St. Patrick’s Day is a festive time of year and an ideal opportunity to bring a little bit of festive green and gold into your kitchen. In today’s post, I’ll show you some green and gold inspiration to transform your kitchen into a vibrant and festive space.

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Kitchen Countertop and Shelves

I’m so excited to share some inspiration on how to add touches of green and gold as well as St. Patricks Day decor to your kitchen. You don’t have to go all out to make it festive, you can keep it simple and use subtle items like dishes, flowers, vases, and serving bowls to create a touch of spring that also doubles as St. Patricks Day decor. I used different shades of green to bring in some color as well and white and green accents throughout my kitchen and dining area. I kept this seasons decor simple and then on St. Patricks Day, I added in a few other items that made it work for both St. Patricks Day and spring!

I added some white serving bowls and cake stands, some of them antique milk glass and mint green dishes to the open shelving. I also added a spring wreath with white and green colors.

I love these kitchen appliances that I discovered recently. They come in white and gold and a handful of other colors, including green! They are aesthetically pleasing as well as functional! I’ve linked some of them below! They work amazingly too and are a great value!

Another way to add in color and warmth to your kitchen that works for St. Patricks Day decor as well as Spring, is to add a charcuterie or cutting board to your island or counter and then add some flowers in a vase. I also used this cute recipe card holder and some cookies for snacking later.

Faux Stems to recreate the look:

I added little touches of green throughout my kitchen, including the utensil crocks, a cookbook set up on an easel, and I arranged some faux apple blossoms in a green and white floral vase.

Stovetop Decor

I like to add in fresh flowers as well as faux. I made up this arrangement using grocery store flowers.

Faux Leafy Picks to recreate the look:

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I like to mix new and old decor items and you can see here how I used antique milk glass and mixed it in with some newer cake stands and other compote dishes. I also like to swap out some of the enameled cookware that I use often and here I used the ivory/white colored pans that I have.

Because my kitchen has a lot of white, it’s fun to dress it up for each season and holiday. One of my biggest tips for decorating your home is to style for the season and to also make it versatile for whatever holidays fall within that season. This saves me so much time! It’s a challenge sometimes to make it all work but I hope this post gives you some ideas and inspiration on how to decorate for both Spring and St. Patricks Day.

Green and Gold Tablescape

This is a green and gold tablescape that I set a few years back. I used this for St. Patricks Day, then Spring, and Easter! I just changed up a few things for each holiday. Click here to see all the details of this tablescape. I think it’s still one of my favorite tablescapes ever!

St. Patrick’s Day Accents

On the actual St. Patrick’s Day holiday, I added this fun little dessert tray to for everyone to enjoy.

My daughter made these yummy St. Patricks Day treats and they were so good! She’s quite the little baker!

I hope you have a wonderful St. Patrick’s Day and can have a little fun decorating for this holiday. You don’t have to go all out to make it cute and festive. Sharing all this today sure makes me excited for spring to arrive!

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Blue and Yellow Summer/Fall DIY Floral Arrangement

I created this Blue and Yellow Summer And Fall DIY Floral Arrangement for my kitchen island a few weeks back. It’s the perfect faux flower arrangement to transition from summer into fall. It’s super easy to make, and I’ll link as many of the sources below for you so you can recreate it for your home!

Using Faux Flowers

I used to avoid faux flowers because they look fake and were not high quality. Over the past few years, I’ve changed my viewpoint on faux or artificial flowers because I’ve found some really high quality ones that I can use many times over. Invest in some higher end flowers and if you take care of the properly and store them in upright containers when not in use, you can re-use them for years to come!

Another reason I like to use faux flowers is that they last forever! I do love fresh flowers, but it’s also nice to create an arrangement like this that I can use in my kitchen and home decor for weeks on end.

Non-Transitional Fall Colors

Another thing I like to do is use non-traditional fall colors, especially as we transition from summer to fall. Sunflowers are in bloom right now and they are what inspired me to make this flower arrangement. I have a lot of blue in my home so I thought it would be the perfect mix of blue and the dark yellow sunflowers for this centerpiece.

Kitchen Decor

I like changing out my dishes and decor items on my open shelves in my kitchen, and because I used these rustic, blue flower vases in my island centerpiece, it was only fitting that I used my dark blue dishes and other yellow colored dishes and rustic accents.

Get Creative with your Decor Theme

How do I come up with the colors and themes for my decor? I am always inspired by what is in season. Sunflowers are blooming in my garden, as are my blueberries. Even though these are faux, they still represent what is in season. I also did a similar colored tablescape, and the dishes I used were another part of the inspiration for this flower arrangement.

Here’s a peek at my coordinating tablescape using blue and yellow colors.

