Lovely in Lavender

I love buying triple milled pure vegetable lavender soap. I have no idea what triple milled soap really is and I still don’t understand how it gets you clean. On the other hand, I know that lavender has a fascinating and quite exotic history, along with a myriad of uses and reported mystical powers.

Breathing in its aromatic and uplifting scent will calm that nervous tension and anxiety within minutes. Drinking it as a soothing tea made out of its flowers will soothe those butterflies flitting around in your stomach. Placing a sprig underneath your pillow induces sleep. I found Pritty Kitty here, sleeping on the net amidst all those lovely bouquets and it seems to have zonked her out for an extra long afternoon cat nap.

Try applying lavender essential oil to your hair, neck, ears or other body parts and make yourself irresistible to your special someone. Let me know how that works out for you. Smile. Add a few drops of the essential oil to water in a spray bottle and mist sunburned skin to alleviate the discomfort. Apply it to insect bites and stings, cuts, scrapes and abrasions to help destroy germs that can cause infections. Incredible.

So - I guess chopping it up and sprinkling it throughout soap has to be a good thing. Right? But putting those pretty little dried flowers on the loofa makes me feel like I am floating in the middle a birdbath in the flower garden. For a minute, I think I see Monet’s water lilies drift by. I blink to only realize that the nearby foot scrubby is made of…seriously… terra cotta according to that saleswoman at the Bed-n-Bath Store. Now I am really starting to feel like I am a potted plant. And well, the butterflies in my stomach in search of that lavender tea are not helping much. Which brings me back to my roots. I started my public art career by painting and sharing magnets and so, I thought that it was time again to try my hand at another one. I covered a little magnet with lots of layers of gesso and well, a butterfly seems to have landed on it.