I bought some flowers at Michaels and Dollar Tree last week. As soon as I got them home I realized I needed MORE! I don't know how to do floral arrangements, but my way of decorating with flowers is more of a "clip and stick" style. I clip em and stick em EVERYWHERE. I buy a variety of flowers in the same color family and clip and stick them all together...in anything I can find. From vintage silver, coffee cups, pitchers and upside down lampshades like you see here. Got this one at a garage sale and liked it better with flowers in it. You name it, and this week I put flowers in it. 

Take a peek at some of the other things I did.   

Here's a coffee urn I bought at a garage sale for 5 bucks! I love to repurpose my vintage finds. Isn't that what God does with our lives? If you feel like an old coffee urn that has lost her cord in a day where Starbucks and Keurig makes you obsolete, rest assured, God has a purpose for you and it will be more beautiful than you can imagine! He makes us all things beautiful in His time. 

I like this coffee pot better as a vase and I absolutely love the purple daisies from Dollar Tree. You don't have to spend a forture to make your house look like a million!

A little splash of color goes a long way to update a fall color palette. All the flowers in my kitchen were red and while I love red, my eyes were getting tired of seeing the same color. I boxed up the red and stored those flowers in the garage. Someday, what is old now will be new again. In the meantime, purple is my new red! Here is a coffee cup I bought at Michaels in their dollar section. Just three stems from a sprig of mums along with a splash of green adds a punch of fall. I love the contrast of the stark white coffee cup with the purple and green.

I bought an entire bag of the green balls at an estate sale for $1. I have no idea what they are, but you'll see through out my pics how a couple here and a couple there spread the green around the house.

Here's a couple of tips for fun fall decorating:

Whenever you see something you like at a garage sale or an estate sale, even if you aren't sure where you would use it at the time, buy it for inspiration. It's fun to play with a variety of textures.

To sprinkle a touch of nature, add pinecones to a small plate, coffee cup or tray like I did to this 50 cent thrift store silver dish. Pecans or walnuts in their shell or acorns also are a great way to add texture.

Cut or tear strips of fabric to use instead of ribbon to embellish vases.

This bronze frame below used to be red. I loved the frame but the red clashed so I put on a latex glove and rubbed some Plaid Enterprise Treasure Gold onto it. It only took about a minute! Then I found this white vase hiding in the garage. The white, along with a sprig of bachelor's buttons, sets off the display of bronze.

Here's some more daisies in a silver tea cannister. Can you tell I have an extreme fondness for anything silver?

Later this week, I'll share some more of my purple passion! Happy decorating!

Remember, He has made everything beautiful in its time (Ecc 3:11).