Hello everyone!Are you ready for a new round of #2flowergirls with glomerylane and for a new flower?
As some of you guessed yesterday on Instagram, the new flower to style with be the carnation. Inga and I are big fans. What about you?
If you want to participate for the first time, you can read how it works here.
We will posting our flowers on March 28. This time, we managed not to pick the same date as our dear Claretti. So you can post your Gugelhupf on the 26 and be a #2flowergirl on the 28.
I wish a great evening.
Speak to you tomorrow!
Elodie
The vuvuzela roses
Hello!
I hope you had a nice week end! Even if the weather was not as brilliant as it had been the last few days, we still had a relaxing time. On Friday, I instantly fell in love with those gorgeous flowers on the market. I had to laugh when the florist told me their names. They are called vuvuzela roses like the very annoying plastic horns that where used during the football games of the South African Football Worldcup in 2010.
Apart from the name, there is nothing annoying or funny about this type of roses. They are just lovely their peach centre surrounded by pale pink petals.
I wish you a very good week full of flowers!
Elodie
Lovely Fabric: Petit Pan
Good morning everyone!
At the end of last year, I told you about one of my favorite French fabric designer called France Duval Stalla. Today I am back with some fabric love and another French brand called Petit Pan. Petit Pan is a very colourful brand, but the kind of colours I like! Deep blues and bright pinks!
Petit Pan was created in Paris in 2002 and sells decoration items, fabric (with more than 140 different patterns) and clothes made out of those fabrics.
Here is a selection of some of my favourite patterns. That is a perfect fabric for decorating a nursery or make a colourful statement with a cushion in your livingroom. I used a blue Petit Pan fabric for the pennant banner in Ella's bedroom.
Petit Pan has a very distinctive and joyful style inspired by Asian patterns and colours. I really makes me want to travel. Petit Pan is also well known for their paper lanterns. I have had a red dragon fly in my flat for ages, and it is still one of my favourite decoration items.
You can buy Petit Pan fabric in their shops in Paris, Toulouse and now Antwerp in Belgium, but also in their online shop. I wish you a fantastic day! Elodie
© all pictures by petit pan with permission
madame love loves: by lassen
Good morning everyone,
Today I would like to talk about design with you. The Danish brand by Lassen owns the rights to the designs of two of Denmark's greatest architects - Mogens Lassen (1901-1987) and Flemming Lassen (1902-1984). by Lassen is a family business, and is run by Søren and Nadia Lassen, the grandson and great granddaughter of the architects.
The design philosophy of by lassen is:
beautiful and elegant design melds with quality and practicality to create timeless products based on Danish craftsmanship and design. The KUBUS candlestick is most iconic and famous item from the brand. Mogens Lassen actually worked on the KUBUS candlestick for a long time before arriving at the shape we know today in 1962. Each individual Kubus candlestick is made with exactitude and the relationship between the sides calculated with great precision. The piece was first reserved solely for family and close architect colleagues.
The KUBUS has now been joined by other beautiful new designs. When Søren and Nadia Lassen set up the company by Lassen, they found inspiration for furniture, lamps and home accessories in the archives, designed Mogens and Flemming Lassen but which were never put into production.
Sources: from left to right and from top to bottom
1. Candleholder LINE 2. Stool ML42 3. KUBUS - in copper 4. FRAME - Storage solution 5. KUBUS Bowl in cool grey 6. Mirror VIEW 7. Twin table
PS: A Warm thank you to by Lassen for sending me this beautiful black KUBUS. I am very much in love. That's the kind of timeless design piece, that you can never get tired of.
madame love loves: fine little day
Good morning everyone,
Do you know Fine Little Day? I guess a lot of you have already heard about the brand or have noticed the gran pattern: this black firs pattern on a white background in one or another stylish interior. Gran is a pattern in clean modern Scandinavian style, designed with Swedish summer nights in mind. I find it really amazing how such a simple design can be so pretty and recognisable.
You probably also came across the apple papple or the pirum parum poster. Well, those are just so lovely.
Elisabeth Dunker from Gothenburg in Sweden is the talented lady behind the brand and the blog Fine Little Day. That is how Elisabeth defines her brand:
"The main focus is playful creating based on intuition, pleasure and joy."
