For all you nature lovers we have a very pretty and functional Giveaway to offer up today! The fabulous girls over at Sydney based design brand Polli have just turned their hand to designing a Flower Press (RRP: $39.95) – and what a result – We love it!
As a child growing up I LOVED a good flower press – but mine were no where near as classy as Polli’s latest design. I used an old big thick and heavy dictionary to press little flowers between its pages in between tracing paper. One of the biggest delights was forgetting about them, and then checking at a later date to find a perfectly formed dried flowers.
Made in Australia from sustainable plantation hoop pine ply, these round flower presses feature original water colour paintings and sketches of Australian native flowers. They are lined with recycled card and paper, and are perfect for capturing a pretty piece of nature.
~~ GIVEAWAY DETAILS ~~
Simply leave a comment below letting us know what flowers you would love to press in the Polli flower press. The winner will be drawn at random on Wednesday 21 November 2012 after 7pm. Goodluck!
(NB: Open to Australian based entrants only)
I have been wanting to get one of these for my daughter for a christmas present! this is gorgeous. I used to love pressing little violets when I was a little girl
My daughter would love this for Christmas! …and so would I
My late mother pressed flowers in anything and everything. We have found pressed leaves and flowers in all her books! I would love to carry on the tradtions. Especially with delicate ferns and baby’s breath.
We love flower pressing natives and wild flowers…….the kids currently use big old heavy books……so a real flower press would be amazing to them!
Australia has so many beautiful flowers! I would take a walk and collect flowers as and make a little flower journal.
How pretty! I would press lavender
Oh the flower to press really is the pansy, so gorgeous and they press so beautifully.
I’m so proud to have kept my beautiful orchid plant alive for the past few months! Before the flowers brown I’d love to press them.
All of the flowering herbs in the herb garden.
I loved pressing violets as a child but my minimalist, flowerless garden only supplies native violets so they will have to do!
This is so pretty! I would love to press flowering herbs such as coriander, sage or rosemary.
Dandelions as they represent love, faithfulness and happiness.
Dandelions and bugs is my daughter’s answer!
Violets & Daisys to make some beautiful handmade cards =D
Sweet Williams, they’re my favourite.
Miniature roses, I have a garden full of them & adore their blooms. Always a shame when they die off, be nice to keep them pressed & preserved forever.
I would love to press Forget-Me-Nots !
I would press marigolds because you can never have too much bright orange and yellow in your life!
frangipannis are my favourite so i would love to press them.
I would love to press FOUR LEAF CLOVERS like you did when you were a kid – I always thought it brought me luck!
Sweet peas, violets, forget me nots and christmas bush. So much beauty in
humble little flowers.
Roses
We’ve recently planted a sunflower with our daughter, it would be lovely to preserve the flower from it once it blooms.
I’d love to press petunias with my daughter. A simple little flower, but endlessly gorgeous shades and variations.
I would press Frangipani, I love its scent
I would love to press Frangpanis and Camelias, I just love when the garden is flourishing with all the blooms are out, but wouldn’t it be grand to have the flowers with us all year around
Roses are in at the moment. It is good to spend time with the children pressing flowers and having time together making things. Flower frames, cards.
I would love to use it to press some beautiful Violets! I would make some beautiful bookmarks from them..
This brings back so many memories! I have been looking to get one for my children for Christmas this year… and these ones are beautiful!
I also used to love pressing violets when I was a little girl. If I had this flower press now I think I’d try a kangaroo paw from my garden. Or maybe a grevillea.
Hydrangeas as they remind me of my nana and pop, i have two bushes in my garden to remember them both
There is a lavender bush on the corner of our street that we can not help but pick when we pass… would definitely use the flower press on them.
I’ll have to raid mum’s flowers..perhaps try a tulip?
Pansies. I love their vivid and brilliant colours and I’ve been told pressed pansies keep their colour well.
Lavander, roses, frangipani’s, iris, hydrangeas, daisies, peonies and rosemary – all the colours of the rainbow.
Poppies! They are so delicate and don’t last long enough so would love to capture a few in this pretty press.
I would press whatever wild flowers I can find. Morning glory would be one for sure. I love the vibrant purple.