Hello dear friends! Today I just want to share the pretty fall bouquet I put together by arranging some clearance grocery store flowers in a beautiful vintage ironstone pitcher.

Earlier this month I found this amazing antique ironstone blue transferware pitcher for $1.oo at a yard sale. A dollar people! This is why I junk! I had been out junkin’ for treasures to put in my antiques booth, but this one is a keeper!

I picked up a beautiful fall bouquet at Kroger just because it’s fall (and because it was only $4.00!) I had no idea I was going to put it in the pitcher until I got home. Since it was a clearance “woo-hoo” deal, some of the flowers were already wilting, so I just removed those and the little faux green apple. I will find another spot for the apple I am sure!

The pitcher is so beautiful even with it’s perfectly imperfect cracks and crazing. Because it is so old, I didn’t want to fill it with water. Instead I simply put one of my small vases down inside the pitcher.

Then I just arranged the flowers in the vase and added a bit of water.

To give the bouquet a few more days of life I removed all of the dying or wilting flowers. I also cut some sprigs of fresh Rosemary and thyme from my garden and filled in the gaps. The bits of green really “livened” up the arrangement.

I am crazy about how the bouquet looks in the pitcher! I will be so sad when I must toss it out. Earlier this fall I hung my favorite farmhouse Harvest sign in the breakfast nook, but I wanted to add a few more “fallish” touches for October.

The bouquet and little pumpkins add such beautiful seasonal color. I also picked up a couple more of the $5.00 outdoor orange pillows that I shared in my fall porch tour and added them to the window seat.

This year I have been loving how blue is being used in fall decor. I think the pitcher looks so pretty with the orange pumpkins and fall flowers.

The bouquet is so beautiful it is hard for me to believe they are just grocery store flowers “rearranged” and prettied up with the magic of fresh herbs.

An added bonus is the fragrance of the fresh cut rosemary and thyme. The smell puts me in the mood for Thanksgiving cooking (and eating!)

In my recent post Creative Fall Decorating with Baskets I shared how I styled a pretty hyacinth basket tray on the breakfast nook table. I simply placed a beautiful vintage ironstone platter on top the tray and placed the pitcher of grocery store flowers on top.

I love the design on the platter. I think the colors in the design look so perfect for fall. The three cute little pumpkins were picked from our very own volunteer pumpkin patch that came up from the pumpkins we tossed in the back yard after Thanksgiving last year.

Since the sun was shining and it was a beautiful fall day, I took the bouquet outside and put it on my garden stand to style a pretty vignette with a few small pumpkins and gourds, autumn kale and succulents. Oh the joys of the fall garden!

In the past I would never buy bouquets from the grocery store unless it was a special occasion, because I always felt like they were too expensive. I don’t know why, but I just never realized that grocery store flowers got marked down on clearance. I will definitely be using more fresh flowers in my home more often now. Every time I see the bouquet it just brings me such joy! I think I am going to be using the pitcher as a vase for quite some time too!

I hate going to the grocery store, but now I have something to look forward to! I am excited about the possibilities of having inexpensive fresh flowers during the fall and winter months. Have you already discovered the joy of clearance grocery store flowers? I love hearing from you dear readers!

Thanks for visiting today!

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