More Easter Vignettes and an Easter Flower Arrangement

Hey there!  I told you I would be back with another Easter vignettes post

 this week and here I am. There is even a vignette incorporating

an Easter flower arrangement.  I hope you enjoy the show 😄.  

Because the weather has been consistently cloudy lately and I was strapped for time when creating this vignette, I chose to build it in front of this window.  It happened to be the sunniest spot in the house that day.

I am afraid I will have a few confessions to make while writing this post.  My first confession is that I planned and created the Easter flower arrangement vignette in a hurry. (I guess I already mentioned that.) This fact will lead me to the next confession of a mistake I made while arranging the centerpiece. I will explain later in the post.  I wanted to be up front about that from the beginning :). 

 I did create the other Easter vignettes at my leisure.  Their photos will be mixed in throughout the story.

I like the look of this little vignette.  It sits on a glass shelved furniture piece in the kitchen. I try to decorate the shelves for the different seasons of the year. This seems to bring me joy.

For the flower arrangement I ran out to Trader Joe’s to purchase some flowers. They had beautiful pussy willows, very reasonably priced daffodils, lovely smelling hyacinths and a not-so-great (quality speaking) bunch of dark pink variegated carnations.  (Side note: Monday is not the best day to purchase flowers from grocery stores.  The weekend usually substantially depletes the supply.). This was the case at Trader Joe’s. Hence the compromised carnations. 

The carnations did rally after I cut the stems and put them in flower food, always a good

practice.

For this vignette ↓, all that was needed was a spring themed wreath hanging on the stairway mirror.  Believe it or not, this is one of my favorite touches of spring in the house. The good thing is it can stay decorated this way until the end of May, maybe even into June.  Not so much the case with Easter eggs and bunnies.

Once I had arranged all the flower elements in the white urn-vase I set out to find my trusty Easter egg stash in the attic.  I found a tray I thought would work well for the vignette to sit on, as well as white dishes and egg cups I could use to create an Easter scene.

Another vignette involved the fireplace area in the family room. I filled the Pottery Barn urn with faux spring flower stems and adorned the mantle with a couple of golden rabbits.  They are small but I like looking at them while my husband and I watch tv at night. 

I liked the mixture of flowers in the arrangement. I liked the spring colors together and the texture of the pussy willows and hyacinths and, of course, the daffodils. Nature really does provide all sorts of loveliness throughout the year, doesn’t it?

This is kind of ridiculous as a vignette. It is rather simple, probably too simple to be called a vignette, but I wanted your opinions on something.  Do you like the blue bowl empty or with the faux flowers placed in it? I’ve already made my decision, but I am curious as to what you think. 

So now for my final confession.  I am sure you floral designers out there have already figured it out.  I should have figured it out early on. I’m feeling rather embarrassed at this point that it took me so long to remember the problem. I had a gnawing feeling as I was buying the flowers that there was something about either the daffodils or the hyacinths that I was forgetting.  But, as I already mentioned, I was in a hurry and the flower stock was low. Even as I was making the arrangement and congratulating myself on my flower choices I was wondering about the daffodils.  Is it ok to use them in arrangements?  Still, it wasn’t until two days later as one of the hyacinths was wilting, I decided to google daffodils in flower arrangements. That’s when I remembered the problem. Daffodils secrete a substance that makes other flowers wilt prematurely.  Google even said to not mix other flowers with daffodils. My bad. I knew there was something, but I didn’t listen to my inner voice. The end result was I removed the daffodils, emptied the water and kept the pussy willows, carnations and hyacinths in place. So far, those flowers are doing well but obviously the arrangement is now missing yellow flowers. A pity actually.  So even though the color and texture of the daffodils were great, I’ll never do that again. I’m wracking my brain trying to think of a flower I could have substituted for the daffodils.  Well, for this purpose they did look nice for a very short time. Please do not copy this centerpiece as is.  Freesias could be a nice substitute flower. Unfortunately, Trader Joe’s did not have freesias that day. 

I will not be posting next week.  I have something really fun going on that will take me away from blogging. More on that later. But for now, I sincerely wish a very Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate it.  I hope it is filled with friends and/or family and lots of love.