Nature
Crafts With a Microwave
What I like about the projects in this is that they don’t
fit the traditional look one might attribute to crafts made of dried
materials. The flowers are bright, look very attractive and a wide
variety of natural dried materials (including flowers, moss and
fungi, foliage, herbs, berries, spices, eucalyptus, cones, pods,
seedheads, nuts, cattails, raffia, vegetables, fruit and popcorn)
are used to make up these arrangements.
Nature
Printing with Herbs Fruits and Flowers
For a small book, it is packed with information on a wide variety
of printing techniques and different materials with which you can
create fun, useful and decorative projects.
Potpourri Crafts
The book opens with a thorough introduction to growing and making
potpourri, various methods of flower drying and the materials you
need to get started. The book could use an index page so readers
could find the crafts faster.
Step By Step Dried Flowers
This book has 96 jam-packed pages of information on drying flowers
and arrangements to create using dried flowers.
Wreath Making Basics
This book's strengths lie in its in-depth chapters on the basics
of wreath construction that any wreath making beginner should know
such as How to Make a Base and how to innovate them, Tools and Nifty
Gadgets, Materials and Design.
Wreaths 'Round The Year
The wreaths in this book are divided into the chapters Winter Warmers,
Spring Flings, Summer Frolics, Fall Harvests, Celebrations and Year
'Round Whimsies. I noticed that the author did not create
names for most of the wreaths so it can be a bit of a pain to tell
your friends about the wreaths without referring to a page number.
Fresh Ideas in Dried
Flowers
Fresh Ideas in Dried Flowers is full of unique and unusual arrangements.
There is a handy Flower Drying Chart at the back of the book, which
outlines the best methods for drying the various types of flowers
you will be using for the arrangements in this book. There are also
resources for equipment, florists, and info on commercial drying
methods available (i.e. freeze drying services you can purchase)
and additional supplies and methods you can find out about online.
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