pastel bouquet from the garden

Good morning, I am really happy about how this bouquet turned out. I made it two days ago, just after a rain shower, only with flowers and plant from the garden. I love the colour palette and how some of the flowers are already a bit faded but still beautiful such as the lilac: perfect imperfection!  As it was just after the rain, I discovered a little snail climbing on  a branch of lilac. I left it on the bouquet as an homage to the flower paintings of the great Flemish masters.  I wish you all a great and sunny day! Elodie

For this bouquet, I used some:

• Eden roses
• Aquilegia
• Heather
• Ivy
• Lilac
• Fern

Roses and Hellebores from the garden in a blue vase

  Hello everyone! New day means new bouquet for my #onebouquetperday challenge initiated by Juliane from the frokenskicklig. You can see my bouquets so far here, here and there and also on Instagram of course. Today's bouquet is really my kind of bouquets: simple and a little bit wild, in a very rustic vessel. I love the imperfection of the garden roses and the beautiful shades of the hellebore. See you tomorrow with some more flowers! Elodie

A bouquet of Clematis and Aquilegia

Hello everyone! Just a short post to show you my bouquet today from the #onebouquetperday series while I am in France. Today I decided to make a bouquet with some clematis and a couple of aquilegia in the same shade of pink. I hope you will like them. They don't last very long in a vase, but I still like them very much. See you tomorrow for the next flowers from my parents garden. I might show you some more Pierre de Ronsard roses before the end of the week as they are just gorgeous at the moment. Have a great day! Elodie

roses and peonies

Hello everyone, The good thing with the rain outside, is that the garden is gorgeous! So many shades of green and the flowers are blooming everywhere. I can't stop making bouquets. As soon as Ella is having a nap and it's not raining, I am out in the garden making bouquets. Oh my god, how much I wish it could be my job someday. If it happens, I would really love to do wedding decoration with wild flowers and blooms from the garden. Today's bouquet is everything but wild. Roses and peonies from white to bright pink in a precious lalique vase. My favourite rose is the pink, climbing Eden rose, that we also call Pierre de Ronsard in France. This bouquet would be perfect for a pastel wedding. What do you think? This will also be my bouquet for the #onebouquetperday Challenge on Instagram. Have a great day everyone and see you tomorrow with my new bouquet. Same garden, totally different style. Bisous de France, Elodie

From the garden with love

Hello everyone!I am in France now for the next three weeks, spending time with my family and enjoying some time off with little miss Ella. I am participating in Juliane's Instagram Challenge #onebouquetperday and will be posting my bouquets mainly on Instagram, but also from times to times on the blog. For this bouquet, I used mainly some Aquilegia and some thyme from the garden. Today, you can also read me on the Backbube's blog for a little blogpost in German about decorating your flat like in the film Amelie. I wish you all a great day full of flowers! Elodie

A bouquet of globe flowers

Hello! The other day, I bought those beautiful flowers for the first time. They are called Trollius, or globe flowers, because of the beautiful shape of their petals, curved over the top of the flower, forming a globe. The petals are bright yellow and the pistil orange. I think they are really happy flowers and look fantastic in a contrasting blue vase. They are closely related to ranunculus and their leaves look really like those of an anemone.  If you find them in a shop, don't hesitate to buy them, they don't just look pretty, they also last pretty long in a vase.

I wish you all a great day! I am flying to France on Saturday. You can follow my adventures on Instagram and I will also be posting my bouquets from the garden and the forest on the blog regularly. xoxo Elodie

madame love loves: Seventy Tree

  Hello everyone! Do you know Kerry Layton? Maybe you know Seventy Tree then? Kerry is the brilliant British illustrator behind the brand Seventy Tree.  Seventy Tree was established in 2010. I really love the animals, Kerry uses in her illustration and bought this lovely print called Everyone's friend (currently out of stock) that Ella literally loves! The bear is saying H E L L O and many different languages including the three languages Ella is looking at it everyday and it makes me very happy. I am sure that it is not the symbol of her multilingual upbringing that appeals to Ella yet, but the great contrasts. During the first 6 Months of their lives, babies can hardly see any colours and are fascinated by black and white, as this is pretty much all they can see.  So I really recommend putting up contrasting prints on the wall when decorating a nursery. On top of that, I think that animals in decoration always work very well, not only for children! I also love the cutting boards and tray by Seventy Tree. Geometric and very happy! I wish you a great day! Elodie

 © Picture from the nursery by Jocelyn Casey, pictures from the collage by Seventy Tree with permission

Mini Bouquet of Aquilegia

Good Morning,I have a lovely mini bouquet for you today in a mini vase I found in Amsterdam, made by ceramic artist kirstie van noort. I really love her work, so simple and beautiful.  The flower I used is called Aquilegia, but is also called Granny's Bonnet, Columbine or Akalai. The name Aquilegia is derived from the Latin word for eagle (aquila), because the shape of the flower petals, which are said to resemble an eagle's claw. The common name columbine comes from the Latin for dove, due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together. Symbolism of columbine flowers is often combined with symbolic numbers. Thus, the tripartite leaves were seen as symbols of Trinity, seven columbine flowers can be interpreted as the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit.  I love the complex shape of the flower and the contrast between the colour of the petals and the yellow of the pistil, which makes a it a perfect flower for a miniature bouquet.

Have a wonderful day and speak to you soon! Elodie

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#flowersonmyway in April

from left to right and from top to bottom:@adreiabarata//@jenn_adores//
@glomerylane//@23qmstil

Hello everyone,

Here are my favourite contributions to my little Instagram Photochallenge: #flowersonmyway in April. I received some beautiful entries and flowers seem to be blooming everywhere around the world! I love spring! As last time, the winners are welcome to send me their postal address to this email address: elodie@madame-love.com, if they want to receive some snail mail from me. I wish you a great day! Elodie

Narzissenfest at the Hof Hollingbohl in North Frisia

Hello everyone! I hope you had a relaxing bank holiday yesterday! Today I would like to talk with you about flowers again. Last weekend I visited a beautiful flower garden in the northen part of Germany, next to the Danish border and the North Sea, called North Frisia. The mother of my friend Clara, from the lovely blog Tastesheriff, lives in a beautiful house with a thatched roof, similar to the house my husband's grandmother used to live in, in Cambridgeshire.  Once a year, they open their beautiful garden for the "Narzissenfest" - the daffodils festival.  More than 100,000 flowers covering more than 100 varieties of daffodils can be admired in the garden.  The planting is very wild and the tall grass is mixed with wild flowers. It all seams so natural and tasteful. One thing I really like in Clara's house is the colour blue, which can be spotted everywhere in the house and in the garden: the doors, the bench, the flower pots, the window frames are all blue. 

We had a piece of cake in their wonderful living room that they open to the public for that week-end and which is paved with gorgeous tiles from floor to ceiling. 

The "Narzissenfest" will be taking place next year as well, but if you can't wait that long, you can also stay at the lovely Hof Hillingbohl bed and breakfast this summer!

I wish you all a great day today! Talk to you soon, Elodie