Dried flowers projects
Pressed flower project with daisies Mini canvas with pressed daisy in painted grass I bought such a cute little stretched canvas and easel the other day for £2 in a craft shop – the canvas is only 7cm across! I do love an excuse to get my paints out. I pushed the pressed daisy into…
I like drying flowers in my airing cupboard because it’s so simple I’m a sucker for plants and couldn’t resist this marguerite plant at the garden centre the other day! I cut a few stems and tied them with a raffia bow, adding a sprig of fennel foliage before air drying them. I hung…
How to make a framed pressed flowers picture This year I’ve been pressing larger flower specimens. It’s time to put them in a frame. The great thing about having had a dried flowers workshop for twenty years is that I can just wander in and find something suitable! I found some modern box frames and…
Five DIY Christmas potpourri ideas made using natural fruit and spices Bring the scent of Christmas into your home this season! I’m all for natural botanicals, so here are five ideas for a Christmas scented home with a natural twist. You can buy everything you need from daisyshop.co.uk – just follow the link below! Decorate…
Using Lavender and Cedar as natural moth repellents for clothes moths I wrote a couple of posts back in 2012 about battling clothes moths and they’re still some of my most popular articles. They’re persistent little critters! What is a clothes moth? The scientific name of the most common UK clothes moth is Tineola bisselliella….