Front Porch Spring Decorations

I saw this cute spring basket at Under the Table and Dreaming and I have to say I was inspired.

Until recently this is how my front door looked:

Great for winter, but time to springify it don't you think?

When I saw that lovely white basket, I remembered that I had a flat-backed basket hanging around doing nothing much, so I put it to work. 

I removed the apple decoraton, added some pussy willow branches, trimmed it with some brown polk-a-dot ribbon, and hung it on my front door.

Last fall we bought an antique copper tub that I keep on the front porch.  I have been slowly adding willow and birch branches to it as I find them.   On a recent walk I found a lovely long birch branch and brought it home - much to everyone in the family's gufaws.  Okay it was really big, and it did barely fit in the car.   The things we do for the sake of home beautification.  I trimmed the length of the branch a bit and added it to the old copper tub.  Luckily for me, a bird's nest fell out of a tree in a recent wind storm, so I wired that into the notch in the branches.

It looks more like spring now, dontcha think?



Linked to:
Spring Fling Transformation Thursday at The Shabby Chic Cottage
Spring Fling Party at the Blessed Nest
The Inspired Week at The Inspired Room