What you need:

• 1 cup of flour
• 1/2 cup of salt
• 1 cup of potpourri - old or new.
  You can use fragant, fresh flowers too.
• Water- 1/3 to 1/2 cup
• Cookie cutters

What you do:

1. Mix all of the ingredients together and refrigerate for 5 minutes.
2. Take the dough and either with your hands or a slightly floured rolling pin, flatten it. Using your favorite cookie cutters cut the dough. You can also use the dough like clay and make a sculpture. This is a fun way to make beautiful and great smelling pieces of art!

Comments:

How to the potpourri finer before mixing
From: Carol
As I was doing this craft this morning, I realized too late that I should have done something to make the potpourri finer before mixing it into the dough. I was having a lot of trouble cutting it out as the cookie cutter wouldn't go thru larger pieces of potpourri. I thought that next time I'd run the potpourri thru a blender or food processor to make it finer, but I wasn't sure if it was a good idea to do that since maybe the chemicals in the mix wouldn't completely wash away off the blades and container. Anyway, I hit on the idea of taking a ball of dough and pressing it into the cookie cutter instead. (I have cookie cutters that are open, not the older solid type.) It worked great! The edges were smooth and even, not lumpy like before. They came out with a slightly raised edge which was easily flattened by turning the molded shape over and pressing it down gently.

Potpourri Pies
From: Janie
When I made my potpourri pies, I used crocheted strips made with crust colored yarn, make them different lengths, lay one layer across the pie and then weave the second layer just like a lattice top pie, hot glue the edges to the pie plate. You can use a circle of tulle material under this to keep   the potpourri from spilling. Another one I saw used muslin material with small slits cut in it and glued to the pie plate and yet another used the  muslin trimmed with pinking shears into strips and woven like the lattice top. You can even spread some glue lightly and sprinkle with diamond dust to make it look like sugar on top if you want.

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