More Cheap Decorating Ideas

I didn't know how to decorate the peninsula in the kitchen.  But it seemed to all come together for next to nothing.  Last month we were in Clinton, IA to visit my husband's grandma and he met his birth mom for the first time.  He is 39 and it was an amazing experience.  Anyway, when I was there I of course had to hit the thrift stores. I found white milk glass vases for 25 cents each!!!  I bought 5 of them not sure what I was going to do with them, but were so cheap I could not pass up.  Then 2 weeks ago I walked down to the end of our road and collected cattails leaves for a witch broom I am making and will post tonight too.  Anyway, while I was there I decided to cut some cattails.  A lot of my accents in the house are white so I painted the cattails white too.  I used white ceiling paint because we had 5 gallons of it.  I basically just hung them from the garage ceiling and painted them white. I will not tell you what my husband said they looked like, hanging there, but here is the end result.  I love them and will probably add fall colors to the vases for Halloween and red for Christmas.  I will also post on my kitchen later on.  We bought our house in foreclosure and it was BAD!!  My husband installed all the tiles, cabinets, trim and everything himself to save of thousands of dollars.  I will have to post a before and after soon.