Tuesday, March 27, 2007
1:33 PM
Garden and other news!
Now here are the promised garden pictures.
This one was taken on sunny Sunday morning, but it's still that sunny here :D (click on the picture to enlarge it and see more details):
My big border , where everything is sprouting now :D
A close up of one of my big Allium Globemasters and my Sedum spectabile and more:
A close up of 2 blue Nepetas (cat nip) and a white Lupinus:
And this is my new potting table and space! :D I love it that I don't have to do the potting on the floor/ground anymore!
And this is a brand new visitor to my garden, sipping the sweet nectar of my Virburnum tinus is this butterfly called: Polygonia c-album
My comfortable garden shoes:
Then yesterday I've got 2 envelopes with lovely art from international blogging friends. This mini quilt tag is the gorgeous work of Cat from www.Baumcat.blogspot.com:Thanks a lot dear Cat, I love it!
Tia and Cath I've send off something for each of you last Wednesday! I just forgot to take pictures before I've send it off! 
Lastly I'm glad to introduce you to the new Etsy shop of my sister Cordula. She is a german mixed media artist and is now selling her fab mixed media art collages at Cordi's art shop please go have a look and tell her I've send you!
Well I think that's it for today. Enjoy spring everyone! xox
Labels: Butterflies, Flowers, Garden, Swaps
posted by Carol @ 1:33 PM
Sunday, March 25, 2007
12:57 PM
More eggs on another sunny spring Sunday!
I feel so lucky that we have such beautiful sunny spring weather again since yesterday and it is forecasted to stay like this the whole week ahead yeah! :D 
Of course I’m trying to spend most of my spare time outside at the moment, but I still managed to finish some more Easter egg collages. I’m quite happy with the way they’ve turned out. I chose my favorite papers & borders & embellishments etc. as well as my fave colors aqua/turquoise/blue and I hope they’ll please you too! Just click on the pictures to see the bigger version with more details.I'm going to put them into my Etsy shop tonight.
I’m back to the garden now taking some pictures for my next post. I've got myself a pretty and practical new potting table which makes potting a lot more comfortable! This afternoon I’m off for a walk in the woods, we had the change to summer time tonight and today it will be daylight until 8 pm which I love!
Have a gorgeous spring day you too, dear blogging friends & readers! Read you! xox
Labels: birds, collages, Easter decoration, Eggs, Etsy shop, Nests, Spring
posted by Carol @ 12:57 PM
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
1:12 PM
First day of spring & lot's of tea parties!
Welcome Spring! :D
has invited bloggers from around the globe to participate in her spring tea party today while posting something tea related on your blogs. Well and this is my tea post for Kari and all of you blogging friends & readers!
While searching for Tea related pictures I came across a great website of Paul Schrader & Co. a big tea shop in my home town Bremen, established already in 1921. Bremen is famous for it's port and here especially for the im- and export of tea & coffee. So @ Paul Schraders shop you can chose between 300 different sorts of tea from all over the world.
But among all those teas you can also find lot's of other items in the shop like this tea egg with a picture from Dresden:
Then you can also get milk for your tea there for example from "Pfunds":
"Pfunds" is a very old Dresden Milk Shop founded in 1880 and they call themeselves:
"The most beautiful milk shop in the world!"
To prove that they aren't lying here is a picture of inside the shop:
Oh and just look at the gorgeous old fashioned milk soap they sell and the fab old advertisement sign:
Then at Paul Schrader you can also get special Easter tea baskets:
And also specialities from my home town like these little chocolate cakes called "Domspitzen" after our famous "Bremer Dom" a big cathedral built back in the middle ages:
Well now after all this information it's time to sit down, relax and have some Darjeeling first flush tea along with a few cucumber sandwiches, please help yourself, meet other bloggers and enjoy!
Or maybe you'd prefer a tasty Chai latte? Find a yummy recipe here!
Now last but not least thanks a lot for stopping by today and don't forget to head over to Kari's blog www.artsymama.blogspot.com to participate in her wonderful spring tea party if this isn't where you coming from lol. She has prepared some yummy treats and also a turtorial to craft a little Easter basket. Go see! xox
Labels: Bremen my home town, Spring, tea party
posted by Carol @ 1:12 PM
Saturday, March 17, 2007
2:37 PM
Birds & Easter decorations
Update Sunday March 18th 2007:
I've just added 7 Easter egg collages to my little Etsy shop (see side bar mini etsy and link) and I hope you'll like those too!
