Hooked on Fresh Flowers at Home

Welcome to Hooked on Fridays, a blog party I host at the end of each week to celebrate the things that make us happy! This week I’m hooked on having fresh flowers in my house. I used to save them for special occasions, but at the beginning of the year I made it one of my resolutions to have some around every day. Why save them for company?

When I was at Ikea earlier this year, I found some simple glass bottles for about three bucks each and thought they’d be perfect for my kitchen windowsill. They only require one flower each, so I’m able to buy the cheapest, $5 bunch at the grocery store each week to fill them with (and when our daisies bloom this summer, I’ll be able to get them straight from my yard!). The extras from the bunch go in little Ball jars and juice glasses that I scatter around the house.

It’s amazing how something so simple and inexpensive can add so much to the way the house feels. It’s just happier with flowers in it!

Now it’s your turn to tell us what you’re hooked on today! If you have something to share with us on your blog, then add your link below. Just please be sure to:

Add the permalink to the specific blog post, not your general blog address.
Include what you’re hooked on in parentheses after your blog name. Ex: The Red Cottage (antiques)
Link back to the party from your post so that your readers can come and see what everyone else is talking about today!
Visit as many of the other participants as possible and leave comments! That’s what a blog party is all about!
Double-check to make sure your link works and goes to the right page so it doesn’t get deleted! If you come back and see your link is gone, re-read these rules and try again next week.

(Also check out Fifi’s Fashionable Friday and Melissa’s Beautiful Life parties, happening today!)

Hooked on Fridays Participants

1. songbirdtiff (scrapbook paper wall art)
2. The Shabby Chic Cottage
3. Design Ties (Interview with Jamie Drake a giveaway!)
4. Mary Beth{What’s Blooming This Week}
5. Arleen @ Seasons for All at Home
6. TK – Working with a designer
7. Lindsay @ Likely Design (Antique Store Scores!!!)
8. Things That Inspire (Steel Windows and Doors)
9. Edwin- HouseAHolic (Photos of Detroit Urban Decay)
10. Beach Cottage Love (yellow door)
11. BHD (More than she dreamed)
12. Linda @ Lime in the Coconut(Brazilian escape)
13. Misti of Studio M Designs (Paula Deen’s House
14. Nan (Playful Decor)
15. Linda @ Restyled Home (apron sinks)
16. Fifi Flowers
17. Nancy Book’s I’m hooked on
18. PamperingBeki (newborn photography)
19. A Simple Walk (family field trips)
20. Kate @ Stolen Moments (tempura fried green beans)
21. WhisperWood Cottage (Beach Cottage Cabinet)
22. Daly Essentials(Dining Rooms)
23. Wayfaring Wanderer {Hk’d on Fresh Flowers too!}
24. Amy @ Finer Things (organic salad)
25. Rachael (fresh cut lilacs)
26. Maya (Wear or Wall?)
27. TheOldPostRoad (pretty rooms)
28. Olive Rue
29. Our Nifty Notebook (car seat safety)
30. Claudia @DipityRoad (Paris, black and white)

31. Maria (Our tropical family portraits)
32. sue-in-sydney {sprucing up my hallway}
33. It Feels Like Chaos (bee-free home)
34. KARA @ MADE 2 CREATE (Enchanting Outdoor Areas)
35. Alea @ Premeditated Leftovers (no/low sugar jam)
36. ~Really Rainey~ {Summertime afternoon naps}
37. Pretty Organizer- Online Decor Ideas
38. Diann @ The Thrifty Groove (free digital prints)
39. Susan Palmer Designs Blog (Imperial Range)
40. Jasmine @ The Suburban Sentiment (Beautiful Headboards)
41. The Inspired Room
42. Simply Sweet Home (flower beds)
43. Christy (Monogrammed Jewelry Giveaway)
44. susan (Your home, only better.)
45. mannequin(who lives there?)
46. Kristin
47. Alfazema (Hooked on Rain)
48. Emily@remodelingthislife ($15 Entryway Makeover)
49. Kimba (spray painting glass bottles)
50. Jamie (Twine)
51. Jenna @ Newlyweds
52. Ashley @ A Hasty Life (Breakfast)
53. Ashley (Summer Picnic’s)
54. Ashley @ AshleysBusy (Blue Front Door)
55. casaCARA (Miss Amelia’s Cottage)
56. LuLo Designs (Handpainted Furniture)
57. Tara @ Feels like home (a great birthday!)
58. Kelli @ SustainingCreativity (Produce Co-ops)
59. Robin~All Things Heart and Home (Summer Spread)
60. Heather (Pink!)

