My Love of Topiary & Greenery

I see it has been almost a month since my last blog post.  I've been busy and just haven't felt like putting something together.  Between work, the gym, getting dinner, watching my shows and then wanting to read, whether that be online, my nook or diving into my pile of magazines, it hasn't left my time for anything else.

After taking down our Christmas decor, I always get such a sense of renewal that I also freshen up and mix up my home accents.  One constant in our home decor are topiary.  I love topairy.....any and all sizes and shapes.  I'm always on the lookout for a good one when I'm out and around and I've found them in unusual places.  I prefer preserved topiary but if I find a good fake one, I'm not going to turn it down.

This is my most recent acquisition....not a topiary but a boxwood wreath......I adore boxwoods and I have a whole hedge of them in the front of my house that I baby and trim every year.  This wreath came from Home Decorators Collection and I added the burlap ribbon from a roll I already had in my scrap room.

 
It hangs on one side of the patio door and it brings some "life" to that spot in our house.

I use topiary on our foyer table along with a Longaberger basket, a #4 pottery crock that my mom gave me 25 years ago filled with some artificial hydrangea.

I just put out the blue glass bottles on the table and I'm seeing if they "fit".    I also have a birdcage filled with a trio of candles on the bottom shelf along with another one of my Longaberger baskets (which is sometimes used as a bed by our furry friends).

I'm going to be painting the foyer and hallway next month in the same color I painted our den last summer...Sherwin Williams Beach House.

I also use topiary on table displays through our house.  We have a ladder shelf in our family room that I use to display our family mementos and between our mementos I like using contrasting greenery and again to pull some "life" inside.

 See, that little pewter kitty cat?.......

It's one of the first things that Fred ever bought for me and the B it resides on came from a favorite home interiors store in the Amana Colonies on a favorite family vacation.

Here's another grouping that is on top of one of our bookcases.

See the theme I have going here.....  :)

I also did something a little different with Connor's senior portrait.  We had purchased several of our favorite poses in 8 X 10 and those I have in tabletop frames throughout the house, but one of them we ordered in a 11 X 14 and I framed it in a simple black frame. I wanted to display it differently than just hanging it on a wall or on a tabletop, so I used a small easel and sat it next to our fireplace in front of one of our built in bookcases.....I like it.

Thanks for letting me share my love of topiary, greenery and home decor........