Pick Your Own

After my rush order for applique cottages, I discovered I am running very low on lavender.  Then I read how Kim had cut her own lavender to dry and use.  I have been eying up the neighbour's lavender bush for a week or two and finally plucked up the courage to ask her whether I could have the lavender from it (I know that she doesn't keep it after the bush has been cut back). 

So after this morning saw me walking over the road armed with my basket and secateurs to harvest the lavender.  It took me ages as I was so careful because it wasn't my lavender bush.  Plus my mother's cries of, "Don't cut into the dead wood, otherwise it won't grow back", were ringing in my ears.

Never has a lavender bush has been so carefully cut and then all traces were swept away afterwards.  If I could have got out the hoover to clear up the floor, I would have.  The result is a bumper harvest of lavender.  I was amazed that there was so much.

I shall be popping over later with a Thank You gift.  I don't know how much lavender there is, but it will mean I don't have to buy some for a while.

Other than that, I finished off a wholesale  for a new stockist.  Here's a peek at part of the box.

There was of course, the obligatory car boot sale at the weekend.  Not much really, despite the fact that there were plenty of sellers.  I did manage to find this trio of tins. Perfect for storing smaller items.

Other than that, we have been getting back into some kind of routine after school.  This involes me forcing Keanan to go to after school clubs for football and cross country running.  And Ethan is starting rugby.  Just the thing these boys need to burn off some of that excess energy!

Comments

[kim]

You did well with that lavender! Glad you didn't cut into the dead wood! Congrats on the new order, everything looks very pretty. Lovely tins too.
Kim x

[Claire]

Now that is what I call a lavender harvest! It was always one of my favourite jobs cutting my mothers' huge lavender bushes in the front garden - what a generous neighbour!

Claire

[Claire]

Now that is what I call a lavender harvest! It was always one of my favourite jobs cutting my mothers' huge lavender bushes in the front garden - what a generous neighbour!

Claire

[Ali]

I so want my neighbour's lavender. Perhaps I should just stroll along and offer to do her pruning for her...

[Cathy]

I love cutting lavender as the smell stays on your hands for ages. You'll get a good night's sleep too! I love the colour of the tins together and they set off your felt flowers, which are sooo pretty.
Cathy

[claire]

I have got a lavender surplus at the moment. do you want some? It will be easy to pop it in the post to you!

[mary]

Um...Lovely lavender

[rubyred]

What a lovely neighbour.I made a mistake of cutting into the deadwood once,my mum told me after the event! I have a few lavender bushes now as I love the smell.

[rubyred]

What a lovely neighbour.I made the mistake of cutting back the deadwood once,my mum told me after the event!.I have a few lavender bushes now as I love the smell.

[Tracy]

I love those tins what a find

[carolyn]

So have we the new Johnny Wilkinson in the Plump Pudding household?

[paula luckhurst]

Oh, lavender!... I'm crazy for lavender. I like everything in it: the shape, the smell...Good you could have all that much.
About boot fairs: another thing I like so much and I miss. When I was younger and my mother in law was alive, we went (me and my husband) quite often to England and because she liked it very much and knowing I liked it too, we went to a lot of them.
I relly miss it.