Hello everyone,
here is just a little bouquet I made with beautiful hellebores and some peach tree blossom from my parent's garden on Monday. I don't know the name of the bright pink blossom; but it just looked perfect with the hellebores. I love them, they are so easy to grow and bloom for ever. They also look very pretty as cut flowers even if they won't last in a vase.
I wish you all a great day! I am on my way to Pernes les Fontaines now!
Elodie
Good morning you all!
I hope you had a relaxing week end! Today I want to show what you can do with mini vases, either with a single mini-vase, or by grouping a couple of them. For my bouquets this time, I used some contrasting flowers: astrantias and chess flowers.
I love the effect - the fluffiness and lightness of the astrantia and the complexity and geometrical effect of the chess flower. I mean, the beauty of this flower is almost surreal isn't it? It always fascinated my when I was a little girl. It is incredible what nature can produce, if you think about it!
The mini vases I used are from the lovely brand LIV by TM Interior. Their mini vases are just the best and I have been using them for many years. If you decide to do many mini bouquets, you can either group them in the middle of a table, or create a lovely vignette on a drawer or cabinet in your living room. You could also use them for a table decoration for a brunch or for a lunch and display one in front of each plate.
So! are you starting to feel the mini-vases fever? If you want to buy some lovely mini-vases from LIV by TM Interior, just go on their Facebook Page and get in touch with the lovely Diana. She will be delighted to tell you where you can find some next to where you live.
PS: thank you to LIV by TM Interior, for giving the possibility to write this blogpost. My love for mini-vases remains mine of course!
I wish you a great day!
Elodie
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Hello everyone! I received some beautiful contributions for my Instagram challenge #flowersonmyway in March! Thank you so much for the flower love, people of Instagram! Here are my favourite flowers from this month. 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 might even send a card from France. I wish you a great day full of flowers!
PS: Congratulations to the winners of Holly and Leslie's beautiful book decorate with flowers:
Elodie
Good morning everyone!
I should be packing my suitcase rather than writing this post actually, but I will try to keep it short.
I have some very exciting news, I would like to share with you. I will start with telling you a few words about the image above.
1. Yesterday night, I made the flower decoration for the ball of the "bal de l'amitié franco-allemande" (German-French Friendship Ball) in the fantastic ballroom of the Atlantic Hotel in Hamburg. Each table was named after a painter (French or German) and I had to create a different bouquet, in a different vase for each table in the spirit of that painter. In made 21 bouquets in total - I will show you the results on the blog in the coming weeks. The bouquet above was for the table Fantin-Latour.
2. The second news is that I am flying to France in 2 hours to attend a great workshop in Pernes les Fontaines called Joyeuse Clique. A styling workshop for bloggers with the Dutch stylist Anouk B. I will of course tell you everything about it when I come back. You can also follow my French adventures on Instagram in the meantime.
3. Just a few days after coming from France, I will be travelling to Holland to visit the flower fields of Keukenhof.
4. Last but not least, at the end of the month, I will attend for the first time the daffodil festival, in the family house of my friend Clara in North Frisia.
I wish you a great day! Elodie
Good morning everyone!
I am so happy to start this new edition of the #2flowergirls with my friend Inga from glomerylane with a flower that hasn't got such a good reputation: carnation. I really don't know why, because they are so lovely and come and beautiful vibrant colours.
If you want to play with us, you can post the link to your post here or on Inga's blog. You can also post your carnation on Instagram, with the #2flowergirls hashtag. We will collect your flowers on our Carnation Pinterest board.
For my bouquet, I was inspired by mexican art and by the flowers, Frida Kahlo used to wear in her hair. The beautiful fabric I used for the backgound is by Phillip Jacobs for Rowan. I was really inspired by this fabric for composing my bouquet. I love combining fabric with flowers. What do you think about it?
I wish you all a great day, and I can't wait to discover your little beauties!
Your flower girl, Elodie
If you want to participate this time again, you can post a link to your blogpost in the comment field under this post or add you link directly in the post by clicking on the “add your link” button and show us how you styled your carnation.
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Hello everyone,
The new edition of #2flowergirls is starting tomorrow and I am so happy that Inga and myself are back on track! We had a great response with the anemone edition. You can all the flowers on our Pinterest board. I made a little collage here with some of my favourites. Don't forget that we are starting tomorrow with the carnation edition. If you want to take part for the first time, here is how the #2flowergirls work. Oh, and by the way, I wanted to remind you that you still have until tonight to enter the giveaway the win the decorate with flowers book. Good luck and speak to you tomorrow!
