Flowers

March 5, 2025

Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice

Hi friends! Today I’m sharing a very simple floral arrangement that I brought together on Valentine’s Day. It truly is very simple in my opinion. It consists of one green stem and one stem of tiny clustered purple flowers! I’m honestly not sure if I should even call it a floral arrangement but hey, I’m going with that for now I guess 🙂

So my husband bought me and my daughter 2 small bouquets for Valentine’s Day. They were both very pretty, but I’ve realized something…I never really like all of the greenery that many times comes in floral bouquets. Especially the fern. (I disliked it so much that I had to write that in bold, lol) Don’t get me wrong, I love many greens and fillers used in arrangements but not so much the fern.

Does that ever happen to you, someone gives you flowers and you can’t bring yourself to completely loving it?

But anyway, it never quite looks beautiful, for me atleast, and kind of takes away from the rest of the flowers in the bunch. I’m always tempted to just take it right out of the arrangement but then I would feel horrible not doing anything with it or dare I say throw it out! Gasp!! no, no, no.

I love flowers way too much to do that.

Since I don’t always love the entire bouquet I’ve started taking them apart whenever I receive flowers and making a few different arrangements in multiple vases. (Yay for more flowers around the house) And you know what? Now I’m loving the fern.

If you’ve visited my blog before you may already know that I don’t decorate much with real flowers. Sadly I just don’t have the green thumb for them so it’s almost always faux for me. But because of a few special days (Valentine’s and Mother’s day, thank you hubby) I’m lucky enough to enjoy real flowers in my home for at least a couple of weeks.

Simple Floral Arrangement – A Fern and Purple Statice

For my arrangement I’m using one leather leaf fern and a purple statice stem.

I placed the fern into my vase, laying it off to one side.

If you read the first part of this blog post then you know that I wasn’t a fan of ferns, but this arrangement has really changed my mind about that. I’m amazed with its size and beautiful almost triangle shape or even Christmas tree shape to it.

My purple flower, named purple statice, (trust me, I had to search for that name) has small clusters of tiny flowers. They have a pretty tough stem that kept it upright but I went ahead and tucked it in between the little branches of my fern to help it stay upright even more because I thought that it just looked so so pretty and interesting in that position.

And that’s it for this very simple floral arrangement.

I’ve been able to enjoy my flowers for over two weeks now with minimal maintenance at all. I’ve changed the water maybe three times and the beautiful green and purple shades have kept very well.

I hope this motivates you to play around with floral bouquets and see what you can come up with the next time someone gives you flowers too!

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

Simple Floral Arrangement - A Fern and Purple Statice

January 21, 2025

DIY Pink Faux Floral Valentine’s Day Centerpiece

I feel as if Valentine’s Day has become such a cute and fun holiday, not that it’s considered a holiday, but you know… it’s a special day many of us like to celebrate every year. There’s adorable hearts everywhere, pretty shades of pink and red, xoxo messages everywhere, cute stuffed animals. It’s all really cute.

Today I’m sharing a pink floral arrangement great for Valentine’s Day. It probably falls under that fun Valentine’s Day vibe I’m talking about with its red and white gingham ribbon and a bubblegum pink shade of flowers. I brought it together with things I already had on hand and tried to keep it simple as I do with many of my decoration’s.

Ok, let’s get started….

DIY Pink Faux Floral Valentine’s Day Centerpiece

I started with:

an old coffee container, lace burlap, tape and scissors.

First, I removed the label from my container.

I usually remove labels by soaking jars in hot soapy water, or sometimes I use this adhesive remover. It’s a pain using it though because I find that I really have to rub the label adhesive a lot to get it all off so hot soapy water is my usual label removing method.

FYI: If you don’t like fighting with that sticky residue that is sometimes left behind when removing labels, consider placing your arrangement in an area where the sticky side is facing a wall.

That adhesive is always such a pain to remove!

To wrap my ribbon onto the container I decided to use super hold scotch tape. This is because I wanted something with a little stronger hold than regular tape, but you can also use a hot glue gun.

What’s nice about using tape is that it’s easier to remove once you’re done decorating with your arrangement. But a hot glue gun will have a stronger hold.

I used 3 stripes of tape to hold down one end of the ribbon…

and then I ended up “ looping” a couple of pieces of tape for the second end of ribbon and placing them underneath the ribbon so that the tape wouldn’t show.

Basically, creating a little tube with my pieces of tape….hope that makes sense 🙂

To keep my flowers in place I needed to make a tape grid that I created with regular tape (not super hold)

I cut my stripes of tape in half so that they wouldn’t be too wide (you can also use clear floral tape if you prefer)

Normally I don’t bother using a grid, but this time around my flowers just wouldn’t stay in place.

