Fun With Flowers

This morning I read a post by Stacey of Poofing the Pillows titled "When It Feels Like Your Creativity and Motivation Are Just Gone!" - Stacey has a good excuse because they are in the process of building a house.

I on the other hand have projects waiting like painting the back porch and sewing new covers for the chaises in the garden, but I can't seem to push myself.

So, rather than tackle one of the big ticket items on my list, I headed to Trader Joe's.

These days my creativity seems to be limited to photography 

and I decided to buy flowers and have fun simply styling them and taking pictures.

 5 different bouquets of flowers became the props for playing with my camera.

I keep seeing pics on Instagram with a bag of flowers hanging on a hook - this is my version.

Another pic I see is flowers (in some sort of container) on a chair - I like my massive lavender plant peeking out in the background.

This spring, bicycle baskets filled with flowers catch my eye on IG - I staged mine in front of a favorite house in my neighborhood knowing that the out of town owners wouldn't be around.

After snapping the photos, I had to find homes for the flowers - I think my new pig on wheels makes a nice accompaniment to the daisies.

The vignette I set up last week before we headed to Sacramento to visit our daughter was looking really sad,

so I spiffed it up with the purple freesia - at least I think that's what the flowers are!

I have loads of asparagus fern in the garden, 

but it's a pain to sweep up and the carnations seem to last forever.

I added left over greenery to this bowl on the dining room - Lulu was a bad girl when we were in Sacramento and ate my new air plants that were sitting in the bowl.

It was fun to play with flowers and my camera and now I'm motivated to play with flowers and stripes - new chaise covers and pillows coming soon!