Mint Neon Green Red Flower

Posted on Sep 15, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

Mint green manicure with neon green diagonal, red dried flower, pink and green painted flowers and a green glitter vine. The red flower is the star of this design. Use a pale pink that won’t compete with the dramatic red.

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Selecting Flowers to Press

Posted on Aug 06, 2009 under dried flowers | 1 Comment

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BOTANICAL GEM PRESSED FLOWERS HANNAH S. LYMAN 1877 Holyrood Abby

Posted on Aug 06, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

This is a scrap book created by a woman named Hannah S. Lyman in 1877. She travelled to many European gardens back in then I think to revisit where her late aunt had been.

This album was found in an old book store in Ipswich Massachusetts.

I believe it to have been put together by Hannah W. Lymans niece. Hannah W. Lyman was the Principal Lady @ Vassar College when it was founded.

She herself travelled to these locations and in the book itself it is noted on one of the pressed floral arrangements “My Aunt Hannahs Garden”

I’ve held onto this for many years and felt before anything happened to it I should document it and try to find a home for it. I feel it as an heirloom of botanical heritage artifacts.

Books with this much personality are not published but pleasant reminders of the past, pressed in the pages of a book then passed on or found.

Antique books like this offer fascinating glimpses of lives that have long since ended, I am impressed with the pressed flowers in this book. Some still hold the color they once had when picked so long ago.

What a treasure this is. I am just the gaurdian for a time and hope to pass it on to someone who will guard and keep it and love it as much as i have over the years.

Some of the gardens these florals came from are the following:

Crystal Palace
The Queens Garden (Dairy)
Holyrood Abby Edinburgh
Laburnum Botanical Garden
Greyfriars Garden
Wick Castle
Dryburgh Abbey
Melrose Abby
Abottsford
Palace Holyrood
Endinburgh Scotland
Laburnum from the Royal Botanical Garden
Chapal Royal
Carlton hill

So many Abbys she went thru and Church yards and burial grounds just a great look back at an old past time hobby.

This book is for sale on EBAY @

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Phone Book Flower Pressing

Posted on Aug 04, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

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How to Press Flowers

Posted on Aug 02, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

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Microwave Flower Pressing

Posted on Jul 31, 2009 under dried flowers | 2 Comments

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Preparing Flowers for the Press

Posted on Jul 29, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

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Storing Pressed Flowers

Posted on Jul 27, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

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Designing a Pressed Flower Bookmark

Posted on Jul 24, 2009 under dried flowers | No Comment

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Creating a Laminated Pressed Flower Bookmark

Posted on Jul 21, 2009 under dried flowers | 6 Comments

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