IAVOM: Holiday transition

I am so pleased with this big arrangement that was in my red room for Christmas that I decided to bring it out into the light of day. I don't mind that the berries are fading and the Eucalyptus is drying up, turning pale and papery. The white pine branches are the ones that I clipped from a pile of curbside evergreen debris in December.

In this location, there's room for these big branches to take a visual breath. Plus my new blue and white vase nicely echoes Tom Sargeant's painting on the wall behind it.

I never did manage to get our wooden putti candleholder out for the holidays. Now that we're into the new year he can play cupid until we tire of him and want another change. 

I added two small wooden bowls to this grouping so cupid would not be the only brown item in the display. But then the blue and white vase looked lonely so I grabbed this Chinese bowl that has as much brown on it as blue.

At the other end of the table is another blue bowl with a bit of brown in the interior almost hidden by the white pine branches.

It wasn't until I bent down to get a shot of the blue swirls on the outside of the bowl that I realized the ceramic lamp base, the table and cupid were in their own little swirly world. 

To see what other gardeners have put in a vase today, stop by Rambling in the Garden. 

Comments

[Lisa at Greenbow]

A splendid arrangement especially with all the accompaniment. Happy IAVOM. It is snowing here again. Tiny snow that is accumulating.

[Ciar]

A very pretty winter arrangement. I am enjoying the fact that my winter arrangements of evergreens and seedheads are lasting so much longer than summer vases do!

[Cathy]

What a great value vase - definitely still full of life. REmind what the red curly bits are...? Your additions really balance the whole display and you seem to have such a natural talent for this

[Linda Brazill]

Thanks for those kind words. The orangy branches are some variety of curly willow. Since I got them at the grocery store rather than a florist shop, they were not identified. We have a golden curls willow that we've managed to keep as a smallish tree in the garden. But I never cut anything off it in the winter. I suppose I should try it and see how it works.

[Loree / danger garden]

Lovely, cupid reads as terracotta but it's much more exciting to know he's wooden.

[Lea @ Lea's Menagerie]

Very pretty!
Have a wonderful week!

[Peter/Outlaw]

Well done as always, Linda! Interesting how this, now drying arrangement takes on a whole new feel in it's new surroundings.

[Kris P]

An arrangement that lovely and resilient deserves its time in the spotlight! I'm always impressed by the thought you put into your vignettes.