Flower Arrangement

I used small purple cone flowers and the leaves from another plant to make this arrangement in the little ceramic pillow vase that Stepdaughter gave me last Christmas. The "vase" has three holes in the top for placing the arrangement, and it can be filled with water. The bottom of the vase is porous, so I set the arrangement on top of a glass dish turned upside down to keep the moisture away from the tablecloth. This is a small arrangement, so it doesn't take up much room on the dining room table, leaving plenty of space for bread baskets, pickle trays, spices and condiments, etc. We need all the space at the table that we can get, since we expect fourteen people for the birthday celebration today, and ten of them will be seated (or squeezed) around the table. We'll serve the meal buffet style.