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Dried flowers diaries February 2013
Posted on February 27, 2013 by Ruth in Diary
Dried flowers of love Earlier this month I celebrated Valentines Day with a sweetheart potpourri make and a rosebud heart make. Natural wedding confetti Continuing the love theme, I was really pleased to see our petals being used as wedding confetti, as mentioned in Bridal Musings blog, and captured in some great photography. Dried flower [...]
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Sweetheart potpourri recipe with dried rose buds and petals
Posted on February 15, 2013 by Ruth in Potpourri making
Valentines Day make – Sweetheart potpourri recipe Working in a dried flowers shop I always have some dried roses to hand so couldn’t resist making something a bit topical for Valentines Day yesterday. For this potpourri recipe, you will need: About 1 litre of assorted dried rose buds and petals. I used mainly bright red [...]
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Valentines heart with dried rose buds
Posted on February 1, 2013 by Ruth in Dried rose buds
A quick Valentines make with dried flower buds Here is a very quick make with hearts and roses – only 10 mins! How to make this rose bud heart You will need: A solid heart wreath – the small criss-cross heart in the image is 13cm across. Dried rose buds – I used pale pink [...]
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Dried flowers diaries January 2013
Posted on January 30, 2013 by Ruth in Diary
Dried flowers are set to take centre stage in 2013 Last year was a good year for dried flowers – not only are dried flower petals increasingly important as wedding confetti, but dried flower crafts are once more gaining momentum. For example our shop started selling dried pressed flowers for the first time this year, [...]
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Rosamund in dried flowers revisited
Posted on January 18, 2013 by Ruth in Dry flower art
Fair Rosamund in dried flowers This was one of my dried flower art projects last year (see my original Rosamund post). Rosamund in dried flowers before & after This is what it looked like before, and there were aspects I wasn’t happy with. How I improved my dried flowers picture Rather than gluing down every [...]
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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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Winter potpourri recipe with dried rose petals and cloves
Posted on October 16, 2012 by Ruth in Christmas crafts, Dried rose buds, Dried rose petals, Potpourri making
Winter rose potpourri recipe using dried rose flowers Here is a quick potpourri recipe to bring a warm spicy rose fragrance to your home. For this potpourri recipe you will need (makes about a litre of potpourri) Cloves 2 to 3 handfuls Rose buds and petals (dried) about 10 handfuls Rose fragrance oil 6 drops [...]
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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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Roses from my garden as dried flowers & petals
Posted on July 6, 2012 by Ruth in Dried rose buds, Dried rose petals, How to dry flowers
Dried flowers from roses and rose petals Rose season is in full bloom in my garden. This is my favourite time of year when everything looks blousy and verdant, before the untidy phase starts (or is that just my garden?). These rosa mundi roses must be just about my favourite plant because they are so [...]
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My Dried Flowers Diaries June 2012
Posted on June 29, 2012 by Ruth in Diary
Growing dried flowers in my garden I’ve been reading a fabulous book by Nick Weston called Tree House Diaries in which he builds a tree house in the Sussex countryside and lives in it self-sufficiently for six months. The way it was written made me think that perhaps my dried flower blog would benefit from [...]
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