Birthday Flowers in Transferware

Hello Everyone and Happy Wednesday!  

Tomorrow is my sweet friend's Birthday and I have a special gift for her.  We both like the same things so I knew when I found this awesome Transferware Tureen 

that she would love it too.  

And who doesn't love flowers?  

So I combined the two and came up with this!

The tureen is white with a pretty green pattern.  

I know it looks blue in some of the photos.

 The lid has a raised pattern on it that I adore.  

And, there are no chips in it at all.

So let's start this tutorial!  

Here's what you'll need:  Flowers (mine are from Costco), apples, floral foam, picks or skewers, ribbon, extra greenery if needed, 

   I put some wet floral foam in the bottom and taped it down.

I wanted to use apples because they always remind me of fall.  I put them on skewers and placed them in the bowl.

Now here comes the tricky part.  

I wanted to incorporate the lid also, since it is part of the gift.  I set it sideways on top of the handle and the apples and wired it tightly.

Don't worry, by the time we are done the wires won't show.  Promise!

I like to separate my flowers so that I know what I have to work with.  I usually start with the largest and work my way down.

The large gold spider Mums go in first.  

I like to work with threes for the larger impact flowers.

 Then the pretty red roses are added.  

I placed the large cattails in next and then started filling in with the smaller flowers.  The greenery will fill in any holes.  

So, I filled in all of the spaces and arranged a large bunch of what looks like wheat over the handle.  I made a bow with some sparkly ribbon and put it on top of the handle but I didn't like it.  It was too much.  

So I tied some raffia on with a maroon ribbon.  

Nope!  

Still don't like it.

I ended up just tying a simple ribbon around the wheat.  

I think it's perfect.

Very Fall!

I hope she likes it!  

By The Way, Today is my beautiful Mother's Birthday!  

She lives too far away to give these to but I sent her some!  

I Love You Mom!  

You are the BEST! 

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves,

XO Cindy 



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Flowers for Mother's Day

What Mom doesn't love flowers on Mother's Day?  

I think every mother deserves flowers on her special day. 

 I also think that you shouldn't have to pay the Floral Shop prices when you can buy beautiful flowers at Costco. 

 I don't get paid to say this

 (wish I did, or at least got paid in flowers)

 but I just want to share some ideas that you

 might be able to use.  

It's not to late to whip these up...

How stunning would this be on a table or in the Entry Way? 

 I used a square vase and filled it with limes and used cut limes around the perimeter. 

 I bought one bunch of mixed flowers, one bunch of roses and one extra bunch of blue hydrangeas. 

 Total cost around $38.00.

 This is actually HUGE!  

The vase measures 12" tall and 6"X6" wide.  

It's jam packed full of flowers and the great thing is that they stay put with the limes inside.

If Mom is not that flashy,

 how about this simple arrangement?  

Two dozen roses for $16.99! 

 I cut them short and stick them in some wet floral foam.  

I placed some lemon leaves (they were left over from the big bunch of flowers) around and some Spanish Moss gets tucked into the edges to soften it up.  

Happy Mother's Day!

Until Next Time,

Beaux R'eves

XO Cindy

Launch Party

I've been talking about the Launch Party that Mr. Beaux 
and I hosted for his new company. 
 I thought I would share a few pictures with you that my son took while we were setting up. 
 Looking over the pictures I realized that I've never shown pictures of my basement other than shots of the floor while I was working on painting projects.
  Sadly, there weren't that many pictures to choose from as we were so busy getting everything ready for our guests. 

I made a floral arrangement for the dining room table as it's the first thing you see as you enter the house. 
 I bought two growers bunches of flowers, where else but Costco.  I'm really liking the new tangerine color that I am seeing everywhere.  I wasn't sure at first but now that it's Spring and Summer is soon on it's way I'm really warming up to it.  I've got more of this color to show you in the Kitchen later this week.

I arranged the flowers in a silver bowl that was an Estate Sale find last year.  It's still looking good today except the hydrangeas are shot.  I can't wait for my own hydrangeas to start blooming. 

Since you haven't seen my basement I'll show you a few pictures of what it normally looks like.

You can see the stairs leading down from the main level on the left.  This is what I named the "Pit"  sofa.  We watch TV down here and you would be surprised how many people can fit on this sofa.  The ottomans are great for extra seating or to pull up and stretch out.  

 My wide angle lens makes this room look huge.  
There is usually a Poker table beyond the pool table in the corner under the second TV  but we moved it to put the buffet table there for the party.

 And from the other side.  We placed the buffet tables where I am standing taking this picture and across the room in front of the window.  I am always trying to get better traffic flow during a party.  Everyone ends up congregating in front of the bar.  I think breaking up the food tables really helped.

This is a shot of one of the buffet tables as you walk downstairs into the basement.  We were still setting up so you can see the Saran is still on the platters.  I placed more flowers on the table also.  I wanted to keep the atmosphere very casual so I used white tablecloths that I draped over plastic bins that I had in storage.  Then, I draped burlap about the width of a table runner around on the table.  I bought the hydrangea plants at Home Depot and draped a lighter colored burlap around the base and tied it with twine. 

See the writing on the burlap?  That's from my Bench Re-do that didn't work out!!!  Hey, everything is recyclable right?  I like the way it looks around the plant.  My oldest son made all of the food for the party!  He is in his second year of Culinary School.  He created a beautiful Crudites platter on the left and I stole some of the veggies and placed them in the Mason jars with ice in the bottom.  It was more for the look than anything else.

 Little tealight holders from Target were sprinkled all over the table and around the room.  They looked so pretty all lit up.

 OK, we went a little overboard on the strawberries and pineapple.  I see smoothies in my future!

Here is the "Hot" hors d'oeuvres station. 

I found these adorable chalkboard stakes in different colors at Target in the dollar section.  I bought small pots of flowers and kale and sweet potato vine and placed them in the tin buckets and pots from the Dollar Store and Target and put the stakes in the pots. 

Here's what was on the Menu:

Pepper Jack Sliders with Chipotle Aioli sauce

Spinach and Cheese Spanakopita

Stuffed Mushrooms

Chicken Quesadillas

Crudite Platter with Peppercorn Ranch Dip

Strawberry and Pineapple Skewers

Cookies and Brownies

Everyone had a great time (I hope) and I was so happy to meet all of the new folks working for the company and welcome them into my home.  I'm already planning a Christmas party and maybe a Summer BBQ!

Until Next Time,
Beaux R'eves
XO Cindy

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