Extending the life of your Flowers…just a little

I picked up some blooms at the grocery store the other day…because I just needed a little freshness in my dank and dirty house.  Why do you even read this blog?  My house is always gross and dirty…says me.  Ha!  Well thank you for stopping by regardless.  Anyway I digress…..So I picked up these blooms and they happily lasted well over a week…yay!

Well…they WERE purty.  Oh and you see what I mean by dirty house?  Look at how I cleaned up for you guys.  BLARF.  Anyway….look at the vase.  Here it is closer…

OMG I’m going to barf.  MOLD!  I noticed this as I was chopping things for dinner and about sliced my fingers off.  And just to be clear…I had changed the water the day before so this took me by surprise.  So I decided to empty out the gross disgusting-ness and put the flowers in a smaller container.  But you can see that the pink flowers were about done, according to them deciding to shed their petals everywhere.  The minute I touched them they all crumbled.  I have that effect on plants….and people.  Being that I mixed these guys in with daisies…I saved just the daises then.  Forget you pink flowers.

Aw how cute!  I used these teal glasses I got at Goodwill (I was using them to hold delicious peanut M&M’s…that the hubs emptied in about a day.  Awesome) and just cut the blooms super short.  And guess what?  These guys perked right back up and have been going for about another week!  Huzzah!  That’s almost 2.5 weeks of freshy freshy from grocery store blooms!  My goal in life to to be able to always have fresh flowers…but even just a little 2.5 weeker was enough to get my but in gear about spring cleaning and seriously freshening up the rest of the house.  Happy first day of spring all!

Rainbow Connection

Time for some springtime up in here!  All these lovely bloggers around the ‘sphere have such pretty mantles and fireplaces that they get to decorate and I fail to have.  So I like to pretty up any and all flat surfaces in my house for the season…and for spring I wanted the first thing you see in my home to be colorful and set the mooooood.  Here’s my little shoe cabinet at the front door.  It has a wonderful little ledge that needed some pretty

I started with some flowers from the grocery store and a little gnome I found in the bowels of my basement.  I believe I used these for Jagger’s party last year, which was a woodland theme, but Sonny had no idea I used them and I completely forgot.  Then the mantle developed into this with a little digging and re-arranging.

Hunter came home from school the other day with this adorable rainbow art.  They made it for St. Patrick's Day…and because rainbows start with the letter “R”…which if you don’t know, are drawn with a big line down, a little loop, and another line down.  I hear that about 25 times an hour.  Anyway, as soon as I saw this little gem I knew it was the inspiration for the mantle.  Colorful and sweet!

Did anyone notice the missing Fruit Loops?  Glue was not 100% dry and some little person started picking them off in the car.  Elmer’s….yum yum.  And I’ll be honest, I was more upset that it wasn’t a perfect rainbow anymore than I was about him eating the glue.  I was like “NO HUNTER!!!!  I was going to put that on the MANTLE!!!!!”  Oh well…such is life!

Peekaboo!

I then threw together this little sign to welcome people and really drive home my favorite season, in case people didn’t know.  It’s SPRING, y’all.  SPRING.  I used an IKEA frame, took the back off so the wall color shows through, cut the letters on my Cricut, and hung with 3M Command velcro strips.  They are my favorite thing right now, hands down.

And then I found my little sequin bunny from West Elm, also in the bowels of the basement, that I got last year.  And finished everything off with a little basket of colorful eggs.  Now, I would have dyed my own eggs, or glittered these…but…as is typical in this house…I got lazy. Plus, if I leave these guys alone, I can use them ON EASTER.  Bah-bam Ba-Boom…double duty saving money for more coffee or new shirt for me.

Isn’t she just a cute little “mantle?”  I love stepping into the house and seeing this colorful display come up to greet me.  How are you guys celebrating the springtime?  Flowers? Candy? Colorful eggs?  Glue laced Fruit Loops?  However you celebrate…I hope it’s full of joy and makes you giddy!!


"My entry into Sugar Bee Craft’s Celebrating Spring competition, sponsored by Appliances Online and Beko Fridge Freezers"

Springy Springy!

Remember this post from September about me planting bulbs for the first time?

It was almost too easy to a point where I really didn’t think that anything was going to happen.  It was literally just dig, drop, done….which is fittingly the name of the company where I got the bulbs.  Well guess what just made an appearance?

YAY!  Look at how cute my first little fleur is!!!  This was actually taken the last week of February…so I was just THRILLED that we had mild enough weather for our little babies to start popping up!  I can’t wait because I have a feeling in a week or two all of them will be coming up and my yard will be a-bloom in beautiful…well…blooms!  That is…if the mild weather continues and we don’t get some freak snow storm in March.  It’s been known to happen.  I can’t wait for more warm weather and to get outdoors and get to sprucing up our outdoor space!