Photographing potpourri making I was really pleased to be visited by garden writer and photographer Nicola Stocken this week. She spent an afternoon with me potpourri making for an article she is writing. It will take a while for her to process the photos and finish the article, but she sent me one image as…
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Dried flowers uses | A real wedding with natural confetti petals
A real wedding with real petal confetti I love inventing pretty new confetti mixes from the range of dried flower petals we have in the shop. The thing about dried flower confetti is that it is 100% natural and biodegradable. Cornflower Mix is my favourite natural confetti This is a mix I put together at…
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 September 2012
Dried flower news – Autumn begins Gosh what a month – we’ve gone from hot sun to hammering rain. This is a really big month in the shop because we are receiving into stock all the Christmas fruits & spices, pine cones etc – the crafters we supply always like to start their projects in…
Why do cornflowers fade when you dry them?
I had a go at drying some cornflower stems in my workshop this summer They were all a lovely intense uniform royal blue when I hung them up to dry, but the results were very mixed! Some of the dried cornflowers colour stayed true, some faded to a pretty pale blue, and some cornflower petals…