DesignsandEvents: St. Patty's Day Green

Happy St. Patrick's Day, Everybody!! I apologize in advance for the randomness of this post. I am kind of all over the place with this one. I wanted to create a vignette of sorts for St. Patrick's Day and found an assortment of floral containers in my house I thought would work well for a nice display. However, I wasn't exactly sure how to incorporate all of them. I had a brand new hanging plant holder, an old square emerald green vase, green flowers pots, little green goblets and a cabbage! What should I do with all of this?! I wasn't quite sure!

I own a curio-type bookshelf and thought it was a good place to start. It can hold a lot of "stuff". Slowly I placed and replaced all these items on the shelves until I began to be happy with how they looked. As you can see the predominate color was green; all in honor of St. Patrick's Day. The miniature castle shown here isn't overly green but it seemed like something that would sit very naturally on the Irish countryside. So, I determined it was OK to use. My friend, Michelle, had given me the shamrock ornament after she had travelled to Ireland with her husband. I just HAD to use that! Turns out I liked it so much that I used it everywhere :).

I really wanted to use the hanging plant holder I had received as a birthday present from my daughter-in-law, Jessica. I thought green would stand out nicely next to the crisp white of the planter.

I think I was right. The green does look striking against the white of the planter.

Jessica actually had given the planter to me to place out in my shed . It will make its way out there as soon as the weather gets warm enough but until then, it looks just as pretty inside.

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Now to the randomness of this post~ While I was collecting "St. Patty's Day Green" items for the above vignette, I had totally forgotten about the cabbage. I really wanted to use it---somewhere. After all, what would St. Patty's Day be without cabbage? Yes, it is usually supposed to be eaten on St. Patrick's Day but, I wanted to use it in an artistic way. At this point, the cabbage was not going to be used in my shelf vignette, so I decided I would try it in a floral arrangement. I liked that idea.

The cabbage is in there under the flowers. You will see it better later since there are more "cabbage" photos to come~~ just randomly placed here and there. The shamrock ornament will make more appearances, as well :).

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(Now back to "St. Patty's Day Green")

I continued to try to bring in as many green items as possible. The fern and spider plants added some natural greenery, as well.

I rummaged through my yard to find some moss. Somehow I thought moss was an Irish thing too. I'm not sure why :).

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Here is the shamrock ornament again along with my square emerald green vase. The color of that vase was just perfect for St. Patty's Day.

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This photo of the Cabbage Arrangement ended up on my Instagram. Mixing flowers and vegetables can be interesting--at least it is to me. Let's hope the folks on Instagram think so too!

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Well, there you have it---my version of "St. Patty's Day Green". I hope you haven't minded the scattering effect of my random thoughts and ideas. At least, everything was as advertised--predominately green!