Thursday, March 20, 2014

All White

I've always had dreams of a all-white garden, but never had a chance to actually create one.

Until then, I am creating small arrangement that give me that fresh and elegant feeling that a white garden would have.





 
 
 
** Who can tell me what I need to do to rotate the last picture? It's in a normal position on my computer, but it would upload like this

Friday, March 14, 2014

Tiny Bouquet Deconstructed






I guess this qualifies as the first bouquet from my garden this year.

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Amsterdam is ...

...full of colour.

Flowers by the canal

Flowers by the houses



Flowers by the hotels

Fresh flowers in most restaurants and cafes
Flowers at the Botanical Garden


... beautiful




...full of bikes

...funny

 ... and somehow sad in its luxury
 
All in all it's a city I love coming back to

Friday, March 7, 2014

V for Vintage

I am not what you'd call a vintage junckie.
I do not dream of a house full of everything vintage.
I do however like to find the occasional cup or vase in a marché aux puces.

At home, I have a couple of shelves on which I displayed such finds and now I've created a small corner in my office with a vintage air.
I think it's rather pretty and discreet :)


Thursday, March 6, 2014

Colours in the Early-March Garden

February is gone and the sunny days are here to stay ... at least for a week.
I took a photo walk in the garden and I discovered it is full of colour. From upstairs I can only see the most flashy colours, but being down there gives me a whole new perspective.
 
Here's what I found: