Sentences with phrase «cups as vases»

Keeping things safe from breaking, I decided to use a couple of these melamine cups as vases for roses I snipped from the yard.

Not exact matches

Use it as a vase, candle holder, or a cup to drink out of.

Having vessels like mint julep cups, vases and candle glasses after they're done burning to serve as holders for makeup brushes and other necessities is important.

Joan assessed the crowd, lighting upon the most interesting: young men turning white T - shirts into art, pinching the material tight and rubber - banding each section until they looked like porcupines being dipped into huge steaming vats of colored dyes; the young woman with a bird's nest of purple hair sitting at a potter's wheel, slamming down hunks of clay, her hands moving nearly as fast as the wheel, cups, vases, plates, bowls, trays, appearing like magic; the elderly man in a worn blue linen suit, a jaunty straw boater on his head, a smeared palette tight in his hand, painting a mammoth canvas of people on a beach staring out at an ocean where a sailboat bobbed in the distance, though he himself was standing in a mowed field; the handsome young man at an old - fashioned school desk, a manual typewriter in front of him, a stack of paper to the side.

As we were heading back to our car feeling hopeless in our search of finding sconces, we turned the corner and a local Costa Rican artisan passed by us and tried to sell us hand carved vases, cups and bowls with intricate carvings of monkeys, iguanas, or geometric shapes.

Giorgio Morandi (1890 - 1964) is best known as a painter of modest - sized still lifes, depicting earthen - hued bottles, boxes, vases, jugs, and cups.

The starkness and bright white backdrop of the upstairs is totally forgotten as one weaves their body through the scaffolding to find new hidden treasures within each ceramic cup or vase.

Less visible ceramicists do not make the cut, notably Ron Nagle, who is Mr. Price's contemporary and nearly his equal as an artist, and Kathy Butterly, a younger artist who makes abstractly erotic, decorative hybrid variations on vases and cups.

She wasn't into the typical flowerpots and while looking for suitable containers, decided on antique pieces she had collected over the years, such as tea cups or vases, in which she started to grow small worlds.

As a result, you're almost a pro at repurposing your dishes, vases, cups, jars and trays to display your favourite collectibles.

STOP!Years ago I made a pleasure list.Little things that cost nothing or as little as $ 5 that made me happy to look at or be with or use.Candles, soft music a flower in a vase a new nail polish a new lipstick.A cup of tea and a half hr to enjoy it.Sometimes when we are down in the trenches it is hard to think of anything that will relieve the stress, The Little Pleasures list is very helpful to take a peek at and be reminded how easy a half hr will be to take and Oh the wonderful benefits.Kathysue

Use unusual items as centrepiece, like these gravy bowls, and a red cup used as a vase.

Top of Sideboard (left to right): The pitcher with leaves (leaves are from yard)-- Target Antlers — World Market Crackled Planter — Birch Lane, spheres in planter — can't remember, have had them for forever Mason Jars with Metal Lids — White Home Collection several years ago (Wilton, NH) Sugar Bowl — World Market Hot Chocolate Cups and Saucers — L.A. Burdick (anniversary gift years ago) Chalkboard Canisters with Copper Tops — Target Metallic Cup (was a candle but now that it's done we use it as sort of a vase)-- Target Straws — Michael's Owl Canister — Target