decorating step-by-step: Arranging Flowers

Use both blooms and containers in innovative ways.

Ad your own spark of creativity to fresh flowers by placing them in not just one container, but in two or more. For a quick, unique arrangement, fill a footed, urn-shaped vase with flowers such as tulips, gerbera daisies, chrysanthemums, and roses. Then set the arrangement in a large glass cylinder vase. For another great effect, place different kinds and colors of blossoms in three shallow glass bowls, and stack them together.

Display the flowers on the breakfast table, nightstand, or wherever you'll enjoy a burst of fresh color. For an elegant gift, surprise someone special with an arrangement you've made in honor of a birthday or another occasion.

JULIA HAMILTON

MATERIALS

sand, marbles, or rocks glass cylinder vase ornament, toy, or decorative object urn-shaped glass vase fresh flowers three shallow glass bowls

Vase Within a Vase

Step 1: Add an inch or so of sand, marbles, or rocks to the cylinder vase. (This helps stabilize the second vase.) Include a small ornament, toy, or some other kind of decorative object for additional interest.

Step 2: Add water to the urn-shaped vase, and fill it with flowers. Then set the entire arrangement into the cylinder vase.

Layered Look

Step 1: Cut blossoms from two colors of flowers and fill a pair of the three shallow glass bowls, keeping colors separate. Place a single, large blossom, such as a rubrum lily, in the third bowl.

Step 2: Add water to each bowl, and then stack them, placing the one with the large flower on the top.

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