Soaps 4 sale

Just a quick note to say that most of my soaps are now available online for purchase, through my madeit shop.  Click my madeit button, blinkie, link and it will take you straight there. Thanks for looking!

Soap giveaway ends today,  the winner will be announced soon.

Botanicals

New botanicals will be available in store.  I have enough Lavender to last me through the winter and untill harvest begins this year so I have decided to make it available for purchase.  I also have enough gorgeous golden Calendula.  

Lavender Intermedia, suitable for craft, soaping etc, you are only limited by your imagination with these fragrant little flower beauties.  A blend of 20 varieties.

Lavender Intermedia

Lavender Angustifolia- Culinary Lavender

The only consumable Lavender recipes are available on my blog which is going to be updated over the next week or so with some really interesting flavours---... keep your eyes peeled.

 Lavender Angustifoila

Can also be used in soaping and craft.  The colour is more intense than the intermedia and smells sweet like lollies!
It is a favourite with my eye pillows.

Calendula Petals (Organic)

Calendula has a wide range of medicinal uses. It is a soothing tea for gastrointestinal problems, healing wash for skin wounds, easily infused into oil for a healing salve or balm. Great for baby nappy area.

Calendula also has the rare quality of keeping its colour during soap making. Unlike most herbal additives, calendula will not turn brown or black in a bar of herbal soap.

 
This years Harvest will be bigger than last as we have planted an extra 700 plants. This should mean that I will have a contant supply available to purchase.

My Madeit Shop

I finally made it onto "madeit!"  So exciting! I will be listing of the next week or so including my soaps.  You will be able to purchase my items, using paypal or direct debit.  Watch this space!!

Soap Giveaway

Soap Giveaway, be squeaky clean beautifully!

I have decided to have my 1st soap give away, my new range is nearly ready. To enter all you need to do is leave a comment below. Tell me what you love most about Lavender, or my blog. Your name will then go into the draw to win 3 beautiful soaps made by me, with complimentary post. You can gain an extra entry into the competition by spreading the word and getting one of your friends to mention your name (+ their own) in the comment. Don’t forget to check back to see if you or one of your friends have won!! (+ so that you can give me post details) Each soap is worth $6.00 each + postage!

You will be in the running to win these beauties.

1. Lavender Swirl with Cocoa Butter
2. Lime with Lavender Drop
3. Lavender, Pomegranite, Raspberry & Sage (my fav)

Soaps will be available for purchase from me and through my madeit store which I will have up and running hopefully by the end of the week.

Organic Weeders

Our newest funny looking family members...... Black headed fully shedding dorpers, in lamb.  They are not just here to look pretty, they have a job to do, weeding?!.   At the International Lavender Conference (TALGA) in Tassie I found it fascinating that people around the world in the Lavender business suffer from the same probems as we do, one huge one being weeds. Lots of idea's are thrown around but there are pros and cons for all of them, there never seems to be a "right thing to do" because all Lavenders grow & respond differently depending on where you live, even simple things can majorly affect the outcome.  Experimentation- see what's best for you and what works.  There was a guest speaker from France, a gorgeous girl, Catherine Liardet, she and her family have dedicated there lives to Lavender for over 100 years, they live as one with the lavender. I was Intrigued by her (& her accent, beautiful)  Catherines family, farm organically, they "let the sheep in to eat the weeds" before harvest.  This got me thinking.  I am not into chemicals, never really have been, (I clean with mostly with Enjo have done for years) I'd rather get down on my hands and knees and pull the weeds, (which is what we have been doing) but there are only 24 hours in a day, I need some help.  So sheep it is for us for a while. Hopefully they will save us some time?-(& not eat the lavenders)  Lots of hard work has been done in preperation, like fencing,  Michael and Pop have re fenced the whole house yard to sheep proof it, the fence & new gates look so good, great job boys- thankyou.x  All there is left to say now is "go sheep go, give all you've got!"..... but please don't eat my Lavenders.

 

Henry and I went to collect the eggs today, our chooks have been off the lay, we had been lucky to maybe get 2.. to our suprise there were eggs galore, I didn't go very prepared and so I had to use my beanie to carry them back to the house!

I will be cooking abit later.  I have really been wanting to make some Lemon Curd, our lemons are ripe on the tree, and now I can!  Maybe I might even share the recipe with you.

Old Fashioned Soap Balls

These soap balls are absolutely divine, jam packed skin loving ingredients,they contain generous amounts of luxurious oils, butters,clays botanicals, fragrances and Lavender Essential Oil .  No two are the same- French milled and gorgeous. Limited available
150g each

Wish you could smell these guys!

Way overdue for a catch up.....So how IS everyone?

 

Time flys when your flat out, doesn't it!! Since my last posting that's what I have been,... flat out. And having fun when I get the chance, which is normally at the expense of sleep- but we only live once, I'll catch on the sleep some other time. I have discovered a new passion in soaping, I am in love. I love the creativeness of it the transformation of it, the armoa, oh the aroma! The excitment of unmoulding to see if an idea worked out. I love looking at it too, photo's are cool, the whole experience is totally wicked!! Fun!.

 

 

I have also been flat out with craft I am having an EOFY sale at the moment in my ebay store and already have sold half my stock.  Love it!  I am having to sew sew sew to keep up with demands, but I am in such a great place at the moment that everything is running soomthly and I am coping!!! (at the same time I feel my excitement trying to overrule me.... but I am a Mummy and wife first and foremost so a cooking and a cleaning I must), everything else seems to be just falling into place.

So this is a few of my soaps, nearly ready for purchase,,... I am also thinking of a "soap giveaway.." What do you think?