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Modern dried flowers
Posted on May 14, 2013 by Ruth in Dried flowers general
Modern dried flowers in Make & Craft magazine I was pleased to see my article on dried flowers in the June edition (issue 8) of Make and Craft magazine. It explains why dried flowers are becoming popular once again. I have reproduced a copy below. Dried flowers these days are glorious, vibrant and true to [...]
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Potpourri from dried flowers grown in your garden
Posted on April 16, 2013 by Ruth in Potpourri making
Dried flowers article in Make and Craft magazine This month I am very pleased to have another article about dried flowers published in Make and Craft magazine. This one is about picking flowers from your garden to dry and make potpourri. They have published a little early, as the two main flowers used were roses [...]
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Artist of the Month
Posted on January 23, 2013 by Ruth in Dried flowers general
Dried Flowers on the Up! I am really pleased to be Artist of the Month in Make and Craft magazine this issue (04 – February). They gave me a double page spread with an interview about my background and dried flowers business. Hopefully this marks the start of a rise in interest in dried flower [...]
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Dried flower craft e-Books: Lavender craft
Posted on January 9, 2013 by Ruth in Lavender craft
Kindle book now available: Lavender Craft Last summer I wrote an e-book called Lavender Craft For anyone who likes my makes for this blog, it is a short compendium of lavender-related articles published here, with an introduction about the history of lavender. I am hoping this will be the first in a series of dried [...]
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Natural dried flower petal wedding confetti
Posted on November 12, 2012 by Ruth in Weddings
I enjoy inventing new dried flower petal mixes for use as natural wedding confetti And I recently wrote an article for WantThatWedding.co.uk on the subject. As well as confetti, dried flowers are becoming increasingly popular as table decorations and bouquets as seen in the WantThatWedding French styled bridal shoot last April (to which we contributed [...]
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Dried cosmos flowers mark the end of summer
Posted on October 5, 2012 by Ruth in How to dry flowers
Cosmos flowers are so cheery well into October I couldn’t resist picking a few of the last flowers of the summer to preserve. Cosmos flowers are so simple and daisy-like, I can never resist growing them in my garden. I placed the cosmos flowers in the airing cupboard for a week. The dried flowers were [...]
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Drying hydrangea flowers at home
Posted on September 28, 2012 by Ruth in How to dry flowers
I have had mixed luck drying hydrangeas On my third attempt, I finally managed drying hydrangea flowers successfully. Hydrangeas are really popular for decorating the home, and are increasingly popular for wedding decorations & confetti. Drying hydrangea flowers 1: Hanging the flowers up to dry I must admit I didn’t do my homework before my [...]
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Dried flower diaries September 2012
Posted on September 26, 2012 by Ruth in Diary
Dried flower news – Autumn begins Gosh what a month – we’ve gone from hot sun to hammering rain. This is a really big month in the shop because we are receiving into stock all the Christmas fruits & spices, pine cones etc – the crafters we supply always like to start their projects in [...]
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Why do cornflowers fade when you dry them?
Posted on September 19, 2012 by Ruth in How to dry flowers
I had a go at drying some cornflower stems in my workshop this summer They were all a lovely intense uniform royal blue when I hung them up to dry, but the results were very mixed! Some of the dried cornflowers colour stayed true, some faded to a pretty pale blue, and some cornflower petals [...]
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Drying Sea Lavender in the Workshop
Posted on September 11, 2012 by Ruth in Bouquets, How to dry flowers
Sea lavender is hardly changed by drying This summer I hung up some sea lavender (limonium) stems to dry in our workshop. I chose them to dry because I had heard they were easy, and seen some wedding bouquets with sea lavender this year. It turns out you can hardly tell the difference between the [...]
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