Make sure the cut on the stem is fresh so it soaks up the most water. It works best with carnations, some flowers like roses seal up when they're cut and don't absorb a lot of water, and thus color.
Michelle - Proud DR Rockette S: 28JUL07, D'd: 29OCT09 http://tinyurl.com/27j9qo2
Hi Ali, what flower are you using? It is not an instant process. You can depending on what flowers you are using dye the petals,using cochineal or similar, I have even used a felt tip pen.
Why do you want a white flower red? You have to use flowers with hollow stems as they take up more water.
For a second there just half reading above post I thought you had been sent a bunch of roses, just shows what sight reading does.
Ok I used carnations, as they are best apparently... and I cut the stems on an angle and in half and left it for HOURS.. still white. ARGHH !
Anyway... so he phoned.
.. it was a bit odd. I said before he had almost left it too late, but had left it too late to contact me, that some damage had in fact been done. Before, we always got on so well, no awkwardness.. but some has crept in after he didnt even phone me for 3 months, or see me for 4 and was with her, obviously.
So.. we chatted for an hour and 10, which was nice and we laighed here and there, but there was the odd little brief silence. We agreed on most things and of course I 'get it' when he makes a remark about someone and then I fill in, finish off the joke, or what they are like, things that only couples discuss, if you see what I mean, so THAT closeness is still tehre.. but, sometimes there were awkward pauses for a moment and I'm racking my brain to think, what do I say? He ended up telling me a blow by blow account of his week, which was good that he wanted to..and it also mainly involved being with his Mum, which is good, but he didnt really ask me how I was !! He did ask after my Dad though, which I think is possibly the first, or only second time he has, which is huge (at the bomb, he said one of the hardest things was that in weighing up leaving me he had to get his head around that meant he was also losing my Dad!! Then he cried! Over my Dad! Not me...)
Then at the end, he said he would give me a ring sometime.. I said I have his post so he said he would get that off me sometime.. then I said, ok, well do you want to go for a drink sometime? and then he said.. sure, I'll give you a bell soon.. but then he said.. I was thinking of going to band night this week... oh were you? .. and then something about maybe I might be, or we could maybe meet then, but that he would give me a 'buzz' again (phone) anyway... and he sounded so...'casual', faux-nonchalant...distant?
OH FOR F*%^£S SAKE JUST SAY IT.. WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO OUT FOR A DRINK NOW THAT I AM NO LONGER WITH HELEN AND I MADE A MISTAKE IN DUMPING YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE.. etc etc, lol.
Well, I assume he is no longer with her, as he phoned me after footy (although he could have seen her last night and Sunday night) but also, invited me to bandnight this week (in a backhand super casual, nonchalant, not bothered if you do or dont kinda way). So.. Operation Bandnight is now officially... happening !
And before anyone complains about the way he is going about this (Neaj, I mean you, ha!).. I hear that this is how it goes, until they finally say they want back.. its still this wierd cha-cha right? A dance? Isnt that it? They take awkward steps toward you and then.. what, I'm supposed to back away a bit !!?? I dont know.
... to illustrate how things have shifted, he mentioned two things that made me nervous.. he mentioned that he went out on Friday, same gang of guys, but the Cougar was out, but he said her name in that cicumspect way, where you squash it and say it like through the side of your mouth (so I dont get the wrong idea? But I know she is dating his cousin !) and he mentioned some old friends, a couple he PHONED to meet up with... we had lost touch with them, I wanted him to because as he well knows, the girls BFF has been in love with him (unrequited) for 10, 12 years.. he also added "they only came out for a short while... only the two of them came".. (was this to let me know SHE wasnt there? Although I know she moved away anyway).
So.. in short.. I am nervous. He is possibly now a single man again..he may have tentatively 'invited' me out, but I feel like I am MORE on trial than ever!! This feels a bit of a knife edge... he's hardly swept in, declaring his mistake and begging my forgiveness has he and I feel I've lost a handle on him and a bit of status since Christmas. BUT.. his friends tell me he says he loves me, so perhaps I should have more confidence around him (and afterall, that is more attractive hey).
I'm not out of the woods yet.. in fact, I'm not even IN the woods yet! But I wonder if my recent posts have been hard for anyone to read? I feel concious of that.. Anyway, cant be counting any chickens yet.
You are simply thinking out loud and it doesn't matter if we understand exactly because we still understand, see? I am so glad that your artistic side had a breakthrough. It is like that sometimes, just sort of happening. I think that is why dreams are so good. You get all sorts of ideas out.
I had a little voice tell me this recently and maybe it will do you some good too. Be patient. He wants you too. That's it. I am not so good at patient but am more than willing to give it a go.
Good luck with the flowers.
kat
Me-53(and learning!) S24, S21, D18, D17 Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming. Dory
Thanks Kat... be patient yes. Wow, noone will ever accuse me of impatience for the rest of my life!
So I listened back to the last 10 minutes of the convo last night (yay for dictaphones).. and it was fine! There were a couple of little pauses, but barely noticeable, just feels worse in the moment. I was smiling listening to it, as I was so funny! Not really hahaha, just chatty, sweet, funny.. and he was laughing and making me laugh too. We sounded pretty connected, considering all thats happened. When it came to the band night thing, he clearly said he was thinking of going... I then brilliantly acted not bothered and launched into a funny story from last time we were there, forcing him to then say again he was thikning of going and maybe we could meet then and he clearly said he would call me again about bandnight and let me know.
So.. I did well! Woke up a little bit excited.. although this is going to be a long road, I can tell, some more weeks yet I think (i'm still counting on May!!).. but I also feel a little sad for the Piscean..
WOW.. has anyone read Priya Kale today?? I could point to the whole thing as relevant but especially...
"Tonight Venus and Mars will conjunct in the last degree of Pisces, in close conjunction to Uranus and the Pisces Moon will pass through the planets at the same time forming a small stellium.... All relationships intimate, creative and business if based on a soul connections and deep values could bear forth solid fruit sometime around mid June when the planets conjunct again in Taurus. What we get out of this transit will depend on how deep you want to go, if you opt for something shiny but ultimately shallow thats what you will get in the end. We are in Taurus season, this is about depth, solidity and worth — as you sow, so shall you reap...
If Mars represents the man or the male aspect of the Psyche and Venus the woman or the feminine. Them coming together in Pisces is a meeting of the yin-yang, deep in the womb of the divine mother herself. With the Moon in her deep waning phase and Uranus in close conjunction this could be a huge emotional release allowing us to wash away past hurt and pain and heal the heart. For only love is real. It is true that which we cry for has been what has in the past given us joy, and that which we makes us happy is what has once made us weep.
This is the wheel of fortune we live in, with the New Moon days away this is the end of a cycle — but the end is only a new beginning.. In Pisces we are coming full circle, back to the source and we are beginning a new karmic cycle for love, cleansing the memories and ghosts of the past, to make way for what is beginning to emerge now as a wisp of a passionate fantasy."
...but I havent forgotton it was only 2 1/2 weeks ago he looked me in the eye and said he wanted to walk off the cliff half the days. This worries me, not for myself.. for him. Thats what his friends don't know.. when they're excitedly telling me to hang on in there, they dont see the other side. But I havent forgotton. Not much I can do about that.. but perhaps thats partly why this is going to take a while, becuase he is not happy in himself anyway. But perhaps as Cyrena said, once he starts taking charge of his life and his emotions and making healthier choices, he will start to feel less helpless and desperate about life.
