{"id":676,"date":"2012-11-16T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-16T22:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2014-04-30T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T20:47:16","slug":"aloha-isnt-the-only-way-to-say-hello-and-good-bye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/aloha-isnt-the-only-way-to-say-hello-and-good-bye\/","title":{"rendered":"“Aloha!” isn’t the only way to say “Hello” and “Good-bye”…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’ve ever traveled to Hawaii, you’ve probably worn a Hawaiian lei. Leis are a beautiful way to welcome or send off visitors, friends, and family.\u00a0 In Hawaii, they’ve long been used as people come to and from the island, but did you know that they also use them as graduation gifts?\u00a0 This tradition is spreading.\u00a0 It is now not uncommon to see high school and university graduates wearing graduation leis, especially in more diverse areas.<\/p>\n

Graduation leis are great gifts that are easily personalized to include meaningful flowers and\/or colors.\u00a0 If there are no stores that sell them in your area, try making your own.\u00a0 All you need are flowers (typically orchids or carnations), a long needle, and some sturdy thread.\u00a0 If threading carnations, cut the carnations right between the stem and the bottom of the bud, then stick the threaded needle into the bottom center of the bud and out through the middle of the top of the carnation.\u00a0 Push the carnation down the thread and continue until you have enough to make a complete lei.\u00a0 It really is that easy!\u00a0 Spray with cool water and put in the fridge in a large zip locked bag until graduation day.\u00a0 Now you have a unique, beautiful gift!<\/p>\n

If you would like to preserve your graduation gift as a lasting memory of all your graduate has accomplished, you can get your lei preserved and encased (along with the diploma, optional) by a professional service such as Suspended in Time Flower Preservation Company\u00ae.\u00a0 Learn more about their revolutionary drying technique at www.suspendedintime.com.<\/p>\n

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If you’ve ever traveled to Hawaii, you’ve probably worn a Hawaiian lei. Leis are a beautiful way to welcome or send off visitors, friends, and family.\u00a0 In Hawaii, they’ve long been used as people come to and from the island, but did you know that they also use them as graduation gifts?\u00a0 This tradition is … Continue reading “Aloha!” isn’t the only way to say “Hello” and “Good-bye”…<\/span> »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[290],"tags":[35,49,122,20,59,148,150,149,25],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-special-occasions","tag-dried-flower","tag-dry-flowers","tag-encase-flowers","tag-flower-preservation","tag-freeze-dry-flowers","tag-graduation-gifts","tag-graduation-leis","tag-leis","tag-suspended-in-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.suspendedintime.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}