Mother Earth Mirth

Dress: Mudd, Kohl's
Shoes: Chase & Chloe, Zulily
Bag: Betsey Johnson, Modcloth
Bangles: B Fabulous

 Fabulous Felt Red Folk Flowers Barrette

Dress: Ruby Rox, J. C. Penney's
Shoes: Delicious, Zulily
Bag: Betsey Johnson, Amazon
Top bangle: Silver Linings, Ocean City, NJ boardwalk
Middle bangle: B Fabulous
Bottom bangle: Amrita Singh, Zulily
Sunglasses: Relic, Kohl's

Fabulous Felt Yellow Folk Flowers Barrette

Ah, Mother's Day.  A time to honor Mom -- the perennial keeper of the familial garden -- as the pampered flower she deserves to be.  And what better way to do that than with flowers?  Or in this case, flower barrettes.  (Mom, don't worry; these barrettes are not your gift, just part of my pseudo sales pitch.  Pseudo because 1) Mother's Day is already here and 2) I hope all the moms are getting brunch and handbags and real flowers).  Speaking of my mom, (as we just were), she always planted the first flowers of the season, which were always pansies, on Mother's Day.  And I would think, why does she want to be down in the dirt on her own holiday, when she could be eating Twizzlers or taking a nap?  But the thing is, my mom loves flowers and making things beautiful.  She wanted to be starting her garden, giving root to the first of the many blossoms that would make our yard explode with color.  That's what makes her such a gifted gardener, both literal and figurative, nurturing not only roses and marigolds, but my sister and me through all of our less than lovely years.  So thanks, Mom, for being tougher than crabgrass and grub worms and doing the hard work of helping us grow.   

On that note, here are some of my flowers.  Okay, my only flowers.  I didn't plant these azaleas (that credit goes to the previous homeowner) or even maintain them (the bottoms are choked by dead leaves), but they're blooming just the same.  And that makes me happy and hopeful that maybe someday I'll plant flowers, too.

Even if they're only plastic.