Luckily this really made all the difference.

For my flowers, I used seven pink faux florals.

I started adding in my flowers, in no particular order and continued moving them around until the bouquet looked good.

It wasn’t easy getting the flowers to look the way I was hoping they would (one cohesive pink bunch) but one thing that really helped was to fluff out all of the flower petals.

Doing that made the flowers appear much larger and fill in the gaps better.

My container needed something else aside from the lacey burlap so I ended up collecting a few heart shaped rhinestones and stickers from my craft supply and played around with them, checking which would work best with the burlap.

And here’s what I decided to use…

A couple of pink and red felt stickers right in the center of my old coffee container and then finishing off with red and white gingham ribbon that I love and use all the time.

And just like that my love for coffee and flowers come together. I never thought I would see the day.

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

October 14, 2024

DIY Fall Wreath – Florals and Pumpkins

Hello Friends! Hope you are all having a beautiful Fall so far. Here in New York, I feel like it’s taken a while for that fall-ish feeling…..

The weathers been warmer than I’m used to for this time and the green leaves seemed to have been holding on to those tree branches like no tomorrow!

but finally…

Leaves are starting to fall everywhere!

I was lucky enough to see a bunch of yellow leaves falling off of trees the other day (in an incredibly elegant and harmonious way I might add ☺️) And the weather is starting to have that fall chill that calls for soup and hot chocolate!

It’s nice seeing so many pretty leaves on the floor. The colors are gorgeous. Right now I’m mostly seeing yellow but I’ve also noticed a few dark red and even got a glimpse of a tree filled with orange leaves!

How is fall looking at your neck of the woods?

So today I’m sharing a fall wreath that I made using a DIY poster board frame that I shared a few weeks ago. After making my frame for the wreath and doing a little trial and error design with my crafting supplies it started coming together. It took some effort figuring out what I wanted to use but eventually I decided on pumpkins and florals. Then a bunch of hot glue, and I had my fall wreath!

Hope you like this floral and pumpkins fall wreath!

DIY Fall Wreath – Florals and Pumpkins

I started by making a frame for my wreath using a few inexpensive supplies. You can see exactly how I made it in this post that I shared a few weeks ago but it’s fairly simple…

Get a poster board and cut out a circle, then glue on some popsicle sticks to give it some support and finish off by wrapping it up with tape.

These are the supplies that I used:

And here is the finished wreath frame:

Once I finished my frame I got a few faux leaves that I had pulled off of some flowers, and taped them onto my frame.

I taped them down to keep them in place while I decided what else I was going to add to my wreath. I figured it was best not to hot glue them down before knowing exactly how I wanted my wreath to look.

I then decided on using pale lime green hydrangeas and orange marigolds for my flowers.

I know, lime green isn’t exactly a fall color but I thought it looked pretty with the rest of my colors. Plus, I have a ton of these hydrangeas and wanted to make use of them 🙂

The hydrangeas were very large for this wreath so I ended up cutting the flowers into smaller sections and that worked out pretty good.

Once I had my florals I hot glued them on along with the leaves and a few pumpkins.

I should also mention that I started by hot gluing the leaves and pumpkins first, then I added my flowers, tucking them under and around the pumpkins.

Lastly, I added sunflowers and a few small amber hydrangeas to finish my wreath.

(FYI: I ended up cutting down some of my leaves around the right side just because I felt as if they were sticking out too much and making the wreath look unbalanced. I probably didn’t need to do that but the perfectionist in me couldn’t resist)

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

August 3, 2024

Faux Yellow Hydrangea Summer Centerpiece

One very large yellow hydrangea…

A few small white florals…

A cute, and slightly chubby, teal vase…

And I have an easy, simple, and very pretty summer centerpiece…that for some funny reason, kind of reminds me of a pineapple 🙂

Faux Yellow Hydrangea Summer Centerpiece

For my centerpiece, I am using one large yellow hydrangea, three small white peonies, one extra white faux flower, and a small teal vase.

(vase from Ikea, hydrangea from Michaels, white flowers from random Dollar stores)

(yellow hydrangea also used for this centerpiece and this one)

I started by bending the stem of my hydrangea to match the height of my vase…

I placed my flower down into the vase so she sits perfectly snug in my vase…

I then scattered my white flowers throughout the hydrangea.

By scattered I mean I poked and pushed my flowers through the pretty little flowers forming my hydrangea and then moved them around a million times before getting them into the perfect spot 🙂

and she’s done.

I’m not sure why I’m referring to my centerpiece as a she but for some reason it sounds right, so I’m sticking with that.

