If you’re like me, it’ll come soon enough..

Seriously, it’s so pretty it’s ridiculous.I look at it across the kitchen and it makes my heart smile.

Who woulda thought?It’s just a recycled mason jar, but when you slap some paint on it, suddenly it’s the bell of the ball.Cinderella in jar form.

And the poinsettia in the bubbly gold container is prince charming.. OK, that’s a bit of a stretch, but you get what I’m saying.. It’s a very pretty jar.. And it took almost no time.. And I like it.. More Christmas in a Flash coming your way soon!We had the unfortunate (or fortunate, depending on how you look at it) occurrence recently of being ready to buy the lamp for the nursery at the exact time that both my local Target and Pottery Barn, were both sold out of the baseball bat lamps that they carry.I was really just going to buy one, but Chris had been insisting that he could make me one instead for the few weeks before that, so we decided to give it a go..

It turned into a pretty fun little project and a cute little baseball-themed add on for the room.. Oh my goodness, friends.

It’s been so non-stop overcast here lately, so this picture is all kinds of terrible, but you can see the room is coming together pretty nicely now.We did have a lot of big mature plants like this at our old house and I can’t wait to get back to that stage of gardening here..

If you’d love a full, easy-to-deal-with, little-work-lotta-reward garden like this one too, but don’t have thousands to spend on it, here are our tips!.Shop at the right time.. We bought all of our plants on the May long weekend, which is generally considered here to be the “gardening weekend”.

That’s when the nurseries and big box stores had all their blowout deals for the season on and we were able to get a lot of good basic plants for a steal.The big box stores don’t typically have the selection that the nurseries do, but they do have some great prices.