Making Fake Flowers Look Real in a Clear Vase
Okay so here’s the reputation fake flowers in a clear vase have, and it’s earned, I’m not going to pretend it isn’t. Cheap stems, cloudy plastic water, that one gerbera…
Dining Room Display Cabinet Ideas
I was standing on a kitchen chair at seven this morning, in my robe, holding a gravy boat I hadn’t touched since Thanksgiving 2019, trying to figure out if it…
Donut Vase Ideas
I own eleven donut vases. Eleven. I counted them properly last Sunday while unpacking a box from my last move, sitting on my kitchen floor surrounded by ceramic rings like…
Dressing Table Drawer Organization
I counted for a week, actual tally, little tick marks on a Post it stuck to my mirror. Fourteen times a day, on average, I open the top drawer of…
Flower Vase Habits for Longer Blooms
I counted them a few months back, out of pure morbid curiosity, and then wished I hadn’t. Forty one. Forty one vases, sitting in cupboards, on top of the fridge,…
Glass Display Cabinet Ideas
Glass display cabinets have a reputation problem, and I get it. Say the phrase out loud and most people picture their grandmother’s dining room, a locked cabinet full of Hummel…
Vase Ideas for People Who Dont Like Flowers
My wife walked into the kitchen, looked at the big glass vase sitting on the counter, looked at me, and said, “There’s nothing in that.” There was something in it.…
Living Room Display Cabinet Ideas
I bought my first proper display cabinet in 1994, a monstrous oak thing with brass hardware that the delivery men hated me for, and I filled it, within about a…
The Rose Vase Habits That Save a Bouquet
I was standing at the kitchen sink last Tuesday tipping a week’s worth of vase water down the drain, and it came out in that thick, slightly ropy way that…
TV Stand Shelves: What Goes On Them Besides the TV
I counted it once, out of boredom more than curiosity, and the number stuck with me: I open or reach into my own TV stand shelves about nine times a…