***************************************
Welcome back to Boxwoodcottage everyone!
I hope this find's you all in best spring mood!
Wow what a gorgeous week I had, the weather was beautifully spring like and I could even take my deckchair out and read my favorite home & garden magazines in the sun. Also I could welcome my first two customers at my brand new little Etsy shop. :D Thanks a lot to Allie & Louise you've both made my week! It's such a wonderful feeling that you like what I've created! Today I've added these little bird nest ornaments to the shop, aren't they cute? Unfortunately I've found out that it is quite expensive to send them overseas to the USA because they are not flat enough to send them as a letter, but if there is something else you'd like from the shop I could put it in your parcel too without any extra mailing costs and I also have a little surprise gift for every customer. For my future German & European&UK customers the mailing is much cheaper though.
I think my little bird nest sets make such a delightful spring decoration and a beautiful adornment to your Easter table setting! They are made of thin twigs and filled with delicate quail eggs & feathers. In one nest there even sits a cute tiny hatchling in a quail egg! I only have 6 of these sets in stock and if you place your order fast enough you'll have them at your home before Easter!
I was quite happy to take these pictures of one of my fave little garden visitors a titmouse (chikadee) this week:
The decoration in the cottage is slowly changing to a more Easter like look as well, as you can see in the next 3 pictures:
I wish you all a happy & creative spring weekend and a wonderful week ahead dear blogging friends and readers! xox
Labels: birds, collages, Easter decoration, Eggs, Etsy shop, Nests, patio
posted by Carol @ 2:37 PM
Monday, March 12, 2007
11:22 AM
Shop opening and sunny garden Sunday!
Hello dear blogging friends and readers!I hope you all had a splendid weekend! Mine was wonderful, Saturday we've planted lots of Violas and other spring flowers and yesterday was the first real sunny spring day and I've spend the whole day in the garden :D. The temperature has even reached 21 degrees celsius in the sun on my patio! I took some pictures of course, but first I have a very exciting announcement to make, maybe not as exciting for you as it is to me lol it's the opening of my own Etsy shop !
I proudly present to you "Boxwoodcottage" Decorational crafts & more! My daughter was so kind to make me the shop banner above. I've got several e-mails from blog readers lately with the question if I would also sell my hearts, collages etc. and I thought Etsy would be the best way to do it. Also the purchase through Etsy and the payment through Paypal is so very easy! For the beginning I've created 4 Easter egg collages and also added 4 heart collages to the shop, but there is more to follow, I'll keep you updated here on my blog. I'd appreciate your feedback and hope that you'll like my little shop! Just click on the banner to go there! Thank you! Back to the garden now! Here is the patio view on sunny Sunday morning:
My hanging baskets and pots are slowly getting filled again with fresh flowers:
Also my crocusses have finally opened their blooms:
This is the stunning view to my right hand neighbour:
It's spring! :D
Lastly I like to thank all you lovely people to the overwhelming response to my "Tribute to Summer" post! I loved to read all your kind comments, keep them coming please :D! I wish you all a wonderful spring week ahead! xox
Labels: Etsy shop, Flowers, Garden, Violas
posted by Carol @ 11:22 AM
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
12:01 PM
A tribute to Summer!
I've been searching for a special photo today and while I went through hundreds of pages of my imageshack account and saw all the glorious summer flower photos that I took in my garden last year I had the idea of making a summer tribute post today, so we have something to look forward too! I guess that most of you are longing for blue sky and beautiful greens and flowers as much as I do during these gray days. So lay back and enjoy!
