Check out the posting on "What Rose Do You Grow to Dry?" and perhaps you might want to email one of the posters...I don't think they would mind helping you out. (I've only had limited experience and not too successful myself). Good luck. josh

if things are already starting to dry, pressing them will just make things fall apart.

a thought is to dry it the rest of the way with silica crystals, and then mount the display in a shadow box- otherwise, it's going to be a terribly fragile dust magnet in no time.