Showing posts with label hydrangeas. Show all posts
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016

~Potpourri Gifts and Simple & Sweet Fridays #218~

I love making special Mother's Day gifts for girlfriends.
This year, I decided to make
homemade potpourri gift bags!
Our garden has lots of beautiful
 flowers to dry.
I love the book from Barbara Milo Ohrbach,
"The Scented Room".
One of my favorite books that goes back to 1986.
She writes about the art of how to dry flowers.
I've always loved how she collected her favorite flowers from her garden to make the prettiest potpourri.
Here are some dried flowers from our garden.
Larkspur
Roses
Hydrangeas
Statice
More Roses
I always have some dried flowers saved from our garden, 
for that special handmade gift.
Flowers:
lavender, misty blue limonium, waxflower, bachelor's button, larkspur, salvia, feverfew
You can add drops of any one floral essential oil you prefer,
such as rose geranium, jasmine, lily of the valley, honeysuckle or tea rose. 
Whatever is your favorite scent.
I added tea rose.
General Instructions: After Potpourri is made and dried, add 6 drops of your favorite essential oil to every cup of dried potpourri mix. Keep it in a closed container for a few weeks to allow scent to penetrate plant material. Stir the mixture daily.
I hand stamped some gift tags.
A Mother's Day Gift for special friends!
Wishing you all a very
 Happy Mother's Day too!!


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Thursday, July 9, 2015

~Living Wreaths and Simple & Sweet Fridays #175~


I've been wanting to make some
 living wreaths 
with plants from our garden that we have collected.
Stan has been growing air plants for many years now. 
He has quite a variety.
I always love collecting fresh and dried flowers to have on hand,
just in case I need them for a project.
We have an area in our garden that Stan has cultivated 
Spanish Moss.
It grows very well in San Diego.
I can never have enough of Hydrangeas.
I first started with the spanish moss.
Then I wired the air plant and moss down with wire.
I then added dried roses, baby's breath and hydrangea.
I glued pearls in the center of some star fish.
A silver key added some bling to the wreath.
I thought for now I'd hang it in our hallway.
All you have to do is spray the air plants every week with water.
They don't need any soil to survive, 
just indirect light. 
I made another heart shaped living wreath.
It fits perfectly on my rustic garden arch.
Some roses, dried flowers and baby's breath.
A pink pearl was added in the center of the plants.
A Living Wreath 
adds a special touch to any area!
Just wanted everyone to know, Maggie, our Lab, is doing great!
Her surgery to remove her thymus gland went very well.
Her shaved hair is growing back now and her excitement swimming in the pool, lets us all know she loves it.
Thank you for all your positive thoughts and well wishes!!


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