Dried lavender crafts in abundance! Dried lavender is such a versatile natural product that it is hard to write about dried flowers without mentioning it. Check out my blog posts Ten uses for dried lavender and Lavender questions answered or below are a few more. Dried lavender in food In my opinion, dried lavender is…
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Dried flowers diaries March 2013
Dried flowers projects are easier in the Spring and Summer In the Spring and Summer there are abundant flowers in the garden, ripe for testing dessiccation techniques. This year Spring has not yet sprung (we even have snow forecast for Easter), and I am becoming more and more frustrated by the wintry weather! I have…
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…
Dried flower diaries October 2012
Autumn dried flower crafts leading into Winter Where I live is often referred to as “Sunny Sussex”, but not this month. It has been wet and dreary right up until today – finally this morning there is brilliant sunlight and the temperature has plummeted. In my book, cold and sunny beats warm and rainy anytime!…
Drying Sea Lavender in the Workshop
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…