Budget Blooms: Birthday Leftovers: a house log

You may have noticed a bouquet in the middle of the table for Clara’s party two weeks ago.

Well, sadly some of those blooms are no longer among the living:

But there are a few that are still going strong, so I chose to drop them into three of my go-to vases (from Ikea a while back) for this glad little effect:

And yes, they are on the windowsill in our bathroom. Simply because I realized that we have never had any flowers in that room (there are all sorts of “firsts” in this house for me – including flowers in the bathroom) so I had to revel in the first-bathroom-blooms occurrence. It feels good to get back to the whole budget blooms thing (since we shared them on a monthly basis for nearly two years and somehow forgot all about them since moving). I guess getting back to it symbolizes some sort of feeling-settled-sufficient-to-stop-and-smell-the-flowers thing. What blooms are you folks bringing home these days? How do you feel about especially bright flowers like these (when I dumped the water out of the original vase it was neon pink). I think I typically prefer less or no dye, but for the bean’s big birthday bash, they were kind of ideal. And her daddy picked them out for her – how sweet.

Bonus post extension (because it is Fridaaaaay baby):

To pick up where I left off yesterday with my end-of-Oprah denial at the bottom of this post, someone recommended that I Oprah-fy myself here on Oprah.com. So I did.

And then I Oprah-fied John.

It is truly helping me cope. Sadly it did not work too well with Burger or Clara. But the John one kills me. Especially those earrings. Feel free to Oprah-fy yourself (and post them on our Facebook page if you wanna share the hilarity). I’d enjoy to see what you folks look like with big Oprah hair. I cannot wait. Literally, I am on the edge of my seat.