Well I should have started this item much sooner than later. When I went outside to my front yard to pick some flowers, most were dead and gone. Oops, what a difference a few days make. I guess Autumn is right on my heels. I can tell because I actually use blankets at night. Thank goodness it is ending. These days over 100 degrees are brutal.

I did have some roses and a few hydrangeas left so I grabbed those to press. I remember as a teenager taking flowers and pressing them between wax paper and putting them into our encyclopedias. God I remembers those brown volumes of knowledge. Back in the day, before the internet, you either went to the library to look stuff up or if you were one of the fortunate few you had a whole set of these books. Today I can hardly remember my life before the internet and cell phones. As a kid you made sure you had enough coins to call home, you just had to find a phone booth. When you wanted to find a phone number you pulled out those big phone books and flipped through the pages looking for that cute boys number or the local restaurant.

Ok back to pressed flowers. I got a fairly large pressed flower set off of Amazon. It is big enough to do large flowers or multiple layers of flowers.

In my enthusiasm I forgot to take pictures of the hydrangeas.

It takes about two weeks to get the flowers pressed right. So now we wait.

Depending how they turn out, I was thinking of a bookmark, card or mini lantern. I am leaning towards a bookmark but it all depends on what happens with the flowers.

Stay tuned for an update on this crafting adventure.

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