How to make your own fragrant lavender and lime potpourri Combine the clean fresh scent of lavender with zesty invigorating lime in a pretty botanical potpourri. Potpourri making is not difficult or time consuming, so why not give it a go? Potential ingredients can often be found in your garden, store cupboard or local shop….
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Simple Lavender Shortbread Recipe
A simple recipe for shortbread using culinary dried lavender Lavender in cooking is becoming increasingly popular. Shortbread is one of the staple recipes, and works so well because the fresh lavender flavour cuts through the butteriness of the biscuit. Recipe – Makes 16 small rounds Ingredients 150g plain flour pinch of salt…
Dried Lavender & Oat Bath Recipe
How to make a simple moisturising oat bath with soothing dried lavender I was reading about the use of porridge oats in skincare recently, and it reminded me that I used them to soothe my son’s mild eczema when he was small. The oat milk released when the oatmeal is soaked in water has moisturising…
Why I started a dried flower craft blog
New Ways with Dried Flowers Hi, I’m Ruth and I have an online dried flower business. I am starting this blog because dried flower crafts are a hobby of mine. I have been doing “makes” for sometime for our shop email newsletter. I have accumulated various recipes and tips in the last few years which…
Fair Rosamund in Dried Flowers
The famous Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted Fair Rosamund in 1861. It is a vibrant work representing his mistress Fanny Cornforth, celebrating her handsome features and strikingly luxuriant hair. The title refers to the mistress of Henry II (1154 to 1189), who was famed for her beauty and known as “The Rose of the…