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Today the wind is blowing everything not tied down; dust, tumbleweeds, tree limbs and leaves; whoops…there went a few butterflies, and a couple of birds are frozen in place trying to fly into the wind. A good day for catching-up on my writing, doing a web search on the computer, checking-out wikipedia for step-by-step information on dried flowers; how to, where to, wandhat for. Speaking of which, its time to place my order at my favorite family owned business wwwschustersoftexas.com. Yep, a good day for staying inside.
My eyes turn to dates and days circled on the calendar. June a month of many celebrations…spring begins, Fathers Day which is a perfect opportunity to make hand made gifts, using dried flowers and denim pockets. DENIM POCKETS????????????? Since I’m a re-cycler, my husband’s old worn-out jeans are a favorite target. Cut the rear pockets out using pinking shears, cut cardboard to fit inside the pocket, glue flowers or dried materials of choice to the inside. I chose a small sunflower, mixed with red eucalyptus, natural broom corn (for the retired farmer in him) and some of the red chili bush, (reminding him, he’s still HOT! HOT! HOT!) The side seams (cut to desired length) complete with copper brads glued to top edges makes a hanger. Attach a special note for that finishing touch.
Flag Day, is a perfect reason to celebrate and showing your patriotic side. Since we are all capable of painting (paint Runs in my family), decorate a terra cotta pot with red, white, and blue stripes or paint it solid colored blue. Mix red flax grass, red pencil cattails, with white ostrich wing feathers, for a unique way of expressing your Love of your country
June, being a favorite month for weddings, for a more practical, less expensive, fun way to make your wedding more personal, plan on making most of the floral pieces yourself. Start with the Hydrangea, color of choice, adding natural lunaria leaves, for beautiful centerpieces, bride & attendants boutique. For grooms boutonniere & his groomsmen, other corsages and pew markers, pull the hydrangea blooms apart, adding leaves and complimentary ribbon, making keepsake memories of a perfect I DO DAY. Then you’re off for fun in the sun, romantic honeymoon on a tropical island, where orchids bloom, and seashells wait to be gathered, providing more keepsakes.
As we continue thumbing thru the calendar…..BOOM! It’s July, Independence Day, with outdoor entertainment and activities from parades to backyard Bar-B-Q’s on the patio & of course spectacular fireworks for a bang-up 4th.Then August with no special celebrations other than school starts. (YEAH!).September is here, leaves turn to orange, red and gold, giving us the beauty of autumn with cool fall weather. Labor Day, Patriot Day, and Grandparents Day (celebrating us old timers).October….Columbus Day (glad he discovered us), National Boss Day (what to do) And Halloween, with ghosts (BOO), witches, devils, black cats & bats at your door makes for a perfect decorating opportunity, using pumpkins, gourds, sunflowers, wheat straw & scarecrows standing guard waiting to hear TRICK or TREAT.November and December are two of the best months of the year for decorating your home, hearth and yard. Look for future articles on these cherished holidays.
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Dried-flowers project and aromatherapy ideas from Shusters
Aromatherapy and Dried Flowers
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Our winter with summer type weather was spent doing creative work using dried flowers made into arrangements to enhance a vanilla corner in my home. I even tried my hand at preserving and freeze drying fresh flowers using the silica gel/glycerin & the easiest of all using the air dry method of hanging them in the darkness of closet for 3-five days. Thumbing thru their beautiful catalog, where the family windmill, located on the family ranch is always a special feature in their books. On the web & in their catalog they offer complete & unique dried flower selections to all their customers, with friendly, personal service, where your bulk order is shipped out-PRONTO to you.
In my work room, enjoying aromatherapy of English lavender scented potpourri, I’m ready to begin new projects and floral arrangements. My ideas on this Monday morning are anything but blue. Lets begin a creative project, using a large straw hat, wrap a colorful silk ribbon around the crown, glue a mixture of small & large sunflowers (# of choice), around the crown & on the brim, mix-in a few mango/chocolate buttons, along with autumn /harvest preserve oak leaves. Add a silk bow, wear for protection from the hot summer sun or hang on the wall for a unique decoration. Option #two using the same size straw hat (THINK SCARECROW).
