Pressed Flowers
Pressed Flowers “Flowers are the music of the ground from earth's lips spoken without sound.” - Edwin Curran I love getting flowers, but it's sad when they start wilting and dying. So I was happy to find this trick to save the flowers’ color and beauty. This way I was able to keep flowers from my niece, flowers from a first date, and flowers from my wedding forever. The flowers I will be using as an example are from a friend who came to visit my home for the first time. When they were starting to wilt I remembered that phone book I had laying around and decided to give it a purpose. (Who still uses phone books?) There are other ways to press flowers, but this is my favorite way of doing it. You can use any book, or paper, preferably something you don't use. The pages will be soaking up all the moisture from the flowers. So I