Does anyone have a good idea of how to save roses as a keepsake?

Question

I received a dozen of roses from my new man and I want to save them in a special way. I thought about taking the petals and arranging them somehow in a shadow box type picture frame and then placing our picture in it. Does anyone else have a good idea?

Answer 1

Well there's pressing them or more unusually drying them 3D using a microwave and silicon:

http://www.stretcher.com/stories/00/0012...

depends how long you want to keep them. I guess pressed in a picture will last longest as it'll be easier to keep and you might want to practice the silicon method before potentially ruining the flowers!

Alternatively make scented sachets with the petals. You won't have them on display but scented sachets will last a long time without getting in the way in the future if you want to keep the memory but not have a picture cluttering up the room :0)

Answer 2

You can go to a craft store and buy canister of a flower drying desiccant. They work very well, and works quickly. Then you can press or frame your flowers.

Answer 3

I like your frame idea.  What I like to do with special flowers is dry them by hanging them upside down.  They lose some color and wilt a little bit, but then you can put them in a vase and they last.  I have some flowers from a recital I played in 2003 that I just can't bring myself to get rid of.  They still look great.  And I think my parents have some that I got in 1996 in my old room.

Answer 4

I would just take a nice photograph. Otherwise it's hoarding.

I still have the memory of the first bouquet of roses hubby sent me, and the poem he sent with them. It's better than some dust-collecting bunch of dead dry flowers always in the way.

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