#2flowergirls #8 - Chrysanthemum edition

Hello dear flower girls and boys, I hope you are all doing well! The time has come for the new edition of my #2flowergirls project with my dear Inga from the blog glomerylane. As Inga is in hospital at the moment, as I explained last week, I am a single flower girl this time. You can put the link to your blogpost under this post.

If you want to participate for the first time, you can read here how it works. Inga and I decided to style this underestimated flower for the November edition: the chrysanthemum. I have always liked them, even though it's not the first flower that comes to my mind when I am going to a flower shop. So this time, I am going out of my comfort zone as well and not stlyling a most-loved or favourite flower. One of the good things with chrysanthemums is that they are very strong flowers that will last a long time when cut. The glass vase is from Zara home and is sold as a bathroom accessory but I found it far too pretty not to put flowers in it.  The little vase is a tea cup from the Alice collection by Vienna-based artist Sandra Haischberger.  I bought it at the great Milchmädchen shop as a birthday present for myself, with a little bouquet in mind of course! I love the soft and grey colours of the collection. I took the cup in soft pink and the saucer in dark grey. I hope you will enjoy my styling. I can't want to see what you have been up to! xxx Elodie

Floral Hamburg - My article in sisterMAG

Hello everyone,I am pretty quiet on the blog right now, but learning to be a mum can be quite challenging and time-consuming, but also lovely of course! I have been so busy lately that I forgot to tell you about the article I wrote for the great sisterMAG. I am so proud to be a contributor of this great e-magazine. I already wrote an article in January about flower styling and still life photography. This time the sisters asked my to write an article about my city, Hamburg and about my favorite topic: flowers - so I wrote a floral guide of Hamburg with beautiful flower shops, lovely markets and cute shops where you can find vases. I will present some of the shops and market stands, on the blog in the coming weeks - but in the mean time, here are some spreads from the article:

You can read the article in English here and in German here.

Talk to you on Monday with my  #2flowergirls blogpost! xxx Elodie

#2flowergirls in November

Hello everyone!We are already in November! A new month also means a new #2flowergirls edition. As you may have seen on Steffi's Blog, Inga is in hospital this month for her transplantation - and we are all thinking of her and crossing our fingers. I discussed with her in the past weeks if we should pause the #2flowergirls project while she is in hospital, but she told that it would make her happy if we continued arranging and photographing flowers during that time. So, let's rock it together and do some flower magic for Inga. We have decided to play with Chrysanthemums this month.  Are you in?

I will be posting on 11th November and you can take part as usual until the end of the month and post the link to your blogpost under my blogpost.

I wish you a great Sunday! Your flower girl - Elodie

lieblingsblume - favourite flower

Dear all, I hope you had a great week-end! I had definitely an interesting one, and certainly full of flowers! I attended a blogger event on Saturday organised by the "Blumen Büro Holland" to promote Dutch flowers in Germany, their new website: www.tollwasblumenmachen.de. They also introduced their new great Facebook App. The event was very creative and we had a lot of fun with the fellow bloggers and their female friends. The motto of the event was "Freundinnen kennen Ihre Lieblingsblumen" (Friends know each other favourite flowers) and it was all about friendship and how a small attention like a bunch of flowers (the favourite flowers) can be a huge proof of friendship. I completely share this statement! Flowers make life happier!

I spent this great afternoon with many talented fellow bloggers, that I am glad to be calling friends now and their "analog friends" My +1 for the event was my friend Sabrina:

the sweet Claretti (one of Ella's blogger godmother with Jeanny)

Sarah from erdbeerwald

My dear Susanne

I was also happy to meet 2 bloggers, I have been meeting a lot online through the #2flowergirls flower styling challenge I run every month with my dear Inga. The lovely Anastasia

and the sweet Julia

Here is the list of all the bloggers who attended this great event:

Anniwear: www.anniewear.de Lieschen heiratet: lieschen-heiratet.de Cozy and cuddly: cozy-and-cuddly.de Draußen nur Kännchen: draussennurkaennchen.blogspot.de Hamburger Liebe: hamburgerliebe.blogspot.de Elmasuite: elmasuite.de Formtiere: formtiere.de Fräulein K sagt ja: fraeulein-k-sagt-ja.de Golden & Pink: goldenandpink.de Elfenkind: elfenkindberlin.de Junifaden: junifaden.blogspot.de Mädchen mit Herz: maedchenmitherz.wordpress.com Erdbeerwald: erdbeerwald.de/ Mintlametta: mintlametta.blogspot.de Pfefferminz Blog: pfefferminzblog.com Serendipity: serendipity-blog.de Stilzitat: stilzitat.wordpress.com Tastesheriff : tastesheriff.com Telishah: telishah.blogspot.de

All pictures by madame love except the last three (C) Blumenbüro

A white bouquet: scabiosa, nigella and dahlia

Hello everyone, Look at what I have found on the market on Saturday! Some charming scabiosa and pretty nigella and a couple of simple dahlias. I think this species of scabiosa, the scabiosa caucasica in the colour perfection white, and also called pincushion flower are so subtle with petals that look like silk paper and look so gorgeous. The nigellas have such a crazy shape. I think they look a bit like a weird insect. They definitely add some fluffiness to the bouquet.

I was inspired by the colour series of my friend Kiana from the blog tulipina and decided to make a monochrome bouquet - all in white. I also used a white vase. I hope you like it! I think it looks quite spectacular on the black background. It is pretty challenging at the moment to style and take pictures with my little one. So, when I get the chance {thank you Mr. Love} , I enjoy every second of it. My friend Laetitia from the French blog Floresie, who became a mum in July described the process of making a bouquet and photographing it so well in her #2flowergirls blogpost - it is so funny and so true!

