DIY & Crafts

Turn fresh lavender from your garden into pretty woven lavender wands! This easy tutorial walks you through harvesting, folding, and weaving the stems with ribbon. Perfect for garden crafts, homemade gifts, and simple homemade living. Turn fresh lavender from your garden into pretty woven lavender wands! This easy tutorial walks you through harvesting, folding, and weaving the stems with ribbon. Perfect for garden crafts, homemade gifts, and simple homemade living.

If you’ve ever grown lavender, you know how hard it is to throw away those beautiful fragrant stems at the end of the season. Making lavender wands is one of my favorite ways to preserve the harvest and turn it into something pretty enough to display. Lavender wands are an old-fashioned craft made by weaving…

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Have extra dried lavender? Make this easy DIY lavender potpourri! It's a beautiful way to preserve your garden harvest and create a natural fragrance for your home using lavender, roses, citrus peel, rosemary, mint, and cinnamon. Have extra dried lavender? Make this easy DIY lavender potpourri! It's a beautiful way to preserve your garden harvest and create a natural fragrance for your home using lavender, roses, citrus peel, rosemary, mint, and cinnamon.

If you grow lavender in your garden, making your own lavender potpourri is a lovely way to enjoy the harvest long after the flowers have finished blooming. Lavender potpourri is simple to make, smells wonderful, and looks beautiful sitting in a bowl or tucked into a pretty jar. You can use lavender from your own…

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Want to preserve your lavender harvest? This simple tutorial walks you through how to press fresh lavender while keeping its beautiful color and delicate shape. Perfect for cottage garden crafts, botanical art, handmade cards, and keepsakes. Want to preserve your lavender harvest? This simple tutorial walks you through how to press fresh lavender while keeping its beautiful color and delicate shape. Perfect for cottage garden crafts, botanical art, handmade cards, and keepsakes.

Lavender is one of those garden plants that is almost as beautiful dried as it is growing in the garden. If you have more lavender than you know what to do with, pressing the flowers is a simple way to preserve them for crafts, cards, journals, homemade decorations, and other projects. Pressed lavender keeps some…

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