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Quick and Easy Flower Arrangements Flowers are a wonderful way to bring scent into your home while making it look great at the same time. Here are a few quick tips and ideas for arrangements: 1. Use out-of-the-ordinary containers for vases. Old glass jars and tin cans that once contained pickles spaghetti sauce, or peas are great for quick arrangements. Check out flea markets for antiques. 2. Always keep leaves out to the water to prevent it from smelling bad and turning brown. If you use a weedy flower like cornflowers, add a teaspoon of bleach to the water to keep it from turning quickly. 3. Always cut the stems of flowers before putting them in water, even if you just got them fro the florist. Warm water will open up the flower buds quickly; cool water will keep a bloomed flower longer. 4. Expensive flowers like Casablanca lilies and orchids look great even if there is only one stem. Cheaper Flowers like daisies look best when a ton is bunched together. 5. Always hold the arrangement in one hand, while using your other to create it. When it's all bunched together and looks great, hold it up next to the vase for height to tell where the stems should be cut. 6. Don't combine carnations or baby's breath with any flower arrangement. The arrangement will look better without them. 7. Add cool-looking rocks, shells, or carnations in the bottom of a clear vase for a neat look. 8. Keep a pair of scissors specifically for cutting the stems; if you use the same scissors for fabric, the flower cutting will eventually ruin them. 9. Change the water and re-cut the flowers ever three days to help them last longer. 10. Use dried rosebuds and petals for plant potpourri. Just snip off the heads when done and toss them into a big potted plant. They look pretty and will keep the soil moist so you don't have to water them as much.