Dried orange slices as natural decorations I love the natural, subtle marmalade aroma of these dried orange slices and like to take every opportunity to use them! This simple decoration matches the cinnamon stick and dried orange garland I featured a few days ago. All you need is a length of festive ribbon! Just gently…
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Seasonal dried flower crafts | Cinnamon stick garland
Make a cinnamon stick and dried orange garland Following on from my recent post where I talked about how to make natural hanging decorations using cinnamon sticks and dried orange slices, here is a simple-to-make garland. [image – cinnamon stick garland dried orange curled] How to make the cinnamon stick and dried orange garland You…
Natural Christmas decorations with cinnamon sticks and orange slices
Make your own natural Christmas decorations Don’t buy a natural Christmas decoration like this one, make it! Festive hangers like this are in fashion at the moment: they are very simple to make, and much cheaper to make yourself than to buy in the shops. This is a picture of one I bought to sell…
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…
More traditional dried flower crafts | Corn craft with dried lavender
Traditional crafts using dried wheat, dried lavender and other dried flowers A few weeks ago I published a post mentioning Glynn who likes to make traditional corn dollies from dried wheat, into which he sometimes incorporates some dried lavender stems. He has recently sent me some more lovely photos of his work which I would…