March 5, 2013

signs of spring



 
The stores have been flooded with tulips lately, so I finally picked up a bouquet and we've been enjoying them all week!

 
And we found this nest in our backyard
 
 
with three tiny baby bunnies in it.  Even though I'm so tired of the bunnies eating my plants, these three babies were so adorable.
 
 

March 3, 2013





diy spring vases

 

Last week at some point while marinating a tenderloin, I finished off our red wine vinegar bottle (which is the one in the picture above with the rounded bottom) and thought that it was a pretty bottle and so I rinsed it out and decided to save it. 
 
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Then I got my weekly Better Homes and Gardens update with this image above, so I pinned it and then later the light bulb went off.  I opened my fridge and noticed we had two almost empty bottles of tiger sauce, so I combined them together freeing up another glass bottle.  And for some reason I had already saved the smallest bottle months ago.  So the idea of small vases was created from the inspiration picture above.

 
 
I think the bottles I used were red wine vinegar, tiger sauce and small bottle of balsamic vinegar.  We were already painting our office furniture white, so I gave these three bottles a quick spray with the same white paint.  To decorate them I used two different ribbons and washi tape.  I just so happen to have 3 in this blue, so I went with it.
 
 
 
I added the white tulips to create a pretty, simple, Spring follower collection on my dining room buffet.