Simplify your kitchen window

Here's a a quick how to prettify and simplify your kitchen window-sill.
Mine was pretty awful- here is the before.This is real life, people! Hahaha!

A mix of different size pots, plants, some alive, some dead and some much too big .
They all grew too big for their pots which meant- too big for the window sill .  I kept on dreaming of nice cache- pots  but everywhere I looked I would have to pay at least  £30,- per pot-.So that was not going to happen.
So here's what I did:
I got 5 pink begonia's all of the same size and colour which set me back about £20,-.It's not my favourite plant by all means, but it was the cheapest .And hopefully the easiest to keep alive . It looked pretty cheerful. Plus my track record with orchids is not good.I only managed to keep 1 alive for a year , years ago.
Then I hunted for some terracotta pots from my garden, which were all old and a bit cracked.But for free!

I scrubbed the pots clean, then patched up the cracks with Pollyfilla. I then painted all the pots with "Blue Ground " from Farrow and Ball which I still had, and I painted the rim with a different colour, a cream called " Clunch " by Farrow and Ball ( where do they get these names from?!?" Clunch "! Eh ? ) ( Had a little tester pot which cost practically zero).

Then I filled the pots with some extra soil and the begonia's.
 Like this :

 And this.Pretty cute, eh ? Apart from the begonia. Shame. Maybe I should have gone for orchids..

I cleaned the widows inside and out ( last time this was done was 1985.. probably !! )
Then made myself some curtains from a " vintage "( 1992)  lace table cloth which I got for from a charity shop for peanuts..It had a big hole in it, so forget using it on a table. I managed to hide the hole with the curtain arrangement like so :

Then I took two tiny Christmas wreaths , and took all the fake pine off so I had two tiny twig wreaths.I gave them both a blue/grey/white striped ribbon and bow and hung them from the curtain rod.
And then put all the new pots on the clean window sill.

Here is the whole window

Now I just have to get used to begonia's :-).
Have a great rest of the week!
XOXO
Bea

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