I have just returned home in the nick of time to join in Jane's Monday flower party. If you haven't discovered her gorgeous blog, SmallbutCharming then do not delay, and if you have and you love flowers you are in for a feast this happy Monday!
There is not much new flowering in our garden that I haven't grubbed about on the ground obsessively photographing and posting already, so instead a few pics of some blooms in the house.
I am trialling an idea I have been harbouring for selling posies from April. I'm a bit enchanted by some little Victorian/Edwardian bottles I have been scouring ebay for during the last month or so. They are mainly gorgeous aqua and green colours and have embossed lettering down the sides. My favourites so far are lemonade powder bottles, with The Eiffel Tower embossed down one side and the manufacturer in Kent on the other - seems a Paris motif helped sell lemonade, or maybe they were shipped across The Channel and sold in Paris? Who knows, but I think they make a great, slightly quirky vessels for small flowers.
They are the perfect size to have as a bedside posy, or on a small sidetable, and I think they'd make a fabulous alternative to a bunch of flowers to give to a friend.
In my house I have used them recently with the first flowers I have found popping up bravely in the garden, (or in the case of the paperwhites, forced indoors but since I can only enjoy the scent in small quantities, have split up into smaller posies). So here are the white narcissi on my beside table,
hellebores,
and some tiny yellow narcissi I found waiting for me under the hazel trees in the garden when I got back from holiday.
They have been fantastic for brightening up little darker corners of the house, as well as giving away as little thankyou tokens or with a birthday card
and I have a small homewares shop and a jewellery designer interested in buying some for their premises. What do you think, are they a go-er?
There is not much new flowering in our garden that I haven't grubbed about on the ground obsessively photographing and posting already, so instead a few pics of some blooms in the house.
I am trialling an idea I have been harbouring for selling posies from April. I'm a bit enchanted by some little Victorian/Edwardian bottles I have been scouring ebay for during the last month or so. They are mainly gorgeous aqua and green colours and have embossed lettering down the sides. My favourites so far are lemonade powder bottles, with The Eiffel Tower embossed down one side and the manufacturer in Kent on the other - seems a Paris motif helped sell lemonade, or maybe they were shipped across The Channel and sold in Paris? Who knows, but I think they make a great, slightly quirky vessels for small flowers.
They are the perfect size to have as a bedside posy, or on a small sidetable, and I think they'd make a fabulous alternative to a bunch of flowers to give to a friend.
In my house I have used them recently with the first flowers I have found popping up bravely in the garden, (or in the case of the paperwhites, forced indoors but since I can only enjoy the scent in small quantities, have split up into smaller posies). So here are the white narcissi on my beside table,
hellebores,
and some tiny yellow narcissi I found waiting for me under the hazel trees in the garden when I got back from holiday.
They have been fantastic for brightening up little darker corners of the house, as well as giving away as little thankyou tokens or with a birthday card
and I have a small homewares shop and a jewellery designer interested in buying some for their premises. What do you think, are they a go-er?
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