Floral fabric in pick-up valances I made for guest room.

An old floral print bed sheet covering a pot of Calibrachoa from the season’s first frost. (It didn’t happen.)

jrb, isn't it always the way that you protect the plants and there's no frost...forget one night and bam!

Dish drying mat

Hotel in Siena

Yes Annie, it seems that way. Probably won't be so lucky tonight though. We'll try again with the sheets on the Mums since they're profusely covered in unopened blooms. Not sure how the Bananas will fare. I may have to dig some small ones to put under the house to ensure we have some next year.

This is a photo of some sewing projects I was working on. Some of the potholders have floral patterns. And the oven mitts.

A pottery shard that I found on our property here. We built here on virgin land that

seems to have been a stopping place on the trade route between the town below us and the village further up.

Some floral accents in our guest room

I didn't think I had anything with a floral pattern, and then I ran across this photo of the mise en place bowls from Turkey that I have:

Vintage quilt squares scored at a local thrift store some years ago...