Does anyone have a good idea of how to save roses as a keepsake?

I received a dozen of roses from my new man and I want to save them in a special way. I thought about taking the petals and arranging them somehow in a shadow box type picture frame and then placing our picture in it. Does anyone else have a good idea?|||Well there%26#039;s pressing them or more unusually drying them 3D using a microwave and silicon:





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depends how long you want to keep them. I guess pressed in a picture will last longest as it%26#039;ll be easier to keep and you might want to practice the silicon method before potentially ruining the flowers!





Alternatively make scented sachets with the petals. You won%26#039;t have them on display but scented sachets will last a long time without getting in the way in the future if you want to keep the memory but not have a picture cluttering up the room :0)|||I like your frame idea. What I like to do with special flowers is dry them by hanging them upside down. They lose some color and wilt a little bit, but then you can put them in a vase and they last. I have some flowers from a recital I played in 2003 that I just can%26#039;t bring myself to get rid of. They still look great. And I think my parents have some that I got in 1996 in my old room.|||I would just take a nice photograph. Otherwise it%26#039;s hoarding.





I still have the memory of the first bouquet of roses hubby sent me, and the poem he sent with them. It%26#039;s better than some dust-collecting bunch of dead dry flowers always in the way.


.|||You can go to a craft store and buy canister of a flower drying desiccant. They work very well, and works quickly. Then you can press or frame your flowers.