It was hard to select just a few photos from so many. Is there something more gorgeous and perfect in the world than flowers? Oh beautiful summer please come back soon! *sigh* Labels: Flowers, Roses, Summer
posted by Carol @ 12:01 PM
Monday, March 05, 2007
10:06 AM
More fabric hearts and spring flowers
When I came home from work on Thursday afternoon I found this lovely vintage swap heart from Ginny over @ Twinkle Pink blog in my mail box:
Isn't it gorgeous? I love all the details, like the little baby heart with the tiny crystal, the beautiful rose buttons and the pretty pink spotted bow and of course the vintage linnen she has used and then that it is filled to the brim with real Lavender and it secents just heavenly! Thanks a lot dear Ginny!I have just realised that I have never posted the lovely fabric rose heart which I've got from Anita @ My Country Cottage Garden for my b-day in January:
I have now attached Ginny's heart and both of Anitas hearts, the one from my b-day and the one from our swap, to my mantlepiece and I really like the look of it! How do you like it? (Click on picture to enlarge)
Oh and look what I found while shopping for spring flowers on Friday afternoon, delicate little birdies sitting in tiny nests with tiny eggs and feathers, awe I just had to take them home with me:
Of course I found some beautiful flowers too like this pansy with its pretty rippled border:
I also had to take a picture of it with my favourite garden model the terracotta princess:
Further I bought this wonderful pink filled prime rose:
and lots of my fave spring flowers which are Viola Cornuta (Johnny jump-ups):
Oh and there is more like lots of pink Bellis perennis and lots more different Pansies in gorgeous shades of soft pink and terracotta and more Johnny jump-ups in beautiful colors!
The weather this last weekend wasn't really gardening weather, it was rainy, cold and windy with an exception of yesterday where I had to cut back all the shrubs and bushes and perennials from last year and had no time left to plant my new flowers before the dark, so hopefully I'll get around to do it sometime this week. Labels: birds, Eggs, Flowers, Hearts, Nests, Pansies, Primeroses, Tulips
posted by Carol @ 10:06 AM
Thursday, March 01, 2007
11:13 AM
Meteorological Spring!
From the meteorological side of view it's Spring today, hurray, finally! :D Let's just hope that Winter is really over now and will not come back for at least the next 8 month! To celebrate the first day of March I've created my first paper egg of the season last night:
And now I have to do a last post about hearts because I've got almost all my hearts from Anita's Nostalgic hearts swap by now. Only one from England is still missing but I'm sure it's on it's way and maybe I'll find it in my letter box when I get home tonight.
This is the last 2 sided paper heart I have finished and send off to Delila today along with some embellishments that she might find a use for in her beautiful art work:
And this is the gorgeous paper heart which Delila of Sepia Art Studio has created and send to me, along with on of her pretty wee paper bundles :D:
Further I had a little private swap with Miz Smoochie Lips and she has sent me this sweet little two sided wooden heart:
Now this next one is the fabric nostalgic heart which Anita the swap organiser herself has made for me. My cat is totally in love with it because it smells so good, she can't stop sniffing @ it lol:
Last but not least my dear finnish friend Maria from Woodpecker Cottage has made me this two sided fabric heart with my initial C on one side and gorgeous crotcheting filled with little pink roses on the other side. What a lot of effort she has put in there, have a look: 
Ladies I must say that it was a big pleasure for me to swap hearts with so many of you and to get to see some of your beautiful works in reality. I'm quite happy to call you my friends and to own some of your gorgeous works now to adorn my house and studio :D Thanks a lot! xox
P.S. This last one is a picture of 3 of the heart I've sent off and some doves I had made as place names for the dinner party I gave last month (the template is taken out of Kari Mengs wonderful book "The french inspired home").
As always, click on the pictures to enlarge them and see more details!
Have a beautiful weekend everyone! I so hope I can spend mine working in the garden this time. Fingers crossed! xox
Labels: birds, Crafts, Hearts, Nests, Spring; Eggs, Swaps
posted by Carol @ 11:13 AM
1:33 PM
Now here are the promised garden pictures.
This one was taken on sunny Sunday morning, but it's still that sunny here :D (click on the picture to enlarge it and see more details):
My big border , where everything is sprouting now :D
A close up of one of my big Allium Globemasters and my Sedum spectabile and more:
A close up of 2 blue Nepetas (cat nip) and a white Lupinus:
And this is my new potting table and space! :D I love it that I don't have to do the potting on the floor/ground anymore!
And this is a brand new visitor to my garden, sipping the sweet nectar of my Virburnum tinus is this butterfly called: Polygonia c-album
My comfortable garden shoes:
Then yesterday I've got 2 envelopes with lovely art from international blogging friends. This mini quilt tag is the gorgeous work of Cat from www.Baumcat.blogspot.com:Thanks a lot dear Cat, I love it!
