This week I saved some fallen plumeria flowers from an afterlife of browning compost. Pressing plumerias is as pleasant as a enjoying a morning of bird songs and butterfly wings. Maybe I’ll do another flower press frame but first I’ll go flower-snipping and see which buds and blooms pair nicely together. Can you tell how garden-fresh my mood is today?
Lay clean white sheets down first, arrange the flowers so that they will lay flat. It’s kind of easy to squish plumeria in a funny way so you may have to snip the end of the step off. (If you’re curious, that book up top is an awesome collection of neon black-out posters from the sixties and seventies… Hmm, I should post those.)
Make a plumeria sandwich with another clean sheet. Paper towels leave textured indentations, just so you know. Finally, set a big pile of books on top and wait a while – the longer the better.
When it’s been a while, use something flat and pointy to peel the petals away carefully. Very carefully. They’re quite fragile.
I think it might be nice and three-dimensional if I glue some beads in the center to cover up the brown spots. I’ll let you know how it goes.
