Voyage of Discovery

It's amazing what you discover when you move from an overcrowded apartment into a house. The discovery of long-lost possessions, the unfortunate realization that certain items are well-and-truly just not here and a host of "I didn't know I had that!"

For example...who would have thought that I had six identical square glass vases?


Two questions usually come to mind in those moments of discovery for me.

1. Why on earth did I buy six identical vases?
2. What on earth am I going to do with them?

For now, most are living on the top shelf of the pantry. But I did manage to use two.

One now holds my collection of mini-elephants that I carted home from Kenya:

(Yes, there we freely admit there's an elephant in our living room!)

The other makes a perfect home for a perfect shopping deal:

A dozen roses on sale for $10 + a coupon in my car for $2 off any flower bouquet + one of my square glass vases = absolutely gorgeous display for $8. Love it!