Thank you to everyone who replied to my question. For some reason my replies to you all don't seem to be showing up. I live in the Boston area and the weather has been so unpredictable. Today is a nice day with no rain and humidity so I will try to make more flowers and hope they harden. I appreciate all your suggestions.

New members are not allowed to reply  for several months in order to keep down spam  those of us who have been around for somethime understand   Glad you figured out to make another post   Referring to the original post tells us it is probably a reply   Good luck with your work   I’m sure it will all end up just fine   I mentioned those tiny pkgs of drying agents—I could have gotten you a dozen over the past couple of days if we were close:)