Unplugged Project - flat

The theme for this weeks Unplugged Project was flat.

I know it's a bit of a tenuous link but we decided to press some flowers - they will be very flat in a week or so.

We marvelled at the old ones we found in the press. Some were paper thin and really fragile yet still held a lot of their colour. Beautiful.



Both of the children were really enthusiastic and the smell of sweet peas in the kitchen was fabulous as they arranged them between the sheets of card and blotting paper.







The press we used was mine as a child. It's just one of those wonderful timeless things, although I was thinking today that it is perhaps time I invested in some fresh blotting paper.



While on the subject of flowers, I thought I'd give an update on our rose oil making efforts. Well, the results were not like an essential oil I would expect to buy in the shop but still very pleasant nonetheless. The oil has tiny particles of petal in and judging by the look of it I fear it would go rancid quite quickly unlike oils I have bought. The smell is also not so pungent as I imagine the 'proper' one to be, but it is still very heady and decadent when used as a body oil. I'd certainly do it again although I'd possibly look into ways of refining it a little more.

Oh and by the way the heatwave appears to be over but the ice lolly fest continues.

Banana, spinach and crystal mana.



Honeydew melon with a swirl of raspberry.