"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

Several of my rose books show how to
preserve a rose but they seem to only deal
with drying roses.

You might check on some rose books in
a bookstore or library. The American
Rose Society www.ars.org might have
an article on rose preservation.

Have you checked to see if there are any
craft newsgroups? I'm not aware of any,
but with 1,000s of newsgroups, I wouldn't
be surprised if there were some that might
be helpful.

Good luck!

Gail