Pink Roses

flower containers...

Elizabeth wants all the flower containers at her wedding to be different...vintage, shabby, unique...crystal, china, metal, silver, milk glass...you get it.

We found a terrific florist who, when we asked, "Can we bring you 50 different containers, and will you make a flower arrangement in each one and deliver it?"...she said "SURE...that sounds awesome!".  We knew we had found a florist with our vision.  So we are hunting and gathering.  Thinking outside the box.  Saving used up mercury glass jars from our favorite candles...

Washing and starching vintage linens...

She wants several containers on each table, mixed with pictures and objects and things...a rustic romantic vignette...

So we're playing and arranging and imagining...

that's what we're up to...

simple pleasures...

blue skies, country roads, fresh picked strawberries, porch swings, small town BBQ, wildflowers, old barns, holding hands.

When your pleasures are simple, happiness will be all around you!

under glass...

take one fresh peony from the garden...

and put it under your favorite cloche...

and you have beauty x two!

greetings...

a little greeting for a friend...

fresh brown eggs...

I hope you all had a Happy Mother's Day yesterday.  Mine was actually more of a Mother's Night, because my children didn't get home until 11:00 last evening.  Better late than never!  The 3 of us began our mornings in 3 different states...Elizabeth was in Florida with Paul, visiting my parents, Christopher was in New Orleans, Louisiana visiting Katie, and I was in North Carolina visiting my brother and his family.  After a day of travel, we ended our day in Atlanta...home sweet home.  I love it when they're both here with me! I had a wonderful visit with my brother, and enjoyed driving on some beautiful country roads.  I didn't buy any fresh brown eggs, but did stop and take a picture.  You just don't see signs like this in the city.  I also stopped a a great yard sale and bought 30 vintage pressed glass punch cups for $5.00.  Elizabeth wants to use those to hold tea lights at her wedding.  It was a great weekend away, and now my kids are home for their final summer...she will be getting married and he will graduate from college, so this will be my last summer with kids at home.  I'm sad, but determined to cherish every moment, and create some memories!