Use what you already have or purchase a few flowers or a vase that inspires you. I’ve had these vases for months now and finally found a way to incorporate them into my decor. I have a lot of blue decor in my house, so this was also a great fit.

My Tips on Arranging Flowers

Whether you’re using faux or fresh flowers, the floral arranging techniques are the same. I work in odd numbers and typically use three or five of each flower. I had five sunflowers stems, five blueberry stems, three of the taller forsythia stems, and five of the smaller sunflowers or marigolds. I then added in three white peony stems to fill in the space and add some balancing white. Look on all sides of the vase to make sure each view looks even and filled in.

One thing I like to use is a Lazy Susan Turntable. You can spin the vase around and makes floral arranging so much easier. I also bend the wire stems to create different lengths or you can also cut them using wire cutters.

I hope you enjoyed seeing the details of this fun summer/fall transitional blue and yellow flower arrangement that you can recreate for your own home.  I’ve linked as many of the sources I could find below for you!

Enjoy!!

xoxo,

For more Inspiration on Summer/Fall DIY faux flower centerpieces and arrangements click on these posts:

Blue and Orange DIY Fall Centerpiece

Summer/Fall Sunflower Centerpiece

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Blueberry Cluster Stem

Sunflower Stem

Vintage Blue Vases

Hydrangea Stem -Twilight

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Blue and Orange DIY Fall Centerpiece

Fall is quickly approaching and I’ve already started my Fall decorating! This Blue and Orange DIY Fall Centerpiece is so easy to make and adds a pop of color anywhere you place it. I set mine in the middle of my kitchen island and I love how it turned out.

Picking my Fall Color Decor Palette

I have a lot of blue in my Highland, Utah home and decided to go with a light blue and orange color palette. I wasn’t sure if I would like it or not so I started with this faux floral centerpiece. Once I was done making this I set it out on the island on top of a round shaped wood cutting board and I knew I’d made the right choice for colors!

After placing the centerpiece on the island, I started adding other decor in the same color palette to my open shelves and the rest of my kitchen, family room, and dining room. I also used tan and ivory colors around my home to compliment the blue and orange.

Using Artificial Florals

One of the reasons I like to use artificial or faux flowers is that they last forever and you can use them over and over again. I only use high quality florals though, as that makes all the difference in the overall quality of your centerpiece or floral arrangement. Here are some of the items I used in this fall centerpiece and in my kitchen decor. I’ll link the sources below at the bottom of the post.

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Here you can see how I styled the rest of the kitchen and open shelves.

Another reason I like faux flowers is that you can get almost any color in many different types of flowers. I don’t know if a burnt orange peony actually exists, but I sure love that there is a faux version available! Faux flowers are easy to arrange because you can shape and bend the stems and cut off the stems if they are too long.

I used a mix of artificial hydrangeas, peony’s, roses, and few others smaller flowers that add height and shape to the larger flowers.

How to Arrange Faux Flowers

First, pick a ginger jar or wide mouth urn or vase to recreate this look. This particular vase has a lid so I removed it and then started filling the jar with my flowers. I added three each of the roses, hydrangeas, ivory peonies, and orange peonies into the vase, and then added in the taller delphinium flowers. I always use odd numbers of flowers so 3 of each is a good formula for this type of arrangement.

I then added in some of the smaller cream colored roses on the outside and bent them over to look like they are falling out of the vase. You want it loose and not overfilled. Then add in some of the smaller orange flowers to fill in any holes. The last thing I do is check all sides to make sure there are no holes on the sides or back of the arrangement. Since this one can be seen from all sides, every part needs to look good!

I hope you enjoyed seeing how I created this blue and orange fall centerpiece flower arrangement for my kitchen island. This would also be perfect for a dining table or entry table. You could make one larger one and two smaller ones to accent the larger one and place the smaller ones throughout your home.

xoxo,

Here are all the sources (or similar options) for the fall centerpiece and some of the other items I used to decorate my kitchen. For more fall inspiration, check out my Summer/Fall Sunflower Centerpiece and my Fall Home Tour 2019

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Patriotic Home Decor Ideas

With Memorial Day just behind us and the Fourth of July coming soon I wanted to share some of my favorite Patriotic Home Decor Ideas. I prefer to keep my decorations simple and this year I tried to use all the things I had from the past few years. Once you invest in a few items, it’s easy to use the same things year after year. It just takes a little creativity and thinking outside the box.

The links and sources will all be at the bottom of the post so scroll down!

The Kitchen Decor

With my kitchen being so white and bright, it makes the red and blue patriotic decorations really stand out. If your kitchen is darker in colors, mix some rustic wood decorations along with red, white, and blue colors. I do this at my other home in Washington as my kitchen is much darker that the Utah house.

