OT...Anyone have experience with drying flowers? | Arthritis Information
I have my daughter's wedding bouquet. I'd like to disassemble it and put in in a shadowbox with other wedding memorabilia.
Do I need to "set" the flowers in some way?
I've been drying the bouquet in the basement and it looks pretty good. I really don't want to do anything to ruin it...
A basement might be too humid, which could cause mold to start forming. I remember drying flowers using salt when I was in high school, but I can't remember exactly what was done.
Lynn,
I made a shadow box from some of the flowers from My Grandmas Funeral. I will
try to post a Picture of it later. I am at my office right now.
What I did is I tied several rubber bands around the stems and hung them upside
down in my dining room...every so often I tightened the bands. I did this until
they were dry. Some flowers do not dry well. You could try to take a few
flowers from the bouquet if it is rather large. And arrange it with the wedding
invitation...or take a favorite photo and run it on copier in Black and White
then enlarge it and have it as the back ground. The possibilities are
endless. Have fun with it.
Lisa
#1inflamedOnline2009-11-11 07:56:30It's very dry, no sign of mold. I just want to be able to place it in the shadowbox without destroying it
This seemed like a good idea at the time
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Lynn,
I made a shadow box from some of the flowers from My Grandmas Funeral. I will try to post a Picture of it later. I am at my office right now.
What I did is I tied several rubber bands around the stems and hung them upside down in my dining room...every so often I tightened the bands. I did this until they were dry. Some flowers do not dry well. You could try to take a few flowers from the bouquet if it is rather large. And arrange it with the wedding invitation...or take a favorite photo and run it on copier in Black and White then enlarge it and have it as the back ground. The possibilities are endless. Have fun with it.
Lisa
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That's my plan...
Beautiful!
Post pic after you get it made.
cut them out of the holder
Lynn, I dried my wedding bouquet with a silica desiccant I got at the craft store. It preserved it very nicely and the color stayed as well. Alas, I lost it in the flood back in '98, with so much else. I still have pictures, memories and most of all, DH!
[QUOTE=waddie]Lynn, I dried my wedding bouquet with a silica desiccant I got at the craft store. It preserved it very nicely and the color stayed as well. Alas, I lost it in the flood back in '98, with so much else. I still have pictures, memories and most of all, DH!
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Hmm... maybe it was silica, not salt that I used. [/QUOTE]
I think I'm past the point of using the silica....I just don't want to screw this up. I want it to be pretty and meaningful for her.
I think I'm going to have to just suck it up and give it a shot!
Sorry your bouquet was destroyed....DH is the most important thing to have anyway...Put the following words, without quotes in your Google search engine:
how to dry and preserve flowers
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