October News: New Facebook Group/New Products
We’ve started a new Facebook Group: While we do have a FB business page, FB is limiting the reach of posts unless businesses pay to promote. This is a hardship on small businesses financially. While we are still posting, many of our posts are simply not reaching you on Facebook. Therefore, we have started a […]
Wreaths and Bouquets up on Etsy. Dried lavender shedding and more…
I’ve been super busy this past week and a half making bouquets and lavender wreaths. I finally got around to putting all the listings up on Etsy today. One of the number one complaints or questions I get about dried lavender is related to shedding. You certainly can minimize shedding by drying the bunches […]
Happy Fall! Happy Homecoming Season!
September has been a very busy month for us. I couldn’t resist posting a picture of my handsome son dressed for his homecoming dance. He is a senior this year so a year of a lot of “lasts”; last homecoming, last year of varsity swimming, and senior prom leading up to graduation. Conner is my […]
New Listings For September
We have some new listings this month in our shop. We have some lovely Grosso bouquets. These are available on our Etsy shop available here: www.etsy.com/listing/479009379/large-dried-grosso-lavender?ref=pr_shop Dried Grosso bundles are very long stemmed at 22 inches in length. They are highly aromatic and each bundle weighs approximately between 5-6 ounces. Grosso lavender is a intermedia […]
Updates Summer 2016
We are definitely into the dog days of summer here. The temperatures here in Southeastern Michigan have been in the 90s for last week and very humid indeed. Thank goodness for the wonders of central air! My very favorite season, fall, will be upon us soon. I love autumn in Michigan and all the […]
Lavender Bloom Times & Local Lavender Festivals
The lavender will be blooming across Michigan soon. While different varieties have different bloom times, most of our lavender blooms in late June to mid-July, some varieties into August. There are some varieties that bloom twice – also in the fall. Bloom times depend on your location in Michigan. Those farther north with a little […]
New Products This Summer
Mother’s Day Gift Ideas
Mother’s Day is coming up soon – May 8th, 2016. Just as I gave you some ideas for weddings earlier in the week and a gallery of photos from our shop with ideas, I’d like to do the same for Mother’s Day. I have included some of the beautiful gift ideas we have […]
Lavender Weddings!
Today I wanted to talk about how to use lavender for weddings. I love lavender and I incorporated it into my own small family wedding in 2013. Because fresh lavender was not in season in Michigan in mid-May, we used fresh lilac arrangements instead in a rustic mason jar. We picked our lilacs from our […]
Benefits of Beeswax
I’ve been asked why use beeswax for candles or why not use soy? When I began researching into making candles for my Etsy shop I looked at paraffin, soy, and beeswax. I had been a regular purchaser of Yankee soy candles in all their various scents. However, I did notice there were a lot of […]