I found this cute AMERICA banner and the red, white, and blue star felt ball garland on one of my favorite etsy shops, Pearl and Jane. Using scotch tape, I just taped it up on the range hood.

I created a really simple flower arrangement in a french flower market can. Faux flowers, greenery, and blueberry stems are what I used. These came out of my Christmas decor bin! Lastly, I added two American flags that I found at the grocery store. This took me ten minutes max to create!

Next, I hung a square flag sign on the pantry door from my favorite sign company Teal Barns Signs. I used a command strip hook which worked great! (similar option linked at the bottom)

I swapped out the linen chair cushions for these blue cushions and tied them on. I’m loving the lighter shade of blue and I think its so nice to have some contrasting shades of blue mixed in with the darker navy blue.

The cushions were really inexpensive and from Homegoods.

Because I have a lot of open shelving and A LOT of dishes in every color, (see some my collection here) I pulled out the red and blue dishes and stacked them on the shelves. We use all the dishes in my collection for the most part.

I have a handful of blue polish pottery pieces that I collected twenty years ago when my husband was in the military. The star pattern with the cobalt blue is one of my favorites and fits perfectly with my patriotic theme.

I adore this star polish pottery tea pot!

Here’s a view of the blue dishes and another piece from my polish pottery collection.

On the upper shelves, I displayed some of my white and lighter blue cake stands and milk glass compotes.

The Dining Room

I added some flag pillows into the end chairs and hung up a sign that is also from Teal Barn Signs. I love this sign so much!

Similar options:  Sweet Lang of Liberty Canvas // Land of Liberty Sign

For my centerpiece on my dining table I laid a large wooden sign that I bought from a dear friend of mine’s etsy shop, CharaWorks. Here you can see how I used the flag as a base and then decorated on top of it for our Fourth of July bbq.

I’ll be sharing more details of this tablescape and set up soon so make sure you subscribe to my blog so you don’t miss it. I’ll also be sharing the recipe and instructions for this cake I made!

Is this not the cutest cake?!!  It’s made in a polish pottery baking dish with the same stars pattern. I love this so much!

I”ll share more of this in the coming weeks!

The Family Room

Well, I forgot to take any photos of the family room area but if you look in the distance of this photo you can see I added some flag pillows to the couch and some white and blue throws. I also had another sign from Teal Barn Signs. I don’t know why in the heck I didn’t snap photos of this?!!

Here’s my Patriotic Tablescape from last year. I love the flags in the napkin rings.

Last but not least, I added some blue bowls and a flag to each of these wreaths and hung them on my front door. We also had our American Flag out as our flags for the US Marine Corp, and Air Force. We have two sons in the military. I guess we need an army flag too! My husband spent six years in the Army.

Ribbon in my shop: Patriotic Ribbon Bundle // Navy 2″ Ribbon //

I hope this post gives you some fun ideas for decorating your home for the Patriotic holidays. I like to start my decorating around Memorial Day so I can enjoy it all the way through July.

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How to Mix Valentines Day Decorations into your Winter Decor

This past holiday season I decorated our Highland, Utah house with different shades of green and ivory. When I was taking down all the Christmas decorations, I decided to leave up the more neutral decorations that would double as my winter decor. I always enjoy decorating for each season and I think Winter is often overlooked! When I think of Winter colors, I think of green, silver, white, and gold. Now that it’s time for Valentines Day, I decided to keep it simple and add in some pink decorations for valentines day. I’m excited to share with you how simple and easy it is to mixing valentines day and winter decor.

The Tablescape

First and most importantly (at least to me) is the tablescape! If you’ve followed me for awhile, you’ll know how much I love creating a Tablescapes and Valentines is always one of my favorites because I get to use pink!

Below is the Winter garland centerpiece I created out of faux cedar garland, a mix of faux greenery picks, white frosted peonies, and mistletoe stems. I made this in November and my plan was to use it for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the Winter season. Then I had this great idea to add pink flowers to it for Valentines Day. Mixing in the pink was  so easy and I just used some faux pink flowers I already had so it didn’t cost me anything extra to turn this into a Valentines Day garland and tablescape.

Next, lets talk about the place-setting! Once I added the pink flowers into the garland, I pulled out my pink dishes and ordered some pink heart plates I found online.

I used pink napkins and white beaded napkin rings. For the placemats, I used silver leaves which had little hints of gold brushed over the top of the leaves. I used my gold and silver flatware and goblet glasses. One extra detail I like to add to my tablescapes is individual salt and pepper shakers. Then no-one has to ask to pass the salt and pepper! These rose gold miniature salt and pepper shakers are so cute too!

