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The flowers always give a warm and romantic tinge to the home. Achieving them into permanent is an ideal. Now you can make your own dried flowers. Try it and see.

Drying flowers involves a simple and inexpensive technique, which only requires a dry, ventilated, not too light, but with a moderate temperature. But the most interesting is that it is a natural process.

1.It is first necessary to remove as many leaves to allow better ventilation and rapid drying of the plant.

2.Place upside down in various clusters of small amount. With some plants such as lavender, broom and willow, can make the drying process from a vertical position by placing them in a bottle and keeping the stems loose, without the need to group them in bunches.

3.The next step is vaporizing a small amount of lacquer to prevent subsequent detachment of the leaves or seeds.

Once wet the flowers can arrange them in different ways:

1.One of the most picturesque is to prepare bouquets or centerpieces placing flowers and fruits in the middle.

2.Another alternative is to attach dried flowers to make landscapes in paintings or attached to gift boxes.

3.You can also enjoy their fragrance and perform a medley with just crumble one by one.

4.A fairly standard technique in the proceedings of decoration is dyed or change the color to obtain the desired combinations according to the plan designed.

How are pressed flowers:

This method is used to dry flowers and leaves. It is very useful for preserving flowers such as pansies, violets, wisteria and others.

1 – Place on paper plants and arrange them by shape and color.

2 – Use as a base boxes of blotting paper or newspaper, trying not to change its format to the proceedings. Top of the flowers should be added more sheets of paper to absorb moisture and prevent the discoloration of the friction between the different flowers.

3 – Then spread a second layer of flowers and leaves in the newspaper or blotting paper, continuing the process several times to use the flowers available.

4 – Once the flowers available and their accommodation, introducing them all in a wooden press, properly adjusting nuts. It is recommended to change the wet paper every two or three days. The complete drying of the flowers will take three weeks. In the case who is not a wooden press, you can use any heavy object such as a book.

So the flowers will decorate the home permanently.

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