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designing…

16 Thursday Mar 2023

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Wednesday was the day… I took the bouquet that came twelve days ago and separated it into three different arrangements…

the roses have been gone for quite a while but the remainder were doing quite well…

the biggest problem had been getting the water into it as the foam really filled up the top so there wasn’t room to easily add water…

started with designing this first arrangement in an oval shaped vase… it came out nicely I think… it is going upstairs into the bedroom…

ready for a new life…
in oval vase and looking good…
in its new spot in the bedroom…

there were so many greens that I filled another small container with them and added two of the carnations… this one has gone into the bathroom…

finally, the mums and a couple of daisies went into a very small bottle and were put in the den…

so that meant that the orchid collection has returned to the living room table…

flowers everywhere;-)…

foam…

08 Wednesday Mar 2023

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dug out an old watering jug so that I could set the vase of flowers into it and fill it with water so the floral foam inside the vase could soak up all the water it needed…

took a while, but after half an hour or so I was able to get it out with a bit of finagling…

sitting in the container of water…
just a touch over the top of the vase…
back on the table…

it is amazingly difficult to add fresh water to the container every day, lol…

photography…

27 Monday Feb 2023

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had some fun with shadow pictures… it reminded me of the great photography class I took with a colleague many years ago… we had so much fun…

the vase looks pretty cool in these photos…

enjoying the afternoon sunshine…

vents…

15 Tuesday Feb 2022

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I’m trying to laugh at the snow… it is that or cry, lol… laughing seems more sensible…

when I was out shovelling the sidewalks a few days ago, I walked up the driveway to check on the furnace vents…

and found them nearly covered with snow…

took a few minutes to get them cleared by tossing the snow into the middle of the driveway as I don’t need to get a car in and out of it… and there is nowhere else to throw it…

I was getting out of my jacket and heard a sound… when I turned and saw that one of the amaryllis had fallen off the table… there was mud on the carpet so I quickly picked it up… only to discover that the stalk had bent over and the blooms were hanging down… I got scissors, cut it and put the blossoms into a vase… after sweeping up the dirt I got a few pictures…

I guess it was getting too heavy to hold its head up;-(…

lots of activity… after that I had some time reading in the sunshine…

and, of course, more snow has fallen since then…

arrange…

06 Sunday Feb 2022

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took some time to arrange the amaryllis plants…

right now three are blooming, so I put them together on the living room table…

first I took apart the last of my New Year’s bouquet and used the vase to set one of the pots inside…

there is still one plant waiting to bloom on the dining room table… when it opens, I think I will add it to the collection in the living room…

having fresh blooms in the house makes me happy, particularly during these cold and snowy days…

vase…

09 Sunday Feb 2020

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been enjoying the beautiful vase that my colleagues presented to me to commemorate my retirement…

it is now living on the top of the credenza in the living room… when the light is on, it shines through the design beautifully…

when I had flowers in it, I put them into a plastic bag so they wouldn’t mess up the inside, lol…

the flowers from the Board would have gone nicely in it;-)…

presented…

07 Saturday Dec 2019

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last Friday I was presented with a lovely bouquet of flowers by our Board…

I have been taking pictures of them ever since… so happy to have my camera back to do so…

today I trimmed the stems and put the flowers into a different vase…

flowers make me happy and taking pictures of them is very relaxing…

accidents…

17 Monday Apr 2017

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had a couple of accidents recently…

a few weeks ago this happened…

I was opening a cupboard and this tiny vase fell out and broke… it was made for a single bloom and I really enjoyed it… sadly I can’t even remember where it came from so won’t be able to replace it…

the second oopsie is due mainly to laziness I think… I didn’t empty the rain barrel before the weather changed and the water inside froze and now it is trashed…

pretty sure we aren’t going to be able to fix this, sigh… and it had taken so long to find one that I liked… 

because it is all one piece don’t even think I can use it for anything else…

will need to be careful in the Fall with whatever I replace it with…

but I am excited that the weather is warming up and before long we’ll be sitting out in the garden…

containers…

25 Friday Nov 2016

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had fun making my supper tonight… another ChefsPlate meal which went into the new bowl I picked up at the Chinese market last week…

Mediterranean Salmon with sun tomatoes and pearl couscous pilaf… also learned that Harissa is a hot sauce… not so wise to dip a finger in it to taste, lol… I like pearl couscous…

enjoying my flowers at home, as well as the ones at the office…

did giggle when I saw how the water in the vase had turned purple…

tonight’s final treat was a bowl of popcorn…

always have popcorn in my fish bowl…

funny how we like certain things in certain containers…

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