So here are the pictures! I will be back soon with a very cool give away for cat lovers. xxx Elodie

pink and red roses for my friends

Hello everyone, I am back on the blog today with some flowers as promised on Facebook. The life with my little Ella is beautiful but I must say that I miss blogging regularly. I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends who helped me out during my first weeks of motherhood .

Thank you Katharina, Igor, Jocelyn, Lou, Jeanny, Mel, Anne and Judith - Those flowers are for you!

Talk to you all soon! xxx Elodie

2 flower girls #7 - The dahlia edition

Hello everyone, this is my first blogpost today since the birth of my daughter Ella three weeks ago. Inga and I are back with this autumnal edition of #2flowergirls. We chose the most autumnal of all flowers, the dahlia. I chose some deep red and orange ones, I found on my local market. I added some guelder rose berries and some rose hips to the bouquet and displayed some decorative pumpkins on the table to give it a more rustic aspect. Today's #2flowergirls will be on madame love only, but I will show you one of Inga's photos.

If you want to participate, you can post a link to your blogpost in the comment field under this post  and show us how you styled and photographed your dahlias. You can also send us the photos by e-mail or post them on Instagram or Twitter along with the #2flowergirls hashtag. We will then collect the photos and post them on our Dahlia's board on Pinterest.

I also made two small bouquets to please my dear Inga! The red one in the stem vase is called cactus-dahlia

and here is the glomerylane mini bouquet. Inga and I didn't talk about the the flowers before, but we really went for the same colours this time.

We are both looking forward to seeing your beautiful dahlias. We wish you a wonderful day.

Your 2 flower girls,

Elodie & Inga

Good News!

Hello everyone, Some of you know about it already, especially the ones following me on Instagram, our little princess was born last week on 09th September and we are very happy parents.

GOOD NEWS #1

She is called Ella and she is the sweetest baby in the world. She came 10 days too late and I had quite a tough time waiting for her, but I was so happy when she finally showed up that I forgot all about it!

But as you know, good news is like buses, you always have more than one piece arriving at once. That's why I decided to write a good news post today.

GOOD NEWS #2

Yesterday, I was so pleased to see my first interview in  a print magazine: COUCH. I was interviewed together with my friend Inga from the blog glomerylane about flowers and about our #2flowergirls project. I am also happy to tell you that #2flowergirls will be returning on the blog at the beginning of October, and that we have chosen the dahlia for this new edition.

GOOD NEWS #3

My friend Igor is on holiday and he asked a couple of bloggers to guest post on his blog while beeing away. Today, it's my turn with a happy bouquet for the happy interior blog.

GOOD NEWS #4

Last but not least, I can show today a project I have been working on for a while. I made a floral guide of Hamburg for the new issue of sisterMAG, and something tells me that you will be able to read the complete feature in German and English very very soon!

So enough for today! I am returning to baby love. I will take a little blogging break in the coming weeks, but I asked some of my blogger friends to write some blogposts about childhood, while I am learning to become a mother. So stay tuned!

xxx

Elodie

Some dahlias for baby love

Hello everyone,

When I saw these gorgeous dahlias at the market yesterday, I couldn't resist! I decided to be crazy and spend € 2.50 even if I could go to the hospital any moment now, as I am already 8 days overdue. I think the shades of pink, red and purple are just beautiful. They make me look forward to the autumn and its fantastic range of warm colours. I also wanted to use my new mini-medicis vase I found last week. So here are a couple of photos for you and for my baby love. Maybe she will want to come out if she already feels the beauty of flowers. Have a nice day and talk to you soon! Elodie

Flowers from Sabine's garden

Hello everyone, I am not making so many bouquets these days, but luckily my friends still are and I love looking at them. Today I would like to show you the little wonders from Sabine's garden. Sabine is a German copywriter and blogger and online shop-owner. Her lovely blog is called azurweiss and her shop la mesa. We first met virtually through the swapping action Post aus meiner Küche last year and in real life in February in Munich during the blogger meet up "I love you blogs and coffee". She posts a lot of charming flower arrangements on her blog, and has participated many times in our #2flowergirls photo challenge. I am a big fan of her Instagram feed, where she posts a lot of lovely flowers. She usually presents simple flowers in very pretty glass or white china vases.  Some are from the flea-market and some can be purchased in her online-store.

Today, I am so glad to be showing you some of Sabine's bouquets from her beloved garden along with a little interview:

Dear Sabine, what kind of flowers do you grow in your garden?

I’m very much in love with cottage gardens and I grow typical cottage garden flowers like cornflowers, cosmoses, delphiniums, peonies and old roses together with tons of herbs like sage, rosemary, mint and chives. And not to forget some tomatoes, courgette and pumpkins. Our garden looks quite romantic and often a little bit higgledy-piggledy (because I don’t have time to keep all the weeds away) but this contrasts quite well with our  house which is pure white and very functionalist, almost Bauhaus-style.

What does your garden mean to you?

Honestly –  I think I couldn’t live without it. Working in the garden just makes me happy and I wish I had more time to spend in this little green relaxing zone.

What kind of vases do you like using for your bouquets?

Most of my vases are made of white porcelain, many of them are vintage. I like to arrange them in groups with flowers assorted by colours – mostly white, pale pink or blue. I also use transparent or blue glass vases or even glasses (vintage or new). Liqueur glasses for example are wonderful to arrange flowers like forget-me-nots or single blossoms. Especially in autumn and winter I often use rough ceramics (mostly vintage) to decorate, for example, dahlias, asters or just branches.

Thank you so much Sabine for sharing with us your lovely pictures and your love for flowers.

I wish you all a great day and hope to talk to you soon if baby love doesn't decide to make an appearance. Only 7 days to go! xxx Elodie

(c) All photography by Sabine Wittig