The Day of Labor

A day to be celebrated, I'm sure, so I will be doing so at work. Yes, that's right, I'm updating from work. Though I am rather disappointed in myself for having forgotten to take my plants out to their window sill this morning and am now in a desperate frenzy to contact the celebrating masses to please move them so that they might get all the sunlight they deserve. There should be some kind of punishment for people who forget to move their plants, like if they can't have food, neither can I! Hopefully though this won't be a rule until later because I am one hungry bunny. I wish I knew a proper herb I could use to reduce hunger cravings, but sadly no, I do not, so we'll have to continue the onward struggle to grow great smelling plants without eating constantly.

Anyway, since I'm at work this morning I thought it would be nice to instead of updating on my poor sun deprived plants, instead show you all something fancy that I did with my house dwellers the other day. This goes to prove that you don't have to have living plants to make fancy arrangements.


All you need for this little number is!: A fancy pants wine glass, or in this case something from the dollar store will do quite nicely, and two dried sunflowers. That's it! Now in this case they are teddy-bear sunflowers grown from the beginning of April until late last month. They were a lovely little addition to my garden and I was sad to see them depart their vibrant yellows and puffy bumble bee like fluff, but in this case, they are beautiful even in death. The sunflowers are averaged to grow to only 24 inches, but anyone who has seen my apartment knows that that is too big, but luckily! They only grew to approx. 8 to 12, with very nice twin blooms on both sides. I had two pots of them, and one of the pots followed the seed packets averages perfectly, twin blooms and mature length, but the other had some kind of strange mutation. It was growing blooms directly from the stem and there were at least four at a time just off the stem never even branching out at all. Anyway, they certainly were beautiful. After I dried them though, they certainly made some interesting photographs and has made me proud to say that these flowers did their duty by me to make me smile even after departing from my window sill.