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
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…
Natural dried flower petal wedding confetti
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…
Winter potpourri recipe with dried rose petals and cloves
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…
Dried flower diaries September 2012
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…