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Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:19:00 GMT

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my Pressed Flower Art and Life
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Peace and Happy Spring !

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It is Spring here in the Sandhills of NC

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 13:11:48 GMT

Hello everyone , I hope life is treating you well .
I have been rather busy lately myself in my life .

We also have our first signs of Spring popping up ,smile !

From My Pressed art of 2011

As some of you know I started a blog called ,
" World Wide Flower Pressers and Artist "
flowerpressersworldwide.blogspot.com/
I have enjoyed doing this very much ! I have gotten to know these artist on such a different level. Their craft and styles vary as much as the cool tips !
Not just secrets of how they do their craft but why they do what they do ?
What gave them the passion to cut a flower from it's stem at it's prime .Carefully position each piece or maybe each petal, in a certain kind of press that works for ' That Flower ' and then pile weight on top. Then wait sometimes as long as a month for it to press and dry ! It can be addictive to some of us.

The blog has been going very well ! We have had over 2200 visits already and just started the interviews near the first of the year .
I am going to be very busy soon ,hopefully ,so I will probably not be posting much till I get a lot of new art created to show You!
Please check in with the Presser's Blog there is some great information there.
Till then I will wish You a Flower Filled Spring , Peace

From Around Home in 2011

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BlogBlast For Peace "Dona Nobis Pacem"

Flower Impressions by Terica — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:38:00 GMT

I am so proud to be a part of a Blogblast going on . I have written a blog for this and You can find the link below to my blog . Please share this event with others.

Somewhere in the world BlogBlast For Peace is dawning.
BlogBlast For Peace is an online community of international bloggers,Facebook users and Tweeters who annually "blog for peace". We believe that if words are powerful, then this matters. The peace globe posts began in 2006 and spread from blog to blog. It has become an online movement with thousands participating from 50 countries. Our next event is November 4, 2010. BlogBlast For Peace is a way to get involved,a way to have a voice. If you would like to share our vision for global peace, please join us as we make this a priority. Fly a peace globe,write a post, learn about your neighbor across the continent, on the other side of the world, or even next door. Around a global table of peacemakers....anything is possible. Mimi Lenox the founder of the Peace Globe Blogblast
Mimi even gave me a badge for working so hard to get this going !

Please come by my blog and see my blog for peace .
Terica's Flower Impressions blog

this cool Petals of Peace was created by
Stephanie King Janisch at http://www.secondnaturedesigns.blogspot.com/

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Flowers are like Smiles

Flower Impressions by Terica — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:49:00 GMT

Flowers are like Smiles they are universal and will bring a good feeling to those giving and receiving . Seeing them always makes me feel better . No matter my mood.

this pretty fairy is Violet .

My baby boy Billy and his family . Stormy and son Brad Lee.


seldom seen a photo of me , I tend to be the 1 with the camera ,	plus my dog Ginger.

Kids at an Pressed Flower Class i helped teach.


more proud artist.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
Mother Teresa

Please leave a comment if these made You smile!

Also please hit the share button and give someone else a smile.

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How to grow passion flowers / Passiflora incarnata/Maypop

Flower Impressions by Terica — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:13:00 GMT

Passiflora incarnata, commonly known as May-pop, Purple passionflower, True passionflower, Wild apricot, and Wild passion vine, is a fast growing perennial vine with climbing or trailing stems.
The Maypops are a common roadside weed, found throughout many areas of the Southeastern United States where it often grows in large masses in ditches and open fields.
This is a subtropical representative of this mostly tropical family. However, unlike the more tropical cousins, this particular species is hardy enough to withstand the cold down to -4°F (-20°C) before its roots die (it is native as far north as Pennsylvania and has been cultivated as far north as Boston and Chicago.)
It enjoys some popularity as a native plant with edible fruit and few pests.

It grows natively in all parts of the Americas.

Hardy in USDA zones 5 through 9 and thrives in full sun to partial shade exposure. The vines can easily grow up to 15 feet in a season. Flowers from July - September with fruiting following bloom and ripening in the late summer and fall.

