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"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful."
~Abram L. Urban

Among my other dreams, one was of having a garden of my own. Nothing fancy shmancy -just few plants, some to admire and some to delightfully pluck/snap with my scissors to enhance my

Quiet Sunday afternoon suggestion: A cup of real milky English black tea, a comfy cuddle in the living room sofa, nice low tunes and ….back to the 1820´s for a minute, shall we? Let me tell you a story:

Back in early 1800´s when England underwent a few dramatic changes and stepped into what has later been noted down as Victorian Era, artistic freedom and general prosperity flourished around the country. England developed herself as a world power and thus began the happy times. Splendid afternoons that have lead to discovery of afternoon teas. And what do you do when you sip on a lovely milky rich English tea? You nibble on a few lovely crunchy English cookies.

Now this is a very subjective interpretation of a century of events and I would not probably make it to a chair of a useful European (or any other parts, after all) history teacher, yet what I know is that they must have had enormous lavender gardens back then, as they invented the most frag…

The lavender is flowering, so I need an excuse to use some. I decided on marshmallows, honey-lavander-lemon marshmallows. Most people are amazed that I make marshmallows, but they are not that hard. I often find myself rattling off the recipe at request, so I’ve decided to post it up for you. The recipe makes basic marshmallows, but it is easy to add ingredients to drastically alter the flavor. I will give credit to the great Alton Brown for coming up with the base recipe.

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Lavender in Bloom by Sketchy

Tags: Bloom, Lavender