I love to display jewelry in non traditional ways at our shop Citrine and at home. I also have a terrarium fetish and hang my jewels on their glass rims (above).
Glass cylinders about the diameter of a dessert plate work really well. These will look lovely on your dressers or wherever you find yourself taking your earrings off. I layered three different sands and added little things I love like geodes or sea urchins. I recommend this link for beautiful sands: Artemisia
The weight of the sand keeps your holders in place. Enjoy!
When those summer gardens are yielding or bouquets are spent, clip the lovelies to press.
I found this awesome press at a thrift store! You can use heavy books too. All you need is sheets of white paper and cardboard for layering. I made the mistake of using cardboard with a ribbed texture (my dried flowers have that same texture).
Lay your specimens down on white paper and layer with white paper, then cardboard and repeat.
Sandwich as many flowers as you like! Patience is the hardest part. Let your flowers dry for 2 months.
These pressed flowers are lovely and so fragile! Arrange in a frame or make cards out of them (I used stick glue to arrange in a frame).
Not bad for a first try, next time I'll add greens and maybe a sunflower!
Take: Felty balls,
felted sheets, thread
and stitch.
