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27-08-2004, 03:20 PM

(Candy) wrote in message ...
I don't know if this is the place to ask, or if I should be asking
somewhere else. I recently received a miniature rose that my husband
found on a rosebush that someone had thoughtlessly destroyed. It is so
beautiful that I thought that I would like to preserve it as it is, that
is, how it looks now. I thought that it would look great suspended in
something like a paperweight (or something like that), but I can't seem
to find any information on how to do it myself, or a service that can do
it, or a kit. Does anyone have any ideas? I would rather not dry it,
and if I can, I'd like to preserve it how it looks now. Does anyone
have any ideas? I'm hoping that there are many different ways of doing
it. Thank you very much. ~~Candy

I've seen some kind of plastic table with flowers in it. I believe
it's made by pouring epoxy. You can go and post a question in the
woodworking group. Those guys know a lot about this technique or
other. But they are a bunch of perfectionists. They tend to do things
overboard. A half day project may become 3 month
"stay-in-garage-to-polish-my-creation-with-tooth-paste-to-avoid-my-wife/husband"
if you use their method.

I vaugely remember one of the do-it-yourself shows did a table like
that. I think it's "while you were out" in Canadian Home Network. You
may get the information from their web site.