Orange Creams

I first learned about “snake flowers” or Orange Creams last April when Bradley sent me a photo of a potted flower he came across at Sam’s Club.  When he actually took interest in a flowering plant, I took notice!  After researching it and consulting my mom, I felt like it would be a good candidate for indoor container gardening.  I found an online source for the bulbs and placed it on our wishlist.  Our wonderful sister-in-law gave me a pack of ten bulbs for Christmas!

Imagine my surprise when I realized that the bulbs needed to be planted at least 6″ apart.  So I began keeping an eye out for small, inexpensive pots since one container large enough for all 10 bulbs was unrealistic.  Target clearance rack to the rescue – the leftover Christmas Amaryllises came with small pots and soil!  I got the bulbs potted up and they have been living on our dining room table for now.  I noticed yesterday that a few of them have popped through the top of the soil!  I can’t wait to see how they do!

Nesting End Tables

After replacing the corner end table in the living room with a round pedestal table, I decided to balance out the other end of the love seat with a more substantial table as well.  I have really been wanting a set of nesting tables so that it would be as deep as the love seat, but most of the nesting tables I find are as short as our original undersized end tables.  The few sets that I have seen that are as tall as the love seat arms are really expensive.

Finally, I found a set from Home Decorators that was affordable.  The tallest table is 26.5″ tall.  I ordered a set, which showed up slightly damaged, so I had to send them back and have another set ordered.  The customer service was good about taking care of everything though.   They are the perfect height and depth for the end of the love seat that faces out.

New Look

Bradley has spent all morning designing a new site for me!  It is not lost on me how incredibly talented my husband is or how fortunate I am to have someone that can do things like this for me.  I like the simplified look so much better and find the soft colors and patterns easier on the eyes.  Hopefully, it is easy to navigate as well.

And you might have noticed that I am trying out a new blog name.  I think habitual rearranger sums up my inability to settle on things like designs, colors and placements in our home.  I think I frustrate Bradley to no end sometimes moving things around and adding/subtracting items!

As a reminder, this is the first design that Bradley threw together a while back.

I never loved it, even though I loved the elements: green is my favorite color, the chipping sparrow represented my Etsy store name, and the tree background is a picture from our favorite vineyard in Tennessee.  Just goes to show that just because you love something doesn’t mean it works for your blog, or your home for that matter!

Fishing Bobber Wreath

Merry Christmas!

After seeing a BHG tutorial on Pinterest for making a fishing bobber wreath, I knew I wanted to try it for Bradley’s cousin’s ministry.  I have mentioned Truth in Nature before and we are so proud of Jeff and Carrie for their creative ministry to kids from single-parent homes.  I figured they could keep the wreath for personal enjoyment and use it at events or they could raffle it off to make money for the ministry at their next supporters event.

The construction went rather smoothly, just a bit time-consuming to twist all the floral wire.  I used a 12″ wire wreath that I picked up at JoAnns and seven mixed packs of red and white bobbers plus two packs of 2″ bobbers from Dick’s Sporting goods.   I found that the best way to keep the bobbers from flipping to the back of the wreath was to only wire them to the two middle circles on the wreath.  The outer and inner circles acted as a bumper for the floral wire to rest on.  I made the bow out of red wired ribbon that I found in my Christmas decorations bins.

Vintage Pyrex

Recently, I pinned a picture of a collection of vintage turquoise Pyrex dishes.  I loved the color, the feel, the aspect of collecting.

While I was at Goodwill yesterday, I happened upon a set of two vintage orange and white Butterprint mixing bowls.  I wasn’t sure if I would keep them if I bought them, but I figured I could at least get my money back out of them if I decided not to.  I researched the pattern/color after I brought them home and found that it is evidently much more rare than the turquoise color.

An auction site gave some helpful information on the set:

  • Pattern:  Butterprint
  • Identifiers / Alternate Names:  Country “Amish” Farming scene featuring farmer and wife holding a bushel of crops. Surrounding them are crops in the field, wheat sheaves tied together, roosters and corn plants.
  • Turquoise on White and the reverse color scheme is the most common, with other possibilities being and orange-yellow on white and a pink on white color scheme.
  • Also known as: Amish, Farmer & Wife, Buttercup, Rooster & Corn 
  • Years Manufactured:  1957 – ?
  • Orange Butterprint patterns appear only on Cinderella Mixing Bowls.
  • Unlike the Turquoise Cinderella ones, the color scheme does not alternate normal and reversed among the bowls.
  • There are 4 Cinderella Mixing bowl sizes and all of them are orange on white in color. (Some people may call it yellow or yellow-gold instead of orange.)

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