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Pressed flower craft from garden blooms
New house. White, blank walls staring at me.
New flower garden, single-handedly grown by trials and errors.
The knack and flair for art and craft are old. Time to dabble in creativity.
I pick flowers: Pansy, mandevilla, nasturtium, cosmos, calendula, marigold, bougainvillea, lavender, cape honeysuckle, mustard, geranium, azalea, camellia, pea. Riot of colors, shapes, and sizes.
I carefully press them between pages of heavy books, to blot away the moisture. After a month or two, the flowers have dried.
Time to artistically arrange and stick them on cardboard. Frame and put them on the walls.
Do-it-yourself, unique, signature-pressed flower decors ready to grace the walls.
Have you tried it? You can do it with wildflowers and foliage, too. Highly-satisfying.
