Flowers Everywhere?

Have you ever looked at something you've seen a thousand times and suddenly it's like you're seeing it for the first time? 

Anybody?? 

Well, ​I have.  And I just did.

I ​took this photo a few weeks ago while playing around with my new camera, and I ran across it again today.  Aside from how unashamedly cute I think my outfit is (turquise and coral are soooo trendy these days), what struck me was how different (and reasonably clean) my house looks reflected in the mirror...and also how plain it seems. 

I really thought I had more interesting things happening in the décor arena then what it appears.  And you'd think being the gardener that I am, I'd have a few flowers and at least a houseplant or two sitting around. 

But the reality is, ​I like simple décor.  And as much as I adore all my plants and flowers out in the garden, I don't really need them inside. 

Inside my home is a different world than outside my home, and that's how I like it. 

Now that's not to say that plants are totally non-existent in my house.  After all, I do have these bright and perky poppies in the dining room...​

But they're not real. 

​I bet you noticed.
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These poppies are in the form of a framed embroidery that I picked up at a yard sale for 50 cents a few years back.

But they count as indoor flowers in my book. 

​And in keeping with the poppy theme, there's also this lovely arrangement:
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This one comes in the form of an antique tabletop (snagged for yet another 50 cents) that hangs on my kitchen wall.

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Oh boy...I probably should have straightened things up before I showed you this. 

Oh well, I'll live.  And I'll probably live quite well, since I'll be dining on those heirloom tomatoes, fresh peppers and garlic tonight that I brought in from the garden.

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And speaking of gardens, I do have this garden-ey fruity floral-ey picture hanging the wall in my sitting room.

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As you probably noticed by my description, I'm clearly an educated art connoisseur....who was at yet another yard sale when I sprung for this painting--it was a whopping five bucks. 

I'm such a big spender.

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And a big procrastinator.

Here is another $5 painting, this one of sunflowers, that I stuck in my under-renovation bathroom to hid an ugly, unfinished wall...and two years later it's still hanging there hiding the still ugly, still unfinished wall.

Apparently I have other things to do with my time than renovate the bathroom.​  Like play outside in the real sunflower patch.

And I hate to tell you this, but through no intention of my own, I'm ending this post in the toilet--or above the toilet, to be exact, since that's exactly where this thing hangs!

And no, I'm not showing you that.​

So sorry.

But I have to draw the line somewhere, and I had to make my point (if only to myself) that I do have plenty of flowers in my house. 

They're just not alive.  But there are plenty of live ones outside, and since that's where I spend most of my time anyway, I end up surrounded by them almost all day, almost every day.

And that's what makes me a happy gardener...and a wanna-be stylish one too.  Let's take another look at that outfit...​

Yep, I still like it.  And the hair's not bad either.

Hey, sometimes you just gotta celebrate the successes...

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By posing in the garden.   

What?!  Normal people don't do that? 

​Well, you learn something new everyday.

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