I took a lot of photos this weekend, and then I noticed that I took a lot of photos of bowls or vases. None of these ideas are expensive, or even that unique, but they didn't cost anything, because the blossoms are from our garden. This is a shell collection: a pretty shell here or there given to me by daughter as presents and placed in a bowl on the sleeping porch's coffee table.
Small blossoms from the garden in a shallow bowl.
Salad from the garden
Apples for people to snack on... or anything edible looks pretty...
Although this one is deceptively pretty, I displayed it outside, because it is stinky. It is a bolted broccoli. It got too warm and it went to seed before picking, and I used it for a barbecue decoration.
Here, I did not use a vase. It's a mixture of fresh flowers, dried flowers, and faux flowers.
Do you like to display something in bowls and vases? Rocks could be interesting... moss... sticks... What are your ideas?
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I use lots of pitchers and zinc containers for flowers, but your post has me asking myself what bowls I have on hand to use for display.
ReplyDeleteSo pretty!
Zinc containers are such a great idea, and I love the way they look old.
DeleteBeautiful photos. I love to display flowers in old jugs but it can be expensive if they aren't in season or blooming in the garden. Love your photo of the apples in the marble dish. Simple but classically beautiful.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Sweet Auburn. Jugs are so neat, but I've rarely seen them here except in blog land.
DeleteLovely ideas Su! Thank you for sharing! I have never displayed flowers without a vase and have been quite taken with the looks of it so I will certainly try that - I usually use vases or small bottles (jugs / glasses) for displaying flowers and plates / bowls for other things season permitting (like fruit or cones for example).
ReplyDeleteI love your idea of small bottles and glasses. I sometimes use a soda bottle, but the pretty ones that contained soda from France or Italy, because they have a clasp on top that makes them look special.
DeleteLove your ideas - especially like the shells!
ReplyDeleteLiz @ Shortbread & Ginger
Thank you. xoxo
DeleteGreat ideas using the bowls-love the shells!
ReplyDeleteI love all of your displays, even the stinky broccoli! ;)
ReplyDeleteIt was so pretty. I let it stay in the bed until it started dropping flowers, because the bees liked it, but I didn't want to keep watering. It has quite a large root bed.
DeleteLove these displays and the outdoor broccoli is beautiful. I too enjoy using unusual containers for displaying flowers, shells and more. Your pics are gorgeous. I love those 3 little garden singer in the outdoor pic. Not sure if they are little piglets or pups but so cute!!
ReplyDeleteHugs, CM
Thank you, you are very observant. Those are little coyotes. They use to be outside my daughter's playhouse at our former home. They have lost their paint, but their expression is darling.
DeleteBeauty comes in all forms, you have shown us here how beautiful vignettes add to a space.
ReplyDeleteI took a big canister jar and filled it with bottles and love how it shows off a collection, just like your bowl shows off that you have a collection of shells.
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Dore
Thank you, Dore. I love your unique idea, and I would love to see it.
DeleteDoesn't Spring make for beautiful props!
ReplyDeletePretty photos!
Judy
It does. I love finding things outside in the yard.
DeleteHow pretty everything is. I love to display using unexpected items....I use candleholders sometimes to display fruit (like pears) in settings. xo Diana
ReplyDeleteThat sounds so elegant to place a pear on a candlestick. I love your idea!
DeleteI once had a cutting garden and placed sweet peas and other delicate flowers in various tiny bottles lined up on my kitchen windowsill. I'd like to do that again. I have vintage odds and ends -- creamer, sugar bowl, teapot, those sorts of things, none of them match -- and I like to display flowers in those. I also think fabric strips wrapped into balls are pretty in a vintage bowl. Your photos are gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteGreat ideas, Nancy. I love the idea of using fabric in a bowl! Thank you.
DeleteI do this too - I have bowls, baskets, and tea saucers filled with shells, dried flowers, polished stones, etc. They are certainly more long-lasting than a vase of flowers!
ReplyDeleteI love the idea of polished stones, Sarah.
DeleteI love the shells. So much texture and muted colors look pretty.
ReplyDeleteBrenda
Thank you, Brenda. I agree.
DeleteI love your shells...every thing looks amazing....(as always)
ReplyDeleteand, I've always wanted a sleeping porch.
Very pretty and creative ideas! I am loving your marble compote! I love the broccoli flowers in the pitcher - using what you have on hand is such a nice touch. I do use bowls and urns, but yours are so pretty! xo Karen
ReplyDeletePretty and it gave me ideas to think outside the vase! Love you shells and reminded me i have a whole bag full down in the dungeon. Can i borrow your sleeping porch someday?
