Tuesday, August 5, 2008

VINTAGE FLOWER ARRANGER


This is my wonderful, vintage flower arranger. I have had it for a long time. I bought it years ago from a nice lady at an estate sale. This lady's Mama had died and she was selling her things to settle some debts. Since most of her things were from the forties or early fifties, I think this must date back to that period. It is unmarked with only the marks made by the kiln feet, on the bottom. I just love it when It is filled with flowers. It is probably on the list of my ten favorite things I own.

I wish I had a picture with flowers in it but I haven't taken many pictures of my arrangements because even with this, I am not a great flower arranger. I love trying though. I have another metal frog, a round one, which looks to be pretty old. It makes pretty bedside bouquets.

I love this one because the frog is an oval shape and makes it easy for me to arrange flowers in a more pleasing way. It is about 12x8 and nearly three inches deep, so you can make a fairly large arrangement in it.

29 comments:

tina said...

I hope you post some pictures of your arrangements. I am not much of one, preferring instead to grow them. I did actually pick some surprise lilies today and they are smelling the house up nicely. But not arranged.:(

Lib said...

Neat! I've never seen an oval frog before.
Have agreat day.
Blessins',Lib

walk2write said...

I'm sure your arrangements are probably beautiful. Don't be afraid to display them on your blog. I understand where you are coming from, though. I think we (the sensitive souls among us) worry too much about what other people will think if we let our creativity out of the bag. Thanks for leaving a comment on my blog, by the way. I'm always glad to see a new visitor.

Melissa said...

I love floral frogs - mine are all pin ones and glass ones - I don't have any like that one - very, very cool...

A Wild Thing said...

What a wonderful color...the frogs are still very popular in the antiquey world, this is unusual with the big dish, especially in aqua.

sharon

Gail said...

Its a beautiful flower frog! I love that name flower frog! Do sometime let us see how it looks with your flowers arranged!

gail

Anonymous said...

that's a pretty nifty thing to have

arlene,
University Place florist

Anonymous said...

Eve, I really like that flower arranger, too! I like vintage, and I like green, and I like useful. It sure qualifies.

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Cindy said...

What a nice flower frog. I've never seen one quite like it. Along with everyone else, I think you should share some of your arrangements on your blog. I'd love to see it with some flowers (pleeeeaasssse!)

JunieRose2005 said...

This is very nice!

I'd love to have one like that! Old things always attract me more than the new!

Thanks for visiting my place often! I do appreciate it!


Junie

DP Nguyen said...

It is a really cool flower arranger. I bet you could do some great things with that! And the flowers look awesome on your table.

Skeeter said...

Why dont I see a frog? Hum, I must be loosing my mind here. LOL...
I have never seen a vintage flower arranger before. That is so neat!
Yes, show your pretties! One is usually their worse critic ya know...

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