Sweet Harvest Homestead

This episode is brought to you by www.thenakedpig.com and by the Soap Making e course at Sweet Harvest Homestead. http://sweetharvesthomestead.typepad.com/sweet_harvest_homestead/soapmaking-e-book.html   Last year, I posted a picture on my blog of the Hydrangeas that I grew and asked if anyone knew how to preserve them. The suggestions ranged from keeping them in a hot trunk for a few days to using silica gel. I opted to use the silica gel because it was supposed to do the best job of preserving, but it was complicated and expensive and after thinking it through- way too long, the Hydrangeas were no longer pretty enough to preserve, so I gave up on that project. Fast forward to a few days ago, I was cleaning out my daughter's bathroom cabinet and came across the prettiest, perfectly preserved hydrangea that I have ever seen! I remembered her picking a few of them last summer, saying that she was going to dry them, but with the business of life, I forgot that she was even doing it. You know what she did?