{"id":3683,"date":"2010-05-01T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T06:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unikatissima-e.riamore.eu\/?p=3683"},"modified":"2013-12-08T18:32:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-08T16:32:41","slug":"how-to-press-flowers-leaves-and-herbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=3683","title":{"rendered":"How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Clematis VII a.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Clematis VII\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"links\"><a href=\"#li100501\"><strong>Links of entry<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>I already wrote about <a href=\"?p=17\">drying flowers in the microwave<\/a> and about <a href=\"?p=112\">flower pounding<\/a>, here at <a href=\"http:\/\/preservedgardens.com\/how-to-press.htm\">how to press flowers, leaves and herbs<\/a> you can find general and comprehensive tips, there are some that I want to try out ;-)<br \/>\n<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>\nAnd what to do then with the pressed flowers and leaves?<br \/>\nThat is what I did:<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Clematis VII.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Clematis VII\" width=\"200\" height=\"281\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/> On the picture you see a little &#8216;piece of art&#8217; that was meant originally as a card but is much to time-consuming for this: it is a Clematis petal pressed in an old phone book, embellished with self-made decorative paper and hand embroidery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Der trockene Sommer.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Der trockene Sommer\" width=\"200\" height=\"290\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/> Here I&#8217;ve pressed a leek leaf in an old phone book, too, and embroidered it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"..\/uploads\/unikatissima Herbst.jpg\" alt=\"unikatissima Herbst\" width=\"200\" height=\"301\" class=\"alignleft size-medium\" \/> I don&#8217;t know what kind of leaf this is, but I combined it with self-made decorative paper, self-made <a href=\"?p=68\">&#8216;papyrus&#8217;<\/a> and hand embroidery.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearboth\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"li100501\"><\/a><br \/>\n<em><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/preservedgardens.com\/how-to-press.htm\">How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here at unikatissima:<br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=17\">Drying Flowers in the Microwave<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=112\">Flower Pounding<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"?p=68\">Faux Papyrus<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Links of entry I already wrote about drying flowers in the microwave and about flower pounding, here at how to press flowers, leaves and herbs you can find general and comprehensive tips, there are some that I want to try out ;-) &nbsp; And what to do then with the pressed flowers and leaves? That &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/?p=3683\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;How to Press Flowers, Leaves and Herbs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,48],"tags":[451,131,177,179,233,234,471],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7940,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3683\/revisions\/7940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/unikatissima.riamore.eu\/e\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}