{JUST enough Daffodils to fill our CIRCLE Vase}

• Hah, on February 24 I did snip off about 75 Daffodils to fill our unique CIRCLE Vase... Have you ever seen one? Wait and see your first one below!

• Bud vases that are ALL joined together as ONE  CIRCLE VASE...
• Have you EVER seen one like that?

• From our entire estate I only got this total yield of daffodils for 2013...
• Using my Gardena Garden scissors.
• But I was very happy with them!

• Cutting them all short, I started arranging them inside these cute bud vases.

• They are in TWO layers...

• YES, TWO layers and all joined together... on top of my Le Jacquard Français tablecloth.

• Next you will get to see the full circle...

• There are 9 vases below and 9 vases above and it also has a separate circle of glass, for using with some displlay...
• THAT I will show you later!
• So what do you think? 
• You like this idea of vases linked together?
• I've never ever seen anything like this and below I have only two links that I found with one layer circle vases. 
• Found mine on eBay.

Related links:
Gardena 359 All Purpose Stainless Steel Garden Scissors | at Amazon.com
Circle Bud Vase | Circle with 9 bud vases, just scroll down and click on image
Glass Vases | Showing also round circle bud vases

{I LOVE Mosses & Daffodils}

• Maybe strange but I LOVE, really LOVE MOSSES! And Daffodils of course...! 
• Am I crazy? Or are there others that are with me?... 
• I know my youngest brother Jan is crazy about mosses as well; so it must be genetic!

• This is a photo from such mosses that I'd pampered for years, weeding them so they could grow FAT, be happy and STAY...
• BUT, they need lots of moisture and with two very hot summers with lots of drought; all my mosses have VANISHED! Yes, they're gone.
• How I treasure this photo from 1994. That combination of daffodils and mosses looks perfect to me; or not?

• This photo is also from 1994, just last week I did scan those old slides.
• Plenty of daffodils than. Now only the green showed but no buds, no blooms for 2013.
• Here our semi-evergreen oak is still skinny and in its early years.
• If you click on the link below this post you can see the giant that it is now.
• Sure, there's always access to water and this pond never ever gets dry, as we had it dug in a wet area, kind of like a marsh. 
• A well from underground keeps it filled year-round! 

Do you have a fondness of mosses as well?

Related link:
{Our Different Oaks}| Previous post by me, showing the oak where the daffodils used to be...

{Our Irish Blarney Castle Sweaters + Short Hair}

• Yep, yesterday I had a major haircut... much needed and I would like to hear what you think...
• Today we went to a special music program at our Christ Episcopal Church at noon. 
• Since it is an official event of the Saint Patrick's Festival most people did wear some green. 
• So out came our all cotton Irish Blarney Castle Sweaters that we bought during one of our consulting trips to Ireland.
• They just feel comfy to wear on a sunny, but windy day!

• That's me with short hair and our feline boy Bandido, on the steps of our gazebo...
• You can tell the pollen is starting to come, as seen by Dido's paw prints on my navy Escada jeans!
• That's the Blarney Castle, all cotton sweater from Ireland.
• Below I will show you a detail of it and also form the necklace and earrings.

• These Blarney Castle sweaters do have a shamrock knitted into the front!
• Quite appropriate for our City of Dublin, as it is the emblem here.
• Escada jeans in navy with old Salamander ballerina shoes with ankle strap.

• The yellow Carolina jasmine is budding out and will look pretty very soon.
• The sun is so harsh already that making photos is nearly impossible without shade marks.

• Yes, we both are dressed in partner look...
• Pieter is holding the chicken wire, on which our Carolina jasmine vine is climbing up as a support.

• Here it is with one Blarney Castle emblem up on the left sleeve and a larger one inside the neck.
• From Pieter I received once this cloisonné Hex sign that he got me in Pennsylvania in the early 80s.
• The Irish Shamrock Hex is a sign for good luck surrounded by smooth round lines for an easy life. The two distelfinks make for a double  portion of good fortune while the heart suggests love.
• The silver earrings with green Malachite stone, we bought while doing consulting work in México, during a weekend sight seeing with our boss/friend Agustín.
• Fond memories and they play an annual role in our Dublin St. Patrick's Festival...

Are you celebrating St. Patrick's Festival in your City?