Grow it on a fence or trellis, or simply allow it to scramble harmlessly over your shrubs and trees. It is a speedy growing, flowering and fruiting vine that uses tendrils to climb and spread.

The fleshy fruit, also called a Maypop, is an oval yellowish berry about the size of a hen egg; it is green at first, but then becomes orange as it matures. .

The History of the Passion Flower

Passiflora incarnata derived the early common name of Maypop from the way it just seems to 'Pop' out of the ground in May.
Maypops were eventually renamed as the Passion Flower by missionaries in the early 1500s.
The missionaries believed (or professed) that several parts of the plant, including the petals, rays, and sepals, symbolized features of the crucifixion of Christ.
Regardless of what you choose to call the Passiflora incarnata vine, these 3 inch diameter flowers are very unique and beautiful.

How to grow from seeds
Seed germination, sowing instructions for Passion flower. Passiflora incarnata is easy to grow from seeds.
Evergreen, fast growing climber. Pre-soak seed overnight in warm water. Best sowing time is winter or early spring. Germination can take several months! Prick out the seedlings into individual pots when they are large enough to handle. If you want to grow your plants outdoors, it is best to keep them in the house/greenhouse for their first winter and plant them out into their permanent positions in late spring, after the last expected frosts. Passiflora prefers a moist but well drained soil, and sunny location. Hardy to about -15 degrees C. To overwinter outdoors, cut down to the ground and mulch the roots well in late autumn to protect them from the cold.

As with other passifloras, it is the larval food of a number of butterfly species, including the Zebra longwing and Gulf Fritillary .
Here are some pretty pictures of it from my friend Laura .

Gulf Fritillary

here's Laura's blog forestwalkart.blogspot.com

Read more: How to Grow Passiflora Incarnata | Garden Guides http://www.gardenguides.com/67927-grow-passiflora-incarnata.html#ixzz10DSiLZ7v

Read more: Passion Flower or Maypop | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_6368098_passion-flower-maypop.html#ixzz10S5cluZm

How to keep it growing http://www.gardenguides.com/67927-grow-passiflora-incarnata.html

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Garden Movie for Mrs. Flora

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:29:00 GMT

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A DePressing Summer and blogging about it!

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:36:00 GMT

Hello Everyone It has been a while since I posted here to my website.

The truth is I have been very busy blogging on my blogs.

Pressing and De-Pressing flowers. Please come by my blogs and check them out .
Some day I will get a real website up till then I will blog. You can also find me on Facebook too look for FlowerImpressions.

Peace and Happy summer .

I love posting just not a web designer
check for the links on the side to my blogs .

Faux orchids / Pressed Flower Art / January 2010 class / food art

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:03:00 GMT

Hi all here is my newest creation !

I take my classes at WWPFG.org ! they have the classes for download after the main class has been at private class directed online by the teacher in a discussion group for a month!!

A whole month of asking any question you have , hearing experiences others are having , and the best help and encouragement from your experienced Master Teacher!

Irina Orlova has a wonderful picture site Irina's picture site

She shows some of the pictures that have been done in the classes also some I still cant wait to learn!

The picture above was my finished product . I took it apart several times in between !

1st it was a loose piece ,then the orchids looked too big. then it needed just a little more white!

You can click the pictures for a bigger view . I even have a tiny bee in it!

This is a raised glass frame that made it perfect for this project since it is not Pressed to the glass as most Pressed Flower Art you see .

here are the mediums I used to do this picture.

I used a collage of Fall leaves for the background

white and red onions peels for the orchids flowers

purple grass seeds and tiny white bouquets of of blanket of snow !

last but not least my little bee. I love those little creatures and this one needed a safe place .

Try a class sometime they have them online at http://www.wwpfg.org/store/index.htm

for beginners to Master. some free too. It amazing what good instructions can help You create !

I love Pressed Flowers and Thrift Stores

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:50:00 GMT

I am so excited ! I love Pressed Flowers as You all know. I also love going to yard sales and thrift stores! I love to go find things to Up-cycle . I am a thrifty person by nature . anyway on with my all time Cool find.

I went to my favorite thrift store less than 2miles from me!!