Cut a smaller straw hat in half, glue & place at the top of the crown of the full straw hat. Here your artistic talent comes into play; paint the crown of the full straw a flesh color with acrylic paint. When dry, make stitches going up & down the center of the painted crown, in the middle paint a small orange triangle for the nose, outline it with the marker, making a few stitches along the edge of it, paint the eyes, making two ovals, use white + eye color (your choice) + black, outline in black, make eyelashes or (easier way) glue on a pair of large wiggle eyes, add real rouge to the cheeks (optional). Between the half hat crown (where it is attached to the larger hat) glue and cut various lengths of natural raffia, making scraggly hair. On top of the small hat where it is attached to the larger one, glue strands of raffia with 3 pencil cattails in rust & brown, along with burnt oak & mango Chinese Protea flowers, mixing in basil flax grass. Glue a few longer & different lengths of raffia at the base of the crown face, hanging down past the brim, top this off with a color co-ordinate silk bow. Hang it on your front door for an August fall decoration that may just keep the OLD CROWS away from your door.
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Shusters-dried flowers and special occasions
Every day holiday ideas
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What a wonderful country we live & love in, each month the calendar provides us with reasons to celebrate & create. We started the New Year off with a bang, now February
(looks like the ground-hog saw his shadow) Presidents Birthdays, and Valentines, a multitude of decorating ideas pop into my mind. Let us begin by selecting a wicker basket, fill bottom with assorted moss stones, with natural raffia made to droop over the edges, add pinecones along with basil or chocolate small twist cane, cut in different lengths pushed into the moss (to hold in place). To each twisty add a rolled-up Lincoln or Washington dollar bills in honor of their Birthdays. Present this money gift to your favorite Valentine or give to someone special. Speaking of Valentines, how about using the small, red celosia bundle, adding a red silk ribbon & bow, with a love note tucked inside the flowers. Place in a wood bowl, filled with red Hershey’s kisses. Talk about cupid’s arrow hitting its mark, HUGS and KISSES are yours to keep.
Wearing of the green (do not pinch) is March with St. Patrick Day celebrations, spring begins, the time change (ugh). Christians all over the country honor lent. Perfect time to create a bouquet for the church alter, using a copper pot filled with basil flax grass, basil pencil cattails, light green and natural wheat, using the cream colored Chinese Peony for the focal point.
April (hopefully bringing showers), do not be fooled. Mark your calendar for Palm Sunday, a perfect time to use green sun palm as a hand-out to each church member, as a reminder of Jesus’ love for us. Easter Sunday, present all the children with a bell cup filled with jelly beans on a bed of springerii green, glue a ribbon on each side, stick-on a bible verse (John three-16) to the outside of the cup. Give thanks & praise to GOD.
May brings us to Armed Forces Day, Mothers’ Day & Memorial Day, circled on our calendar. Let us hold dear with honor & remembrances to our veterans who so bravely fought and died for our freedom. Perfect time to bring out the flags & place them into a red, white, blue gypsy bloom arrangement in a terra cotta pot. Not to forget Moms, we could do an arrangement of combined pink and white parchment hydrangeas with boxwood leaves in a matte black square ceramic vase, finishing it with a coordinating colored bow
For all your dried flower needs go to wwwschustersoftexas.com website, where your bulk order will be boxed-up and shipped to yours quickly as possible. This family owned operated business offers prompt friendly service to all their customers, where they are ready to help you with suggestions of flower usage & can answer most any question you may have. Do not forget about their attractive, colorful catalog; where shopping is made easy.
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Summer-Dried Flower projects from Shusters
Summer projects
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The snowstorm has ended, leaving us with ten degree temperature, with the sun shinning on a glistening, beautiful blanket of winter snow. Where was all this in December? Oh! What a Christmas treat it would have been (except for safe traveling), with snow ball fights, making snow people, and kids lying in the snow, flapping their arms & legs, leaving snow angels. Makes me want to go back & celebrate allover again. Create Christmas type dried flower arrangements, hang up the mistletoe, make homemade gifts, wrapping presents & spending time in the kitchen, cooking the turkey & all the trimmings, & baking special cookies from an old family secret recipe. Where were you Martha Stewart when I needed you? Oops, back to reality.
