Fresh Flowers Review & Giveaway!

**This Giveaway has ended.**
I love fresh flowers.  I grow flowers in my garden and will, on occasion, pick up a bouquet just for the heck of it in the Winter months.  So, I was thrilled when I was given the opportunity to order a bouquet from sunflowerguy.com!  I placed my order on a Thursday and received the flower delivery on Friday via Fedex. 

The box even tells you what to do ~ 



Here is the bouquet I picked out, an autumn bouquet in this quaint French container.

It comes with food for your bouquet.  Make sure you follow the directions so that your bouquet will last at least a week.

Just in time for Thanksgiving, Sunflowerguy.com is offering one lucky winner any bouquet under $50.00! Wouldn't that be great? Fresh flowers on your holiday table for Thanksgiving and you don't even have to leave your house to get them! Even if you don't win, Sunflowerguy.com is offering all of my readers a coupon savings of $5.00 off any bouquet using the code: turkey5.

 

To enter this giveaway: {mandatory}

Visit the Sunflowerguy.com website and come back tell me what bouquet catches your eye {it doesn't have to be the one you wind up ordering}.

You do not have to have a blog to enter this giveaway, but you do have to leave me an email address to contact you at, otherwise a new winner will be selected.

While you're over there, enter their sweepstakes for a chance to win a year's worth of flower deliveries!

 

For additional entries: {optional}

Blog or put a link on your sidebar about this giveaway and come back and let me know in a separate comment;

Tweet about this giveaway and come back and let me know in a separate comment. 

 This giveway will end on Friday, November 19, 2010, at midnight, EST, and the winner will be announced on Saturday, November 20th.

 I've really been enjoying my bouquet! They arrived the next day, were in good shape and, after water and food, basically went from the box to the chest in my foyer. Can't get any easier than that when it comes to fresh flowers!

**This Giveaway has ended.**

 

A Rainy Saturday At Goodwill Brightens My Day

I took a trip to Goodwill this morning and my son {19} tagged along with me. I figured it had been a couple of weeks since the first time I ever went to Goodwill and they would probably have some "newer" stuff out.

Frames were on my mind this trip because I have some projects I'd like to make and I needed frames. I found these two that had kind of an antiquey look to them that I thought might work for one project. I'll be posting that Monday. These frames were $2.99 each.

I also found these Christmas frames ~ new in box! One I'm going to give as a gift and the "Let It Snow" one I'm keeping, since it matches a pillow I won from a giveaway by Susan at Between Naps on the Porch. These frames were also $2.99 each.

I was looking for pillar candle holders to paint and/or transform, but they didn't have any. I did find these cute little pots though. I may leave the one with polka dots alone, except try to make the dots white {they are more cream or tan right now}. The other one I will definitely paint. I think they are asking for a couple of cute little topiaries to dress them up. The pots were $.99 each!

Here is what I consider the scores of this trip.

I was fully prepared to do some shoving, grabbing and poking {only if necessary} when I saw this fabric. Which turned out not to be fabric but a curtain panel! It's still destined to be pillows and whatever else I can get out of it. I did start to sweat a little bit at the register because the cashier couldn't find a price sticker and they have a sign up that says "No price tag, no sale, no exceptions!". I tried to play it cool and look like I didn't care, but inside I was saying "please, please, please". I got it for $2.99!

The ultimate score was this storage ottoman my son found as soon as we walked in. The tags are still on it! It has a little tear in the top corner, which you can't even see unless you look. When we got home I checked Target online ~ this retails for $80.00. He got it for $25.00!! {Well, I paid, so I got it for $25.00 for him}.

Did I say the tags were still on it! Here it is with the lid up.

Here's the tear. Yeah, I know, you can't even see it unless you are that close to it!

Total spent: about $53.00! I'm thinking this is a pretty good Goodwill!

~ Scrumptious ~

For some reason the word "Scrumptious" is in my head {I don't know. . . .}, along with the image of Julie Andrews and some singing going on {was that Mary Poppins?}.

At any rate, it got me looking at some things that I would label Scrumptious {the capital "S" is compulsory}. As an interior decorator, rest assured that I would never use that word to a client to describe something.


From Oooh la la Cadeau {who also has a blog called A Gift Wrapped Life}

From Oooh la la Cadeau

From suzeeez.blogspot.com

Dining room from BH&G

Pillows from Calico Corners

More pillows from Calico Corners

From BH&G

Have you seen anything Scrumptious lately?

Hampton Designer Showhouse ~ 2009

Every year there is a Designer Showhouse in the Hamptons. Sometimes the rooms are just gorgeous and other times you have to scratch your head and wonder, "what the hell were they thinking!?!". Either way, I love looking at the pictures to see what the designers and decorators have done. This is just a small sampling, Newsday has about 61 pictures of this house, so if you want to see more, click on the link.

So what if you can't afford the $9 million asking price! There are so many things going on in this house, that you could copy on a budget, it's not even funny!

Here is this year's house:



Vignette in a bedroom


Table setting

Table setting

Bedroom

Home Office

Gazebo

Bedroom

Bedroom (vignette above is here)

Bathroom

Bedroom ~ I think that zebra head on the wall is horrible. Could you imagine waking up and that's the first thing you see {especially in relation to how the bed is laid out in this room}.

Bedroom

Bedroom {I love the reflection in this mirror}

Butlers Pantry {Showing off some wallpaper that we've all been talking about coming back into our lives}.

Den

Den

Dining Room

All photos courtesy of Newsday

Pretty Storage

I took a day off Monday and decided to visit Michael's Craft Store. I was supposed to be looking for some pictures to use in a long hallway in my house, as part of my prep for selling it. In and out, right? Wrong! Oh, so very wrong!

As I headed past an aisle, out of the corner of my eye I saw something pretty. I came to a screeching halt, backed up a bit and turned my head - storage boxes! Storage boxes in all shapes, sizes, colors, designs! I was in heaven! And best of all - wait for it - they were 50% off! (Heck, what was I in here for again?)


With a quick look around to make sure nobody else was going to infringe on my personal space (which at this point was the whole aisle) I began to check them out. Ooohing and aaahing; seeing how they snapped shut with the magnetic close; admiring the designs and text on each when I came across these items that I just knew would work in my home office (well, once I get it out of boxes and set up again).






Well, I just had to buy them! I would have been so mad at myself if I hadn't and you just know they wouldn't be there if I went back weeks later. Except for not having a little bit of green in it, the colors are mine (just look at my still new banner and button). These pretty little things just scream "Me" - don't they? And, don't forget - they were 50% off!

Keeping that in mind, I felt it would behoove me to maybe pick up just a few more. I thought "What a great item for a giveaway"!!!! Are you excited now? Sure, now that it involves you. : ) So here is what I put together to be a giveaway at some unspecified time in the future:

Lovely box with flip lid and magnetic closure in pink and green, and . . . . .

These cute little stationary items (in a green and purpley pink) . . . .

There is a journal in the back, a notepad and notecards. How cute is that???

So that will be one giveaway. Then I came across these boxes, which have lids that just come off. These reminded me of someone (Donna), who incorporates this particular subject matter into her beautiful work and graphic art.

Black boxes with gold accents (nice design on side) one has a chair and one has a chandelier on the box top. So pretty!

I couldn't find anything to put inside them to make for another giveaway item, but I'm sure I will find something!

So, there you go! I got some pretty storage for myself, a couple of items to do as giveaways and I did remember to get the pictures I went in there for originally! Quite a productive shopping excursion, if I do say so myself!

Don't forget to enter our Giveaway #1 (ends Thursday night)!


Copyright 2009 Kathy Passarette, Creative Home Expressions