We believe this is the last craft to reveal. It was actually one of the first we made. Probably one of the least creative, which may be why I saved it for last. lol.
If you all recall this header:
And husband/Daddy, learning how to use the machine and sew, all in about 2 minutes, (and then hogging the machine, because he was having so much fun)……….
…..while the ‘other kids’ were working at the other end of the table…….
He did let {A} get in there for a LITTLE bit….
….until he kicked her back out, because he wanted another turn, and couldn’t take it anymore.
Well, we were making……….
LAVENDER SACHETS!
NOTICE how they are hung out to air out!! It’s a comical little story, really……
We had bought real dried lavender. That is what the 4 kids in the photo up there are doing….cleaning the buds off the sticks. WHICH, mind you, smelled NOTHING like lavender, flowers, or ANYTHING NICE. It smelled like…well, dried weeds.
SO, we had lavender scent oil drops that we had bought, and had planned on adding a drop or 3 anyway. Just give it a little boost in smell. But from the smell of that bowl of dried buds….it needed LOTS of help. And our sweet little helper was there, ready, willing and waiting, to help….A LOT……..
We knew she kept adding more and more. But I kept giving the bowl a sniff, and all of the drops and stirs she did, wasn’t helping much!! So we let her go!! Eventually we covered the big glass bowl in saran wrap, and put it up on our school cabinets. For weeks. I mean, for those weeks that bowl sat there, I wondered if anyone would want our sachets that smelled like dried weeds, and not ANYTHING NICE.
That is, until we ventured to take that saran wrap off and spoon some in our sewn sachet bags anyway. HOLY…..the SCENT SURELY SHOWED UP!! Gees…it was through the whole house, and stuck in our noses for DAYS. We made all of the sachets, but man….they were SO POTENT!! Really…just…..a little MUCH.
So I hung them out one day….ALL DAY. Not sure if that helped, much. When it came time to package them with other crafts, for Christmas gifts, we triple zip-locked them.
And-you-could-still-smell-them. Grandma was so kind about how nice hers smelled, with her little telling-giggle.
If it is true, that a lavender scent helps you sleep well, these babies will knock you out for a lifetime!! They did smell like SOMETHING NICE in the end. Just a little more than necessary. : )
