Finding fun pieces at flea markets, Salvation Army stores, dollar stores and clearance shelves.

Beautiful fresh, colorful flowers from the garden.

Votives, candles, and oil lamps.

Decorating with all of the above...one of the favorite pasttimes to take part in.

Carolyn Roehm, is a designer whose work I admire so much. She decorates with flowers, vegtables, fruits and berries. Her books are exceptionally gorgeous. She creates arrangements in baskets, wooden boxes, crystal bowls, and whatever else she so desires.

In my fun, simple, amateur way, I enjoy the same type of things she does. For me it is more fun decorating my dinner tables, hallway tables, and porch table with nature's bounty than cooking the meals that I serve. Makes you want to come for dinner doesn't it? :)

On this Friday evening I thought I would share a few of my creations over the last few weeks.

All were done with pieces that I already had on hand, or purchased from the above mentioned places. God grew the flowers.

One square glass pedestal plate. Seven little glass vases(salt shakers, old ink bottles, shot glasses, and whatever I can find). I set all the different containers on the pedestal plate and fill them with small, delicate flowers. Here I used a variety of pink and white petunias.

Add some glass votives with tea light candles...


...and an old lace doily. Centerpiece complete.

A benefit of using petunias is that they remain fresh looking for a few days.

Another aspect of my decorating fun, is using these "liquid marbles". I purchased this jar at the local dollar store. These unique marbles can be used over and over again. They add pizazz to many of my arrangements.

Here I used them in my gold glass hurricane container. I poured some of the liquid marbles and water in the bottom cavity of this container. Cut two beautifully opened pink roses leaving only short stems and stuck them into the bottom cavity. I set a glass votive with tea light candle behind it to give it a glow. I like the simplicity of this piece.

Sometimes a few additions to a glass piece like this is all that is necessary.




Another centerpiece I used, is when I took my white flowered bowl, filled it with water, added some of my red hybrid impatients with leaves and some white floating candles. Actually, since I did not have floating candles, I used the tea light candles with the tins removed. Works just great!

This glass piece I had for many years. I set this on an old mirror, added an oil lamp pillar candle that I have had on my closet shelf. To jazz it up, I added some varied sizes of glass decorative marbles, a few red roses in a vase, and my glass laced votive holders. I think this is one of the ones I like best. It sparkles at night on my table.


Thank you for allowing me to share one of my pasttimes with you. Whenever I go anywhere, I am always on the lookout for inexpensive treasures to use in displaying my flowers or fruits.

I appreciate the many aspects of this hobby and all that I can learn from talented, creative ladies like Carolyn Roehm. She does have a beautiful website you can visit if you would like to see real, true artistry in action.

I hope you can find a few minutes to pursue something you really enjoy doing, this weekend