Keep Your Bouquet Forever by Eileen Slifer, Artist

09/01/2024

I have 26 entries for this framed dried flower artwork. I need closer to 100 total entries in order to cover shipping and do the drawing!
I keep putting this out there periodically and would love to get this piece to its forever home through raffle!

Each chance is $5 each. Please comment or private message me if you'd like to take a chance or two and get me to my goal!
I will put my Venmo in the comments too, and I can also do PayPal.

Thanks! Please feel free to share!

08/30/2024

All finished!

08/23/2024

Next step...re-creating the bouquet!

Flowers, glue and weights on the glass....next will be the framing.

08/05/2024

Step 2...taking the bride's flowers out of the silica gel today and putting them into a press between layers of cardboard and paper in order to flatten them!

07/24/2024

Please stop in this Sunday afternoon! All welcome!

For those local please feel free to share!

07/22/2024

Pulling apart a bridal bouquet from a weekend wedding and putting flowers in silica gel or some of the foliage directly into the flattening press!

07/05/2024

I would love to do this raffle drawing! Just need some more entries--please feel free to share!

I have 17 entries for this beautiful dried flower piece shown above; I need 83 more entries to do the raffle drawing, @$5 per entry. If you want to take some chances, please email me ([email protected]) with the number of chances and your name/contact information. My Venmo is -Art...

04/08/2024

Finished up three funeral flower preservations.

12/09/2023

Just finished another bridal bouquet preservation. Please share with your friends in case they have a December wedding coming up!

Christmas bouquets can be quite beautiful framed!

07/29/2023

(This piece is X-posted from my studio newsletter blog as it also contains an amount of personal contemplations...) __________ The saving of a bride’s bouquet is nothing new and there are a number of ways to do that, depending on desired result, the type of flowers and especially, cost. When I was...

07/29/2023

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Here, you can follow posts not only about flowers preservations but also about other art that I offer, along with various contemplations about the creative process and the entrepreneurial side of the business of art.

Thanks for looking!

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The saving of a bride's bouquet is nothing new and there are a number of ways to do that, depending on desired result, the type of flowers and especially, cost.When I was first married on June 1, 1985 in a very simple wedding (like many young couples then and now, we didn't have two pennies

05/08/2023

Please share with your friends!

It's the time of year with weddings planned. Let your friends (and their friends of friends) know about my services by both sharing and inviting your friends to re-share!

Thanks so much.

Traditional Bridal Bouquet Pressing is a way to preserve the memories of your special day for years to come. Flowers and foliage are dried and flattened in flower presses. Afterward, the bouquet is re-created in an artistic, two-dimensional design on a fabric background and framed behind glass. Your...

05/26/2022

05/26/2022

Starting to preserve a bouquet from a wedding in Delaware this past weekend!

12/14/2021

07/12/2021

Pressing my first bouquet this year!

03/10/2021

03/10/2021