In love with succulents

I live succulents. They appeal to me because of their hardiness, various shades of green, and because they can start small and can remain small. I had a beautiful patio garden at my apartment in Maine. It was on the second floor, and it was full of gorgeous cacti and succulents in pots. Here is one photo of the hens and chicks I'd had

I guess the new design trend is succulents. I'd blogged this week about the sweet succulents in an egg cup I discovered. I plan to make these. In looking at the design websites today I found this: a succulent orb:

And also on that same casasugar.com website there were these cuties:

And not to be outdone, there were these wall art succulents from Sunset Mag:

I love succulents! So what did I do?? Put a "Wanted" post on my Athens Freecycle group. Hopefully someone is getting rid of some and I will take them away! (Free).

Egg cup succulents

I like small things. Small books. Small pieces of glass. Small greeting cards. So this display attracted me: A New Use For Egg Cups.

Source

Love it! I wanted to do it right away! Only problem is, I don't have egg cups. I looked into buying some at Amazon.com, but the were expensive. What to do? Yard sale, naturally.

Coincidentally, a friend called me yesterday to go yard sale-ing. I love coincidences like this. So off we went, on a happy spring day late enough in the morning where it wasn't too cold and the sun was up bright and warm.

I swung by the Farmer's Market on the way over to her house and grabbed a half-loaf of fresh, homemade bread and a dozen free range organic eggs, and got there in no time flat. Nothing like the smell of fresh deals in the morning to get me out and about...

I was on the lookout for spring tops, and I found a couple, along with a bud vase. And then...

Lo and Behold in short order I found ... not egg cups, but Pier 1 Espresso Cups. I liked that they were plain white so the green succulent will contrast nicely. I liked the handle was a sweet perfect circle reminiscent of Fiesta Ware. I really liked that they were ten cents each.

Pen for scale

So the next purchase will be little succulents, tiny cactus or maybe hens and chicks. I have to be careful about bringing plants into the house, the cats eat them and most are poisonous to felines. I don't have any plants or flowers inside the house, except a bud in the bud vase on the windowsill by the kitchen sink. That's where I'll put the succulents. Whenever I get around to buying some, that is. Meanwhile I have the cups to look at.