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I am making this today to have on hand for the holidays, it will last up to a year.   I will be posting recipes in the near future that uses lavender sugar since some folks are shy about eating buds....  

LAVENDER SUGAR
Ingredients
3.5 cups sugar 
4 tablespoons lavender flowers

I alternate the lavender in the jar and after about a month
you can pass it through a strainer to remove the buds or leave them in.

Strain it for things like whipped cream, cream brulee or sprinkling on berries,
But you can leave the buds in if cooking the sugar for example cookies.
You can also toss the sugar with buds in a food processor to grind it up a bit before using.

Stored in a dark place, mix well again and use as needed. The sugar is good to use for up to one year.

You can substitute confectioner’s sugar rather than granulated sugar. Use in icings and dustings.
Give as Gifts:
Once the lavender sugar is ready to be used, you can pour in decorative glass jars and give as gifts.
Attach cards giving ideas for use as well as provide the recipe is a nice touch, I have many lots and lots of lavender recipes post on my website located at www.blossomfarm.com/recipes_lavender.htm

By having an attitude of thankfulness shift us from a life full of negativity.
I had an unusal way of being raised, I am thankful everyday to the life that I lead now. 
Some of my favorite quotes of thankfulness and gratitude.

Reflect Each Day On All You Have To Be Grateful For And
You Will Receive More To Be Grateful For.
--Chuck Danes

Let's be grateful for those who give us happiness; they are the charming gardeners who make our soul bloom.
--Marcel Proust
 
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.
 --Buddha
 
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.
--Meister Eckhart

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
--Henry Ward Beecher

Saying thank you is more than good manners. It is good spirituality. 
--Alfred Painter

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.
-- Seneca

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
--Winston Churchill

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. 
-- William Authur Ward

And THANK YOU ALL!--- for making the Blossom Farm what it is today!