Showing posts with label lavender. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lavender. Show all posts

Thursday, July 31, 2014

~thrifty thursday~{a fairy garden chair}

What happens when one of your beloved Restoration Hardware
 dining chairs seat caning
blows out? 

You cry a little, then you get over it and turn it into garden art.
A fairy garden to be exact.


Start with any chair that has no seat.
At your home improvement center pick up a basket liner that looks like this and that will fit the opening of your chair.


Using a staple gun, staple it in place.



Add potting soil and plant with your favorite flowers.
I used lavender and a ton of succulents.
I think the succulents are perfect for this project.
At this point you can leave it as is, or to turn it into a fairy garden, continue on…..


I wanted to hang a little sign from the chair, so I painted these words on a piece of chippy old wood I had. Hang it from twine for a rustic garden feel.



Now you can start to add in little fairy furniture if you wish.
I added a little wire chair and table, and miniature log fence pieces.
I added a fairy as well but I thought it cheapened the look, so I took her out.


 Tuck the furniture in here and there for a "secret garden" look.
I found all my furniture at a craft store.
I am sure you could look in the kids section at thrift stores and find some great things, or perhaps you have some old dollhouse furniture?


 Make sure you have plants that trail down over the sides, this looks best 
and gives it the look that it's not newly planted.




And that is it!
This will be available for sale at the French Flea Market this Saturday.
Hope to see you there!
xoxo

Monday, July 14, 2014

~lavender sugar cookies~

My good friend Monica and I recently got together at the
farms for a little girl time. I had never been before and I cannot wait to share with you the photos! 

The lavender typically blooms June through August with it's peak in July,
 so this was a perfect time to go!


The smell is intoxicating.


I could have spent all day and night there.
Rows upon rows of beautiful lavender.


All in varying shades of purple.




Bunches of lavender drying….




So after Monica and I got together we thought it would be fun to show you a couple different options that you can do with lavender in your own home. 
You will have to hop on over to her blog to see what she has going on, but here today I am going to share with you how to make delicious lavender sugar cookies.


You will need culinary lavender for this recipe.


Lavender Sugar Cookies

 Ingredients
  • 1 cup + 1/4 cup sugar
  • 2 sticks room temp butter 
  • 1 egg
  • ¼ tsp of vanilla
  • 1 ¾ cup flour
  • ½ tsp baking powder
  • 3 T Dried culinary lavender 

Directions:

In a mixer blend together 1 cup sugar and room temp butter until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Sift and stir in the flour and baking powder, then the lavender. Roll dough into a log, cover, and chill for at least one hour to overnight.  Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Slice the log of dough into 1/4" pieces and place cookies about 1 inch apart on an ungreased cookie sheet.Bake 10 minutes in preheated oven. Watch for just a slight browning around edges and remove.  Cool completely.



I hope you try these, they are incredible!
Don't forget to hop over to Monica's blog to see what she has going on!

xoxo