How to use lavender around the house.

[colditz]

I have just dried and tupperwared a load of lavender - I have vague ideas of desmelling carpets. How do I go about this?

desmelling? Do you mean deoderising?

Talcum powder (the cheaper the better) crush lavender and mix in, leave for a week, sprinkle on carpet, leave for an hour, vac away. Will smell lovely.

Make little bags of it with muslin for the wardrobes/drawers.

Fill matchboxes with it and put it by doors to prevent ants coming in.

I made some lovely lavender syrup for drizzling on ice cream - tis v lovely.

Actually lavender filled matchboxes are very flammable after a few months - perhaps this is not such a good plan if you have young urchins around.

Ingredients
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons dried or 1/4 cup fresh lavender blossoms
1 cup water

Bring all ingredients to a simmer in a saucepan, stirring until sugar dissolves. Remove from heat, and cool. Cover and store in refrigerator.

V nice in sparkling wine btw.

or put the dried lavender (in a voile-style bag) in some caster sugar to make... lavender sugar!

or similar infuse cream and make lavender icecream.

make little sachets for the bedrooms....will know yur DC's out like a light.

DH calls our lavender spray the "calm the feck down spray" and doses the DC's room liberally.