htmlText and StyleSheet

Pretty simple code here, works just fine.

var myStyles:TextField.StyleSheet = new TextField.StyleSheet();
myStyles.setStyle("p", {color:'#808080'});
myStyles.setStyle("h1", {color:'#84ABDB'});
this.createTextField("my_txt",this.getNextHighestDepth(),20,20,260,50);
my_txt.styleSheet = myStyles;
my_txt.html = true;
my_txt.htmlText = "<p>Name: </p>";
my_txt.htmlText += "<h1>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.</h1>";

Here is my problem - want to make a variable and put it between the style tags.

For instance:

var blah:String = "Hello there";
my_txt.htmlText = "<p>blah</p>";

Without it just writing “blah” I need it to get the string from the variable. How would I accomplish this?