Showing posts with label confetti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label confetti. Show all posts

13 April 2013

Success making confetti...


Slightly more success! This batch I put in pillow case and hung on a radiator, 1 week later I have dried petals-yay. Time will tell whether or not they will be ok in a year but I'm going to carry on experimenting and maybe with the use of a de-humidifier. Watch this space, or if you prefer to buy Shropshire Petals  looked beautiful at the National Wedding Show 
Its probably what I'll end up doing as they are so reasonable and can add glitter too.

Confetti making...attempt one

I thought what a lovely idea, to make your own confetti. If I start now using the various bunches of flowers over the year I'll have plenty and it will have meaning. So off I went de-heading all my flowers and....
 Lesson one, making confetti is not the same as squashing flowers in newspaper and compressing them, end result being what you see on the right. A mouldy mess! yuk :-(