Bringing the Outdoors In

As I mentioned before on this blog, I do not have big flower gardens. I do have some flowers that do well, and I do cut them and bring them indoors continually throughout the summer. The small bouquets are my way of adding beauty to my home. They just lift my spirits. The above arrangement I used on my dining room table as a centerpiece for dinner with friends. The glass pedestal dish I purchased at a flea market a few years ago. I like floating flowers and tea light candles, along with my glass bubbles in it. I think it adds a lovely touch to my table with the white dishes. Crystal and flowers...love them together!

Here I used three small crystal glasses that I also picked up at a flea market, and filled them with some of my tiny petunias. I set them on my white plate and used this as a centerpiece on my kitchen table. I placed two votives on each side of the plate, creating a simple, casual look to the pine table.

Here I used several of my old pieces and set each of them on a plate. I filled each of them with different flowers from the garden and used this for a display on my kitchen island.

This tiny white cup and saucer, filled with some pink petunias, sits on the counter of my bathroom, adding a touch of beauty to the room.

My friend used these unique vases as favors, at a dinner party early this summer. It has a metal top with holes in it, making it so easy to arrange flowers in it. Each time I fill it, I think of her and how pretty she had the table arranged the evening of the dinner. Fresh flowers brought inside, add a perfect summer touch to the decor of one's home. It does not matter what flowers you grow, or if you stop by the side of the road and pick some Queen Anne's Lace, with the right container...it will look beautiful. Here are a few of the ideas I saw displayed recently in my friend's homes;

...a sunflower cut off right below the head of the flower and set in a crystal wine glass. What a lovely display on her foyer table.

...five small fishbowls with different colored hydrangeas in each one, lined down the center of a dining room table. So simple and yet, so beautiful!

...fresh flowers in old blue crystal goblets lined down the center of a kitchen table, with a gorgeous vintage tablecloth covering the table.

As you can see, there are endless ways to add extraordinary touches to our somewhat ordinary days, especially in the summer with flowers at an abundance.