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Things You Can Do With Dried Flowers |
Dried fs
- Seasonal f arrangements - in vases or baskets, these last years
if properly stored.
- Make a wreath - use grapevine, styrofoam or wire as wreath back. Attach
to backing with glue and wire, combine with leaves, ribbon, etc. Wreath
ideas here.
- Swags / Wall decorations - hang over doorways, above shelves. (Old
hangars can be used as backing, cut and bend to almost any shape desired.)
- Decorate a mirror - wouldn't you like to see your face always framed
by fs?
- Decorate baskets with fs, leaves and ribbon - glue f heads
to handle and around rim. Fill basket with tidbits for great gifts,
such as soaps, bath salts, home made candies, etc.
- Decorate hats - combine with ribbon.
- Medieval f garland headbands. Baby's breath or Queen Anne's Lace
works best.
- Make a Victorian "posy" - wrap in lace doily. Personalize gifts by
using specific fs for each person.
- Make a Lavender "wand"
- Window dressing - spray paint or spray varnish fs and secure
to corners of curtain rods, etc.
- Potpourri - use scented petals in mixture, and arrange in a bowl.
Place f heads on top. Potpourri recipes
and instructions here.
- Decorate edges of picture frames.
- Decorate a lamp shade - whole fs and petals glued on add wonderful
texture.
- Dress up packages/presents - glue to center of ribbons.
- Make a corsage - attach to a small piece of cardboard and glue to
simple jewelry pin backing.
- Decorate a doll house - tiny dried f arrangements in tiny vases,
make bushes and fpots or f boxes for the windows.
- Crumple petals and insert into greeting card for a personal touch
and scent (roses are nice for this).
- Make a fairy hide-a-away garden, use small branches to make furniture,
glue small fs and leaves to decorate.
- Make a hair barrett - glue fs to gathered lace, and attach to
barrett backing.
- Hair combs - a set of combs decorated with dried fs make a nice
gift.
- Christmas tree decorations - attach to bows, combine with bells and
lace, and hang from your tree.
- Candle wreaths - make a small wreath of dried fs to place around
the base of a scented candle. Lovely!
- Decorate a tiny Christmas tree. See How
to Make a Tiny Christmas Tree
- Lollipop tree - also known as dried f topiary, not a new idea,
but a good one. Makes a great gift.
- Garnish your hors d'ourves trays
- Dress up your tea tray with a teacup full of potpourri topped with
f heads
- Sprinkle rose petals on your pillow and sheets before a romantic interlude
- A romantic bath - add scented bath salts or oil to your bath water,
then sprinkle f petals carefully onto the water surface.
- Decorate your house plants. Insert wire "stem" into soil
near center of plants.
Pressed fs
- Attach to backing and frame
- Apply paint to flattened fs and press onto paper to create unique
prints
- Decoupage onto boxes
- Decoupage onto picture frames
- Kitchen magnets
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