• 1
    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.
    Read more
  • 2
    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!
    Read more
  • 3
    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.
    Read more
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!
WANNA KNOW MORE?
read more

Read these first

Latest on the blog

My Garden Update

A few weeks ago I posted pictures of my side garden with the red begonias, blue lobelia, blue Browallia, foxglove, Jacob's Ladder, yellow and red snapdragons and purple cleome.
As you can see the foxglove and jacob's ladder are past their first blooming.  I am not sure if they will have another smaller one or not.  Only time will tell. I need to go into the garden and trim those two plants back and see what happens.  However, the yellow and red snapdragons have come alive a bit, which helps fill in the back of the garden.
 

I wasn't thrilled with the color of the red snapdragons at first.  I thought it was too burgundy for the garden but, maybe it's ok if the colors aren't matchy, matchy.  As long as they are healthy and blooming, I'm happy!

There's one purple cleome starting to makes it move on the bottom left of the photo.  In a few weeks it should be as tall as the yellow snapdragons to fill in even more.

 
 Here is a photo of my beloved browallia.  For some reason I just love this plant.  It looks like little blue/purple stars in the garden!  And it loves the shade which is great for my yard with all of its trees!