Quick Tulip Centerpiece

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Is it already time for spring flowers?! I've been seeing tulips and daffodils in grocery stores the past few weeks, and, well, I'm not sure I like this. It's like seeing Christmas stuff in the stores in August. TOO SOON, PEOPLE! I want to get spring fever when the time is right. Otherwise, sitting through three more months of Seattle winter gloom after catching glimpses of smiley daff faces just seems like a twisted and cruel joke.

Okay fine, I know I'm being a little dramatic. Or a lot. Either way, truth is, I couldn't help but pick up a bunch of sunny yellow tulips. I stuck them in a rustic terracotta pot for an easy and quick centerpiece.

And when I say easy, I mean easy. Like, I'm not even sure why I'm going so far as to give instructions easy. But I guess I will anyway.

First: Prepare the flowers. Trim the ends off, but keep the leaves on – they add fullness.

Then put 'em in a drinking glass. Just make sure first that the drinking glass fits into the pot. (The purpose of the glass is twofold: 1) The pot may absorb the water, depending on the material and 2) It helps keep the flowers more tightly together.

Put the drinking glass of flowers into the pot.

It's a good thing I took a photo of this. I know it would have been very difficult to understand otherwise.

And then… move the flowers around until they're how you like them.

Done!

Now go forth and dream of spring. I suppose it'll be here soon enough.