Fun with May Flowers

Week 21 of 2024

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Rosieness Revue
May 23rd, 2025

Flowers in a hollowed-out Pineapple

If you are looking for ways to make your blooms last longer - or can’t find a vase - here are some fun ideas to try.

How to Make Flowers Last Longer: 9 Tricks | Proflowers Blog

We are uncovering everything you need to know about how to make flowers last longer and even putting a few theories to the test. Check it out!

www.proflowers.com/blog/how-to-make-flowers-last-longer

Fact or Fiction?: Vodka and Citrus Sodas Keep Cut Flowers Fresh

Lemon-lime soda brightens those drooping bouquets and vodka gets in the way of aging

www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-vodka-citrus-sodas-keep-flowers-fresh

Storing peonies to bloom at a later date

You can cut peonies and store them for weeks or months if you know when to cut and how to properly store them.

www.canr.msu.edu/news/storing_peonies_to_bloom_at_a_later_date

Stainless Steel Floral Shears

These are handy for first cuts and stem maintenance

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Ice Bucket Mold

Fill this mold with your flowers and freeze - for a unique ice bucket.

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How to Bottle Your Flowers in Baby Oil to Make Them Last

Vases just don't cut it anymore—according to TikTok, keeping your flowers in baby oil makes them last and makes for a beautiful arrangement. We tried it with Statice in a Mason Jar.

www.bhg.com/floral-arrangement-baby-oil-7643142

How to Press Flowers in the Microwave

Then decoupage to use for bookmarks - gift tags, note cards or frame them

www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/make-microwave-pressed-flowers-in-minutes

Double Glass Frames for Pressed Flowers -3.5 x 2.5 in Brass Clear with Chain for Display

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Glass Flower Aquarium

Magnifies the blooms - works especially well with Hydrangeas

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Everyone can make a difference

Frozen in Life by Anna Thurber

Explore the captivating world of frozen botanical art by Anna Thurber. Discover her process, recent work, and upcoming events. Her Gallery is Amazing. She grows many of the flowers she freezes and photographs them as the ice melts. You can follower her on Instagram.

www.frozeninlife.com

Word of the Week

BUMPTIOUS

presumptuously, obtusely, and often noisily self-assertive : obtrusive… See the full definition

www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bumptious

What We are Reading

The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress by Ariel Lawhon

Based on a true story of a judge who disappeared in 1930 from the point of view of his wife, maid and mistress - from the author of Frozen River.

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What We are Watching

The Friend (2024) ⭐ 6.4 | Comedy, Drama

1h 59m | R - Story of a New York City writer - Naomi Watts- who inherits a Great Dane from a friend played by Bill Murray, whose appearances are close to a cameo. - Streaming on Prime Video or Apple for a fee. Spoiler alert - the dog steals the show.

www.imdb.com/title/tt18108824/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

What We are Listening to

Bits and Pieces: My Mother, My Brother, and Me (Audible Audio Edition): Whoopi Goldberg,

Read by the author. Memories of growing up in New York City. Dedicated to everyone who knew her mother and brother -

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