How Do You Make Flower Memory Beads?
Flowers are used to commemorate life’s most significant moments, including births, graduations, weddings and deaths. They are also given as tokens of love and symbols of romance, as well as of sympathy and friendship. For these reasons, we associate flowers with meaningful memories. Unfortunately, however, fresh flowers have short lives, and they wilt and die eventually. But there is a way to preserve fresh flowers along with the memories connected to them—by making flower memory beads. Hard, dry beads made from the pulverized petals of fresh flowers make wonderful keepsakes. Follow these steps to make flower memory beads. Gather several flowers before they have turned brown or dry. Pull the petals from the flowers. Slice up the flower petals with a knife or a food processor until they are chopped into bits about half the size of rice grains. Put the flower petals in a saucepan. Cover the petals with water. Heat the water and petals for an hour. Simmer the petals over low heat; do no
