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BY PEKAY PETTUS
COTTON MILLER just hung out her shingle last month, but she’s been busy doing picture framing, flower drying and decoupage for more than ten years.
One room in her basement workshop is full of the things she’s done, dried flower arrangements pressed under glass against a velvet background, bright colored tole paintings on trays, plaques and trash cans, decoupaged pocketbooks and lots of pictures belonging to other people that she has framed.
Another room is brimming with the raw materials she needs for her work. Bundles of baby’s breath, yarra, money plant and pear leaves hang from the beams. There's a tall stack of boxes, labeled "large buttercups" or "small buttercups" And stashed inside, between layers of tissue paper, are hundreds of delecalely pressed buttercup blossoms. And there are sc’ores of picture frame "corners" samples of the type frames Mrs. Milletcan make.
“THIS IS JUST my downstairs drying room," Mrs.
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