There is something just lovely about vintage tea cups and saucers, and as lovely as they are to own, how often do we give visitors a cup and saucer ? apart from turning them into candles or having them just sat in some sort of display cabinet the idea of using them to display floral displays really appeals to me.

Easily done, all you need for a basic display is some oasis, either from a garden centre or florists suppliers.


Now you may even want to get a little bit more exotic and add some layers, with matching plates and a little moss !

For this you will need a hot glue gun, I have seen this done with gluing a bent fork into place rather than the plastic tubing, it's stronger and can be used time and again. A little oasis taped to the fork and glued into both the cup and saucer seemed a good idea to me to keep the arrangement fresher for longer.

Would love to hear your comments and ideas.

Lyn x

Totally Glam

What a feeling when you know Summer is on it's way, it seems that winter is just something to get through until the Daffodils show their little faces, proving Spring has arrived. With the event of closing the retail shop last year this is my first Summer at home, yippee for me, that said, I am no gardener so really had no plans other than sitting in the sun catching some rays :) easier said than done methinks the garden is a mess ! and being the tidy freak that I am couldn't sit without at least attempting to tidy it up, ohhhhhhhhhhh here we go ! the bug has bitten and I now have grand illusions of growing veg to feed my new found healthier lifestyle, will wait for you to stop laughing, I am a bloody disaster and it is not going to plan, I stand in wonder looking at dying seedlings until it suddenly dawns on me that I have drowned the poor things by over loving them with the wet stuff !........moving on, one of my absolute favourite things about summer is being able to use the washing line, sad I know but bare with me I don't get out much lol, there is something just lovely about the smell of clean air dried washing, to the point that I even fake it indoors with Fresh cotton Yankee Jars.