61. Bonnie M
62. Liz ~ It’s Great To Be Home (Make Custom Storage Unit From Salvaged Materials)
63. Ohio12 (Hooked on My Fashion Fiasco)
64. Liz@VioletPosy (Modern Furniture)
65. m @ tales from an oc cottage(vintage jewels)
66. TidyMom
67. ImagineCozy (Cozy Dining Room)
68. From the Right Bank to the Left Coast (Haymarket Hotel, London)
69. Tamara
70. TheCincyLife (Urban Condo Tour)
71. Puna – new bathroom tile
72. It’s Frugal Being Green (Costco Trip 6/3, including fresh flowers)
73. RML (Hooked on Little Black Dresses)
74. ilovemy5kids (Gladness)
75. Deann/Dea’s Strings
76. World of Mod Podge (end table re-do)
77. Flower Patch Farmgirl (Vintage Memo Board)
78. Jane F from Atticmag (My Friday Recipe – Thai Taste Coleslaw
79. Cass at That Old House (Getting YOUR Beach House Design Advice)
80. Carolina Mama (Paula Deen’s Y’all Come Inn House!)
81. Ramona @ ADayInTheLifeOfRamona {Beds of Flowers}
82. Cleaning the Dishwasher with Kool-Aid (Hooked on Cleaning)
83. Robyn (my daisies)
84. laura @ the shorehouse
85. janmary (my irish back garden)
86. Abbie (feeding my baby)
87. Becky @ Farmgirl Paints
88. Elaine Power

Tagged as: Blog Parties, Decorating, flowers, home

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1 Sue June 5, 2009 at 2:45 pm: I’m with you, I love fresh flowers in the house, great post!

Sue’s last blog post..Discounts for Dummies?
2 Diana@TheDevineHome June 5, 2009 at 2:46 pm: There’s nothing like fresh flowers to make a house feel alive! Love yours ;o)

Diana@TheDevineHome’s last blog post..Fire Fly Love
3 Carrie June 5, 2009 at 3:02 pm: I planted a whole bed of Zinnia’s this year just so I can use them for cut flowers this summer.

Carrie’s last blog post..The Art of Hanging Laundry
4 Jen - thethriftyhome.com June 5, 2009 at 5:25 pm: I never buy flowers because I thought they were too expensive. I {Heart} this idea!
5 Robyn June 5, 2009 at 6:01 pm: Well, I am going to have to head right on over to my Ikea- those vases are cute! ~ Robyn

Robyn’s last blog post..Fertilizer Friday!
6 Kathy :) June 5, 2009 at 6:01 pm: Just love fresh flowers…..

Have a nice week-end Julia

Kathy
7 The Summer Kitchen Girls June 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm: Yes….the past few months we’ve been gathering loads of vases in every room to put tulips…..and now peonies & roses – ain’t spring/summer grand?!!

The Summer Kitchen Girls’s last blog post..Ready…Aim….Shoot!
8 laura @ the shorehouse. June 5, 2009 at 7:01 pm: Better late than never…just got my Hooked on Flea Market post up. I started and stopped working on this post about 100 times today…Total blog A.D.D.!

I love your flowers! Thrifty AND beautiful.

laura @ the shorehouse.’s last blog post..Hooked on the OG Flea
9 JanMary, N Ireland June 6, 2009 at 2:37 am: You know, I need to do this more too – why wait for special occasions – every day is a gift we should celebrate!

Have a lovely weekend

JanMary, N Ireland’s last blog post..Show & Tell – two little birdies in my back garden
10 Becky @Farmgirl Paints June 6, 2009 at 2:22 pm: Love the idea. I wish I had a Trader Joe’s real close. They have beautiful flowers for cheap. I would definitely do better about putting some out if I did.

Becky @Farmgirl Paints’s last blog post..Change is Hard!
11 Vicki Archer June 7, 2009 at 3:13 am: Fresh flowers are an absolute must, when we can have them…they put me in the best mood and everyone else too i think, xv.

Vicki Archer’s last blog post..A rose is a rose…