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Posted on June 7, 2012
I took these photos of my Mother’s Day carnations just before they finally withered up. Can you believe they lasted so long?! I have a weird habit of keeping flowers even after they die and decorating with them anyway, in baskets or jars around my house. I am a very sentimental person… I still have the first roses my husband bought me as our first anniversary surprise, and the flowers a friend gave me in the hospital after Ayla was born. I’m sure not everyone would share my same sense of aesthetics for dead flowers, but I still enjoy having them around to reminisce if nothing else!
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It’s not just you. I do it too – I love the look of dead dried up flowers, especially roses. I love that you keep them for such sentimental reasons too. Hope you have a lovely weekend! :)
I still have roses from bouquets that Scott bought me when we first got together, for Valentine’s day, birthday and anniversary. I’m a sentimental sod too :)
These flowers are beautiful! I actually love the look of dried flowers, there’s something completely romantic about them.
so beautiful. haha what an unique hobby.
I do the same thing with flowers. One time someone told me it’s bad feng shui, though. I disagree!
I always keep flowers way beyond “their best”. Sometimes they look so beautiful when all dried up.
carnations are so under-appreciated these days it seems. i absolutely love them – i think they are one of my favorites, and as you say, they are so hardy. the smell is divine too. thanks for sharing this pretty post.
I love pressed flowers. Do you ever do that? I can’t seem to bring myself to press the special ones when they’re still juicy enough (juicy?) to look pretty, though. Maybe I should just make origami flowers, and then press those. LOL
Love ya,
Kara of http://www.fancythatvintage.etsy.com
You should make a little mini book/journal with lots of blank pages for the future, featuring all the flowers people give you. You could put a square picture of each bouquet on a page, with simple and pretty cursive underneath the photo describing the occasion and the giver.:) That way you can hold onto the memory without feeling the need to keep the actual flowers (unless you want to).
Beautiful photography! Your blog is too cute!!
Sometimes I really think that flowers look to beautiful up close to be real things! I’ve never really liked carnations before, but I think this post (as well as your beautiful photography!) has opened my eyes up to their prettiness :)
i share the weirdness! i am probably the most sentimental person i know. but i am not borderline horder-like with it as some can be :) haha!
i find little things are my best reminders of good times. flowers are certainly in that category.