Lavender Valentines

This year I decided to make lavender goat milk soaps and lavender lip balms for the valentine exchange at work.  I melted soap base and added lavender essential oil before pouring it in heart-shaped molds.  To make lip balm, I mixed sweet almond oil, beeswax, aloe vera and vitamin E with laveder essential oil and a little bit of stevia for sweetener.  I used a fun paper to make labels for the tubes of lip balm, and then wraped them up with the soaps in a piece of tulle tied with ribbons and a heart-shaped tag.  I hope everyone at work likes them!

Papers, tulle, and ribbons to decorate

Melting the beeswax and sweet almond oil for the lip balm

 Soap hardening in the mold

 Lip balms cooling in the tubes

Pretty heart-shaped soaps

Striped paper for lip balm labels

Labeled lip balms

The finished products



Happy Valentine's Day!

I've finally finished my valentines, and just in time, too.  I made several different styles of silk sachets and stuffed them all with dried lavender from my herb garden.  The ones with stamps turned out really well. 

I just used regular stamp pads and the ink didn't bleed into the silk at all.  I'm giving those ones to people at work.  I made little pyramid boxes to put them in, and used one of the same stamps on the outside.

The ones with the silk ribbon roses took longer to make, but I think my mom and sister will love them.

  Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!

Early Valentines

I've started on my valentines already. I went for a long weekend at the beach and I brought a bunch of silk and ribbons and stamps to make lavender sachets. Here are the raw materials.

And here are the some in-progress examples.

More pictures when they're finished!