Pressing things is super easy, (all you need is some flowers and a heavy book) and a fun way to preserve spring's beauty for the coming seasons. Simply grab some fallen petals and carefully lay them in a large book to dry for a few days and your result will be perfectly flattened petals for pasteing in journals and books, fragile, but perfectly preserved. (Please note that you may want to use older books as the flowers are likely to stain the page where they are pressed.) The two types of flowers I have been experimenting with are irises and poppies. My best luck has been from the irises, which look pleasantly more like watercolors than flowers when pressed. But with so many flowers to choose from, you can easily have a whole garden of petals.
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