Floral Preservation for Funerals
It seems like it was just yesterday when I began preserving flowers along with designing dried florals into arrangements for the home or office. The preservation began, over 12 years ago, by saving a friends flowers from her moms’ funeral. I used to watch with interest when people would come into my shop. They loved looking at flowers that were hanging to dry over head. (Yes, I used to hang flowers for my clients before the silica gel entered in on the scene.) Anyway, customers literally loved looking at all the pretty flowers drying and would reach up and touch them. I would explain about them all while they listened and then watch them quickly jerk their hands away and jump back if I mentioned that the flowers were from a funeral. You would think they would get some kind of disease just “touching” the funeral flowers! (more…)
