| Pressed Flowers from Riverhaven | Virginia G. McKinnon | Email: virginia@riverhaven.com |
HOW I GOT STARTED
I have long loved gardening, flowers and landscape design in particular. Some of my earliest memories of my mother involve watching her tend her small flower bed, so I credit her with planting the seed of my interest. But there was no early thought of pressing.
| Through blue of summer skies Red and gold of autumn trees My mother is a girl of spring In her garden on her knees. She pressed my small hands in the soil "Feel the warmth; ah sunshine!" And love of the growing world Flowed through her hands to mine. |
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In the spring of l989 Mary Lou Frost, who conducted summer craft sessions for interested adults in our community, handed me a book, "Pressed Flower Decorations," by Margaret Spencer. She had found it at our local library and asked me if I would read it and give a report to the craft group. The intent was to discover if there was enough interest to make pressing one of the summer projects.
Although I was only supposed to be the reporter, I was completely captivated. Ten
years later, I am still learning, still captivated. Now I press something the year
'round.
