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gumpaste forget me nots: How to make super easy, gumpaste flowers...forget me nots! Your gonna need some gumpaste tools, blue gumpaste, white gumpaste, royal icing, shortening, and an empty egg carton. Grease hands, and clean flat surface with shortening. Take ut blue gumpaste, and start kneading it in hands. Your gonna need some gumpaste tools, blue gumpaste, white gumpaste, shortening, a flat surface, and an empty egg carton. First thing you want to do, after getting out all your materials. Is cover your hands, and a clean flat surface, in shortening to prevent sticking. Work your blue gumpaste in hands, until its workable. You will only want to take out a small amount, to,prevent excess drying. So what you don't use keep it wrapped in plastic wrap, or a ziploc, or if your like me...both. work the piece you have into a ball. Then use your mini rolling pin/fondant roller, and roll out your gumpaste super thin. Once you've done this, use your second to smallest flower cutter, to cut out flowers from your gumpaste. Set one to the side and cover rest. You should have a tool that's round on one end, and pointy on the other, end. Use the pointy side to poke the center of your flower, be careful not to puncture through. Then place flower on foam mat. Once you've done this, use the same pointy end, at a 45 degree angle. Rolling slightly on inside of petal. Repeat with all sides, and poke center with pointy end of tool, one last time, to help flower petals curl in. After you have done this, gently place flowers into your empty egg carton to dry. While your flowers are drying. Rake out a really small piece, of white gumpaste, covering the rest. Take a small piece off, of your already small piece of white gumpaste. Roll it into a ball, between your two index fingers. After doing this, carefully place them in empty egg carton to dry. Use small paint brush, and put a tiny amout of powder sugar, water combo, into center of flowers. Then carefully place white centers, on your flower. Place flowers back into egg cartons to dry. HISTORY, FACTS, AND FOLKLORE: In a German legend, God named all the plants when a tiny unnamed one cried out, "Forget-me-not, O Lord!" God replied, "That shall be your name." [2][2] The Christ Child was sitting on Mary's lap one day and said that he wished that future generations could see her eyes. He touched her eyes and then waved his hand over the ground and blue forget-me-nots appeared, hence the name forget-me-not. Henry IV adopted the flower as his symbol during his exile in 1398, and retained the symbol upon his return to England the following year. [2] In 15th-century Germany, it was supposed that the wearers of the flower would not be forgotten by their lovers. Legend has it that in medieval times, a knight and his lady were walking along the side of a river. He picked a posy of flowers, but because of the weight of his armour he fell into the river. As he was drowning he threw the posy to his loved one and shouted "Forget-me-not." It was often worn by ladies as a sign of faithfulness and enduring love. Remembrance Prior to becoming the tenth province of Canada in 1949, Newfoundland (then a separate British Dominion) used the Forget-me-not as a symbol of remembrance of that nation's war dead. This practice is still in limited use today, though Newfoundlanders have adopted the Flanders Poppy as well. Freemasons use the Forget-me-not to remember those masons who were victimized by the Nazi regime. [3] In literature Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mouse-ear forget-me-not, Myosotis laxa, has now extended its racemes (?) very much, and hangs over the edge of the brook. It is one of the most interesting minute flowers. It is the more beautiful for being small and unpretending; even flowers must be modest." [4] In Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote, Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of Heaven, Blossom the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. www.etsy.com/kanekl www.imadeitmyself.com/KANEsUgAr Handmade gumpaste flowers, edible cake toppers, chocolate truffles, caramels, and marzipan. http://www.imadeitmyself.com/KANEsUgAr Handmade gumpaste flowers, edible cake toppers, chocolate truffles, caramels, and marzipan.