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    HOME
    Home is where life is lived. This is where I love to show my creativity and individuality. Let’s make our homes as beautiful, interesting and comfy as they can be.
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    HOLIDAYS
    Celebrating holidays throughout the year brings joy to life. Bringing this joy to you by sharing ideas and visual concepts through this blog makes me happy!
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    FLORAL DESIGN
    Floral design is my art form. I love the look, the smell and feel of flowers and love mixing and matching flowers into gorgeous arrangements. I want to share all things flowers with you.
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Hello!
I'm Christine and am so glad you are here. I am a wife, a mother of three grown children, and a grandmother, as well as a floral designer. I am also someone who loves making a house a home. This space is my opportunity to share ideas on floral design, holiday decorating, entertaining, gardening and so much more!

Please come and enjoy the journey with me!
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Magazine Ad

We are very excited about our new ad in the Action Unlimited's first ever special wedding edition to be offered at wedding venues, vendor establishments and to brides by request!

Window Box Ideas

I was trying to decide today whether or not I wanted to go to all the work of window boxes for my deck this year.  However, looking at these pictures from last year, leaves me no choice.  I'll be planting window boxes again!   I had forgotten how colorful and pretty they were!  My hesitation has been because, lik…
Dwarf Irises I discovered these dwarf irises blooming this morning in my shade garden.  Finding them was so thrilling!  My friend, Nancy, had given me a section of this plant at our garden club plant swap a few years ago.  Nancy's plants are always reliable and always perform well in my garden.  If possible, I t…

Trying a Plant Experiment

They were having a sale on pansies at my local Lowes store last week.  They were half off!  Since I hadn't planted anything in my barn window boxes, I thought I would give them a try.  The barn window boxes are kind of a pain because there is no water at the barn and I either have to drive my car down a dirt road…

Afternoon Tea and Dessert

I had fun putting this little vignette together with some crisp white linens and my fancy tea cups.  The tea cups are ones I had collected years ago from the Bradford Exchange.  It was one of those deals where you received a new tea cup every month or so.  It was a real thrill opening the package and discovering the …

Joyful Flower Quotes

I came across these neat flower quotes and wanted to share them with you.  All of us who love flowers and gardening can certainly appreciate them and agree! "I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers" -Robert Brault-      ~ I found this quote on my Mary Engelbreit dail…