A FAVORITE POST OF 2011 REVISITED . . . .

Blogging, inspiration, design, ideas, recipes, lifestyle adventures, travel and friendships!  A few of my friends have recently found out that I have been a blogger for a little over a year.  They have asked, along with the seasoned bloggers and followers: " What were some of your most popular posts for 2011?"   There were two that stand out and continue to be read over and over . . . . ALL THAT IS FRENCH (#2) AND LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH THOSE TRAYS (#1)

Trays are simply an easy and attractive way to organize

our STUFF.   Also, if all of these boxes are dispersed on tables,

cubbies, shelves, dresser tops, etc.  you really don't enjoy

them as much as when they are all together.  It can also

be somewhat of a surprise when all gathered together, how a

collection has grown.

HERE ARE A FEW NEW TRAY IDEAS. . . .

I love to take a small vintage perfume bottle and make

a mini arrangement of flowers and place on a porcelain tray.

This tray is in our powder room and is always filled with various

containers which are in turn filled with flowers.  I used this

combination over the holidays, colors are right, but the type

of flowers, a nice surprise.  Just love tulips in the winter!

A gathered grouping of objects on a silver tray.   .  .a crystal

biscuit box, a paper weight that makes me smile (given to me by

my daughter) and a little bird holding a glass container on his back

with a lily.  Alone, these items not so significant.  .   .  gathered on a

tray, they take on a different significance.

This tray is a fiber made from the leaves of bananas.  A little

blue and white, a little bit of the ocean and a vintage hurricane

candle holder.  

I got out an old bread tray and put two small vases filled with Ipernicum,

fresh Fir branches and a battery operated votive. 

Objects of the kitchen. . . . dinner bell, cinnamon sugar

in a vintage jar and a silver muffineer.

 

A vintage tray with some lambs in from the pasture,

snow covered miniature trees and a votive light.  This

was on the breakfast table almost the whole season this

past year.

This silver tray is in the master bath and it is footed.

Make up brushes, dresser jars, perfume and a fresh rose

in a little vintage container.  The scissors, tweezers, hair clips

are in the old spooner.  The q-tips are in a silver cigarette

holder. 

Another view of master bath tray.

So many people have trays in closets and boxes that might just

need a little polishing, but get them out and create organization

on just about any kind of tray you can imagine.  If you do, I would

just love for you to share them with me.

A TRAY PARTY is in the making. . . . . girlfriends creating their hearts

out for a photograph to be shared with all of you.