Fake Hydrangeas Rule Big Time!!

I think this may be the last post on this room.

I say "may" because I've been known to add more posts on a space 

AFTER

I think I'm done......

Sooooooo.....

Today I want to talk about how I filled in the empty area at the end of my living room.

I had a pair of French wire zinc urns

 that I had used in a vignette

 at the Boston Flower Show 

a gazillion years ago.

It was like a mini decorator showhouse.

It was invitation only.

Only the top designers were asked to participate.

I AM VERY SNOOTY!!!!!

Anyway, 

(where was I????, oh yeah, the urns.....)

So I got this pair of urns,

And for the display I filled them with lemons.

Tres Chic!!!!!

Well in my house, I don't do chic, so I had to come up with something else!!!

So when I lived in Watertown, I stuck them in my backyard in my perennial flower beds.

I planted annuals in them.

The squirrels kept knocking them over, 'cuz they were hiding their

 nuts in the dirt, and the damn things would fall over.

But I loved my squirrels, so I suffered through the design indignity of it all.

(I had actually trained them

 to eat out of my hands,

 but that's a whole 'nother story!!!!)

(The squirrels, not the urns. Urns can't eat...jesh!)

(WHERE WAS I????)

(Oh, yeah, decorating.....)

So when I moved to my condo, I had this pair of URNS!!!

What to do with them????

I had been to Restoration Hardware, which is known for having some 

BANGIN' GREAT FAKE FLOWERS!!!!

They had 

WONDERFUL

silk hydrangeas. 

SO I BOUGHT A BUNCH, NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY WOULD GO, OR HOW I WOULD USE THEM!!!!!

So, 

I stuck them in the wire urns.

They looked 

fabulous!!!!!

But I couldn't see them, 'cuz they was sittin' on the floor.

I set one on a little table in front of one of the windows, 

AND LOVED IT!!!

So I realized, I needed to find a pair of 

pedestals!!!!!

So of course!!!!!

I looked on ebay!!!!!

I knew I wanted unpainted wood, because they would flank the painted blue bookcase, and I wanted the contrast.

I am so happy with the pair I found.

I love the impact they make on the room.

And the urns looked great once I washed the squirrel dirt off them!!!

I do have a weakness for flowers in trumpet shaped objects.

I found this yellow vase in my wanderings.

Was going to sell it, but it got stuck in my house.

It mysteriously got too big to fit back out the door.

So

unfortunately

I had to keep it.....

It sits by my front door, and rests on the table that holds my ipod.

It can be glimpsed from the living room.....

I filled it full of fake flowers that I found in Flerida.

I stuffed packed them in my carry on when I came back up to Massachusetts.

Talk about a gorgeous fake!!!!!

I had to buy them, even though I didn't have a good place to display them.

White flowers actually look better in this vase, 

but sometimes you gots to go with what 

makes your heart 

sing!!!!!

Later Gator

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