Before and After
Unwrapping the bundles is the fun bit.
Lemon leaves, vine leaves, mirror bush?, bougainvillea?, red berries.
Flowering gum, two different natives from the nature strip.
Seed pods from the nature strip.
Fallen eucalyptus leaves, she-oak?, lilly pilly?
Grevillea, correa flowers and leaves, native bluebell, native mint, two different gum leaves.
Close up of the lemon leaves, one of my favourite results.
The colours are a little less washed out looking in the flesh. Click on the photos for a closer view. I need to brush up on my botanical knowledge! Any hints or tips on formatting photos?
posted by crafty at
10:43
10 Comments:
Ah crap! It didn't look quite that bad in the preview!
all looks great, especially lemon leaves x
Do they smell divine as you are doing them? I swear I can smell the lemon leaves.
Thanks Mim, yes Melinda, the smell is divine, usually.
Especially when just using eucalyptus...
Really lovely!
Cool.
This is reminding me of something. Christine Thresh and her husband published a book on mushroom dyeing back in the mid-70s:
http://www.sonic.net/~dbeebee/web_mush-history.htm
May or may not be useful to you ...
Wow, Warty, thanks for the link!
Hi there, so glad to have found your blog, wonderful! Now I can visit and get lots of ideas. Thanks for your thoughts on plastic bags, I think I will give those degradeable ones a go, or just suck it up and wash the bin. PS I'm also a classical music nerd.
Hi,
Thanks for dropping into my blog.I worked in the shop today and sold one of your brooches. look forward to meeting you.
Anna
Very interesting. It must be exciting to see the surprise results!
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