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Floral Designs By Carolyn Martin Incorporate
Freeze-Dried, Latex, Parchment, Silk, Dried Materials
LOU ANN GOOD
Lancaster Fanning Staff
LITITZ (Lancaster Co.)
Walk into Carolyn Weaver’s home
any day and you will find straw
berries, raspberries, brussels spr
outs, broccoli, carrots, artichokes,
and pomegranates on her kitchen
counter.
These picture-pefect vegetables
The arrangement on the entrance door to the Weaver
home reflects the season.
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don’t wilt, rot or mold. Take a
whiff of the aroma of what smells
like freshly picked berries, and you
will know that these are not artifi
cial reproductions. They are the
real thing—freeze-dried, which is
an increasingly popular method of
preserving vegetables and fruits
for display.
Carolyn does not freeze dry the
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Carolyn Waaver uses freeza-driad, latex, dried, silk, and parchment materials in her
floral arrangements.
produce, but she does artfully
arrange it with dried, latex, parch
ment, and silk flowers and
greenery.
Latex is also a fairly new
medium used for flowers. The
latex flowers are quite realistic in
appearance but have a rubbery tex
ture, which makes them extremely
durable.
A versatile designer, Carolyn
creates country, formal, tradition
al, Victorian, and oriental-line
arrangements.
Although she does arrange-
ments in all sizes, Carolyn prefers
large arrangements as they are
more eye-catching and dramatic
than the miniature and medium
sized ones.
She uses brass, pewter, glass,
wicker basket, grapevine, elm,
crocks, and ceramic containers.
Carolyn’s expertise in flower
arrangement began as a teen-ager
when she took an evening flower
arranging workshop at Stauffers of
Kissel Hill. A year later, she
applied for a job there and was
employed with the understanding
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that she would stand behind the
flower designer for on-the-spot
training.
Soon Carolyn was doing Wil
liamsburg arrangements, pressed
flowers under glass, and free
designs.
After five years, Carolyn quit
her job to devote full time to rais
ing the three children that she and
her husband, Ron, had. Matthew is
now 19, Jennifer, 16, and Andrew,
14.
While not employed in flower
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