This summer I started a new journal for jotting down garden observations, some creative writing ideas, some inspiration for this blog and in its pages I also began pressing a few tiny summer blooms.
It has been years since I presssed flowers - it may well be something that I haven't done since childhood - but I thought it would be lovely to have a few tangible samples of a summer garden dotted throughout the pages of notes about this season.
I particularly love the hydrangeas (from a roadside stall) and that bright yellow one is one of my cucumber flowers. It's delicate petals melded with the journal page so completely it looks like a water-colour painting.
Yesterday a kind crafter gifted the little girls their very-own flower press, so now we will be on the look-out for more summer blooms to save before the season ends. The press needs a new wing nut which I can get from a hardware store easily enough.
I've been pinning a few images of pressed flowers and looking for ways we might incorporate them into some craft activities. But, most of all, I just enjoy the slow art of picking and presssing these little summer blooms and seeing how they transform into tiny works of art.
A simple (and beautiful) way to preserve some of summer's goodness.
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Megan
One of my fondest childhood memories is of making pressed flower bookmarks with my Gran :-)
ReplyDeleteAww, that is so sweet, Tricia.
ReplyDeleteI too have fond memories of collecting flowers as a girl and pressing them between the pages of the old-style phone books.
xx
These are such beautiful images! We love pressing flowers here. I'm actually making a few flower presses at the moment for gifts. It just seems to freeze their beauty in time. Lovely :) x
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love pressed flowers!
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Sarah x
Great idea, these are beautiful. I have several flower presses full of four-leafed clovers, cause my dad and I go hunting for them every time we are in a field. I love the notion of keeping notebooks and scarpbooks. They are so good to look back on.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous idea! I am new to your blog, but have your posts coming through in my email now, so won't miss it. Zanni, Heart Mama
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