I love going in there and look at their boxes of frames to see if I can find anything for my pressed flowers or find Pressed Flower Pictures !?

Well this time I found this homemade antique looking frame with kinda over sized wooden leaves at 3 out of 4 corners. With a faded laminated pressed flower arrangement that I almost passed up . I have been trying not to get things I have to fix before using because I don't get to it??

So I sat it down , looked at another box of frames saw someone pick up my old one and put it down . Well I went to pick it up (thinking I'll buy it to see if I can find out Who did the picture ?I pick it up and the back came half off . There I find a Surprise. A note and a tin picture !! I am flipping out digging for the missing piece of leaf for the frame then .there is 1 more box I haven't looked through yet! I was so shocked when there is another frame and picture as the other in the box ! When I picked it up I found another tin picture on the backside of the picture but no back to the frame ? i dug back through the other 2 boxes very carefully and found the back in 1 and a note in the last of the second picture!

Is that not just wild ! I bought them ,brought them home and started tearing them down and doing some home-work !?!

I found out these folks are in the history of donated land to UNC .

Here's the Pictures and then I will give you some links on info about them.You can click them to see them bigger!

Side by side again at least on my site .

Rev. Wilson Atwater , married Eleanor McCauley, on 12/23/1819.

He was minister in the Methodist Episcopal Church South; died 7/31/1885.
Eleanor's Father and uncle donated 250 acres of land to founding UNC . more details below.

There was lots of little things i found digging around!

I guess I should also say I am a Research nut , I LOVE finding things like these pictures and putting a Real story with it. It took hours of searching but here is what I found.

The site I found does not have her picture yet! Hopefully I will learn more and I will update then! Enjoy .

Reverend Wilson Atwater

Birth:	Dec. 3, 1797
Death:	Jul. 31, 1885

Spouse:

Eleanor McCauley Atwater (1801 - 1872)

Burial:

Atwater Family Cemetery

Carrboro

Orange County

North Carolina, USA

Plot: Grave 2

Created by: Lost History

Record added: Jul 12, 2009

Find A Grave Memorial# 3935101

Eleanor McCauley Atwater
Birth: Dec. 9, 1801
Death: Mar. 2, 1872
Daughter of Matthew and Martha Johnston McCauley, who are buried in the McCauley Family Cemetery.
Wife of the Reverend Wilson Atwater.
Family links:
Parents:
Matthew McCauley (1750 - 1832) Martha Ann Johnston McCauley (1760 - 1848)
Spouse: Wilson Atwater (1797 - 1885)
Inscription:
"Dead, yet liveth"

Burial: pics of site
www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&GRid=39351015&CRid=2313771& style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" /> Atwater Family Cemetery
Carrboro
Orange County
North Carolina, USA

Created by: Lost History
Record added: Jul 12, 2009
Find A Grave Memorial# 39350980
________________________-

Elainor's Father , Capt. Matthew McCauley. born in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland (source :McCauley Family Papers, 1788-1872, University of North Carolina). Their family were supposedly shipbuilders. They migrated to Orange County, North Carolina before the American Revolution.
During the Revolutionary War McCauley survived the harsh Pennsylvania weather at Valley Forge to return to Orange County where he donated 150 acres of land to assist in the founding of the University of North Carolina.
The McCauley family included Matthew McCauley, Sr. (1750-1832), who moved from Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland, to Orange County, N.C., prior to the American Revolution, served in the 10th North Carolina Regiment of the Continental Army, and, with his brother William, donated 250 acres for the University of North Carolina; and Matthew McCauley, Jr. (born 1803), was the youngest child of 10 of Matthew McCauley, Sr., and his wife, Martha Johnston McCauley.

Matthew McCauley father of Elainor Atwater , helped start a Congregational Christian church .

Congregational Christian
The Christian Church was born in protest against ecclesiasticism and the denial of individual freedom in the Methodist Episcopal Church, especially where it concerned appointing ministers. The movement organized under the name of Republican Methodists, which name was later changed to Christian. The founder, James O'Kelly, migrated to North Carolina, organized and was the first pastor of the Damascus Christian Church in the year 1797. A Christian Church was organized in the 19th century in the town of Hillsborough, but did not flourish and was later absorbed by the Methodist Episcopal Church of Hillsborough. Later, the Christian Church and the Congregational Church merged.

