Thursday, May 14, 2026

Floral

 Temu has me in a wall art finger trap of animals on couches.  It is entirely Temu's fault.  To assuage my feelings over buying prints, I branched out and bought some artificial tulips.

Now, the problem with cleaning out your house is that whatever flower vases you had (and it was never many) are no longer handy.  So in the spirit of making do with what you have:When I gathered up shells to put in the lamp based, I had big ones left over.  I was seized with an idea.  Pride in this is now right up there with taking the treadmill apart (and hauling it from the porch to the front of the house.)



Florally speaking, my sunflowers are beginning to crinkle, but they have held up well.

That's Eilidh, and her name follows the grand Scottish tradition of sounding exactly nothing like how it looks.  ("Aylee," for the record.)



3 comments:

Delighted Hands said...

You're on a roll!

Kim in Oregon said...

Irish and Scottish pronunciations just crack me up. And is that how you spell pronunciations because it does not look right!

Araignee said...

What is it about vases that they just walk away? I'm always looking for one.

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