Centerpieces

August 4, 2023

3 Easy Faux Floral Centerpieces

I love flowers.

Whether it’s real or faux, I find flowers so beautiful, and almost always like to include them whenever I’m making centerpieces or any other decorations for my home.

Sadly, I don’t have a green thumb. My house plants are lucky if they make it through a few month in my home (I’m pretty sure there’s a picture of me at Home Depot with a sign saying don’t let this customer buy anymore plants).

No matter how hard I try, they never last. So I usually stick to faux for everything that I make.

Today’s centerpieces are no exception to that. I’m using these beautiful, colorful faux flowers that I found at the Dollar Tree as well as a bunch of white and blue daisies that I had from Walmart.

They all came together fairly easy. It can sometimes be very frustrating for me to try and create a centerpiece because I am no professional, but I was surprised, and relieved, at how easy these 3 were!

ok, let’s begin!

3 Easy Faux Floral Centerpieces

My first centerpiece starts off with a glass vase bowl that I filled with a layer of flat marbles.

Then I added a few large rocks on top of that.

I finished with a few orange faux flowers as well as a few faux leaves.

The next centerpiece started off with this arrangement that I used for spring and then added 3 extra bushes of faux flowers From the Dollar Tree.

I also added a few clear marbles to the bottom of the vase.

Surprisingly, this arrangement came together fairly quickly. I usually have a hard time bringing my centerpieces together! It’s like trial and error over and over and over again. So I was pretty happy when I finished.

The orange, purple and blue flowers you see below are the 3 bunches of Dollar Tree flowers that I added into the flowers that were already there.

Lastly, this very simple arrangement consists of a recycled jar, another orange flower, like the one I used above and more of those faux leaves.

I finished with an orange ribbon that I had left over from this fall centerpiece. The ribbon is simply taped on to the jar around the back. I like using scotch tape for attaching ribbons to vases, it seems to keep the ribbon in place the best.

Hope you enjoyed these 3 easy faux floral centerpieces and find some inspiration for your home decorating as well!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

June 24, 2023

Easy Blue Faux Floral Centerpiece

Periwinkle blue….Cornflower blue

Navy blue…..Nautical blue

Sky blue…..Baby blue

Royal blue…..Sapphire blue

So many shades, and names, of the beautiful color blue!

Easy Blue Faux Floral Centerpiece

As the title implies, this is a very easy centerpiece to bring together. I used a few faux florals, some old, some new. White rocks, a small fish bowl vase, and then arranged the flowers by keeping the same flowers together on either side and finishing up with a hydrangea down the center of my arrangement.

Ok, here we go!

I started with a small round vase filled with white decorative rocks…

As for the flowers, I added three baby blue florals, all together on one side…

Two bunches of hyacinth flowers (from Walmart) with a mix of light and royal blue shades on the opposite side…

Lastly one blue hydrangea in the center…

and that’s it!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

* Floral arranging tips used from this Martha Stewart.com page

April 5, 2023

6 Quick and Easy Easter Decorations

Today I’m sharing six easy Easter decorations that anyone can bring together fairly quickly with some basic decorative items.

If you have faux florals, Easter eggs, and a few basic and pretty (they have to be pretty) containers such as vases or recycled jars you can recreate your own similar Easter decorations too.

As always, most of the items I’m using are things that I already have on hand as well as a few

new items.

ok, let’s get started!

Hope you enjoy these six quick and easy Easter decorations.

6 Quick and Easy Easter Decorations

Pink Daisies from Dollar Tree (oh how I love the Dollar Tree)

Bouquet of flowers from Walmart.

I was a little lazy about cutting off the end of my flowers but of course you can use a wire cutter to cut down your flowers to size. The bent stem doesn’t bother me though. Sometimes the thought of cutting down my faux flowers just hurts! I like to keep them long so that I’m able to use them in the future with taller vases, if I wish. But sometimes that’s unavoidable and I have to cut them down.

Tulips from Michaels Craft Store.

Small daisies from Ikea, purchased years ago.

This is probably the simplest but my favorite. It’s really a part of my decorations for our kitchen hutch, but I like it so much that I had to photograph it separate.

All I did was place a few glittery eggs on a couple of plates and placed it on top of our toaster oven. It’s so simple that it made me stop and wonder if I should even bother sharing it but truthfully, I tend to fall in love with the very simple decorations that I place around my home.

They bring a smile to my face!

