flower pressing – Two Trails One Road

Hello Friends!

It’s time for Tuesday… again!

I know I say it pretty often but I can’t believe it’s Tuesday already. This week flew by. I know how busy we all are so I sure do appreciate when you take time out of your day and pop over to say hello. Thank you!

***A clematis drying off from the morning dew.***

Heat Wave

Oh and yet again I find myself saying… “It’s Hot!” I know, I know I live in Arizona most of the year and I should be use to the heat. However, this heat here in Pennsylvania with buckets of humidity thrown in… is simply dreadful.

***Water Knotweed or Water Smartweed found in some areas by the lake.***

Indoors

We find ourselves indoors more then we wish to be! Come on now, it’s Summertime and the Living Should Be Easy, right? With all this time inside and thankful for the luxury of central air… I have journaled more. Do you Journal? I don’t do it every single day but I love to write down my thoughts and the happenings of our lives a few times a week. Plus, I’ve been adding my very own doodles and art to it. It’s quite enjoyable and relaxing for me. I still need to make a cover for it so when that is done I’ll share a picture of my Journal.

“Fill your paper with breathings of your heart.”

~William Wordsworth

I want to add some of our garden flowers to my journal. So I asked sweet man to make a wooden Flower Press for me. I am a beginner at this but I did look up some ideas of how to begin by using what a I had at home.

***Sweet man took two pieces of wood and then added the long lug nuts. I then tighten the lug nuts and then the boards press the flowers.***

***I placed parchment paper down then a coffee filter then added the leaves***.

***Another coffee filter was placed on top of the leaves.***

***Another coffee filter for the new layer of flowers to be pressed.***

Before adding the top piece of wood… I did another layer of flowers on a coffee filter. I covered it all with coffee filters and parchment paper then added the top board. I’ll wait a few weeks to show you how it all came out.

I may try Eco Printing with some of our botanicals as well. Eco Printing is a natural way to dye paper or fabric where the natural dyes come from the plants. It’s quite involved but I may try it. I’ll keep you posted.

“Creativity takes courage.”
~Henri Matisse

An Adventure

We went searching for Sweet Man’s Church Camp that he went to in the summer as a kid.

We found it!

***Here are some of the cabins Sweet Man camped in!***

Long ago there was a Door Knob factory very close to the Church Camp. They closed the factory years before Sweet Man went to the church camp as a kid. However, the factory dumped the clay molds of the door knobs all over the hillsides near the Church Camp. So one of the activities for the campers was to go hunting for Door Knobs… I kid you not.

Guess what we did?

Yes, you guessed correctly. We looked for Door Knobs! It had rained the day before and believe it or not… the knobs were coming up out of the ground in the road!