wiseheart | The lavender project is finished

All 14 sachets sewn in advance have been filled, sewn closed and decorated.

Here they are!

I think they've turned out rather neat, but I'm biased, of course. I still have enough lavender left for one more sachet, but I don't feel like sewing one just yet. Perhaps when I start making the cherry pit pillows...

My only other "crafty" activity was removing the glue left from the labels of the bottles I kept for the ginger syrup I want to make - with the help of the cold fat dissolver I originally bought to clean the inside of the oven with. It was a suggestion of our cleaning lady of old and worked like a charm. I don't know why they use such industrial strength glue for those bottle labels, it's a real pain to get rid of it.

Otherwise it was a quiet day. It's still very hot, we tried to do as little as possible. We had some leftovers, but I did cook the potatoes for the Roesti I'm planning for tomorrow - that was all kitchen activity, though. We watched some telly, took our respective naps and I talked to a retired ex-colleague on the phone; a delightful lady with whom I worked at the same school for twenty-four years. It's nice to keep occasional contact, and we are both in the choir, too.