Author(s): Ivana Jost

Interior Design

Eighteen beginner to advanced-level projects using natural, durable, and long-lasting dried flowers for home décor, entertaining, and even wearing. Decorate your home and brighten your life with gorgeous dried-flower crafts! Flowers and botanicals are an ever-popular way to create stunning arrangements and decorations, and using dried flowers will ensure that those decorations will remain beautiful and elegant for years to come. Author Ivana Jost is a sought-after event and wedding florist whose popular and successful business, Das Blumenatelier, is based in Bavaria. In these pages, she presents: tips and techniques for treating and drying flowers, grasses, branches, and other greenery; detailed lists of which botanicals are best for drying and using in dried-flower crafts, as well as the tools and additional materials readers will need; step-by-step instructions for combining dried botanicals with hoops, ribbons, and other materials; 18 spectacular, long-lasting, and durable projects -- wreaths, hair ornaments, vases, picture frames, and more. Readers can use the techniques and projects in these pages to be part of a trend that will never go out of style -- everlasting dried florals!