Christie's Mobile Home Diary: August 2023

Today, on this hot summer day, I've made a few little changes in my living room... on the top of our side accent table with drawers, (though not really a table, I believe it was once was a child's French Provincial chest of drawers). I was in the mood for a change in here... so I went with my favorite colors..... in shades of greens and creams, and a little more neutral colored flowers for a little while.

Changing out a few flowers was an easy fix, for a quick room refresh...

The ivory colored crepe myrtle looking flowers that are in the market basket (below), are charity thrift shop finds that were 1/2 price that day I was there....they are brand new and high quality, and were donated by a boutique shop owner, that closed shop...earlier this year. The total cost for the two bunches were $4. I was so tickled to find these....they are what I'd been on the hunt for... for some time. They remind me of the crepe myrtle trees that I see blooming away this time of the year, around town.

I also found some little white daisies for $2. Finding them made me want to change out the flowers that were in the silver teapot too....to a more neutral arrangement, for a little while (above). So, with these and some flowers I already had.... I made some changes to this arrangement. Really all I did was take away the blue hydrangeas and added in the little daisies. I'm loving the way it turned out....

I also took out the blue hydrangeas that were in my wall basket, and added a few sprigs of eucalyptus....

I can see now, from these photos...that maybe I need to work on it a little more....it looks more wild than I thought....it looks like the birds have been busy in there.... maybe I'll just leave it alone, and call it good, lol! I'll be adding some fall looking flowers soon anyway....

I added the little Thomas Kinkade Cottage to the table for a change too....it lights up and was a thrift shop find a while back, (I think from last year or the year before),...it had $15 on it, but they were having a 1/2 off sale that day, so it was only $7.50....