On the Fine Little Day online shop, you can find the items from the brand and also some decoration items from other lovely brands and designers. I encourage you to follow Fine Little Day and Elisabeth Dunker on Instagram. If you love the brand and Elisabeth's natural style, you can also rent her house in Sweden via airbnb. How lovely is that? Have a fine little day! Elodie
© all pictures by fine little day with permission
Lovely Flower Book: Vom Garten in die Vase
Good Morning everyone!
I love books about flowers, I have started a little collection at home, and I have decided to share my favourite ones with you on the blog regularly. They give me inspiration and they are also very useful to learn about the different types of flowers and how to keep them, the way to carve their stems, how much water each variety needs. I also love reading about floristry and new techniques and tools.
The first book I would like to show you today is a German book called Vom Garten in die Vase: Blumen Planzen und Arrangieren by gardner Jutta Wagner and photographer Annette Wendland, published by blv Verlag (from the garden to the vase: planting and arranging flowers). 
I am obviously more interested in the arranging part than in the planting part, but who knows, one day my dream of a little garden might come true. There is a very interesting chapter in the book about the right instrument you need to make beautiful bouquets and the best way to cut your flowers in your garden.
There are also some great bouquet ideas using unusual or recycled vessels, which I really love, as well as tips to make your own beautiful flower crowns.
You can order this book here:
Vom Garten in die Vase: BLUMEN PFLANZEN & ARRANGIEREN
PS: A copy of the book was sent to me by the blv Verlag, but my views and opinions about this great book are my own.
Pink flowers in a yellow watering can: A colourful bouquet
Hello Everyone!
Do you want to see my last bouquet? I warn you, it is very pink and the vessel is very bright too, it is my yellow watering can.
The weather has been really dull in the last few days in Northern Germany and I felt the urge to create a colourful and happy bouquet.
So here the ingredients and the result. I hope it will brighten your day a little bit.
Speak to you soon!
Elodie
madame love loves: The Black Apple
Good morning everyone!
Emily Winfield Martin is the book author and illustrator behind the black apple and my mew decoration crush.
I discovered her, first through her beautiful cover for the Australian magazine Frankie. I am very much in love with her portraits. She makes me really want to visit Portland and get to know its amazing artists.
I especially love the women portraits with flowers and ordered the Shirley Poppy print for my living room. The paper quality is beautiful! The delivery was a bit challenging and I had to pick it up at the customs and wait an hour for it, as it was shipped from the US, but it was definitely worth it.
All the prints from the collage above are availabe on Emily's shop on Etsy.
My friend Igor from the Happy Interior blog took part in the last edition of the #2flowergirls and posted a pictures of his anemones in his living room and I spotted the Mysterious Girls print on his wall. How funny is that?
Unlike me, Igor brought the print when in was in Portland as a souvenir.
I wish you a great day!
Elodie
© Artworks by Emily Winfield Martin/Pictures by madame love except the last one by Igor Josif
madame love loves: colonel
Hello everyone!
The design studio COLONEL, specialised in furniture and decoration items was launched in Paris in 2012 by designers Isabelle Gilles & Yann Poncelet. The signature of the brand is:
- light wood
- patterns
- fresh colors
All the products designed by COLONEL are made in France, in collaboration with various craftmen. I love the solid beech wood and the choice of colours and the geometric forms. The products are available at the showroom/shop situated in the 10th arrondissement of Paris and on the e-shop: www.moncolonel.fr. In the e-shop, you can also find some beautiful products from Hay or Muuto.
I wish you a great start in this new week!
Elodie
CONTACT: COLONEL on Facebook COLONEL on Instragram COLONEL on Twitter
#flowersonmyway in February
Hello everyone,
I hope your weekend is starting well! I am happy you seem to be liking the #flowersonmyway photo challenge on Instagram.
As I promised here, I will show my favourites of each month on my blog.
These beautiful pictures are from: (from left to right and from top to borttom) @mel_chesneau, @sabinewittig, @sandraklee, @midnightdessert. You should keep an eye on those talented ladies.
Dear ladies, if you send me your postal address to elodie@madame-love.com, you will receive some snail mail from me. I hope you will continue spreading the flower joy on Instagram in March.
I wish you a great day! xoxo Elodie