Churches:
Damascus Congregational Christian Church was organized in 1797; leaders were Col. Matthew McCauley, John Wilson and Jesse Neville; first pastor was James O'Kelley; present building erected in 1892.

more info here http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34591143

___________________________________________
Father of Rev. Wilson Atwater
file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner/My%20Documents/atwater%20info/cem048.htm

MOSES ATWATER , grave site location
Location: Baldwin Township. 1100 feet south of SR 1540, Jones Ferry Road, 200 feet east of masonry dwelling on parcel 72126, Carolyn H. Barrett property, called Storybook Farm.

On 3 February 2001, this site was inspected by Will Heiser and Lamont Norwood. In the Cedar Grove United Methodist Church Cemetery (D15.1), there is a bronze plaque for Moses Atwater which says he was buried 1¬ miles east. At this location there is a monument with the notation: "80 feet west are graves of Moses Atwater and wife Amy Wilson [with their years]. Original Monument being destroyed [this monument] erected by descendants, 1975." Lamont Norwood remembers the story that the original markers were bulldozed and the area plowed over

Owner: Carolyn H. Barrett.
    Legal Description: Parcel 72126, Deed 1327/408 Plat 96/122. Deed 632-503, 28 Dec 1993, George Warren Barrett, Sr., and wife Mary M. to George Warren Barrett, Jr. and wife Carolyn H. Barrett.
            Topo Quadrant: Bynum.
            Family owned: Yes.
            Maintained but not used: Yes.
            Number of graves: 2.
            Cemetery size: 10' x 10'.
            White: Yes.
            Restricted access: Yes. On private property
            Well maintained: Yes.
            Enclosed: No.
            Markers: Yes.
            Markers with inscriptions: Yes.
            Number of readable markers: 2.
            Last burial: 1852.
            First burial: 1836.
   1. Amy Wilson Atwater, (b. 1775 - d. 1852) Wife of Moses Atwater
   2.    Moses Atwater (b. 1780 - d. 1836)

"Orig. monument being destroyed, Erected by Descendants, 1975" "80 feet west are graves of:". Monument also in Cedar Grove United Methodist Church Cem. (D15.1).

Miscellaneous information: Single monument with inscription "80 feet west of here are graves of Moses Atwater and wife Amy Wilson [with their years]. Original monument being destroyed, and [this monument] erected by descendants 1975.".
Last canvassed by: Will M. Heiser/ Lamont Norwood. Date: 3 Feb 2001. Coordinate corrections made per Heiser's location on map and ownership info updated on 12 Jul 2008

UP-Cycling With flowers for Swap-bot and friends

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:08:00 GMT

Hi all , Here are a few pics of some things I have been playing with.
I love to Up-cycle ,

this is taking something and recreating it into something else or fix up & reuse.
The frame of the last big leaf pic I did , came from the Recycling center (aka dump)

the print is on the back of my pic, LOL .

I found a full size paper cutter last year!!! Anyway ...

#1 the confetti magnet , much prettier in person. Is a lid from the icing cup in the canned Cinnamon buns . I used a pink marker to highlight it. then used botanical glue to add and seal petal confetti from a card sadly "picked on by the PO" from a friend!! then a simple quote for the occasion " live it up"! lightly coat again with B -glue . then add magnet on the back! done :o)

#2 first one " I love flowers magnet " is a smaller lid , gold pen on back ground , lacy sticker, laminated flowers and a punched out heart. magnet on back!
second in pic .laminated cut out from 4 years ago with tiny flowers . magnet on back.

#3 .laminated and cut out azalea with gold ribbon .easy other was sticker ribbon and hole punched hearts!

