[Herbalist] Re: rose beads/lavender

[DianaFiona@aol.com]

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In a message dated 12/07/02 6:00:41 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
alanadarkfire at yahoo.com writes:


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> I've had pretty good luck with grinding dried lavender
> in a coffe/spice grinder. Yes, it comes out very
> fluffy, but blends in well when I add it to my spice
> beads. I use gum arabic as one of the binders.

       Yes, a coffee grinder is definitely the best tool for the job! (Does a
lot better than a food processor for fine grinding of many things--like
almonds for marzipan....... :-) ) And it's what I used to grind my lavender.
But I was using *just* lavender, and didn't have any gum arabic yet. It think
it might work enough better to make the difference--I'll have to try it when
another bead making fit takes me! Errrrr, *herb* bead fit, that is--got
bitten by the glass bead bug a few years back and have been concentrating on
that. I just need to get good enough to make the vessel pendants that hold
essential oils............ (G)