FLOURISH

One of the surest signs that spring has arrived each year is the blooming of the Bradford pear trees. Widely planted as a street tree,

If you love billowy, carefree masses of flowers, a cottage style garden is just for you. These gardens are all about embracing abundance.

We use dried hydrangea flowers for so many things, why not make paper with them too? It’s a great way to repurpose flowers we were about to toss into the compost and junk mail that was destined for the recycling bin.

What pulls us out into the garden and gets our creative juices flowing? Ice lanterns. They’re strangely beautiful, fun to make, and offer a way to repurpose floral holiday arrangement materials.

Floral arrangements brighten up our homes any time of the year, but especially in the winter. However, it can be nerve wracking to go out