Sunday, February 26, 2012

Flowers In The Early Spring House


1:15AM return home from raucous birthday/dinner party, wash face, sleep.

8:40AM wake up, stumble into kitchen, ice some espresso, take picture of flowers sitting on side of sink, hope they get into vases at some point.


9:00AM to 11:45AM..walk dog, eat breakfast, strip bed, run vacuum, plead with GG to hurry up for we have massage appointments at 12:00.

12:00 ahhhhhh

1:00PM  hit up Trader Joes, library and Giant. Rush home unload groceries, eat lunch, stick a gloriousa lily and some curly willow in a vase. Get ready for VIP guest.


3:00PM VIP guest arrives, much hugging, oohing, cooing and ahhing.  Fill two more vases with hellobores, jasmine and blooming branches.  Take a picture.


Take another picture with special guest.


Put new mini phalenopsis orchid in loo; put baby in Lab bed for caretaking.



Was going to put flowers in bedroom but who needs them?


5:00 PM Everybody took a nap, only one person snored.  Or so GG says. Humph!

7:00 PM parents returned bearing carry out.  They handed over dinner, we reluctantly handed over bebe .

9:30 Took a few more pctures of muscari and plants, removed several cactus thorns from thumbs and wrote this post.


Flowers and baby in the house. Could there be a better Sunday?


35 comments:

  1. cutest baby ever. the flowers are nice too. :)

    ReplyDelete
  2. Gorgeous VIP guest looks somewhat surprised to be held up next to that gorgeous hellebore. Do you have a secret to stop these from wilting? There must be a trick for them to stand like this. Mine always wilt all over the show. So pleased to join in with your flowers in the house today Jane.
    Amanda xx

    ReplyDelete
  3. Quite right - get gorgeous baby fully familiarised with smell of dog. The Lovely Son smelled of labrador throughout his toddler years, and seemed to want to live in her basket with her.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Forgot it was this Monday...sorry!!
    Love the caretaker when UK daughter was a baby our deerhound was her caretaker never let her alone!!

    ReplyDelete
  5. I didnt really look at the stems - sorry!! The VIP and the lab got my eye. Sinead x

    ReplyDelete
  6. Never work with children or animals??! It is all we are goggling at. I went back a second time to look at the flowers! My hellebores never make it past a couple of days, do you have a crafty tip to pass on? xx

    ReplyDelete
  7. What a wonderful afternoon! Bebe is growing so fast.

    Gloriosa is, well, glorious!

    ReplyDelete
  8. I love that Lily....and the baby is scrumptious.

    ReplyDelete
  9. oops...my previous post went up. I clicked enter and realized my last Flowers in the house went up. Sorry!

    Your flowers are beautiful Jane, but the baby steals the show!

    xo
    annie

    ReplyDelete
  10. TaDa! Thanks for the reminder Jane!
    xoxo kat

    ReplyDelete
  11. Crap...I forgot.

    Sticking baby pics in the middle of the "Flowers in the House" post is guilding the lily.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Oh just lovely...everyone and everything! I love your picture in the first pic too. A perfect way to spend a Sunday I should think! Thanks for hosting, love Linda x

    ReplyDelete
  13. Love the flowers, love the bebe, but what I'd really like right now is the massage.

    ReplyDelete
  14. Adorable baby and lovely flowers. I didn't manage anything so impressive as your exquisite arrangements -- sure, try to pass them off as something you threw together, and I'll believe you, too, which makes it all the more impressive -- but I do have some sweet sunny primulas gracing the buffet. Come see when you get the chance.

    ReplyDelete
  15. Oh, and the lab bed. Yes. Excellent. When my babies were babies, our cats would sometimes groom them. I'd find Martin in his crib with the cat curled up by his head, and the boy's hair would be a bit wet right at the top, where it stuck up rather curiously. It's sweet how those pets do what they can to help us out.

    ReplyDelete
  16. Well, who is the prettiest flower in the house? Besides Nika, that is.

    ReplyDelete
  17. That's quite the day you had there. Nice flowers, nothing compared to the VIP and Nika though!

    ReplyDelete
  18. Poo, miss this one! Your gloriosa is glorious! So good of you to watch the bebe.
    Camille

    ReplyDelete
  19. Loved the lab bed! Will send you a photo of a painting I did of my youngest daughter is just such a bed. Flowers were wonderful as well, when I could drag myself away from bebe.

    ReplyDelete
  20. Lovely flowers.The VIP seems to be growing very fast.

    ReplyDelete
  21. Sounds to me like a perfect day. And that baby, cute or what!!

    ReplyDelete
  22. now how do you compete with a cute baby? you are not playing fair girl. actually i got conned into working on my day off today, totally unfair too. missed the flowers in the house but i'm off to go see everyone's pictures.
    xo
    janet

    ReplyDelete
  23. Those gorgeous blooms up top, I believe gloriousa lily -- beautiful. But not as beautiful as your sweet little VIP.

    ReplyDelete
  24. No better Sunday possible. But you and GG, no plans for one of your own? Of course, none of my business, but take it as a nosy aunt:).

    ReplyDelete
  25. Aaahh so cute!

    As usual squeezing in, hopefully just before you wake up with the flowers in the house! x

    ReplyDelete
  26. Thank you for the kind comment on my blog. What an adorable baby.

    ReplyDelete
  27. What a fun idea! Would love to be in! Hellebores...mmmm, mmm, good.
    (And babies too!)

    ReplyDelete
  28. What a very sweet guest you had Jane! He looks really lovely! Your Hellebores look lovely in the vases. Such a pretty colour.

    Lieve groet,

    Madelief x

    ReplyDelete
  29. Hi
    I am new to this and thought I would throw my flowers in the ring, so to speak. Look forward to doing this in the next months as our flowers come along. Denise

    ReplyDelete
  30. Thank you for your lovely comment!
    the flowers are beautiful and I love the quirky bottle vases - the baby's a cutie too.

    ReplyDelete
  31. Nothing like flowers AND a tiny cutie in the house!

    ReplyDelete
  32. Nothing like flowers AND a tiny cutie in the house!

    ReplyDelete
  33. It's great to see all the lovely things people put in vases and pots!

    ReplyDelete
  34. This is great! I've lost hours just going to browse everyone's flowers. I'm too late for this one but I have added my name for the next month. Thanks!

    ReplyDelete