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Cross posting this here, since it’s vaguely related:

Making, Crafting, Creating... aka Whatcha workin' on?

I just got a book about nature printing and it has a chapter about “flower pounding.” It’s just what it says, stick some flowers/leaves on a substrate and pound them with a hammer. I couldn’t believe it would actually work, and I love the idea of answering, “Whatchya doing?” With, “pounding flowers.” So it tried with some leaves and it actually works! [image] The red is leaves from staghorn sumac. Green is sage. The yellow is from a Norway maple leaf that didn’t really work. My mind is just b…