway. So you can indulge in gossip or watch the local news or even watch a sports game or two in the man cave you believe to have control over. If that does not apply to you, you do have a couple of options.

You might need to get your creativity going. As such you might want to go to church or just burn a bit of "Palo Santo" for inspiration in the privacy of your own home.

1. You can look at your lavender plant time and time again, while being eaten by mosquitos and sip cranberry juice or wine. That is if you live in the burbs of the tri state area. If that does not apply to you than only you know the insects in your area as I don't live there. 

2. You could harvest your lavender, let it dry and put the blossoms in colourful sachets...

Which you could place on top of a nice vintage piece and sniff when it tickles your fancy for months to come.....

You could just boil up the buds and make the house smell good on smelly stuffy cold Winter days...

You might just want to burn those buds on your "manual" incense burner...

You might however want to have a go at the creation of lavender oils, which you might want to rub yourself with, after a senseless day at work.

For that you will need jojoba, sesame or almond oil, a mortar and pestle, a clean small cotton cloth and some lavender buds of course. 

No, I am not making a caipirinha.  I just did not have a mortar and pestle. You can wash your caipirinha etui after you finish, if you don't possess a round the mil mortar and pestle...but then again no one ever got sick from too much lavender in the caipirinha. Yep, a bit of lavender is even good in tea some claim...

 So there you go. You squish as much of the bud/oil  combo as you can with your pestle. You pour as much of it as you can onto that clean cotton cloth and squeeze the scented mixture into a small container...You repeat the process adding fresh buds to the old mixture as you go along. In other works squish, squeeze add..squish, squeeze add...Finally, you should end up with a very scented oily mixture which you should pour into a dark glass bottle.

You must store it in a cool dark place and retrieve it to rub selective body parts whenever/wherever it tickles your fancy. Mind you it can relieve stress and ease tired muscles. It works well as a nice rub after a warm bath in Winter. 

What you are still not happy? So take one of those sachets and put it in your knicker drawer. There is no reason to walk around with smelly knickers when there is a surplus of lavender...

BTW for all my American friends knickers mean "undies"