ReplyDeleteSuch sweet and simple items to add color and pretty to any room! Having a sleeping porch would be so wonderful, I hope you have been using it before the weather gets too hot! Many blessings, Cindy
ReplyDeleteCindy, it's wonderful. I can use it all the time now, even without AC, because when we put on the new roof, we had them put a foam roof over that area. We went with the extra thick one that they sell, and it's amazing. I can leave the french door partially open and turn on the ceiling fan in there. It has a similar temperature to the house. The only month I'm not sure of is July, because that's the hottest; the roof was completed at the end of August, and the temps then are similar to June.
DeleteBeautiful pictures, I have old seed pearls in a blue milk glass bowl on my dresser and I do have the mama coyote for the singing trio ( they broke during a bad monsoon storm ). Kathleen in Az
ReplyDeleteI love milk glass, and pearls in it sounds so pretty, but I don't have either. What a coincidence... We had the mother too, but she broke, probably during the move.
DeleteIt's a wonderful day to make the house feel pretty and fresh.
ReplyDeleteAmalia
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your house just gets prettier and prettier! You have so many unique ideas!
ReplyDeleteThe texture and colors of the shells is very pretty. I had to laugh about the stinky broccoli :).. Wish I had your garden! The little coyotes are adorable too. I like to use items that are somewhat unusual for displaying flowers. Gives them another purpose and the unexpected is always fun to do!
ReplyDeleteWonderful pictures! The blooms are stunning.
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Alessandra
Joyful gatherings all throughout your home, life is good.
ReplyDeleteWonderful ideas! Pretty displays.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week.
Debbie
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Wonderful ideas! Pretty displays.
ReplyDeleteHave a good week.
Debbie
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Thank you, Debbie. Have a wonderful week. xoox
DeleteBeautiful and heartwarming, and there is nothing like a salad with fresh ingredients from the garden. :)
ReplyDeleteI agree. I love these months when we are able to get food and flowers from our yard. xoxo
DeleteAdore the seashells! I love the idea of using different elements of nature instead of just flowers. Beautiful and genius!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jennifer. xoxo
DeleteA beautiful post!! So many lovely elements!!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for stopping by!!
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Debbie
Thank you, Debbie, for your sweet visit, and complement. xoxo
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ReplyDeleteI love all the photos. Very fun ideas.
I will have to post one of my favorite bowls and the boys filled it with foreign money. It looks so fun and it goes with my decorating ideas. The foreign money is a fun conversation piece as well, when we have company.
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Thank you, Carla. I love their idea! You will have to post it! I use to have a bowl of photos in my other house, but I have not thought to do that again. You made me remember that.
DeleteThat bolted broccoli is really pretty. I didn't know that it would stink.
ReplyDeleteI use branches from trees, when I don't have flowers :)
Isn't it funny? Once it is cut, it is really bad. I was going to blame my toy poodle.
DeleteIts all so pretty.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Kerrie.
DeleteYour pictures look like they are straight out of a magazine! Right now I love having branches in my vases or bottles because they are just blossoming where I live.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Magali. I love cut branches.
DeleteAll beautiful, some edible, bouquets, Susan. I especially love the sea shells, being a Pisces!
ReplyDeletePoppy
Thank you, Poppy. My daughter loves shells too, but she is not a Pisces. She always tries to find one either on the beach or in a shop when we visit places near the water. She also has given me some pretty ones as presents.
DeleteThe bolted broccoli was genius! We had plenty of that last year... I love the thriftiness and loveliness like that combined :) Thank you for sharing this week on the Art of Home-Making Mondays!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jes. I was also hoping that when it dries, that I could get some seed from the flowers? Last summer, I took the seeds from my bolted basil after drying, itty bitty black things, and I planted them this spring, and now I have new basils. xoox Su
DeleteYes I believe so, just shake the flowers into a bag when they dry to allow the seeds to drop off! :)
DeleteGood morning! I just wanted to let you know that this post has been FEATURED this week at the Art of Home-Making Mondays! Thank you for joining in and we hope to see you this week! :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures. Sometimes I think what we pick from outside our homes are prettier than what we can buy at stores!
ReplyDeleteLori from LL Farm
Lovely ideas and beautiful photos!
ReplyDeleteHow beautiful! I found you at JES's link-up 'The Art of Home-Making Mondays'. Love your blog, Butterfly Bungalow! I hope you will come and visit me, too :)
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