#4 & 5 are of an ATC " artist trading card " it is a mixed media thing but a GOOD way to pass the word about Pressed Flowers too!
This is my first ATC I thought I was through with it then decided to add one more trick to it! i started to use sanwa but was too cheap (this is a swap not sale) so I used stretched out used dryer sheet instead.
hope you like them . I will be adding these and more to my blog hope fully today.
Still have to make a Heart ribbon bookmark , made one but it isn't heartsy !
Off to the PO ,will check in later and let you know about the blog!
Happy creating all!

Making Pressed Flower Art and Crafts: Easy Plant Presses , Part 2 Recyled wood Press

Flower Impressions by Terica — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:40:00 GMT

Making Pressed Flower Art and Crafts: Easy Plant Presses , Part 2 Recyled wood Press

Plant of the day Yarrow

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:36:00 GMT

"The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses." -- Hanna Rion

Strawberry Seduction Yarrow and a few other herbs I planted last spring !I had to dig all these up the fall before from where we moved from . We actually filled a whole truck bed up with just outdoor plants!

Yarrow: It presses easy in a phone book or any press you choose .The red stays red too.The leaves are green ruffled and kind of silvery like butterfly bush leaves. Grows well ,unfortunately snails ,slugs and grasshoppers like them too. this doubled it's size from spring to late summer when it got mowed down by critters .but came back strong before winter hit. I like it! I have had it 2 years now . I can't wait to see it bloom again.
Here is some I pressed last summer!

Pressed Flowers and Leaf Art / Canadian Beauty

Flower Impressions by Terica — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:18:00 GMT

This is my newest creation , I call it my "Canadian Beauty" These wonderful pressed leaves were gave me by a Dear friend named Dee Marie from Saskatchewan Canada .

She also did the the great photography work of all the nature scenes in the big picture . Unfortunately my photography is not as good , so You will not be able to appreciate Just how wonderful this collection is.
Well let me tell You the story of this picture!
Dee sent me most of these wonderful leaves last year in at the first of winter in a folder using these wonderful pictures as "rejects in her eyes" to just have something stiff in there to protect the pressed flowers and leaves. I was so excited to get her package. To keep customs from picking through this fragile cargo she had it Well taped.:o) As soon as I saw the picture in the middle , I knew I wanted to frame it .
The quote on it says " All Roads Lead Somewhere ..."
Well I had recently been told at that time , that the house we were renting was being foreclosed on ,so we were going to have to move. I hate moving and this time we had a dog . Long story short we have a beautiful acre of land we were paying on with a VERY worn out house on it. We are going to take each room apart and make it new again as $ and time will allow. So for many months I was not able to create :o(
When I did get to unpack my some of my craft things to try to find some dogwood for Dee (which does not grow there) I looked through several big tubs of flowers looking for treasures to send her and found the wonderful package from Dee. It was like receiving it all over again! This time I knew I wanted a Picture for the first finished room we have now. Our bathroom!! So then I found this really cool frame at the recycling center that was in good condition. It was huge but I had been told by another artist Conrad that Big pictures were easier !
LOL It matters on How you do it , I found out the hard way!
First off I could not think of covering the pictures or cutting them !!:o(
So my OCD side fought with my carefree side and won!! made me measure everything to make sure the pictures stayed centered ! Then I started covering the whole paper that was behind the old picture in the frame using practically every leaf she had sent me in 2 different packages !! I decided to use mod podge to glue and seal.Coating the leaves on both sides of the leaves to protect them more going in to my bathroom .
It took me approx 6 hours ( in 3 days) not counting drying times to finally get it were i said to myself This is it! I was proud as a peacock and I still had a hand full of dainty leaves left . Only using Her leaves! I posted the picture of it while the seal was still wet. I was so excited for Dee to see. I said, I would frame it next day and re-post a picture!
OMG , the next day I realized my picture was about 1/4 an inch short all the way around????????? In total it is around 21x27 inches!

So after much thinking and fussing and growling ? I even dreamed on it! I did not want to use any of my leaves that would take away from the "Canadian Beauty" So I found some dark pear leaves that look almost like leather and trimmed it with those !
Here is my Finished "Canadian Beauty" ... Now hanging in my New bathroom !

