Flowers & Cheer
Beautiful flowers from a friend, arranged in a vintage green glass vase. She knows how much I love vintage glass, especially depression glass, so she often arrives at my house with flowers tucked inside an old vase. Not all colored glass is depression glass, of course, and this one happens to be an Indiana Glass piece in avocado green, vintage and collectible, but different from depression glass. Either way, I seem to have acquired a growing collection of beautiful glass vases, and I have absolutely no complaints about that. I must say, I’m not hating the flowers that come with them either. I won’t even tell her how much I love carnival glass.... I laugh when my kids tell me they don’t want my stuff when I die… as if I buy things for after I’m dead . I buy it because I love it now. I love surrounding myself with things that make me happy while I’m alive, without worrying whether anyone will cherish them when I’m not here. So there. Earlier this week, I bought myself a bouquet too, th...