Elodie
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Hello everyone,
Today is Gugelhupf day! and it's Claretti day! My friend Clara from the German Lifestyle Blog tastesheriff is collecting Gugelhupf recipes on her blog today. It is my first food post in a long while and it makes me very happy because I really love styling and photographing food. A Gugelhupf, Guglhupf, Gugelhopf or Kougelhopf is a southern German, Austrian, Swiss and French (Alsatian) cake specialty. The gugelhupf is a big cake and has a distinctive ring shape. I prefer the mini version of it. You can find a special baking mould here for instance. The Yuzu I used in the recipe is a citrus fruit, commonly used in Japanese cuisine, which I love and discovered during my honeymoon in Japan in 2008.
You can find the recipe underneath and print it if you want to try it at home.
Have a great day and don't forget to buy some carnation for the #2flowergirls on Friday! Elodie
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Good Morning everyone,
I finished last week with a lovely flower book and I start this one with another one! Decorate with Flowers
Each chapter starts with a lovely mood board which is typical for Holly Becker with some lovely Liberty fabric of course! At the end of the book, Holly and Leslie share their favourite flowers - and I was so happy to find some of my favourite flowers in the book too, such as astrantia, scabious or delphiniums.
Yesterday I made one of the step-by-step projects from the book at home: a simple coat hanger wreath. What the you think? Flowers don't need to be in a vase to look good. I think this a simple, yet great idea for party decoration.
I am so happy that both the book's German editor Callwey Verlag and the British editor Jacqui Small gave me the opportunity to GIVE AWAY ONE COPY IN GERMAN AND ONE COPY IN ENGLISH of this great book.
HOW TO ENTER THE GIVE AWAY? You can enter until Thursday 27 - 23:59 GMT. Just leave me a message in the comment field and tell me if you would like to win the German or the British edition of the book. I wish you all very good luck! Talk to you soon, Elodie
PS: this book review was part of a German book tour and some of my blogger friends, have been writing some great reviews.
Wohnen mit Blumen: Kreative Ideen für Zuhause Holly Becker & Leslie Shewring Callwey Verlag 144 Seiten, 19,95 €
Decorate with flowers Holly Becker & Leslie Shewring Jacqui Small 144 pages, £15.49
Good morning everyone!
Trained horticulturist Louise Curley writes for the Guardian, The Simple Things and Gardens Illustrated magazines. She also runs a flower and garden blog called Wellywoman - A life in Wellies. She gardens organically and has kept an allotment for four years on which she grows all her cut flowers.
Her lovely book The Cut Flower Patch has been released this month in the UK and is absolutely beautiful. Another book that makes me crave for a garden.
This book gives you a lot of advice regarding how to choose the right plants for your garden, and focuses on flowers I love like zinnia, or snapdragon.
I really love the section in the book dedicated to foliage and fillers, that are for me so crucial for nice bouquets.
This book is also very interesting, even if you don't have your own garden, as the 100 last pages of the book are about arranging flowers with a lot of inspiration beautifully photographed by Jason Ingram .
To order The Cut Flower Patch at the discounted price of £16.00 including p&p* (RRP: £16.00), telephone 01903 828503 or email mailorders@lbsltd.co.uk and quote the offer code APG101. Alternatively, send a cheque made payable to: LBS Mail Order Department, Littlehampton Book Services, PO Box 4264, Worthing, West Sussex, BN13 3RB. Please quote the offer code APG101 and include your name and address details. *UK ONLY - Please add £2.50 if ordering from overseas.
If you like this book, you will be happy to know that I will be presenting the new book by Holly Becker and Leslie Shewring called Decorate with Flowers, as part as a little Blog book tour on Monday. I will also be hosting a give away for both the German and the British issue of the book. So stay tuned and have a great day! Elodie
Hello everyone!
Do you know le train fantôme? It is the brand of designer and maker Fanja Ralison
Born in France from Malagasy parents. Fanja currently lives in Hertfordshire, England. I love her little creatures, mainly dolls and rabbits.
I am especially fan of the Lumi Doll with her beautiful hair cut. I have been a doudou and fabric dolls fan, for a long time before my daughter was born. Those are just so precious, they are part of a limited edition and made to order and each doll is different. Lumi dolls are entirely handmade from cotton, wool, linen and polyester filling. Her faces and drawn with fabric pen.
They are not suitable for babies to play with of course but would look wonderful as decoration, or for a bigger child. I would love to buy one to my daughter when she gets older.
You can find le train fantôme on Facebook, on Instagram and buy the dolls and the pretty dressses for the dolls online here.
© all pictures by le train fantôme with permission