Rose in a heart of ice

Step 2 Suspending the rose

In this step we suspend the rose in the bowl. Since the upside of the frozen water in the bowl will later be the underside of the heart, you have to hang up the rose head down.

For this, first cut off the stem of the rose (but leave a bit for attaching the wire. Then wrap the wire several times tightly around the bowl and try to somehow attach the rose head-down to the wire. I my case I got additional stability by piercing the end of the wire into the rose (see the last picture).

There are several things you should consider at this point:

• The rose should touch the bottom of the bowl. Instead, there should be at least 1cm between the rose and the bowl, since you will later carve away some of the ice covering the rose.
• If you leave several centimetres of stem, attaching the wire is easier. But you should check first how high you freezer actually is. Mine turned out to be too low, and I had to remove part of the stem after I already attached the wire.

Comments

[Dragonknight]

This is a really unique idea, but have you considered using a silk rose instead of as live one? The silk one will still maiintain it's color, and the ice won't blacken it... Neat idea, though!