I paired my centerpiece with a pretty floral lace placemat that I found at my local dollar store. It has a bit of an “old school” look to it if you know what I mean, but I really loved it and it was a nice match to my centerpiece.

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

June 13, 2024

Simple Faux Floral Summer Arrangement -Lemon Inspired

Simple Faux Floral Summer Arrangement-Lemon Inspired

I came across a faux floral arrangement while shopping a couple of months ago that really caught my eye. It was filled with lemons, beautiful greenery and had black and white ribbon. It was an appropriate summer home décor for sure!

I really wanted to purchase it buuuuut, I already have so so many faux flowers at home (a slight obsession of mine) that I knew I’d be better off leaving it right there. I think I may have heard it say “wait wait take me home with you” as I walked away!

But I left it there and came home with lemon-y inspiration instead 🙂

I figured I could make something similar with what I already had at home and long story short, this is how that went…

I remembered that I had a few green limes that I had used for spring decorations a couple of years ago and so I thought, maybe I could paint them yellow so they look like lemons instead. But I didn’t have yellow paint and probably wouldn’t have had time for that anyway. So that never happened.

Later on I thought, can I use yellow Easter eggs in place of lemons? Then I came back to my senses and said that wasn’t going to work ☺️ (although I’m sure someone out in the crafting world can pull it off)…

After going back and forth with a few ideas I have to admit, the temptation to just order lemons on Amazon was getting well uh…tempting.

But I’m glad I didn’t because eventually I ended up putting this beautiful arrangement together and was really happy with it. There are no lemons here but I ended up simply focusing on the colors of the arrangement instead of trying to replicate the same centerpiece that caught my eye.

Lemons truly are perfect for summer decorations, and of course lemonade if we’re talking about real lemons of course, unless you are like me and get heartburn just thinking of lemonade (tears and more tears.) Surprisingly, I shared this iced tea recipe a few years ago that included lemons! Thinking back, I have no idea how I was drinking that without a side of pepto 😐

I’m pretty sure eventually I will end up buying a bunch of faux lemons of my own but for now this centerpiece works just fine for me!

Simple Faux Floral Summer Arrangement -Lemon Inspired

For my arrangement I’m using one stem of yellow flowers (billy button), a eucalyptus bunch and two additional strands of my greenery…

Black and white gingham ribbon…

and a glass juice bottle for my vase.

(Pear juice, in case you were wondering, Goya brand. I know, the flavor and brand have nothing to do with all of this, unless you can’t find a similar bottle, and end up having to go out searching for this exact bottle, then this information would come in handy. This is in no way sponsored, if it were a long run on sentence probably wouldn’t be ok here)

I started by wrapping three strands of ribbon around the bottle, tying a knot twice around the front to secure then making a simple bow.

FYI: Because the bows are facing one side of the bottle, this arrangement would work best at a corner or against a wall. This honestly doesn’t bother me though. I’ve made many centerpieces with ribbon tied to one side and usually place it anywhere even if the “back” part is visible.

The placement of my flowers is very easy. I started with the yellow flowers, placing them right down the center…

my eucalyptus bunch off to one side…

and lastly, a couple of loose sprigs off to the other side…

Once all of my florals are in I then moved them around a bit until it looked the way I wanted and then gently pushed them down into my bottle just to make sure they stayed in place and that’s it.

A very simple and easy summer floral centerpiece.

Well that’s it for this one friends!

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

May 8, 2024

A Few Random Photos – Florals and a Candle

A Few Random Photos –

Florals and a Candle

Hello Friends!

Today I’m sharing a collection of random photos that I’ve taken through out the years mainly just for fun or to remember things that I’ve made for inspiration for future projects.

I normally share a lot of decorating ideas with faux flowers but I’ve probably mentioned that I love real flowers just as much, if not more. Sadly though, I have a black thumb, so it’s all about faux for me on most days.

I do however love to take pictures of real flowers whenever I get the chance. I’ve taken so many photos of real flowers in various places but they are honestly just sitting in my google photos app….probably waiting for me to print them up and frame them or create a physical album with them, which of course I never get around to doing!

So for now I figured it would be fun to share them here with you along with a few other random fun things.

A Few Random Photos –

Florals and a Candle

I stopped to take this first picture while walking to the park with my daughter recently.

A beautiful white cherry blossom tree!

Hot pink flowers caught in a supermarket of all places. I believe they are called petunias, (but don’t quote me on that 🙂

The next two pictures are close ups of yellow and purple coneflowers that I took near the Lake George area last year while on vacation with my daughter and husband.

Here I nestled a candle in colorful confetti.

