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Flower Power – 1 Bouquet 10 ways

February 27, 2013 By Vidya 9 Comments

So far Feb has been an a month where I got showered with flowers. 🙂 First it was B who (2 days before my birthday) panicked that he had forgotten my birthday and got me a bouquet from Wegmans on the way home. 🙂 According to him, as soon as he bought it he realized that my birthday was only 2 days later! Anyway he came home with this standard grocery store flower bunch (the pic was taken 3-4 days after I got it).

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

I usually like to keep them as they are for the first few days. Once the first signs of wilting starts showing I trim the stems and break them down to smaller arrangement so that I can get the max life out of them. But in this case when I opened up the covers there was a sad looking giant fuchsia mum waiting to fall off. So the splitting up started on day 1.

You’ve seen me do this many times before, floating petals in water, but this time I tried it in wine glasses and dessert cups.

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

I floated a pothos leaf in the bottom for some extra interest. I made a variation of the same thing by adding an astroemeria on top of the mum petals.

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

The dessert cups are actually Harris Teeter individual tiramisu serving containers that I’ve used here and here. In the background are pillow covers that I made long ago from my mom’s old sari.

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

The white mums in yellow bud vases light up the kitchen window sill.

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

The yellow roses found a spot on the mantle along with some greenery.

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

The left over leaf stands tall in my new golden bud vase (all the bud vases were thrift store finds, will spill the beans on those soon) on my end table in the living room.

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

The yellow mums and some fresh pothos cuttings displayed in my mom’s pickling jar on the floating shelf….

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

Some white mums in another bud vase in my powder room. See my ‘Lady in Orange’?

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

In the office room more mums and astroemerias;

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

Astroemerias in my favorite white pitcher on the kitchen island;

Flower Power   1 Bouquet 10 ways

As you can see I had way too much fun with this one. Do you break up your grocery store bouquets too?

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Comments

  1. Garima Shah says

    February 27, 2013 at 6:13 am

    So pretty!Vidya if I may what’s the color of the wall in your powder room??

    Reply
    • whatsurhomestory says

      February 27, 2013 at 4:53 pm

      Thanks Garima. I think it is SW Hopsack. Will confirm. To be frank, not a big fan of the color. I’m thinking of changing it but have other projects that are more if priority right now. Also will post about the paint colors in a week or two.

      V

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  2. Bindu Mallela says

    February 27, 2013 at 9:51 am

    Love the post, thanks for sharing the creative thinking out of the box way!

    Reply
    • whatsurhomestory says

      February 27, 2013 at 4:53 pm

      Thank you Bindu.

      Reply
  3. Sia | Monsoon Spice says

    February 27, 2013 at 10:33 am

    I am eyeing at that red vase on your mantle for some time now 🙂 And that pickling jar is my second favourite.

    Reply
    • whatsurhomestory says

      February 27, 2013 at 4:58 pm

      Ahh!!! The red vase. I think it is not meant to be constantly filled up with (we’ve had flowers in it for over a month now) water. The ceramic soaked up a lot of the water and it is seeping through like you would see in caves, drop by drop:). Messed up my paint on the mantle. 🙁 Didn’t even notice till 2 days ago. Didn’t have this issue earlier coz I think I had very little water in there then. Love those jars. I want to get more of those pickling jars next time the cylindrical ones.

      V

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  4. Leena says

    February 27, 2013 at 10:50 am

    Wow this is so cool! Love all the arrangements!

    Reply
    • whatsurhomestory says

      February 27, 2013 at 4:58 pm

      Thanks Leena.

      Reply

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