From My pics to blog about in 2010

Hope You love it as much as I do ! Please leave comments!
Here it is in the BR :o)

for more close ups You can visit my photo link listed above.Peace

My first attempt at Upcycling for Swapbot swap

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 18:17:00 GMT

front of Leaf bookmark
Originally uploaded by tkluxton2006

Hi all I am in a swap on Swap-bot to share blogs and get new people to join my blog .

So I thought I'd say Hello and Thank you to all of You swappers that visit. i have enjoyed Swap-bot and getting Snail Mail !!!

If you have any trouble leaving a comment Please PM me and I will look in to it ASAP.

This was one of the 9 bookmarks I made for a swap. I really liked doing these and intend to make a bunch to give away as business cards too .

Thanks again for visiting and Please feel free to check out the rest of my Blog and here is a link to my other If you'd like to look!

Peace and Happy New Year .

Some cards I made

Flower Impressions by Terica — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:15:00 GMT

this one is made with two types of laminated rose ,then glued on homemade paper!

this one was from a card kit made to use with Pressed Flowers .I bought them on ebay. the kits were originally sold by a Garden club !

My October Pressed Flower Class Picture

Flower Impressions by Terica — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:00 GMT

Hi ,thanks for stopping by to see my newest picture I made for my Master class at WWPFG. We had a fabulous teacher

Irina Orlova that gave excellent instructions all month long via internet group ! It is so much fun and challenging too.

It is also interesting to see how each student's picture looks a little different ! Trying to upload from the scanner I realized I was having trouble making My scanner copy it the way it really looked? There are so many things to learn?? so little time . At the guild we have talked about Photoshop and those kind of programs to touch up or change a picture or to just try to make it look real as life? I decided to show You the different varieties my programs did ! I was just playing please don't think I am good at this by far. My computer came loaded with programs ,some I still haven't tried in 3 years??Any way here is some examples!

All of these pictures you can click to enlarge to see better.

This is of a Old wooden windmill in the Ukraine .
I tried as hard as I could to copy Irina's lovely work as my skills would allow. When I had trouble with the windmill I decided to search for examples of windmills !? Out of over 300+ images I found 2 like this one from our class!!

This first one on the left has not been touched. It is the nearest to what it looks like real life! It is only an 8 x10 . There are a lot of wonderful fall colors in here from so may neat different plants. And in this case different places from wonderful guild members! The Silver Poplar leaves in the sky came from Pat Smith in Tennessee ! As well as the goose came from Marie Ann Robinson's advice of using this leaf to make a bird! The cool 2 toned plant in the front came from Annamaria in Ireland . The dog was made from banana skin . I started out trying to make another goose but arthritis helped it become a Dog head.
I like him.

The one on the right I used a touch up thingy on a free picasaweb program I downloaded ages ago and just decided to try. I did touch up through out . Look under the goose at the shadowing that looks like geese in the distance .That was just a fluke from trying to play with the sky!
Personally I like the real thing better.

Then there is this one, which I just hit scan on my printer and this is what it came out like?? So we really can change our pictures to look a lot different with those programs !

For the better or worse sometimes. Still looking for my watermark? LOL

Please leave a comment if you enjoyed this info or picture.

Peace

FYI : here is a link to a windmill like this from the back side ! Hmm ,may need to try that!

My mixed media art contest entry

Flower Impressions by Terica — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:03:00 GMT

Hi all I am so excited I actually took the time to create something ! Laaa !!!!!!!!! It was fun too . It has been close to a year since I have done any art . Not even a card.
Well I read this challenge on Kimberly's Mixed Media Art
http://mosart1.blogspot.com/
It was to make her image into a Diva ! Well anyone that knows Me , knows , I know little about Divas ! then this morning I see this show pop up on Generations of Divas ! How funny is that. So here is my Flower Diva.
I just realized that the one I sent to Kimberly , I could not get uploaded here?? Hope the one I sent to her went through ?? Guess I'll know soon. Wish me luck ,better yet join in ! Enter her contest.
Now on to my October class at www.WWPFG.org .
Doing a Windmill in a landscape .This is a Master Class , That I will need lots of Luck with . Come back and see how I do ! ?

