Well, there is a little more to the story. When I first arrived at the store I found a beautiful bouquet. It was just what I was looking for. The catch? It was $26.99. I did not buy myself an Easter dress this year so I justified the flowers and put them in my buggy {do you call it a buggy? a cart?} I ran into my friend Stacey in the store and she even commented on how pretty they were, but as I cruised around the store, that $26.99 price was bugging me. So I went back and looked again for something less expensive to replace the perfect bouquet. I needed a big one because I was planning to split it in two to make two smaller arrangements. I settled for a pretty enough $12 bunch and headed home.
Saturday morning I decided to go ahead and put the arrangements together {mainly to get the flowers out of my sink} so I headed outside to gather some "filler" greenery. I cut two big leaves from my cast iron plants to go inside the vases and a few other things that looked like ivy that were growing on the ground in the woods behind our house. I decided to use two matching cylinder vases that I had on hand. Once inside, I split the flowers into two groups and was ready to go!
First, I put the cast iron leave in the vase to hide the stems of the flowers once they were in place...
it holds the flowers in place and check out the results!
My brother's girlfriend even ask me where I had the arrangements made!
Success!