Hi Elena,
JUST what I needed to hear-- no matter how I'll need to rewrite the
bittersweet bit :)
Of course, it _is_ pre-Victorian, but not much of a stretch to have
wax-dipped paper flowers. The skill was around before its
popularization in later Victorian times.
Many thanks for your insights! Until my web search for photos of
bittersweet I had no idea how very pretty it is. Too bad it's out of
season for the story!
I hope to get to Vermont someday. Ancestors and all like that. At
least they tend to stay put once planted!
== Marjorie Wilser
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"Learn to laugh at yourself and you will never lack for amusement." --MW
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On Nov 25, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Elena House wrote:
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Elena House <exst...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I could swear I've run across several sets of
how-to-make-artificial-flowers instructions in Victorian ephemera of
the sort your characters might be likely to have run across, although
I'm not enough of a masochist to try to hunt them down now... =}
...And I just noticed the 1830 bit, so ignore the Victorian part,
please! Still, it seems like a skill that wouldn't be too outlandish
to find locally--maybe the sister-in-law has a milliner friend.
-E House
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