When I see bright green, pink or yellow, that always reminds me of mexican paintings, of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo.I have loved the Arizona Green Tea bottles for ages, so when I discovered the paloma lemonade can at my local supermarket, I had the idea of this colorful flower arrangement - the mexican way - and why not listening to some Mexican music, while reading this post?
Lhasa de Sela - El Desierto
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Today on my way back from work I was in the mood for a new flower arrangement. I really don't like flowers that come directly out of the greenhouse. I prefer them a bit wild. It reminds me of my parent's garden in the French countryside, or of a bunch of fresh flowers you bring back with you from a walk in the woods. It is very frustrating to live in the city and to have to pay for flowers you would just find on a road at the border of a field if you were living outside the city ... but there you go, in most flower shops you can still find "wild" flowers that are usually used to complete a bunch of colourful flowers at a moderate price. I like them just like that - I think they are just beautiful by themselves.
So, now that we had a little break from my cat series, here comes n°4 - the classic one. As you all now, Cheddar's favorite things remain the flowers. He is always very excited when I come home carrying a bunch of them and he always feels the need to smell them. At the beginning, it kind of annoyed me, when I was trying to take my pictures, but now it became a tradition and every time, he sees my camera and some flowers, he jumps on the kitchen table for the photo shooting.So here are a some examples:
I love dahlia, their colours remind me of a mexican painting - in fact they were declared the national flower of Mexico in 1963. I bought a couple of them yesterday on my way back home - it is very dangerous for me to pass by a flower shop everyday! So let's see if you enjoy them too. I love playing with colours, but I think it is better not to mix too much. So I grouped them in two different vases.
Now comes the answer to my question. The purple flowers I used this week for my flower arrangement were sweet peas. I love the simplicity and elegance of this flower. ‘sweet pea’, stands for «delicate pleasures’. The name comes from the Greek word, ‘lathyros’, meaning "pea" or "pulse," and the Latin word ‘odoratus’, meaning "fragrant".
Hello,Today is such a lovely sunny morning in Hamburg! I wanted to post my new flower arrangement, in the new beautiful vases I bought last week at "Lieblingszimmer" and at Palais XIII- but I am running out of time and I still need time to prepare the pictures.
So here you can get a glimpse of these purple beauties, and maybe guess which flowers I used...
Speak to you soon.
I transformed my kitchen in a studio again this week end.I seam to be going through a rose phase at the moment. I found some very pretty dark red roses on my way home on Friday and I think they just look gorgeous. What do you think? I also pretty excited, because I am going to see two of my favorite bands tonight: Boban i Marko Markovic and Fanfare Ciacorlia - during the Balkan Brass Battle at the Museum der Arbeit open air. Maybe, this will bring you in the balkan mood too:
When arranging flowers, I always set at least a flower by side to put in a one of my mini vases. I like the contrast between small and big, and I think that a single flower or a very small bouquet can be very pretty.I have quite a collection of mini-vases, I bought some of them when I was travelling (Copenhagen, Japan) or from flea markets. Those don't have to be designed to be a vase. I use a lot of antic glasses. For example colored glasses are very cool - especially if they match the colour of the flower you are presenting. They are very handy to transport (or bring back when you travel) and that they look very pretty on display as a collection when they are not in use. Here is a selection of my last mini-bouquets. Even big flowers like peonies, look fantastic when they are cut very short.
A bunch of flowers doesn't have to be complicated or expensive to be beautiful. Sometimes, a simple bunch of wild roses is enough.I like when roses have this vintage look and I don't like boring roses that come straight out of the green house. For me a rose should look like it comes directly from my garden - it shall make me forget for an instant that I live in the city...Have a good day
Hello!I know I haven’t posted in a long time, but I have been busy working on my brand new self-hosted blog! and there it is, here is the first post from my brand new blog. Here are a couple of tulips for you. I will post more soon, as I have been pretty blog active this week-end! Yeah!
