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I'm so excited to be able to share our Christmas Collection! 

Concrete & Lavender was always about items you can celebrate in your home. Whether it was gifts for yourself, gifts for friends, gifts for colleagues, or gifts for family. However this collection is all about celebrating the festive season.

This collection features three main colours, White, Red, and Gold. The colours that characterise every festive period. It includes traditional items, such as concrete trees, a large concrete star, and even some Scandinavian gonks! 

Check it out and let me know what you think in the comments! 

 

As with all of our packaging, we wanted to find a sustainable solution for our labels. When we landed on seeded paper, we knew that was the right product for us! 

Our labels are handmade, made from 100% pre-consumer recycled cotton, and they come packed full of bee friendly flower seeds (a mix of 4 varieties)! On average there are 30 seeds per label, each one includes Sweet Alyssum, Poppy, Baby’s Breath, and Basil. These are non-invasive species that are commonly found in the wild and in garden shops. They can be grown in pots and left outside for bees and other pollinators.

It's Saturday morning and I'm sat on my kitchen table in between some of the concrete creations. It's been too hot this week to work in the worksho...

Testing, testing, and some more testing!  This week has been all about testing our cement mix to make sure it is robust enough, has a good finish, ...