summer wedding // arrangements

a little sneak of a few of my favorite designs from a recent wedding. more from this wedding coming soon!

{photos by saria dy}

on my table // spring flowers

i love this one so much i just have to share a few more photos of it. it is spring at it's best, with dancing poppies, rannunculus and spirea to name a few.

{photos by jane in the woods}

in my home // plants

i am a flower girl for sure, but i am also a plant lover, i guess i get it from my mom. every room in her house is over flowing with plants, most of which are cuts and clippings she is trying to propagate. my dad hates it, but he has learned to deal. i've just moved back in with my parents, divorce will make you do things you never thought you'd do (like move back in with your parents AGAIN). but here i am, grateful that i have loving arms to welcome me. my own collection of house plants have been divided among my siblings as it would be outrageous to add my collection to my moms. these are a few of my beauties that i am missing today... trusting that my sisters take good care of them.

{photos by jane in the woods}

backyard bouquet // spring

i picked all these flowers (except for the rannunculus) from my sisters yard a couple weeks ago. i'm jealous of her yard, but she does let me come and pick whatever i want as long as i make a little something for her, so i can't complain. the rannunculus are from a farm not far away, they have the most beautiful rannunculus around. more of this beauty coming soon!

{photo by jane in the woods}

my home // stems

bringing color and life to these oh-so dreary days.

kitty and wreath

tips investigating the christmas wreath.

flowers in the home

i cut most of these flowers from my yard.  the gooseneck was transplanted from my mom's yard last year.  i found the sweet peas growing among the weeds along the fence.

around the house...on halloween

lots of pumpkins and dark, bold flowers...what about you?

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a caramel apple party

no season excites me the way fall does.  i love the crispness of the air, the changing of the leaves and the distant sound of parents and coaches cheering at the soccer games.  i embrace the season fully, buying pumpkin after pumpkin, lighting all the candles in the house and baking.  the house smells of nutmeg, cinnamon and apples.  one of my favorite things to do during the fall season is make caramel apples.  i've been doing it for years now.  this year i invited my sisters and a few girl friends over.  we drank homemade apple cider spiked with whiskey and laughed while decorating our apples with caramel and other toppings.  here's to fall!

to make the caramel sauce, i just melted down tiny squares of caramel(unwrapping the caramels takes forever...it's nice to have a friend or sister or both help) and stirred in a little cream.

flowers around

i picked these beauties from my mother-in-laws yard a few weeks back and thought I'd share them.  i love the deep rich purple of the lilacs.  i have had peonies in my house ever since the first blooms were ready this year (which seemed to take forever!). right now i have three different bouquets in my house that i made for a photo shoot that i did today... you will have to wait to see those till the end of the week. 

{head over to small but charming to see more flowers in the house}

around the house

Before i left on my little spring break vacation  i planted some pansy's in a tea cup and some succulents in a red pot(notice the billy balls added for texture and pizazz). I also threw a little air plant in a tall vase.  I was excited to come home and see that they had survived the cold lonely house and the cats.

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around the house

some flowers from around the house... ranunculus and freesia.

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much love monday: vintage crate shelves

My hubby helped me put up these old crate boxes i found at a local antique shop. Our bathrooms are so small with no counter space at all, so i decided to use these boxes as shelves... what do you think? I love them.

{photos by me, much love monday by much love}