A Simple Spring Vignette..."Faux" Real!

What's been blooming in your neck of the woods?

We are way behind schedule here in NJ.

I was looking at some photos from last spring, and saw 
that my forsythias started blooming in mid-March.

But this year? Hel-lo? It's April, yet not a bud in sight.

So until I get some "True Blooms," I have to make do with 
faux blooms inside my house. 

Since we spend most of our time in the family room, 
it's the first place I wanted to "springify."

You may recall my buffet, when I showed 
you my super-easy New Year's Eve centerpiece. 
After I packed away the champagne glass, I filled a vase 
with snowy branches, red berries and flowers.

Now, it's time for those to hibernate for the winter. 

They've been replaced with some faux forsythia and pussy willows. 

 Wouldn't you know it, 

right after I bought the pussy willows at Michael's, 

all of the real ones started showing up at the supermarket.  

I keep meaning to buy some real ones, and replace the faux...

Which would make my spring vase half-faux, half-real.
I kid you not, it would be...
"faux" real! 

Changing the flowers 

definitely made it feel a little more like spring, 

but the red decanter that was on the silver tray 

felt out of place.

Hmmm...what to do, what to do.

I let that percolate in my brain a little, 

and focused on my coffee table instead. 

Years ago, I bought potted flowers from a local nursery. 

They came in a fun "bowl" which I've been using on my coffee table, filled with glass balls. 

When I saw moss-covered balls at Pottery Barn, 

I thought I'd mix them with the glass balls,

to add a little touch of spring.

It just didn't look right,

(I didn't even keep it that way long enough to snap a picture), 

but then I remembered about some of other decorative baubles I had. 

They kind of reminded me of birds' nests, 

 and looked just right with the mossy ones.

Not bad, but it was a little drab, 

so I added a few "faux" lemons 

that I bought at Pier 1 years ago, to perk it up.

And then I had a vision of the moss balls being chewed to pieces 

by a certain four-footed, furry little girl 

who would think that they were her new toys.

If this arrangement was going to remain intact, 

I had to find a place for it on higher ground...

which is when the buffet called out to me, and said, 

"YooHoo, how about over here?"

It looked pretty good, but perhaps a little bare, 

so I kept playing around with it, 

and adding other things to the table...

 decanters, pictures, books, all kinds of "tchotchkes"... 

but nothing looked right with the curved arms of the bowl.

I think it just needed its space.

 

Sometimes less is more, I guess.

And sometimes, more is more...

as in chocolate, shoes and cheese.

But one thing is "faux" sure...

this vignette was SO (saux?) simple to do! 

 

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