I love lavender and I’m always finding new ways to use it around the house, car, dryer…wherever!

I created a sweet little flower lavender sachet that would be a perfect topper for your Mother’s Day gift, hostess gift, or thank you for watching my dog gift.  You get the idea, right?  Make lots of them to keep on hand!

Feel free to sew away on your fancy sewing machines, but this is sewn by hand to keep it simple.  This way you can make them anywhere!

• Draw out a flower of any style and a center on any scrap piece of paper.  Cut them out.  My flower is about 4 inches.
• Gather two different fabric from you pile of scraps that you can’t let go of…am I the only one with this issue?
• You’ll need embroidery floss, ribbon, a needle, lavender, and a bit of the stuffing of your choice.  Oh, I almost forgot, two or three stick pins will help.

Pin the flower cut out to you fabric and cut around it.  You don’t have to be perfect about it.  This is a shabby flower!

When you have cut out two flowers and one center, just pin the to flower pieces together with the right side out.  They won’t line up perfectly, but don’t stress over it.

I’m using all 6 strand of embroidery floss for a chunky look with a backstitch.  This will keep all my lavender inside where it should be!

Don’t stitch too close to the edge because we are going to fray it at the end.

You’ll stop stitching with enough room to add a bit of stuffing.  It really doesn’t take much because you want to leave room for your lavender.

To add lavender I use my high-tech special piece of card stock paper and roll it up to make a funnel.  Fancy, eh?

Add three or four spoonfuls of lavender.  I use a mixture of lavender and flax seed in my sachets to give them more weight.  Do what makes you happy!

Squeeze the top together and finish stitching it closed while adding the ribbon between the two layers at the very top.  Tie a knot in the back.

Place the center on the flower and start stitching with a backstitch around the edge going all the way through the flower.  This will cause the center to go in a bit and look just right.  Finish with a small knot on the back.

When all the stitching is done it’s time to fray the edges.  I just pull on the threads with my fingernails until it looks the way I want.  Trim any crazy little thread that won’t behave!

You now have one sweet little hanging flower sachet to make your home or car smell sooooo pretty!

If you would rather buy one, just visit The Lavender Road {one of my shops}!

Do you make any hand sewn projects? Do you have any handmade gift ideas for Mother’s Day?

~Kim

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Don’t you love the smell of lavender? I can’t get enough of it!

If you’ve ever been to my shop, The Lavender Road, you know what I’m talking about. I make tons of sachets and lavender drawer liners, and I never get tired of that beautiful lavender smell!

These pretty little pillows are a beautiful way to add a lovely scent to any room of your home. They would make a wonderful gift for yourself or a friend.

I’m always trying new fabrics, but these are still some of my favorites…they’re simple and look great anywhere! I am in love with linen!

Lavender sachets are known to be a natural moth repellent, and they’ll make your home, car, or closet smell beautiful!

This is what you need to keep your pretty clothes smelling oh-so-nice…lavender drawer liners. What a great way to pamper yourself a bit!

Each drawer liner is filled with 4 cups of real lavender buds! Just give it a squeeze every few months and you’ll have years of enjoyment from it!

I thought I would share some of my sweet smelling sachets with you!

I’ll send you my favorite set of the day {Yes, it changes daily…I’m fickle like that.} and you can pick your favorite set. That should give you enough to make your home smell fantastic!

***This giveaway is closed.  Thanks for all your great comments!  Congratulations Dawn in Washington!

Here’s how you can win the 2 sets of lavender sachets…

• Visit The Lavender Road and leave a comment here about your favorite item.
• Extra entries for having our Everything Etsy button on your blog, tweeting about the giveaway, or sharing on Facebook. {1 entry each}
• If you “Like” us on Facebook or follow me on Twitter…leave a comment for each.

Just make sure to leave a separate comment for each. This giveaway ends May 17th…good luck!

~Kim

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Welcome to the surprise and completely unplanned first week of I Made It! - a new blog party we’ll be hosting here every week at Everything Etsy!

