It’s another Floral Friday… this time with an oval vase full of orange tulips gracefully cascading to the side. I love how oval vases allow the flowers to spread more side-to-side… and not always so vertical like in normal vases. A little stamping… a little soda-firing… and a little soda flashing on “raw” unglazed B-Clay!!!

So nice to see the star magnolia trees blooming again. One of my favorites every year. Such shame they only stick around for a short time.

There’s a lot going on in that little corner of my kitchen… but one of my new orchid plants from Hausermann’s seems to be loving it there! It gets some filtered light all day… with a burst of sunshine in the late afternoon. This orchid is beautiful… tall & statuesque with so many striking flowers in bloom! I think it has found it’s new home in my kitchen!!!

A true harbinger of Spring… a beautiful vase full of orange tulips for another Floral Friday!
Two different varieties of orange tulips to compliment my stamped & soda-fired vase.

Still a bit chilly, but bright blue skies sure help when highlighting these beautiful forsythia branches. Always a welcome sight as Spring is finally blooming all around us!

After my trip to Hausermann Orchids a couple weeks ago, I came home with this little beauty too! I’ve never tried growing a Lady Slipper Orchid before… which just opened & is STUNNING!!! The sales guy said it’s not any harder than caring for phaelaneopsis orchids… which I’m okay with… so, fingers crossed!!!

Nature’s Spring beauty… details, details, details!

Things you can’t unsee???… does the center remind anyone else of a slice of kiwi???

A little pop of Spring color… a trio of tulips in one of my favorite mugs by Cory McCrory! In just two months, I will be hanging out as a Guest Potter at Cory’s place in Sandwich, Illinois for the NORTHERN ILLINOIS POTTERY TOUR. Mark your calendars for June 7th & 8th for a roadtrip to Sandwich for a whole lotta pottery fun… then continue on to the rest of the Tour locations. A full weekend of pottery adventures!

Loving Kelly’s stamped & soda-fired wall pocket vase… perfect for remnants of a floral arrangement when the “fussy flowers” died off and left this textural assortment. Just another fun Floral Friday!

A single rose in a stamped & soda-fired ikebana vase to brighten your Friday…
it doesn’t take a lot to share a smile!