Su-Su-Succulents!

So yesterday myself and my roommate rushed to comcast to drop off our cable boxes (we had decided to nix our cable and just watch TV via our laptops and Chromecast). Well, we literally get there at about 4 minutes past 1, and of course a sourly looking security guard shouted ''we're closed!'' and forced us on our way. As we sat and thought about what to do after driving a good 20 minutes or so (and only driving an actual 2-3 miles..that's city life for ya), we decided to head over to the home depot across the street (the first HD I've seen in this city) so my roommate could buy a bulb for her ceiling lamp, which has been burnt out for a couple months. Unfortunately (or fortunately for us in terms of height) we have vaulted ceilings in our condo, so we can't reach these lights ourselves to replace them without a heavy-duty ladder, which we don't own. So it's been a battle with the building company to get them to replace the light.

While at HD, we see isles upon isles as we first walk in of SUCCULENTS! I have recently fallen in love with the purple-tipped kind and decided we should make a giant centerpiece for my deep cherry wood dining room table. So we spent about an hour or so picking out succulents of different heights, textures, colors, and widths. We bought the correct soil, stones (since it's the dead of winter here, there was no way we were going to go on a stone scavenger hunt, even though if it had been spring I would have been total game for it), and even moss to really complete it. Now we just need some big glass shallow-ish bowls to find on Amazon or other sites (any suggestions?) to put it all together.

So for now, we set out our succulents on this gold dish I bought at my buddhist meditation center's moving sale I had volunteered for. I originally used it as a big dish to hold my makeup bags on my desk, but thought it'd look so great on top of this black (cheap) Ikea table I bought a few years ago (which btw, this table has been used for everything from holding cable boxes and wifi boxes to a bedside table for my roommate before she bought her own, and finally this, just to name a few. I highly suggest spending the very few dollars to buy one yourself, it's come in handy and has been moved three times!):

Click on it to get a closer look. My favorites are the 2nd one from the right in the front row, the 2nd from the right in the back row, the cacti with the different colored flowers blooming, the aloe vera plant in the back left for its medical purposes; shoot- I love them all!

Which is/are your favorite/s and why? If this is your thing, please share any info or suggestions with me, I'd greatly appreciate it and am interested in learning more about these.

I will update this once we buy a terrarium(s) and get it all set up. Please feel free to send me any sites that have instructions or set up suggestions..Thanks!

With gratitude,
Jessica