Oh how I debated on whether or not I should keep the next one! It’s on our very tiny dining, mail, coffee, water bottle table and…

It’s a beer bottle with dried flowers from Valentines day.

When I put this together, I loved it! I love using beer bottles (it’s a good thing my husband likes beers) and I couldn’t throw those dried flowers away! Then I finished off with the cutest little chick and eggs that I found at my local Dollar Store.

So cute!!!

But recently I thought, beer bottles and dried flowers for Easter?!?!? What on earth…

It didn’t seem to fit when we are enjoying all the beautiful new greenery that’s starting to show up on trees and in parks and decorating with pastel colors.

It is also when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and I’m decorating with a beer bottle (face/palm moment).

Then, I remembered that God loves me…and everything I do (well mostly everything, oh who am I kidding I’m past due for confession). But God loves me, and creativity. He’s not as serious as we may think, or at least I don’t think he is. I think he would approve of my simple beer bottle decoration. So I decided it wasn’t that serious and kept it on our table and now I’m enjoying it every day.

Another simple one that I’m absolutely in love with.

Yellow flowers from Michaels Craft Store.

That’s it for now my friends. I hope you enjoyed these 6 quick and easy Easter decorations and are inspired to bring together a few simple decorations for your home too!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

March 27, 2023

Simple Easter Egg Table Decoration

Simple Easter Egg Table Decoration

They come all dressed up in beautiful pastels…

a rainbow of vibrant colors…

a dusting of glitter…

You can find them with drawings of bunnies, baskets, flowers, and all sorts of pretty spring stuff.

And you can even have your kids paint the real thing.

It’s Easter eggs.

I absolutely love using Easter eggs for decorating.

Today I’m sharing a very simple table decoration using these sweet little eggs.

I’m using eggs that I’ve had for a few years now and have used over and over again. One of last years Easter decorations (that I shared here on the blog) is similar to what I’m sharing today, but this time I added a few decorative brown rocks to tone down the bright colors a bit.

I used sparkly white, yellow and lime green Easter eggs and finished off with a navy blue ribbon.

and that’s it.

Simple Easter Egg Table Decoration

I placed a layer of brown rocks at the bottom of my vase.

Then a layer of glittery white, yellow, and lime green glitter Easter eggs come in.

As you can see in the other photos, I made a bow around my vase using blue ribbon.

I also added some scotch tape underneath the ribbon to hold it in place.

and that’s it!

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

February 12, 2023

Three Valentine’s Day Centerpieces

Three Valentine’s Day Centerpieces

Roses and hearts…

Reds and pinks…

One is white with purple billy button flowers…

The other is full of cherry blossoms…

Then follows a simple vase with three red roses and bright pink rhinestones…

Hope you enjoy these Valentine’s Day Centerpieces!

Three Valentine’s Day Centerpieces

That’s it for this one! Hope it inspires you to bring together a few of your own simple and beautiful Valentine’s Day Decorations.

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

January 30, 2023

Simple Everyday Floral Arrangement

Simple Everyday Floral Arrangement

It probably doesn’t get any easier than this…

A small container, a few white flowers (almost always faux for me and my black thumb) …

And I have a very pretty and very simple floral arrangement that I can keep out practically all year long.

Today I’m sharing an easy faux floral arrangement that I think can work for any season as simple home decor.

For my container, I’m using a small sugar bowl that I have used over and over again for decorating. It’s become a very loyal sugar bowl/flower container throughout the years 🙂 I’m pretty sure I found my “vase” at IKEA years ago, but you can find small round clear containers similar to this at the dollar store, they may not be white but clear would be beautiful too!

Then I’m using a few faux flowers from the dollar store and that’s it, no filler in the vase to keep them in place, no water, the beauty of faux, just a wire cutter to make sure they are the perfect length for my vase.

Simple Everyday Floral Arrangement

A small white sugar bowl…

Four white dollar store faux flowers…

cut down to the perfect size, and we have a simple everyday floral decoration perfect for all year decor!

And she sits on my kitchen countertop right next to my sink.
Why not have something pretty to look at while I do the dishes! 😉

Hope you enjoyed this simple everyday floral arrangement!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way. May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

January 8, 2023

My Simple Holiday Decorations for 2022

My Simple Holiday Decorations for 2022

Hello friends!

So the holidays may be over, but I thought it would be nice to go ahead and share some of the holiday decorations that I never got around to sharing for 2022.

