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A neat little trick a picked up off Pinterest a few years ago. I often want to use low wide vases for flowers, this one is actually a glass salad bowl. So how do you prevent the flowers all flopping towards the edges and create height in the centre. Easy, magic tape to the rescue.Scroll down to see howUse strips of magic tape to create a rough web across the vase.
The flowers will hang over the edges and hide the end of the tape.
Now simply arrange the flowers as if they were in a normal vase, using the tape as a support to make flowers in the centre stand up.
Enjoy your gorgeous arrangement.
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Spotted this gorgeous credenza styling on Pinterest the other day, a glimpse of a truly gorgeous apartment featured on Domaine which is well worth a look. Simply gorgeous photos by Bethany Nauert. Love the brass lamps, the art, succulents, sculpture. It reminded me strongly of my credenza, with art, brass lamp and even a succulent, but mine needs a bit of finishing off (see second photo down). So I found a few little details that might just do the trick.I love my lamp and the painting (by my very talented mom), it just needs a few bits and pieces to really look special. And yes the photo could be better, but its all I could manage with my iphone, my real camera was unavailable and I sure do miss it!
Bronze horse sculptures from Pottery Barn - I know Pottery Barn! Good value too, I really want them!
Brass lamps - I like them chunky and a bit over the top - ugly good if you know what I mean. My one came from West Elm a few years ago but not in stock in more unfortunately, would love another one.
Lamps below are: skyscraper lamps by Maison Jansen, & below left pair both by from 1st Dibs. They are going to be original period and they are going to be pricey. Below right - brass tripod by Empire Studio, very nice and far more affordable.
Succulents - think I need something with a bit more oomph, you can barely even see mine in the photo. Love this brass plant pot diy from A Beautiful Mess.
So watch this space, there may be a little reshuffle coming this way.
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This year I am moving things around, trying to do more with what I already have. I created this tablescape for my outdoor coffee table and thought I would share how it developed.
I have had the marble tray for years and have never managed to style it up quite how it looked in the store. This vignette is working much better than the tray on its own, and it was quick and inexpensive to achieve. I already had the small glass vase and marble flower plate, I only added a larger size glass vase (a steal at $16) and bought the succulent at a street market. You can see below how it started out and how I built it up.
Two vases, one taller and wider (both from my favourite variety store), and the gorgeous succulent to add colour and texture. The flower plate has been in my bathroom with a candle on it, but is far prettier here.
It's still evolving, I think the candle is to pale, perhaps another succulent? But overall I am really enjoying the effect. Especially like that the succulent will be happy in the winter sunlight and won't need to be replaced for months.
So pleased that I moved all these things around and tried something new. Turns out that a change was all that tray needed to go from flat to fantastic.
Use strips of magic tape to create a rough web across the vase. 