(it’s a good thing I never light candles, otherwise this would be a pretty bad idea…… Safety first guys, don’t light a candle over confetti, or any other flammable items)

For this next one I took a few blue flowers from a large hydrangea as well as some extra leaves from various flowers and attached all of that to a few old stems. Basically, I made a few faux flowers with a a bunch of scraps I had saved.

There’s something so fun about being able to make use of things that I may have otherwise tossed out!

A brown faux plant photographed by my window, just for fun.

I love this faux plant. I found it at Target about a year ago and picked it up for fall decorating but honestly I liked it so much that I had ended up keeping it out for months after.

Well that’s it for this one friends!

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

February 8, 2024

3 Easy Faux Floral Centerpieces

Hello friends! Today I’m sharing 3 very easy and simple faux floral centerpieces that you can use any time of the year. They can be placed just about anywhere in your home or even as table decorations for any casual event!

As always, most of the items I’m using are things I already had at home or picked up at the Dollar store. You can find similar things at department and crafting stores such as Target or Michael’s. I also love to reuse things that I’ve recycled, and these simple centerpieces are no exception to that! I used an old liquor bottle, faux flowers that I’ve used many times for previous decorations and even ribbon that came with an inexpensive appetizer plate set I got about a year ago.

Do you like to save pretty odds and ends too? Isn’t it really hard not to sometimes?

3 Easy Faux Floral Centerpieces

For this first centerpiece I used 2 long pink floral spray’s…

Placed those in a tall vase, stretching out the flowers to make them look fuller and then placed a thin layer of pink sequences at the bottom of my vase.

For my second centerpiece I used a single faux floral spray with 3 white flowers…

The stem was super long but instead of cutting it down I just bent it at the end so that I can keep that length for future arrangements.

Then I combined it with a large liquor bottle and finished with a black and white ribbon.

Here I used two old peachy pink flowers that were cut down very short for previous arrangements.

And then combined them with large pearl beads and an old glass soap dispenser 🙂

And that’s it for this one! Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my blog.

I hope you were inspired to bring together a few simple floral decorations for your home or any special space that may need some brightening up!

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 21, 2023

Wire Spring Wreath

Hello everyone! About a month ago I shared a spring wreath that I made a couple of years ago but never got around to sharing. That wreath really, really left me wanting to make another wreath.

I’ve actually started using wreaths all through out our apartment, (bedroom doors, empty wall spaces) so I knew I would find a spot for this one as well.

So I created this simple wire wreath using just a few items:

Faux florals, ribbon…

and I made a wire ring wreath using wire that my husband had laying around the house for other projects but hadn’t used for a while.

You can find very affordable wire wreaths in Dollar stores, craft stores and large discount stores like Walmart, and save yourself that extra step or DIY it like I did if you have some sturdy wire on hand.

Wire Spring Wreath

I’m using steel wire to create a ring wreath but as I mentioned above, you can find these types of wreaths in many different discount locations.

To make my wreath I used scotch tape to hold the circle in place as well as…

to cover any cut areas that may be sharp or sticking out.

It may sound kind of odd that I’m using tape to hold the wire in place but surprisingly I’ve used tape for many crafting projects and it usually works pretty well. It’s not as good as using something like a glue gun but I really don’t like using my glue gun. I hate waiting for it to heat up and find it kind of messy. Thankfully, the tape worked out great here.

faux flowers…

Bunched up to form a simple bouquet then held together with tape (good old tape)

I connected my florals to the wire by using extra ribbon to tie it around the wire and then adding tape where ever needed to shape and hold them around my wire.

Then I finished by adding a simple bow that I also tied onto the wreath with extra ribbon…

I hope this simple wire spring wreath inspires you to create something beautiful for your home today too!

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

March 10, 2023

2 Simple Floral Arrangements

2 Simple Floral Arrangements

I love flowers.

I usually stick to faux, but today I’m sharing two very simple floral arrangements using real flowers that I put together from our Valentine’s Day flowers that lasted a little over two weeks!

My black thumb has to thank the good Lord for that.

My husband picked up two bouquets for me and my daughter that were full of roses, baby’s breath, chrysanthemums, lilies, and carnations. I fell in love with both but the white and yellow chrysanthemums as well as the pink carnations won me over the most.

I decided to take them apart after about a week so that we can enjoy them all throughout the apartment and thankfully I was able to photograph the two I’m sharing today before they dried out (although they have taken on a whole different beauty after drying!)

Ok, this is a simple one guys, a few photos of three gorgeous flowers that needed….begged for…had to…without a doubt…be photographed and shared with you today.

2 Simple Floral Arrangements

Precious Pink Carnations…