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What kind of flowers do these look like to you?

Give up? They’re fake flowers.

This seems pretty obvious to me when I’m sitting in front of them at our dining room table, but surprisingly, we’ve had at least two guests react in surprise when we told them that the flowers were fake. I guess that means we did a good job choosing them at the dollar store!

When we were first decorating our home, Jack and I decided on a new theme for the dining room. As you can see, the we chose blue, white, black and yellow as the main colors. (Our napkins are black but they were in the laundry when I took the picture. ) For the yellow, we went with an, um, everlasting bouquet as the centerpiece. I was concerned about the flowers looking terrible on our table, but fortunately Jack has an eye for what looks good. We settled on the flowers there in the picture and trimmed them down to the right length to fit in the small glass vase we had on hand from my old office desk. The vase was probably less than $2 at a crafts store, so this “everlasting centerpiece” cost about $3 total.

Maybe I do more than I realized to convince guests that the flowers are not fake (not that they’re real, just… not fake). I had essential oils on hand and chose a honey almond scent to drop onto the flower petals. So, this fake bouquet has a real scent. Granted, I’ve never smelled a flower that reminded me of honey and almonds, but really I don’t think people expect any scent to come from flowers unless they’re real. The essential oil probably cost between $3 and $8, so the surprisingly convincing bouquet costs less than $12 and will last indefinitely. To me, that beats having real flowers on display that I have to change every few days.

Do you use fake flowers to decorate in your home?

Tags: dining room, dollar store, essential oils, flowers, guests, scents COMMENTS