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Designers from Spain - Finest Designs and Products - Add to The Art of Fine Living

Designers from Spain - Our Finest Designer Group - Directed by Pilar and Cesar - begin by adding their hand made Sachets - weaved together by ribbons - enclosing the sun dried flowers - stop by often to see new additions from Pilar and Cesar - who --- have exquisite taste - and - are adding some incredible artists and artisan collaborators to Our Pages.

Pilar and Cesar

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Sachets

Lavender Sachets - 10 x 2 inches

Using the Lavender Flower branch - the sun dried flower hide inside - Mazo de Lavanda - are hand made in summer when Lavender blooms in Soria Spain. Use these Glorious Sachets for your closets amongst your clothes or anywhere in your home - As one customer attests - *They are too beautiful to hide in a closet* !! Tuck one into your needlepoint tote - add a lavender fragrance. Each Sachet requires 3 - 4 hours to make - selecting and picking - 69 lavender plants for each one.

Why not use these Gorgeous Sachets as Christmas trees Ornaments - add a lavender scent to your rooms - linens.

Many More Gift Ideas From Cesar and Pilar - Very - Soon.

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Jan Voich

Jan Voich creates - a cooperative effort - inviting different Designers and Artists in Spain to show you their very incredible works of art - please be patient as we are very select about who and what we offer you ... and - - true quality - - does - take - time.

We believe that Pure Art - comes from Passion. Read more about Jan Voich > Designers

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Victor

An incredible and extremely sensitive artist - Victor- as he creates his sculptures. Welcome.

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More about Victor soon - as we work on Our Spanish Artists Profiles Page. Above you see his hand as he creates a clay sculpture.

Carol

Carol - born in Buenos Aires - Argentina is actually an expert in food technology and is finishing her Masters in Nutrition - here - in Madrid.

Moving to Spain in 2001 - under contract for her Internet expertise - she has now adapted to the cold winters and very hot summers - enjoying her new friends - yet missing her family - - so far away.

Daughter of two medical doctors - who met and married in Illinois - Carol has a younger brother - Juan Marcos who lives in Argentina and is - a very successful professional opera singer (a tenor).

Her greatest love - nature - creates a passion for wild flowers - which she finds in the savage Mountain ranges embracing the Spanish Cities. Recognizing her fine sense of aesthetics and a keen eye for beauty - we encouraged Carol - to design these wonders into paintings for needlepoint.

Polifacetic - Carol surrounds herself with paintings by Georgia O´Keefe - Van Gogh - Manet - Seurat - Dali - Miro - Klimt - Bruegel - as she plays her saxophone and flute. She practices - both tennis and golf - and stuns Madrid with her fabulous figure !!

She also has a cat - Frost (because of his white hair) - who lives in Argentina with his best friend - Alladino - (her mother*s cat).

Welcome Carol - continue to be so - tender - we truly enjoy your - - wild flowers.

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Angel (to the left) - and his friends. Angel is our musician (drummer and singer)

More designs and designers from Spain - SOON ... although not on these pages yet - there are many more people preparing their designer products at this very moment.

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After twelve years of offering you the finest in needlepoint designs - Jan Voich Designs - is now pleased to announce that we have expanded our quality selection to other items - which we hope you will enjoy as compliments to your lifestyles ... again - thank you for giving us the opportunity to search the world for the finest - the most unique - products which we diligently offer you - true works of Art.

More About Lavender - A True - Gift for the Senses

Originally discovered in the Mediterranean countries - the perennial herb -- Lavender - has always been prized for her perfume and medicinal qualities she possesses. The ancient Romans used Lavender for her healing and antiseptic qualities - the name itself comes from the Latin *lavare* > to wash.

An excellent garden flower - lavender is hard to *beat* - - offering fragrance - beauty and a harvest of fabulous - smelling blooms.

Old English Lavender - a must for any garden - grows two to three feet high - given a sunny spot in well drained soil - - producing fragrant grayish leaves and blue - purple flowers. It is hardy and - - drought tolerant as well..

The more compact variety - Hidcote - has - a darker blue flower - which grows to around a foot high and - - will be lovely in your flower or herb garden - also stunning as a low hedge - and should attract bees and butterflies ... all Summer long.

Lavender Sachets - Herbal Delights - Lavender will Return - YOU - to Nature

Adapts well to growing in containers so - place some on your patio - deck or terrace area and you will be able to enjoy the heady fragrance as you relax.

Lavender*s spiky form is always useful in Summer flower arranging. Imagine a more welcoming posy for a guest room than lavender freshly picked from the garden - mixed with lovely pastel coloured sweet peas and - a couple of old fashioned roses.

To dry your lavender - strip the leaves and - the new - opening flowers from the stalk - - spread out in a warm place before using in potpourris - add fragrance to your rooms - in cotton sprigged sachets to scent and deter moths from drawers and closets or - tuck between your bed pillows for their sleep inducing qualities.

You may also scent a relaxing and antiseptic bath by tying sprigs of lavender into a piece of muslin and letting the bath water run over it as it fills your bath. If you don’t have fresh lavender try adding a couple of drops of the essential oil.

Essential oil of lavender is used in aromatherapy to lift depression - combat tiredness and help relaxation. It has strong disinfectant properties and was even used on the battle fields of World Wars I and II to prevent infection and relieve pain - when other medical supplies were low. A drop of lavender oil mixed with a teaspoon of carrier oil such as grape seed and massaged into the temples and back of the neck will soothe away headaches. Mixed with a massage oil it is also thought to help relieve the pain of arthritis or aching muscles.

Around the home - dried lavender stalks may be burned like incense sticks or - burned on the fire for their wonderful fragrance.

Dried lavender may also be tied into wands - wired on to vine wreaths - used in floral art - candle making and many other crafts.

In the garden - in the bath - or anywhere around the home - lavender truly is - a treat for the senses !! Sorry we are not able to sent you the fragrance via the Internet - maybe soon ?

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Designers from Spain - Finest Designs and Products Add to The Art of Fine Living - Hand Made Lavender Sachets weaved together by ribbons - enclose the sun dried flowers. Stop by often to see new additions from Pilar and Cesar - they have exquisite taste and are finding some incredible art - artisan products and collaborators for --- YOU !

Needlepoint Designs by Samantha Taylor and Samantha Taylor are Trade marks of Jan Voich and Associates, SL All Rights Reserved.