What to do with leftovers

A couple days ago, I was a bit restless and tired of it being so cold that I couldn't comfortably do anything outside, so I finally broke down and bundled myself up in the most ridiculous looking way and went outside and commenced to fixing up the flower boxes and finally putting together the little wreath for our back door. I had had all this greenery laying around in my car - leftovers from jobs - bits of some sort of pine, boxwood, and some incense cedar. I also had three packages of rosehips that I had originally bought for my neighbor's garland, wreath and planter, but I decided to go with pepperberry for her instead.

For the baby wreath, I added a few accents with the pine, boxwood and cedar to the base:
It's simple and cute and just right for that door.

Our planter got an upgrade this year!I don't usually do it up in such a fancy way, but I had the greens and the gumption to do it! I love the curly willow in there - it give it a bit more oomph!

I started doing all of this stuff a couple afternoons ago in between walking the dogs and then walking to the restaurant to meet my friend for dinner. I had a two hour window to do the wreath, fancy up the planter and then do all 6 flower boxes!

So, the wreath and planter were easy peasy. I can do that stuff in my sleep! The flower boxes, however, required a bit more attention, as they were filled with loads of grasses and other dead things. Not so pretty. So I went about the business of cutting back all the dead grasses and most of the other dead stuff in there. I did keep the mini-licorice - even though it is no longer alive, it is a pleasant silver color and adds some interesting shape to the flower boxes:


You likey?

I ended up using all of the greens and then added the rosehips and finished them off with a couple types of preserved flat-leafed eucalyptus and some preserved lemon-leaf that I also had in the house! They are certainly not my favorite flower boxes I've ever done, but they look worlds better than they did with the dead crap in them!!

Man, looking at those pictures outside, our house needs a good paint job again! Jeez!

In other world news, we went our tiny local theater to see a holiday play last night. It was not your usual cheeriness-for-the-holidays type play. It was downright sad and quite dark, but it was a nice way to spend an evening and the acting was really quite good!

I also did an hour yoga DVD yesterday to start my journey to lose as much weight as humanly possible before we go on our vacation in February. My good friend suggested an easy weight-loss method of cutting off a leg, but that's really not the look I am going for!! Anywho, I'm good and sore today from yoga and despite that fact, did over 40 minutes of walking! Yaay for me!

Ok...Off to take the dogs for their afternoon walk and then will settle in for a nice evening. We've been out jet-setting for the last couple nights, so I'm happy to have a nice, cozy night at home!

Hope you're all staying warm!

Later!