Drying Flowers. Who knew??

When I loved in Utah... ha! when I loved in Utah... that's funny.... a slip of my subconscious thinking perhaps? I do LOVE Utah, and there are many people that have been, and are still, "loved" by me that reside there... way to draw out a typo eh? Let's begin again...

When I LIVED in Utah, and whenever I got flowers from a gentleman caller or friend, I used to dry my flowers because they still looked extremely decorative and pretty if dried before drooping began. It was so easy to dry flowers in the Utah desert air. It's been a while since I have attempted this. Not that it's been a while since I got flowers... I get flowers all the time from Mr. Huzzabus, I just haven't thought to dry them.

So I got some roses for Easter/Birthday and I decided I would hang them to dry for possible future decor and enjoyment. The result, I'm afraid, was not a pleasant one. They look almost moldy, saturated... it's sad. It has been raining a lot here lately... and it IS Memphis - the humidity is much worse here than in Utah. I should still be able to dry my flowers though. What did I do wrong?

Well! Did you know you can microwave or oven dry your flowers?? Yeah! I have GOT to try that. Also, apparently all this time I have been air drying them the wrong way. Well, in Utah I didn't have a lot of light in my bedroom so I was mistakenly doing it correctly... sort of.

According to proflowers dot com, you need a dark area with good circulation. That explains the moldy, colorless result of my drying - they were hung in the sunlight of my window. Also, you are supposed to use UNFLAVORED dental floss. I used mint flavored... duh. They also recommend spraying them with hairspray after they have dried for extra protection.

picture from Everlastinglifedecor.com

I just love learning new things. My ultimate goal in the area of craftiness is to make a dried flower wreath for my new home, when I have a new home.

Lets! Go! Fly! A Kite!!

Today when Paul got home from work, we went to the park and flew our Shrek kite. I haven't flown a kite is such a long time! It was so much fun. The weather lately is perfect, so we are spending as much time outside as we can.

(You can click on all photos to get a much closer look if you so choose)

This is our Shrek kite. It was cheap, but it worked great.

This is a picture of Paul flying the kite from far away.
I think this is a great picture.


After a while, we decided that we wanted to see how close we could get to our eyes with our camera, without it going blurry. Pretty darn close! I love this picture of Paul's eye because he looks eeeeeeeeeevil, but he's really just squinting from the sun. Or is he? Muuuwahahaha.


This is a close up picture that Paul took of MY eye. If you look at the blown up version (click on the pic) you can see Paul in my eye and the reflection of my eyelashes also. Pretty neat!


This is a picture of some tiny little flowers that were scattered throughout the grass. They were really tiny, but very cute, so we snapped several shots of them.

The End.

The Real First Day of Spring

So, TODAY is actually the first day of spring. I was wrong. Of course, yesterday was extremely "springish," so you can't hold it against me. Here's another flower in celebration of the REAL first day of spring...