At first, I thought it would be kind of funny to post this after the holidays, but I was kind of feeling as if the holidays were still here. I actually still have our Christmas decorations up and all around the house. We honestly never really want to put our tree or decorations away right after the holidays, my husband can actually keep everything out ’til the end of January if I let him!

Do you put your decorations away right after the holidays? Or do you like to keep them out a bit longer, and admire them a little longer than you should, like we do?

Well, either way I hope you enjoy this simple collection of my holiday decorations for 2022.

My Simple Holiday Decorations for 2022

Fall pumpkins meet a rose gold poinsettia…

The smallest “storage cart” known to mankind (a Target find a few months ago)…

This one may be my favorite. Silver glitter in a tiny shot glass with a mini blue ornament along with a snowflake ornament…

Old holiday cards on my bedroom wall (One was slightly more worthy than the other two to be framed and decorated with one of my necklaces)

Then I just taped the other two cards to the wall. I know, scandalous. Don’t worry walls, the hubby’s ready with a paintbrush for when these cards come down.

A cute penguin…

and a very girly pink ornament…

And this one is done!

Hope you enjoyed my simple holiday decorations, until next time!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way…May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

December 22, 2022

Holiday Centerpieces

Holiday Centerpieces

I’m pretty sure I’ve said this before somewhere on this blog…

What I find to be great about working with artificial flowers is that no matter what season I’m in, I can use any type of flower my heart desires.

They last forever you know 😉

That’s why I’m using tulips for one of my centerpieces. They have been sitting in my closet for months now and I never made use of them. So I decided why not use them for Christmas!

Hope you enjoy these two simple, but oh-so-beautiful, holiday centerpieces.

Holiday Centerpieces

Well, that’s it…hope you enjoyed this!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way…May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

Supplies Used:

Dollar Store:

Red roses, vase for rose and tulip centerpiece (a drinking glass)

Christmas Tree Store:

Red berry stem, glass/gold candle holder for the second centerpiece

Amazon:

Chrysanthumums

Michaels:

White tulips

December 20, 2022

My Simple Winter Wonderland Coffee Table Centerpiece

My Simple Winter Wonderland Coffee Table Centerpiece

Gift shopping, wrapping, decorations, cards, meals….

The holidays are a busy time of year.

It can bring on some stress for me and feel a bit overwhelming at times. But I love everything (well, mostly everything) about it. I never like stress ☺️

However, right before I started putting this centerpiece together I realized something…

We are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.

When I realized this, it suddenly gave me something to focus on when I feel overwhelmed or stressed about the holidays.

It gave me a sense of peace. It reminded me that I was working on something really special.

So I guess it makes sense now why there’s so much going on during the holidays.

It’s our Lord and Savior’s birthday after all.

It’s kind of a BIG deal you know 😉

I hope that gives you a sense of joy and peace as well if you feel overwhelmed or stressed around the holidays too.

I hope you enjoy this “simple” and sparkly centerpiece. It may be as bright as a disco ball, but it makes me happy every time I see it.

My Simple Winter Wonderland Coffee Table Centerpiece

I start with a sprig of dried leaves on an old white platter (that I use all the time to decorate).

Then I place rhinestone stickers on a drinking glass.

and finish with a white candle…

A large silver snowflake ornament…

and a snow globe (From the Christmas Tree Store) to join my candle and dried leaves.

and that’s it!

A sparkly snowflake…

A white candle surrounded by pretty jewels (from the Dollar Store of course)

And I have a beautiful centerpiece that can only be described best as…

My own little winter wonderland!

On my coffee table that’s usually covered with cheerios, books, and all sorts of nick nacks.

ok, that’s it…hope you enjoyed this!

Thanks for stopping by.

Sending happy, safe, and healthy vibes your way…May God bless you and your family today and every beautiful day to come!

November 15, 2022

Living Room Fall Decor

Living Room Fall Decor

Fall is such a beautiful time of year. The colorful leaves, the rainbow of mums, that slight chill in the air.

And those falling acorns, that I find myself trying to dodge every time I step outside. (haven’t been hit by one yet)

How can you not love it.

It’s the perfect time of year to admire our God’s creations.

Today I’m sharing all of the fall decorations that I have scattered around my living room. It’s a combination of a few simple DIY’s using faux flowers, faux fall leaves, twine as well as a few real pumpkins and some decorative store bought items.

As always, most of the items I am using came from local Dollar stores, Target as well as items I already had on hand.

Living Room Fall Decor