Setting a beautiful table is one of my favorite things to do and I liked how quickly I was able to set this table using things I already had. The only thing I had to purchase was the heart plates.

The Kitchen and Open Shelving

One thing I enjoy doing is using flowers in my home, especially the kitchen. I tend to use faux or artificial flowers when real ones are not in season and this allows me to purchase them once and use them over and over again. Adding flowers to a vase or ginger jar is a great way to bring color into any room. I like to fill a ginger jar full of pink flowers and set it on my island. This pretty pink ginger jar is from Lauren Haskell Designs and I’ll link it below.

Styling the open shelves and counter tops is also something I like to do. I left up some of the winter green decor items on the open shelves and mixed in the pinks dishes, flowers, and other items to create the winter and valentines mix.

Then, I used this adorable XOXOXO valentines banner and felt ball heart garland on the range hood, ( I’ll link these and everything else below). I don’t know why I hadn’t thought before to mix my pink and green dishes together but I love how pretty they are together.

Instead of taking my winter berry and cedar wreaths off my bar stool chairs, I left them up. Such a pretty contrast to the pink flowers on the marble counters. I wish I’d had more time so I could have added a pink ribbon!

The Hot Cocoa Bar

I almost always have my hot cocoa bar set up during the cold months of the year. I enjoy changing it up with each season. I make my own hot cocoa mix (its the only recipe I don’t share) and its a family favorite! Those who’ve had the pleasure of my hot cocoa can attest to how good it is and that’s why I leave it out! Anyone who comes over can always find a cup of cocoa in my home!

If you look toward the back of the tray where the hot cocoa jar is, you’ll see these cute paper cups and lids that I set out in case anyone wants to take some on the go! The pink heart marshmallows and the cups I found at Homegoods.

I put some valentines candy in some of my vintage milk glass bowls and wrapped a red and white heart felt garland around the tray. I collect different coffee and cocoa mugs and found so many cute ones this year at Homegoods. This is a great place to find things for your home and hot cocoa bar!

I hope you enjoyed seeing the simple and easy ways to transition your Winter home decor into Valentines Day without a lot of work, time, and money. This was way easier than it looks because I had already done a lot of the work before the holidays. Enjoy!

Happy Valentines Day!

XOXO,

Here’s another Valentines Day Tablescape you might enjoy!

Pink and White Valentines Day Tablescape

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Ginger Jar from Lauren Haskell designs. There are so many colors to choose from!

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I really enjoyed adding a few touches of green to my kitchen and dining room this year to celebrate Saint Patricks Day. I don’t usually go all out for the smaller holidays but I like adding a few decorations to brighten things up and St. Patricks Day is such a fun and colorful holiday to decorate for.

When I’m decorating my home for the different seasons, I try to create decor that can be used for that season and whatever holidays fall within that season. I start out by choosing a base color that mixes well with the colors in my home. I have a lot of blue decor so I try to mix in the seasonal colors with what I already have.

The Hot Cocoa Bar

I had this hot cocoa bar set up for my Galentines Day Brunch and I decided to keep it out for St. Patricks Day when I realized I had some mugs with shamrocks them. How could I not use these in the hot cocoa bar! I also had some gold chocolate coins that looked so cute in one of my milk glass compotes. I switched out the pink milk glass for the white milk glass and changed out the mugs. I then added these adorable felt ball garlands and just laid them around the tray. This brightened up the entire room and with all the snow that’s been falling in Utah, this hot cocoa bar came in handy!

The Kitchen

My inspiration for Spring and St. Patricks Day were these beautiful green and white ginger jars. I bought some pretty green and white flowers and used one of the jars as a vase for the centerpiece on the kitchen island. Fresh flowers in a ginger jar or vase is always a great accent and brightens up any room.

I used some of my antique milk glass compotes and my green, blue, and white dishes on the open shelves.  The blue dishes are our everyday dishes and for each season or holiday, I alternate some of my other dishes.

It’s so much fun to decorate the hood over the stove! To give it a little touch of the Irish, I used another felt ball and this shamrock garland. Adding in a few simple decorations makes a big statement. Sometimes less is more and in this case, I think the simplicity is better.

Add in some Shamrock Sugar Cookies and some hot cocoa and you’re all set for Saint Patricks Day treats!

The Tablescape

For the Tablescape, I used the same green, white, and blue dishes. If you look close enough, you can see a green shamrock painted on them. I added in touches of gold with the glasses, silverware, and candlesticks which made this tablescape perfect for a St. Patricks Day dinner with the family.

The only thing that’s missing now are the St. Patricks Day Cupcakes and people to eat them!

Wishing you all a Happy St. Patricks Day!

XOXO

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