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17 responses to “violets”

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   Margaret Oomen

   August 17, 2010

   i love that delicate scent
   and I also love the way they taste

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   Sarah S

   August 17, 2010

   I’ve just been given some crystallised violets for cake decorating. They look really neat. My grandmother used to grow violets in her backyard, and now my mum has a small patch in her garden.

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   tinyhappy

   August 17, 2010

   ooh- crystallised violets- yum!

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   Alice

   August 17, 2010

   Thanks – I can imagine the smell just by looking at your photos. You’ll have to get some for your new garden.

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   louana

   August 17, 2010

   I have a little vase of some in my lounge, the smell is devine. One of my best memories is picking violets under my nana’s kowhai tree. Beautiful watercolour too.

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   Jo

   August 17, 2010

   I am reminded that my maternal grandmother used to grow violets when I was a little girl. As we lived a long way from her and only saw her once a year she would pick a little posy for me and post it to me.

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   Rattling On

   August 17, 2010

   Violet is my absolute favourite fragrance.

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   myrtle

   August 17, 2010

   so pretty x

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   Ingrid

   August 17, 2010

   I think I love all flowers,they make you happy.Like your drawing about it very much!

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    Melanie

    August 17, 2010

    Violets have absolutely tanken over outside our kitchen door and paving and I love the smell at this time of year.

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    Jacilyn

    August 18, 2010

    My grass is full of violets in the spring. They look much smaller than your blooms though. But their scent is very lovely.
    Like you little painting too!

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    Denise | Chez Danisse

    August 18, 2010

    What a perfect little vase of violets. How nice of Tom’s mum.

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    angela

    August 18, 2010

    Hi Mel, i have seen this technique before, but I’m ‘miffed’ as to what is freezer paper. Can we get it in NZ?

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    angela

    August 18, 2010

    Whoops, sorry hun that was soposed to be for the post below! xo

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    Lotus

    August 18, 2010

    Every time I visit my parents house it seems that Mum will place a vase of violets next to my bed for me to wake up next to. I have also discovered that what I thought were weeds through the winter in our courtyard are actually violets which are now in full bloom!

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    tinyhappy

    August 18, 2010

    hey angela,
    no worries- freezer paper is sold by the metre at spotlight and other sewing/quilting stores i think here in n.z. you might have to ask for it- sometimes they keep it in a roll behind the counter. it looks like thickish greaseproof paper but then it has a shiny layer on the back. good luck!

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    kristina {thebowerbirdstories}

    August 19, 2010

    Oh, am longing to be able to grow violets here but its too warm. They remind me of my Gran.

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