I’ve been thinking about doing this forever, but never got around to it. So when the chance came up this morning to get my in-house button maker and tech guy to make me a button and set up a McLinky, I took it!

Here’s the idea:

Every week, we’ll have a blog party with a “linky thing” for you to show-off your posts featuring anything creative that you want to tell the world about!

We’re all about the movement of handmade and we want to do everything we possibly can to help spread the creative fire. We really hope that this helps you do that!

There are no categories, except the one clear one… YOU made it!

How does it work?

At the end of this post, there is a place to enter your info. A box for your name where you can add a word or two about what you made, such as “Kim @ Everything Etsy – Sachets” (we’ll adjust the character limit as we move forward, right now it’s 50 characters). And another box for the address to your post.

Make sure you use the link directly to your post, not just the home page. You can get that by clicking on your post title and a page will open with just that post on it. The address in your browser to that page is the right one.

Important!

It’s important that you help promote all of the other people in the party by including a link back to this post at Everything Etsy in your post. This way your readers find these links, and the other participant’s readers find you! You can use the button if you like. It already has the permalink to this particular post. (but a text link is fine too)

A Lavender Road Giveaway!

To celebrate the start of this new blog party, I’m giving away a $30.00 gift certificate to The Lavender Road! My shop is full of colorful and sweet smelling lavender sachets, and of-course: I made it!

We’ll leave this open for new entries until Sunday night and draw a winner from the participants on Monday. You must properly link back to this post to win.

Oh! One more thing… since we gave no warning at all, you don’t have to link to brand-new posts… you can use an older post if you want to show it off! Just remember to go back in and add a link to the party.

(since you can’t link out from your Etsy shop, only blog posts can be linked to, not shops…sorry!)

**The winner of the gift certificate to The Lavender Road is Megity’s Handmade!  Yay!

Here we go:

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Hey Everyone! We’ve been busy packing and unpacking boxes. Oh, and it’s time for Christmas decorating, shopping, and baking cookies. No Problem!!! Things have been a little crazy around here, but I had to share this fun news with you.

I made it to the front page of Etsy last night!!!

This beautiful set of lavender sachets from my shop, The Lavender Road, got to shine on Etsy…how neat!

So, I’m going to give a set away to one Everything Etsy reader!

This would make a wonderful Christmas present. I’m even going to send it Priority Mail to any spot in the United States. Have it shipped to you or someone on your list!

A few ideas for these all natural sachets:

** They make a great hostess gifts to keep on hand
** Store in the Linen closet for great smelling linens
** Freshen your car
** Eco-friendly
** Display near your bed to aid in sleep
** The scent lasts and lasts, just give a squeeze
** Natural moth repellent
** Freshen your closet and clothes
** Help out a smelly boy’s rooms…ha! I have two of them!

The winner will receive one set with this beautiful yellow fabric on the front and 100% linen on the back. You just need to decide if you are keeping it or giving it away if you win!

If you just can’t wait…I’ll give any Everything Etsy reader FREE SHIPPING! Just mention this post when you order and I’ll refund the shipping when it’s mailed.

Please visit my shop and mark it as a favorite with a heart. If you know much about Etsy, you know that hearts are important! The shop has only been open a month, so I don’t have too many.

Leave a comment on this post to be entered. Heart my shop and leave a comment for a second entry. If you subscribe to Everything Etsy, you can enter a comment for a third chance.  Spread the word with Twitter or Facebook for a fourth entry.  Good luck!

This giveaway ends December 15th.

The giveaway has ended and we have a winner…Jacky at The Sweetest Petunia!  Congratulations!  Stop over there and see her beautiful Christmas decorations!

Thanks y’all!

~Kim

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Here’s what I worked on over the weekend…

A sweet little hanging Christmas bird sachet…

And a few more.

A few with fabulous linen {I love linen!}, and lots and lots of colorful ones…

Come by and visit my new shop, The Lavender Road. You can never have too many lavender sachets!!!

I hope you had a little time over the weekend to do something creative.  We enjoyed beautiful weather and had so much fun just walking our silly dogs {dog photos} around, sitting in the backyard, and eating a ton.  How was your weekend?

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