This is an old canning jar carrier that I have had for many years. Bought it one year for pennies at an antique store that was going out of business. Each summer I retrieve it from my attic.

I also collect my old blue canning jars. My friends bought them for me at a farm auction a few years ago. I use them for flowers over the summer and for luminaries along my front sidewalk in the winter. Yesterday I put them in this old carrier and ...

...filled them with flowers from my garden and some from a roadside stand. It is a fun way to add pizazz to something old. Maybe I need to wear some bright colored flowers:)

What a difference some lovely colored flowers and blooms can make to some canning jars. I just love giving these jars new looks over the summer. It is a bit like dressing my paper dolls when I was younger. My peonies and my roses bring me many smiles.

When I set this on my kitchen island, it feels and smells like the outdoors has come in.




This exquisite rose is from the bush outside my back door. My SIL purchased and planted for me years ago. Each year as it produces these gorgeous roses, I am reminded of him. He said it was a thank you for allowing him to spend a summer here before him and my daughter got married. Perfect thank you gift in my mind. One that keeps giving year after year.

Before their season of blooming is over, I just can't get enough photos of these peonies.
Thank you for stopping by again today. I cannot believe it is Friday already. Time just seems to go by so quickly. Hope your Friday is a good one!