🍂 Introduction — A Quiet Inspiration from 1903
A few months ago, I accidentally found a digital copy of a flower-pressing book called Press from the Holy Land, published in 1903.
Even after more than a century, the pressed plants inside were still beautifully preserved — faded, yes, but full of time, warmth, and tenderness.
That moment reminded me of something simple yet powerful:
Pressed flowers are tiny pieces of time.
And I suddenly wanted to make a journal of my own — page by page, season by season.
So today’s EP08 is a very gentle project:
making a pressed-flower journal you can grow over the years.
If you’d like to watch the process in motion, here’s the video version of EP08:
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🌿 Materials You’ll Need
All simple items — nothing complicated:
• Small notebook / mini ring binder (mine is from my studio)
• Pressed flowers
• Tweezers
• Glue (white glue or your preferred craft glue)
• Pen for writing botanical names
• Optional: small cards or textured paper
This project is intentionally slow, tender, and beginner-friendly — perfect for anyone who wants to start a botanical journal without pressure.
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📖 Step-by-Step: Page by Page
1. Choose a flower that speaks to you
It can be a leaf from your morning walk, a tiny flower from your balcony, or a gift from someone you love.
Small pieces work beautifully.
2. Add the flower to your page
Place your pressed flower gently on the paper.
Use a tiny amount of glue — just enough to hold it, without flooding it.
3. Write its name
You don’t need to be a botanist!
If you don’t know the plant name, just use:
• Google Image Search, or
• AI image recognition
I do this all the time — it’s part of the fun.
4. Date it, if you like
For some people, dates make the journal feel like a diary of nature.
For others, it’s optional.
Choose what fits your personality.
5. Repeat… slowly
No rush.
This is a journal that grows with you — page by page, season by season.
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💛 Why This Project Matters (More Than It Looks)
It’s simple, but deeply meaningful.
By keeping a journal like this, you’re not just recording plants.
You’re recording：
• a moment of your life
• a colour from a certain afternoon
• a walk you took without planning
• a tiny season passing quietly
When you flip these pages years later, they remind you that time moves softly — and beautifully.
Just like the 1903 herbarium did for me.
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🌙 My Own Plan
I’ll keep adding pages throughout autumn, winter, spring, and summer — and watch how this tiny journal becomes a memory book of nature.
One page at a time. One season at a time.
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📎 Want to Start One Too?
The little journal I used in the video is available in my studio:
Click 👉Plant Fiber Notebook – Pressed Flower Journal for Nature Lovers
You can start with just a few flowers , the rest will come naturally.
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💬 Share with Me…
If you keep a pressed-flower journal too,
tell me your story.
Is it already finished, or still growing?
I’d love to hear how your pages are changing over time.
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