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Category Archives: Vintage Arts and Crafts

Natural Scents and Fragrances – Special Occasion Potpourris

10-Feb-10

A potpourri scent for your home is one of life’s pleasures, so you may want to try different ones to mark the change of the seasons, holidays, birthdays, or anniversaries. You can make the simplest potpourri by drying, and mixing with spices and oils, whatever flowers you have blooming in your garden or pick up [...]

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Tissue Paper Daisies

25-Jan-10

from “Directions For Making Tissue Paper Flowers And Fancy Articles” published in 1886 Having decided upon the size of the flower, carefully follow the outlines of the leaves with the scissors, and to give the appearance of reality, press lightly in straight lines, either with the scissor point or a pin, on each leaf, and [...]

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Directions For Making Tissue Paper Flowers and Fancy Articles

25-Jan-10

PUBLISHED BY NORTHROP, THE ART DEALER, New Haven. Conn. Copyright, 1886. Certainly nothing could be more beautiful than are (within their own limits) these tissue-paper flowers, so perfect are they; every grace of form and fleeting beauty of color and tint so artfully caught and reproduced that nature’s self seems to be almost outvied. Heretofore [...]

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