Even though there has been  no time for flower arranging ,  I felt like an attempt  should be made so I would not miss a week. We are currently doing some house re-decorating, painting and spring cleaning in preparation for two things. One is  the arrival of new furniture for the much neglected living room that sits across from my office . It is small, more like a sitting room, and has become a catch -all for cast offs from other rooms and office overflow.It is now cleaned, painted and ready for it’s new look. The second thing I am preparing for  is the arrival of spring and my great disappearing act into the garden. Any house cleaning, repairs, and purging, which feels oh-so-good at the end of a long winter spent cooped up inside, must be done before the garden beckons. I have been organizing and filling great trash bags as well as my trunk with stuff  for the recycle  center, and boy does it feel good.

Anyway, in the great sitting room  re-do, I spent some time changing the mantel display . I bought a cute little vintage looking egg print at a consignment shop, then came home and printed two larger vintage bird  egg prints more from a website called The Graphics Fairy and framed them in a couple of green frames I had in the cellar ( sometimes my pack-rat behavior  pays off).Then I added in clusters of vases in blue, mercury and cream and finally  this morning gave it a sprig of bright pink flowers from a scented geranium.  The finished room will be cream, beige, sage green and a very muted blue and I am planning on using tiny pops of bright pink and purple here and there so this is a little preview . Sometimes that  one little stem of flowers is all you need 🙂