Using Unusual Urns

My dear friend Vanessa at Vanilla Lavender wants to see your urns!

You don't have urns? Please don't say that because you'll make me feel strange, peculiar, the odd one out! On taking inventory of my urns I was certainly surprised to find I had so many. I already knew there were a few dotted around....................actually several. I LOVE urns of every description and have been gathering them for many years. Perhaps I was a Roman, maybe even an Etruscan, or some such urn using, urn loving being in another life.

If you've visited here before you'll remember I have a heavy iron urn at the cottage door, above. It held fresh and lovely hydrangeas for the recent Spring garden tour hosted by Cielo at The House in the Roses.
Below you can see a very large urn holding a conifer - this is the molded resin version now very popular as they are easy to move around and quite affordable. There's no way I could ever afford one this size made of iron!

This is probably my favorite - very old iron, has even been repaired to reattach both handles, these may not even be the original handles to this urn. I move this one around - last Summer is was on the front porch holding seashells. ...........then it moved to the French style guest room after the makeover in February.......................and now it's in the living room holding some lovely vintage balls of cotton and bits of lace for the Summer.


The resin urn below is now in the guest room on the small chest. It spent the Winter in our master bedroom because it's a true blue-grey shade and matched the wall paint. More cotton lace and vintage thread, a grapevine ball, and note the lovely doily crocheted by my cousin Sue in England.



This is a matching pair of very old heavy iron urns at each corner of my pine armoire. They are slightly rusted and the coloration is lovely with the honey shade of the wood. The Italian ceramic urn on the shelf is part of my collection of Tuscan dishes and serving pieces.


On my mantel there are small matching stone urns at each end. Recently I stripped the topiaries of their faux ivy ~ I like this iron look better.

These two concrete urns are a little more contemporary. I like their huge iron rings. The French Jardin china pot on the lower shelf even looks a bit like an urn too.

This tall urn, also made of concrete, has four interesting lion heads. It stands on the dining room table holding woven or grapevine balls, and at Christmas I like to jazz it up with sparkly glass ornaments, garlands etc.


Last, but by no means least, I love this stone urn on my kitchen island. Probably the most useful of my urns, it holds my wooden cooking implements, spoons, rolling pin etc.

I'm sure there are a few more urns hiding out in the garden - but these are my special ones. Vanessa wants ideas about what to put in her urns so hope you will share yours.

Now just don't ask me about soup tureens!!!