All That Can Be Made This Year

All the lavender wands that can be made this year are done!
There is no more lavender which can be used to make these.  Until late July of next year!
I wound up using 25 colors of double sided satin ribbon this year when I wanted to stick to just 12.  But several customers persuaded me otherwise!  Not all of the colors are available in all four sizes though.
The long stems needed for the large and huge sizes are not easy to come by.  So I tried to reserve those long stems for the colors I felt most people would want.
I happily encourage people to purchase more than 10 at a time because if you look at my Etsy.com store called "Pedricks" you will see categories.
And there is a "Wholesale Wand" category which gives you  a whopping 50% off if you buy 10 at a time!

Yippee, I can cook with onions, peppers, and garlic again without fear of ruining the lavender!!

Lavender Wands Plum Small

I love growing long stemmed English Lavender and have been fashioning them into wands for years now.  This years crop of lavender is better than ever and I have a palette of new colors I am very excited about.  It is called 'Plum' and these are the first new wands in the small size.  I hope you will give one a try!
They are not yet included on the website, but you can find them all here:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/104566097/lavender-wands-plum-small

In my Etsy.com com store named "Pedricks"
There is also a link to it to in the right hand column here.
Etsy.com is a wonderful site which gives artists and craftpersons of all kinds a great venue.

New Lavender June 2012

I am so excited!  My new field of lavender has been growing beautiful long stemmed new flowers this spring and are finally beginning to show some color.  It will be at least another month or two before they are mature enough to begin making lavender wands again.  The flowers cannot be too young are they will not dry out inside the basket woven at the end of the wand.  And if the stems are too young, they won't dry into a straight handle.  If they are too mature, they will break instead of bend when I make them into the basket around the flower heads.
So you can see why they can only be made during a short period of time each year!
I am really looking forward to making wands again.  And this year I have a few more colors of ribbon to work with.  Like "plum", "wine", and "fuchsia."
This photo is actually from two years ago, the current lavender flowers are not quite this open yet :)

Lavender Wands For Sale

It has been a long time since I posted here! So many changes! I have a whole new set of lavender wands this fall with new colors and much better photographs. You can place an order from "Pedricks" via Etsy.com, just click on the link to your right. Or you can go to "Lavender Wands and Pedricks Garden" via Ebay.com. Or you can place an order directly from my website, the link is also just to your right. But hold off using my website until "Cyber Monday", as it needs me to do a great deal of work. Not all of the sizes and colors currently available have been posted at any of the 3 locations. But they should all be there by this Sunday night!

"Pedricks" - The new store at Etsy.com

For those of you who don't know it, the long term goal is to be able to afford the time to paint. I was reserving opening at store at Etsy.com for that day. But then I decided to try and start selling the lavender and lemon verbena wands there as well.

Since it is the purpose of Etsy.com to showcase all kinds of art and handmade items. In fact, you are not allowed to sell items made by someone else!

And now that it is truly winter and I have a few spare moments, I have begun to make little hand painted gift boxes. Finished the first one yesterday, but I need to tweak the process of making a sturdy lining to the box. The paintings are cut out and then layered onto the surface which makes the folding box.

I hope everyone will take a peek at my new store!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Pedricks?ref=pr_profile

Here is the link above.

Lavender Wands and Pedrick's Garden

The name of the new Ebay store to help sell the wands is "Lavender Wands and Pedrick's Garden." Since I am not allowed to link it to the wedsite for Pedricks Corner.

Been busy making the wands in every size and color. Just cut what will probably be the last batch of fresh lavender available this year. It is so dry already, that the blossoms were falling off of their stems as I cut them. So most of it will probably just get dried for the sachets.

I hope everyone will take a moment to visit the new Ebay store just to create traffic for me. Now I've got to figure out how to get it show up in the Google list of Ebay stores. So much to learn and so little time!

Today I finally get started on getting the spring inventory cuttings made and planted. The weather is absolutely perfect. Sunny but not hot. They get rooted and start to grow before it gets too cold. But won't grow so much that they are leggy come spring time. Wish me luck! Sometimes they all make it, sometimes they don't. One bad day or a few, can be a disaster.

I tried to put a link here to the Ebay store, but it won't let me. Gotta look into that.

Lavender Wands - A bit of bling!

I just received some new ribbon from Malayasia and I love the gilt edges! A bit of bling for the upcoming holidays. There won't be many of these though. I am running out of fresh lavender and it takes two weeks for this ribbon to get here. There are light blue and burgandy with the gilt edges coming up next.

Lavender Wands

The Navy Blue ribbon arrived and I just love the color! I also really like the red, and I don't usually don't like red in general. So more red ribbon is on it's way. Actually, a "burgandy" ribbon. I am still looking for a true "lavender" ribbon that matches the blossoms on the bush!

All five sizes of lavender wands are now listed on the website. With a range of sizes from 6" to 22".

Some of the new colors!

Been busy making wands in a rainbow of colors. The really dark one is actually dark blue. More colors are on the way. A Burgundy and a navy blue. And hopefully that mossy green if I can find ribbon in that color. I hope no one minds that the posts have been all about the "Lavender Wands For Sale" for a while now. In order for them to be found, we need to stay focused on them for a while. Thanks to everyone who has been searching the phrase for me and then selecting "Pedricks Corner" from the list of results. Hopefully you also then click on the link to the website on your right here, and go to the page for Lavender Wands in order to reinforce the connection. Much appreciated!

Lavender Wands For Sale

The two new colors of wands are going to be pale lavender and dark green. Did I mention I made a red one? I am not a big fan of red, but I really like this red one, so that might be a future color as well. I haven't been able to find a light green ribbon that I like yet. A mossy grey green would be really cool. And a pale blue is going to be next for sure!

For those of you who grow lavender like I do, here is proof that if you cut the first blooms off, it will bloom again! Don't treat your lavender like the drought tolerant plant that it is and it will reward you. If in well drained soil, don't let it get dry and feed it every two weeks while it is growing. The second head of blooms will be dried for the sachets.

Lavender Wands

Lavender Wands are back on the website and are listed in four sizes this time. From huge 16" long wands down to cute little 6" wands. This year, I am going to try a few new colors later on. Made one with red ribbon last night and I think it is pretty cool. Next will be pale blue and then a pale mossy green. I will post a new photo when I have a variety of colors to show.