Easy-Peasy Decorations

     I was cleaning out the spice cabinet yesterday, ended up with several interestingly shaped bottles (the contents were expired, or they were one of two open bottles.) I did not want to throw them away, but didn't really know what to do with them either.

     I was slightly disapointed they were not of the pretty blue glass that is so popular for kitcehn window sill collections.  I have always envied that look but have never once found a blue bottle to snag at the antique stores. 

     However sitting next to these bottles (full of soy sauce, hot sauce, Worcestershire sauce and almond extract in case anyone wanted to know) was the food dye that I hadn't quite got around to putting away yet, and suddenly they two clicked in my mind.

     The pictures don't quite do these justice, I couldn't capture how they seem to glow when the sun shines throw them, just like stained glass.  But making them couldn't get easier. Just fill any (clean please) bottle almost full with water, add a few drops of food dye, shake a little (they also look pretty as the dye is settleing, all swirls and vapors) and put them in a sunny window.  And instant color on a dreary winter day.

  
    

Stealth Bows

     The husbandman is a very manly man, and therefor is not best pleased with my habit of decorating with bows.  Thus (as I am a hugely girly girl and love bows in all shapes and sizes) I am recuded to adding what he calls "stealth bows" anywhere and everywhere I can.
     For example, I might tie his sweatshirt ties into a bow as we are talking, or tie my straw wrapper around my knife (into a bow of course.) I have bows on my purse, on my tote bag and often wear them in my hair.

 

     However, I think I am proudest of these bows.  They are by far the sneakiest.  They are on the wall yes, of our own bedroom.  In plain sight. And the husbandman has never said a word. I'm sure it is just because he is humouring me, (after all, they are very small bows in the corner, under a shelf) but it is much more fun to think that these are the stealthiest of all my stealth bows, and he just still hasn't see them.