Merry Christmas

 

from

 

Petit Creek Farm

 

From all of us to all of you

 

 

Wishing you a wonderful holiday and an Amazing 2014

Good Morning

All is well here on the farm. The last few weeks I have used up the extra time creating new products for the lavender house.

Fresh new products:
We have some gentle scented candles in fun mason jars.
We have new burlap in purple and red full of this years lavender. The give off such a wonderful rustic scent.
We have some sage and lavender smudge sticks in the making. Great for creating a clear and calming surrounding.
Wonderful lavender wreaths all in green perfect for any time of year they dry natural and green and carry a wonderful scent.
A very nice 100% olive oil and lavender soap it is curing nicely for the next eight weeks or so.
Fresh filled sachets
Milk bath lavender bags
Pillow inserts
Dryer bags
Lavender bath salts
Really so much lavender goodness,

The lavender house will be filled with such great things.
There is still a ton of lavender to debud and use so I am sure I will be busy for the few months until harvest time again.

I have built the Peace Pole Garden ~ I love it. I will wait until next Spring to add the Plaque to it. In the garden it is all rocks with a few plants surrounding the pole plus our big Buddha graces the spot. Next year I hope to invite two day cares and let the children do a little celebration for

 

Peace

It is hard to believe I just came in with some fresh herbs after we have had some pretty heavy frosts our coldest night was yesterday minus eight.

 

So I am very grateful.

 It was a Grandson day usually not too much works gets done but it was warm enough to be out side and roll up some hoses, pulls some weeds and do some general tiding up.

I have made up some more products today some nice little pillow inserts to put inside your pillow case for a nice gentle scent of Lavender ~ not too over powering.

 

Also made up some Lavender dryer bags which are great to throw into your dryer. I think I like them best when your clothes are nearly dried and it gives a nice delicate scent to your laundry.

My absolute favorite thing to do is use a Lavender dryer bag on my bed sheets and freshly washed pajamas.

 

Give them a tumble and then make my bed.

 I really do sleep better on these nights.

 

A Lavender Shawl

 

 

This is Mama Alpaca and her very bad, very curious, full of adventure baby girl. The little girl has so much personality.

The Mama is the one who contributed her lovely fibre for this beautiful shawl that one of our customers made and she in turn gifted it to her Mom.

 

It is really beautiful and I know her Mom is going to be very warm this winter wrapped in this beautiful shawl. When she brought it up to show me it smelled wonderful of lavender.

 

The farm is slowing down.

Winter is creeping in closer

 

It was a good season

So

much

Planting so many new shrubs, new trees, new sitting area, two new gardens.

 

 The gardens sit in all their rustic glory

 

Angels

Glorious Angels

 all over the gardens

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Romantic

 Rustic

Arches

 

We have added so much now I should be able to let it grow and I really think other than a few annuals that one adds in the Spring and Summer the gardens are full.

Imagine over the next few years as it fills and grows.

 

I have plans for a few more new products make some products we are short in. This morning I am on my third day of candle making.

 Some fun scents and some great colours.

 

Next will be soap.

 I would like to do that later today or tomorrow.

Enjoy your weekend

Summer has come and gone.
 It was a wild and busy one. So much was accomplished and at the same time we got behind in other things.
The lavender grew well and I add many new roses, shrubs, trees and flowers we added little fish ponds, fairy gardens and grapes. Right now it is all small but I can dream it, imagine down the road how beautiful it will all be.
I added many new things like the Summer solstice outside garden room, the new pixie grapes, grapes along the fence line of the gardens.

 Our new project is a new garden to the left of the lavender house where we housed the ram.

 

How I will finish it I am not sure. I am thinking of having a roof on half of it and the back half a wall to set up an antique bar for tea and coffee

This area has one fence side all planted with trees that should grow up to make a nice screen and a couple of roses along the back and an open area for Yoga if a group would like to use it.

We have four inch lavender plants for sale Hidecote - zone four for four dollars
anyone local email me at judy-sue@petitcreeklavender.com

Life on the farm can be pretty incredible it is hard work, never ending work. You finish one job and another waits or the same job needs to be done a few hours later. In spite of the hard work it is very rewarding everything you do is for you, for your family for your future and for your moment.

We live on forty acres not too big and it is about twenty miles out of town. If I want to build a fence I can, If I want to put in a garden I can, If I want grapes cute little pixie grapes I can.

It is not Provence, it is not Italy, it is not Paris, it is not Maui, It is not England, it is not Germany, it is not the Swiss Alps, it is not Austria it is all of them all of them in my heart from my travels. I cannot nor do I want to live in all those wonderful places so I brought them home to me ~ I brought them home in my heart.

This is my home, my farm who I share with my family and My Mom and Dad

 

Petit Creek Lavender is the heart of many we have Grapes ~ green grapes, purple grapes and pixie grapes, we have Lavender eight varieties, we have Olives (we cannot eat them be can have the tree) we have Lemon, orange and lime trees, we have berries ~ raspberries, blueberries, strawberries.

 We have wonderful old Moss here on the farm, we are rustic, unique, whimsical we have heart, we have fun, we dream and we are Inspired. We call Petit Creek Lavender Home.

http://www.petitcreeklavender.com