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  • My Drying Hydrangeas Quest ....

    My Drying Hydrangeas Quest ....

    Who needs curtains
    when you have a valance
    of hydrangeas ?

    I am totally on a mission
    this year to figure out
    how to dry hydrangeas~
    This is my attempt
    today ~ Actually these
    bouquets are cut at different
    times of the bloom to
    see which timing is the best ~

    I LOVE how the colors are
    all so different ~
    The bright pink are from
    a completely different
    plant but all the others
    are from the same one ~
    Next year I am going to
    have some blue ones ~

    This picture is some
    I dryed in a vase of water ~
    They were bright pink when
    I cut them and they dried
    kind of shriveled and not
    really how I want them ~

    These are some I cut at
    a later time of the bloom
    and put in water to see if
    that makes a difference ~
    So far they are not dry but
    I am curious how they
    turn out in comparison to
    the hanging ones ~

    Pretty soon every curtain
    rod in my living room is going
    have hydrangeas hanging
    from them ~
    I am thinking I kind
    of love them!! I hope they
    keep the different colors ~

  • HOT Sun & Tattered Roses

    HOT Sun & Tattered Roses

    What do we do when it is
    104 degrees out and too hot
    for pretty much anything else ?

    We make a gazillion
    tattered roses because
    they dry in about 5 minutes :)

    The HOT sun comes in very
    handy for drying stuff fast!

    The poor hydrangea blooms in
    the background are on
    their last leg ~ It
    is funny to me when in
    blog world I am seeing
    some people just now
    picking peonies and
    my hydrangeas are almost
    dried on the bush ~

    We will be tea staining
    the world tomorrow
    and our backyard will
    look like a big giant
    drying rack :)