Hello! This is Carol Macht from Forever Yours, and I’m Barbara Norfolk from our shop in Glen Burney, Maryland. And she’s going to show you a little bit more about this process. We’re discussing how to preserve your bridal bouquet. And we have here some silica gel. This is a product that is available from craft stores and you can purchase that you’re going to need about 10 pounds of it to sink a whole bridal bouquet.
Barbara is going to take each rose that has been previously prep, and to show how the sink fewer of them which is using as a big basin, so that we can pour some of that silica gel out of the basin. And leaving a little bit in there because we’re going to hold the flowers you’ll see why need that.
What she’s doing first is pouring a little bit of silica gel inside of the flower, patting it in so it goes nice and deep inside the petals. And she’s standing it up inside the silica gel. And Barbara will two flowers and then show how we’re going to support the flower as we’d fill up that basin.
And then when you’ve filled up that basin with your flowers, you’re going to use very carefully from the outside building upwards, pouring your silica gel so that they will support the petals. If she takes the silica gel at this stage and pours in the top and then the rose might display outwards which of course is not going to be the shape you wanted to dry in.
So, just carefully as you continue covering that from the outside, just making sure the silica gets nicely inside the rose too. And the rose is very, very brittle when it’s dried, so you’re not going to be able to move and manipulate this petal after it’s dried. So you wanted to look as nice as you can as you’re completing this process. We’re going to completely bury each flower inside the sand. And when you have the silica gel filled up in that container, you may need to put more into this container too to fill it up then you’re going to put lead on that container. And you’re going to keep it in that container for about two weeks.
Okay, for the purposes of this segment, we’re pretending that it’s two weeks and we have the flowers ready. These are the flowers that we have previously preserved. And we’re going to show you how after your two weeks or up you’re going to pour the flowers. And we call pouring because of course it’s playing in sand. And we’re pouring out the silica gel very gently as small an incline as possible. And that is slowly revealing the roses that are inside the silica gel. And when you get to a stage where you feel you can safely start removing the flowers without damaging them, you just gently put your hand in there. It’s easy as to take it by the wire that you put on previously. And as you can see, you need to shake out that silica gel and that’s your flower have been beautifully preserved. That’s what it look like when it fresh and that is what it looks like as a preserved flower.
Next, we’re going to show you how to prep your case for display.
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