Our acre of Peace reaching Fall

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:06:00 GMT

Our Mandevillas , we have white light pink and hot pink .
They grow 6 to 8 foot a season or more . LOTS of flowers ! Makes great fairy skirts . They are Carl's babies .

The red one is new this year.
this one has a different leaf than the others and smaller too.

Tickseed Sunflower , this is growing on the gas pipeline at the end of our land. There are millions of them!

check out this field of

Tickseed Sunflower (Bidens aristosa)

Identification: Ray florets golden yellow, well developed, flower, as a whole, conspicuous. Seeds (achenes) with a papery margin. Leaflike bracts below flower 8 to 10 in number with outer bracts shorter than inner bracts. Leaves divided into a number of dentate leaflets. Plant between 1 and 5 feet in height.

Waterloo Blue Passion Flower (Texan flower) We just bought this it says it will get 6 to 8 feet ! I missed pressing this one :-( Still waiting for the next bloom before frost ?
We also have the native NC purple ,we are going to transplant near this !

Twin mini roses , they press red with a shadow of gold !
heading for the press.

coleus or basil , either way is was free and gorgeous ! I found this growing in the yard this spring ,smelled it and thought it was basil ? smelled good but light ,it was small at the time! not now some of it is 3 feet. this Writer Spider likes it .
Well now I am not sure ,but I think it is coleus ? I know it is gorgeous but does not taste like Basil. yuk!!
I hope you have enjoyed these few items from my yard .
I will post more later.
click any photo for larger image.

Wow ,how time passes when you are having Fun...

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:27:00 GMT

Hi all , well as you can see I finally figured out to get in here again ! Sad but true I spent months trying to remember How to update this page ?

Well it seems I need to take a class to really know how to do a website and probably a lot more patience than this girl has most the time!
So for now I will try to remember what I learned today and try to catch up while I'm here .
I have started blogging and also have been adding a few new things to my photo sites too.
So just in case I loose my notepad and can't get back here as planned I am going to post my links here so You can find me. I have really enjoyed learning to Blog. Someone told me ,"it's a website with instructions !"Well I guess that is true , I learned to add tags to this thing ! LOL I did not have 1 on this whole site? Live and learn , then they change it again! Well here's my blogs and a bunch more ways to see and Learn about Pressed Flower Art !
http://makingpressedflowerartandcrafts.blogspot.com/

http://flowersbyterica.blogspot.com/
and a new one I just opened trying a new place
http://pressingflowers.wordpress.com/

my picture places
http://www.flickr.com/people/tericakay/ Here you can find pictures I have made , presses , and a how to on making a press .

The next is a mix of my craft and what has been keeping me so busy ... my life

http://www.picturetrail.com/photos/tkluxton

Pressing Fall leaves

Flower Impressions by Terica — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:29:00 GMT

If you are wanting an easy and fun way to decorate for fall . Press a bunch of leaves for the table decoration. you can also use mini leaves on your invitations and table place markers.
leaves are easy to press , Really !
It takes newspapers ,one or 2 large old belts and cardboard and of course Leaves! .
grasses work good for centerpieces too !
cut 2 pieces of cardboard about the same size of a folded newspaper (1 for top 1 for bottom)
stack about paper 8 pages deep, place fall leaves on paper try not to let them touch ,
add 8 sheets more of paper and repeat . you can stack these about a foot deep.
Place cardboard on top then carefully wrap belts around the bundle tight. place in a dry sunny area for about a week.
Or place in car for 2 to 3 days ,it works like a dehydrator ! take out and check it , They should be dry . If not try one more day. this my favorite way! Solar Power !
Make a bunch and have a pressing party ! you can get the leaves from a park or anywhere .
Hope this helps ?!
I also make bookmarks and cards with flowers and leaves. if you need ideas check the picture site below.

PEACE FROM TERICA , NC, USA

find out how to make a press
on the other blog of mine http://makingpressedflowerartandcrafts.blogspot.com/

and my flikr site http://www.flickr.com/photos/tericakay/sets/72157604720230662/detail/
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Pressing Fall leaves