diy - inexpensive and easy centerpiece

Our dining room table tends to be reserved for work and play, and is usually lacking in any kind of centerpiece. I am not a really design-y kind of person, and anything to fussy just irritates me. So whatever sits in the center of my table has to be quick and easy to move, slide, get out of the way quickly. 

Saw this on Pinterest, and I definitely want to do this sometime in the future (will need to expand my glass bottle collection)... but in the meantime, I am working with what I've got to make an easy and interesting centerpiece. 

Source: wholeliving.com via Brooke on Pinterest

Here's what I used:

1 empty clementines/cuties box (buy a box of them at the grocery store, save the box)

5 or 6 empty jars. I used 3 empty Prego jars, a salad dressing bottle and a mason jar or two

water

flowers

that's it! I spent money on the flowers outright - $10 total at Harry's - and what's even better is that the statice (purple ones) and aster solidago (chartreuse ones) will last awhile and dry beautifully. So you could even ditch the water in a week or so and dry these, and use them later.

Behold, an easy, cheap, slightly different way to do a floral centerpiece.