Dried Lavender

I have a bunch of dried lavender leaves and wondered if anyone has good ideas for what to do with them in bags and more popouri. They are from plants in my backyard and I know they do not use pesticides or other toxins in them.

You can add your own soap and candles.

For the soap, you can buy the kind you melt in the microwave, then add and reorganize with a mold. Crush the lavender and add to melted soap before molding. If you like you can put a whole flower, or a nice button in the bottom of the mold. When the soap comes out, it will flower embedded in the upper part. The pieces of lavender depending on how they are rude, will also help to rub the skin. If you do not want to crush the lavender powder.

For candles, you can add to the melted wax before it sets up, then add the wick. A little more complicated than it seems and if you're not good with candles you may already be disappointed by the results. OR buy premade white or purple pillars (not in a jar), lavender or unscented or fragrance that works with lavender as vanilla ... and then the warmth of the candle and regularly with a Sitting area, working in small sections at a time. If the outside of the candle is hot, roll the candle in lavender crushed with a little pressure to the stick of lavender. Continue until the candle is covered as much as you want. It's a bit like glitter, you make a sticky surface, then add things to the surface.

Make or buy a pretty satin and lace padded blanket and put inside. Then, put them in your drawer indescribable!

make a book mark very cute and original ... place them in a model with other things or if you want flowers between two pieces of waxed paper

Sprinkle around your room for our particular time of love that girl tonight! It would be so romantic! You sexy woman!

You can place a few strands between two coffee filters and squeeze in a great book for two weeks. Take them out, spray with acrylic sealer and let dry. Bristol Gathering and 5 "x7" frames matting colors of your choice to match or contrast. Get additional in case of Boo-Boo. I use spray adhesive on the green, taking with needle-nose pliers. Then, choose interesting frames for a series of three strands of lavender framed. My family asks for more!

for culinary ideas:

You can mix the crushed leaves little lanvender with rosemary, sage and thyme to flavor meat or poultry.

If you have dried flower buds, see the link below for the recipes - the chicken recipe is great, and there are some dessert recipes.

In addition, the buds can be dried sugar and kept sealed for a few weeks to a lavender scented sugar to use in cakes or puddings.

You can try to make a balm or ointment with your sheets --- I have seen many mint and lavender.

Put sugar in an airtight container and add a teaspoon to a teaspoon and a half of the lavender flowers. Sugar is present in particularly pleasant taste for tea and cookie recipes.

You can also mix in the bars of translucent polymer clay ... many leaves, spices, herbs and all sorts of other "inclusions" are mixed in the polymer clay to make clay look "stone-like" or make it look like various false. If the inclusions have a smell, they can retain a certain extent.

After they are mixed in, you could do something with them jewelry (beads, etc.) to small bowls carved or game pieces, etc., etc., etc.

Here are some pages that present some of the things people have tried mixing in translucent clays:
http://www.clayfactory.net/marie/mixin1. ...
(.... Sure to click on all 7 pages)

Things like that can also be mixed with a liquid polymer clay to make different.