Interior Design Ideas for Your Modern Home: Gifts

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXdjqWOPTgsSef_YGFXXRh92uyLKLgBAYp9iv5PXzWZmGHqJAv6On-VQmKD1hL-LrJ0iDLT8tuw2mma_UH1t-W1n0N3nolOdwVrvqmljg2heeApyDoj8aPs-6baDVwjXO4AlutnccT5A/s1600/Paperwhites+In+Mason+Jars+-+BLOG.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGXdjqWOPTgsSef_YGFXXRh92uyLKLgBAYp9iv5PXzWZmGHqJAv6On-VQmKD1hL-LrJ0iDLT8tuw2mma_UH1t-W1n0N3nolOdwVrvqmljg2heeApyDoj8aPs-6baDVwjXO4AlutnccT5A/s640/Paperwhites+In+Mason+Jars+-+BLOG.png" width="426" /></a></div><br /><br />Paperwhites remind me of Christmas. They are elegant and snowy white and organic and have a heady sweet smell.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">They mix wonderfully with evergreen branches and twinkling lights. They look stately grouped with Poinsettias and can be a resplendent flurry-of-white when grouped together.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Paperwhites make lovely and thoughtful living gifts that will give the recipient a season of pleasure and blooms! It's especially fun to give a single bulb in a ball jar! Given at Christmas, these flowers will bloom in January and February... just when we all need a little something blooming in our lives!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">These showy booms are easy to plant and force and grow. Here's how...<br /><br /><a name="more"></a><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><a href="" name="more"></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">I planted my paperwhites on my back porch potting bench.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPAa9alNHyT74oN_l_K8ATgYM6Jtt-5jzMtE_5hp-HL9MisYJjcZ1o8OLm0ZeMuZFmIXtLFSTTqLl289I71DdmutvBk36WHzBvp75pzdd7dfqJ9zXOfo89sCap9cD2O7M5_OP1ebbDPRU/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_1971.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPAa9alNHyT74oN_l_K8ATgYM6Jtt-5jzMtE_5hp-HL9MisYJjcZ1o8OLm0ZeMuZFmIXtLFSTTqLl289I71DdmutvBk36WHzBvp75pzdd7dfqJ9zXOfo89sCap9cD2O7M5_OP1ebbDPRU/s640/Copy+of+IMG_1971.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Materials:</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">paperwhite bulbs</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">gravel, small stones, or glass pebbles</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">wide mouth half pint ball jars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">screw on lids for ball jars</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDQeEBzXXaKOZDlcQA-lx4ZUZlFC8yQpxr8NVxYh6MnEHfeaG3jmdxFpwCSaZPSd_b9YjKgQFlVfo8_5Md-gv3yo2844QLOWRJA7xE5fU5EtjNTpsDMjBJ4sIkA_f1FEH48U-5WmCOu4/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_1972.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirDQeEBzXXaKOZDlcQA-lx4ZUZlFC8yQpxr8NVxYh6MnEHfeaG3jmdxFpwCSaZPSd_b9YjKgQFlVfo8_5Md-gv3yo2844QLOWRJA7xE5fU5EtjNTpsDMjBJ4sIkA_f1FEH48U-5WmCOu4/s640/Copy+of+IMG_1972.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fill ball jar 3/4 full of small stones.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzC7_LUgmJlsNhxArq19RQW_zbHGpfDcS3izCyJsnfmXYgx1Jr1AkCk01HHW3st94oXCa_XtrpiQ3inB7LZuXBdslXerzl1U0vualDBKikJKPLKrT7FREaGPHA3R9EbMOv-3vHzfWj1A/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_1974.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjzC7_LUgmJlsNhxArq19RQW_zbHGpfDcS3izCyJsnfmXYgx1Jr1AkCk01HHW3st94oXCa_XtrpiQ3inB7LZuXBdslXerzl1U0vualDBKikJKPLKrT7FREaGPHA3R9EbMOv-3vHzfWj1A/s640/Copy+of+IMG_1974.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Paperwhites do not need soil. They just need the stones to support their roots and to help hold them upright.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ3Y89GxURrXDAKEGNDs-pZ14_sIZLHsS-D7L7Y56nCr5pf6dbcWwo4DkKUWjTcTy09nw9CxH3myx_ec2tXja4BS94C-HA5Bd5d9pEiwMqKuTGxXeAA_d58mwckFPOhQyrthPhrT07R5g/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_1980.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ3Y89GxURrXDAKEGNDs-pZ14_sIZLHsS-D7L7Y56nCr5pf6dbcWwo4DkKUWjTcTy09nw9CxH3myx_ec2tXja4BS94C-HA5Bd5d9pEiwMqKuTGxXeAA_d58mwckFPOhQyrthPhrT07R5g/s640/Copy+of+IMG_1980.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Place the paperwhite bulb on top of the stones with the tip up.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFA9ROHOnapYBwcRktOAdlQl0qGTHmXyFknz2Gpp06HA0EC6C5wBfQxd_k8W-rx2n330vAwUdS86-Yk3U-GU9kCONjrHisMSkd9Wx5YSmg2Ufz87ZrTjoLa9AemAPHJsSPKPurbAqSxM/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_1982.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbFA9ROHOnapYBwcRktOAdlQl0qGTHmXyFknz2Gpp06HA0EC6C5wBfQxd_k8W-rx2n330vAwUdS86-Yk3U-GU9kCONjrHisMSkd9Wx5YSmg2Ufz87ZrTjoLa9AemAPHJsSPKPurbAqSxM/s640/Copy+of+IMG_1982.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Screw on the jar lid</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv0DJUnROLD-oWmL45WQ1uDZqJPIyaJniHwHhvnptysH-zImZ9EgeDza4laKtbIlEy-sL_JMRomFD724lB_c5lrJf-duY6xmAewlHDNkhxCYCPbhSJCLy3XwLtB_MkOw9guvt-D4-IoY/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_1984.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFv0DJUnROLD-oWmL45WQ1uDZqJPIyaJniHwHhvnptysH-zImZ9EgeDza4laKtbIlEy-sL_JMRomFD724lB_c5lrJf-duY6xmAewlHDNkhxCYCPbhSJCLy3XwLtB_MkOw9guvt-D4-IoY/s640/Copy+of+IMG_1984.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Add a bow or twine...</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9zW0xASovKymzdRnmXNMBqyh4M_ZXWZtow_A4gfsh664H-UMSdN6kVbtW-V9CkvZk8KlePjAqzlt4o7hK-H1nCHnCLwHZzHhKlYDODX5t47IPngZVHzBMx6efACDqQvoOccaF06IApQ/s1600/Copy+of+IMG_2003.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp9zW0xASovKymzdRnmXNMBqyh4M_ZXWZtow_A4gfsh664H-UMSdN6kVbtW-V9CkvZk8KlePjAqzlt4o7hK-H1nCHnCLwHZzHhKlYDODX5t47IPngZVHzBMx6efACDqQvoOccaF06IApQ/s640/Copy+of+IMG_2003.JPG" width="426" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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