Bell Jar full of Orange

Months and months ago, my older sister Kacey picked up a couple of antique blue bell jars at a yard sale. I was the lucky recipient of one of them. I've seen ladies do some cool decor stuff with these jars, but seem to only use mine as a vase. I guess it is a good excuse to keep flowers in the house.  I love my blue bell jar so much, but I don't always have it out to view.  I got lucky, because the other day when Ryan made a grocery store trip he brought me home some beautiful orange mini roses.

I LOVE orange and torquiose together so it was a perfect match! It brightens up the whole living/dining area.

Remember when I did the Torqoiuse and orange chair redo..? My fowers remind me of this chair every time I look at them. I'm starting to miss doing furniture. I haven't done many revamps lately since its about 100+ degrees outside, too hot to be sanding.

 Have a good day and stay out of the heat!

Decorating with Branches

Here in Central California winter is beginning to wear off. Not all the way though, we just had rain yesterday. But still, the spring feeling is starting to creep. To get a head start I decided to bring a bit of early spring inside. We have this beautiful tree in the front yard that is blooming the most beautiful white flowers.

Inspired by the following images, I decided to bring some of its beauty inside.

Ethan Allen

 

Sunset.com

Domino

 

apartment of Carlos Souza

House Beautiful

And now my branches...

I used a wine decanter because none of the vases I have were small enough at the opening.

 

  

  

 

Hand Made Valentine, Roses & Dinner for 2

Tomorrow is Valentines day, but we are cheating and making a Valentines Weekend. Today is our day together, mushy stuff and all. Tomorrow we are heading out, about an hour away to a place called Kernville with some friends to celebrate "Wiskey Flats Days". Its always a lot of fun, wild west style. I might even bust out my cowboy boots. 

I decided to go the handmade route this V-day for Ryan. My friend Melissa sent me this cute idea (click to check it out). I'm lazy though, and decided I would improvise and make it a little easier on myself. But I kinda stole the general idea, just tweaked it A LOT. So when you are thinking... that doesn't resemble yours at all.... well I know- sorry for the build up.  

I bought a bunch of Valentines day scrapbooking paper, red glitter, and some red ribbon at JoAnnas Fabric and Craft store. I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do with it all, but I knew I'd figure it out by the time I got home. I just started with cutting out a bunch of hearts, gluing them together, on top of each other, and adding lots of glitter.  The first heart says "I Love..." And then every other heart can finish that sentence.... like "how you buy me wine when I'm grumpy." Or "how you take out the trash without ever being asked." I didn't have a hole punch so I stuck a screw driver through the paper (ghetto version of a hole punch), strung the ribbon through, knotted it, then made a bow.  It was a lot of fun to make, I found myself thinking of him the whole time.

 

  

  

My favorite part was giving it to him. He LOVED it, and his smile got bigger and bigger with each heart he read. He wanted to hang it up in the house (like it was decoration). That made my heart flutter. =) He put it up on our china hutch for all to see how much I love him. He is wonderful.

And for me Flowers. A man can never go wrong with flowers I tell ya. This morning I received a delivery of white, red, and pink roses... they smell so good. 

 

There was baby's breath in them too, but I took that out because I love baby's breath all by itself. It doesn't do too much for me as a filler, but on its own its lovely. 

 So really, its like I got 2 bouquets in one! 

Plus the other night I also got this gorgeous bulb when he came home from the grocery store. I guess it was a pre-valentines day flower. Or maybe because I was just in a bad mood and he wanted me not to be. Either way, it worked.

 

For the rest of the day we are just going to lounge around with each other. I'm finishing re-doing my coffee table while he is Wii Boxing.

 Our plans for tonight are making a delicious dinner together out of my Williams Sonoma cookbook that his sitster got me for Christmas. 

Maybe Salmon...?  

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend filled with LOVE. 

Thats what I call a Good Night

Sometimes I just have to give Ryan a shout out! Like the other day he brought me home flowers and made me my favorite little appetizer to go with some great wine he brought home, while I just blogged on the couch. Roma tomatoes, fresh basil from our backyard, and mozzarella cheese with cracked black pepper over all of it. Mmmm, I can't get enough. And the food was good too. ;)


Thank you Ryan, I love you.