Pressed Flowers Mixed, Yellow Daffodils, red Daffodils, Bridal Wreath, Rose Leaves, Foliage

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Many guides will recommend only using heavy books, but we’ve found that you can use almost any book - just place heavier books on top! Just make sure the weight is evenly distributed across the area of the book being used to press. Catherine’s top tip:"Some people make a really massive mistake of thinking they have to push loads of weight down on the flowers to make it press well, but that’s not the case – in fact, you can really damage the flowers doing that. Just put enough gentle pressure to flatten the petals without squashing them. Placing a pile of books on top is lovely but you don’t need to sit on the pile of books." Designing the flowers Preserving a special occasion bouquet can be a great way to turn something ephemeral into a long-lasting memento, and even a family heirloom. Preserved flowers are capable of evoking the sentiment of the moment the bouquet was first gifted. If you want to ensure your newly dried flowers last even longer, spray them with a surface sealer and leave them to dry.

If however you think your life is just too busy right now for flower pressing, herbarium-themed pressed flower prints would add instant sophistication to your walls. What Glue To Use With Kids Cut the stem as close to the daffodil as possible, this will mean it lays flatter when you are pressing it. This can take anything from a handful of days to a couple of weeks depending upon the conditions in your room. Silica gel is quite expensive, however if, after use, you place it in a glass baking dish and heat it in the oven at 275°F you will be able to use it. If you want to press a succulent plant or something with a large stem, use kitchen roll to absorb the extra moisture that comes out on the first day, and throw it away. Ditto if you are trying to press multiple specimens at once. Place the kitchen roll so that it is an extra layer outside of the newspaper. You could also consider cutting the plant stem in half.

The waves beside them danced– Along with flowers, waves too are gifted with the human quality to dance. Personification and Simile: I wander’d lonely as a cloud– The first line makes nice use of personification and simile. The poet assumes himself to be a cloud (simile) floating in the sky. When Wordsworth says in the second line ‘I’ (poet as a cloud) look down at the valleys and mountains and appreciate the daffodils; it’s the personification, where an inanimate object (cloud) possesses the quality of a human enabling it to see the daffodils. Continuous as the stars that shine, And twinkle on the milky way– use of simile, daffodils looked like twinkling stars on the milky way, thus connecting nature with the universe. The words used in the poem like crowd, fluttering, dancing, stretched, heads, company, etc. are giving the flowers, daffodils human qualities.

Once you have enjoyed your daffodils in a vase, you can simply remove them and set them aside to dry. You could also try tying the stems together and hanging them upside down somewhere, as this lets the whole flower dry. Third stanza is the continuation of how along with the flowers, the water in the lake too moved, as if they were competing with each other in the dance. But the glee flowers won and the sparkling lake lost. Finding their playfulness, the author couldn’t stop himself from joining their company. The author kept staring at both of them, wondering how his sad mood changed into a happy one. The daffodils and lake’s dance bought him a wealth that he couldn’t deny. The mesmerizing flowers gained a place in his heart he couldn’t understand but felt. Be aware though, that not all daffodils press well, some will turn brown or have tissue that is too thin.Open the phone book and place a sheet of newsprint inside, lay your daffodil on that and then place another sheet of newsprint on top. This process does take a couple of days, but the flowers look delightful while drying and can add a wonderful old-world cottage feel to your home. Many learn how to dry flowers using this method because the process itself is so charming. Air drying is probably the most common method used to dry flowers and is certainly one of the oldest and most traditional methods of drying flowers, which needs the least resources.