Since the cross is a distinct Christian symbol I have chosen to dedicate this article to the use of dried flowers in decorating them for handmade Christmas gifts and remembering Jesus’ sacrifice for me, as he suffered & died on the cross, bringing us to another Easter season. With Elmers’ expertise at working with metal, he cut and formed metal crosses to which I added preserved arborvitae in the center, extending it up-down & across middle of the cross with glue. I opted to use the New Mexico favorite- red chili’s atop the greenery. On a second cross, I used the greenery with Austriaca pinecones on picks + red berries cut-off of the berry branch. Another option for crosses would be to use wood, either nice smooth pieces or weathered, rough wood (my choice), using the moss vine or moss mat mounted on wood, add basil colored mini yarrow & spring green ting ting flowers. Compacta buds or Banksia could be used also. Another cross base could be formed using bamboo & reeds combined, affixed in the center with raffia. Your bamboo color choices vary from natural, olive, chocolate, to basil. Reed bundles come in basil, natural, red or mixed, use a variety of dried flowers such as the combination of peach flower stem cut to desired length, with cream, burnt oak, or mango colored Chinese Peony, using 3 to 5 in the arrangement. Another option would be to use the Chinese Protea in burnt oak/mango or natural instead of the Peony. Either one would be very appropriate & attractive. For dried flowers needed for the above decorations, go on line, search the internet & when you find wwwschustersoftexas.com, (family owned business) web cite, you’re at the right place for an easy way to shop, where your bulk order is shipped directly to you, leaving you plenty of time for those creative ideas to begin forming.
Our last cross will be constructed from two cinnamon sticks (no longer just for kitchen use) Tie the two sticks (one a bit shorter) together in the center with natural raffia. Place on an upside down terra cotta pot (small size, 2 incher worked good for me). Add to the center a few golden buttons, choosing from a selection of colors….basil, chocolate, mango or natural. At the base of the cross & top part of pot, glue small pebbles & some of the same colored buttons, add a bible verse to the pot, giving to GOD all the praise & glory.
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Free-dried flowers the Shusters way
Freeze dry method
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Our winter with summer type weather was spent doing creative work using dried flowers made into arrangements to enhance a vanilla corner in my home. I even tried my hand at preserving & freeze drying fresh flowers using the silica gel/glycerin & the easiest of all using the air dry method of hanging them in the darkness of closet for three-5 days. But I preferred the use of dried flowers found at wwwschustersoftexas.com website a family owned business. Thumbing thru their beautiful catalog, where the family windmill, located on the family ranch is always a special feature in their books. On the web & in their catalog they offer complete & unique dried flower selections to all their customers, with friendly, personal service, where your bulk order is shipped out-PRONTO to you.
In my work room, enjoying aromatherapy of English lavender scented potpourri, I’m ready to begin new projects & floral arrangements. My ideas on this Mon. morning are anything but blue. Lets begin a creative project, using a large straw hat, wrap a colorful silk ribbon around the crown, glue a mixture of small & large sunflowers (number of choice), around the crown & on the brim, mix-in a few mango/chocolate buttons, along with autumn /harvest preserve oak leaves. Add a silk bow, wear for protection from the hot summer sun or hang on the wall for a unique decoration. Option #2 using the same size straw hat (THINK SCARECROW).
Cut a smaller straw hat in half, glue & place at the top of the crown of the full straw hat. Here your artistic talent comes into play; paint the crown of the full straw a flesh color with acrylic paint. When dry, make stitches going up & down the center of the painted crown, in the middle paint a small orange triangle for the nose, outline it with the marker, making a few stitches along the edge of it, paint the eyes, making two ovals, use white + eye color (your choice) + black, outline in black, make eyelashes or (easier way) glue on a pair of large wiggle eyes, add real rouge to the cheeks (optional). Between the half hat crown (where it is attached to the larger hat) glue & cut various lengths of natural raffia, making scraggly hair. On top of the small hat where it is attached to the larger one, glue strands of raffia with 3 pencil cattails in rust & brown, along with burnt oak & mango Chinese Protea flowers, mixing in basil flax grass. Glue a few longer & different lengths of raffia at the base of the crown face, hanging down past the brim, top this off with a color co-ordinate silk bow. Hang it on your front door for an August fall decoration that may just keep the OLD CROWS away from your door.
Since NASCAR racing is such a big sport for men & some women, many a Sunday is spent with the boys & their cars in front of the TV. Can’t you hear all the cheering for their favorite driver/cars (Chevy of course for the hubby)? What will you be doing during the race? Get creative using dried flower arrangements for home, family and friends.
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