Tia and Cath I've send off something for each of you last Wednesday! I just forgot to take pictures before I've send it off! Lastly I'm glad to introduce you to the new Etsy shop of my sister Cordula. She is a german mixed media artist and is now selling her fab mixed media art collages at Cordi's art shop please go have a look and tell her I've send you!
Well I think that's it for today. Enjoy spring everyone! xox
Labels: Butterflies, Flowers, Garden, Swaps
12:57 PM
I feel so lucky that we have such beautiful sunny spring weather again since yesterday and it is forecasted to stay like this the whole week ahead yeah! :D Of course I’m trying to spend most of my spare time outside at the moment, but I still managed to finish some more Easter egg collages. I’m quite happy with the way they’ve turned out. I chose my favorite papers & borders & embellishments etc. as well as my fave colors aqua/turquoise/blue and I hope they’ll please you too! Just click on the pictures to see the bigger version with more details.I'm going to put them into my Etsy shop tonight.
I’m back to the garden now taking some pictures for my next post. I've got myself a pretty and practical new potting table which makes potting a lot more comfortable! This afternoon I’m off for a walk in the woods, we had the change to summer time tonight and today it will be daylight until 8 pm which I love!
Have a gorgeous spring day you too, dear blogging friends & readers! Read you! xox
Labels: birds, collages, Easter decoration, Eggs, Etsy shop, Nests, Spring
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
1:12 PM
Welcome Spring! :D
has invited bloggers from around the globe to participate in her spring tea party today while posting something tea related on your blogs. Well and this is my tea post for Kari and all of you blogging friends & readers!
While searching for Tea related pictures I came across a great website of Paul Schrader & Co. a big tea shop in my home town Bremen, established already in 1921. Bremen is famous for it's port and here especially for the im- and export of tea & coffee. So @ Paul Schraders shop you can chose between 300 different sorts of tea from all over the world.
But among all those teas you can also find lot's of other items in the shop like this tea egg with a picture from Dresden:
Then you can also get milk for your tea there for example from "Pfunds":
"Pfunds" is a very old Dresden Milk Shop founded in 1880 and they call themeselves:
"The most beautiful milk shop in the world!"
To prove that they aren't lying here is a picture of inside the shop:
Oh and just look at the gorgeous old fashioned milk soap they sell and the fab old advertisement sign: Then at Paul Schrader you can also get special Easter tea baskets:And also specialities from my home town like these little chocolate cakes called "Domspitzen" after our famous "Bremer Dom" a big cathedral built back in the middle ages:
Well now after all this information it's time to sit down, relax and have some Darjeeling first flush tea along with a few cucumber sandwiches, please help yourself, meet other bloggers and enjoy!
Or maybe you'd prefer a tasty Chai latte? Find a yummy recipe here!
Now last but not least thanks a lot for stopping by today and don't forget to head over to Kari's blog www.artsymama.blogspot.com to participate in her wonderful spring tea party if this isn't where you coming from lol. She has prepared some yummy treats and also a turtorial to craft a little Easter basket. Go see! xox
Labels: Bremen my home town, Spring, tea party
2:37 PM
Update Sunday March 18th 2007:I've just added 7 Easter egg collages to my little Etsy shop (see side bar mini etsy and link) and I hope you'll like those too!
***************************************
Welcome back to Boxwoodcottage everyone!
I hope this find's you all in best spring mood!
Wow what a gorgeous week I had, the weather was beautifully spring like and I could even take my deckchair out and read my favorite home & garden magazines in the sun. Also I could welcome my first two customers at my brand new little Etsy shop. :D Thanks a lot to Allie & Louise you've both made my week! It's such a wonderful feeling that you like what I've created! Today I've added these little bird nest ornaments to the shop, aren't they cute? Unfortunately I've found out that it is quite expensive to send them overseas to the USA because they are not flat enough to send them as a letter, but if there is something else you'd like from the shop I could put it in your parcel too without any extra mailing costs and I also have a little surprise gift for every customer. For my future German & European&UK customers the mailing is much cheaper though.
I think my little bird nest sets make such a delightful spring decoration and a beautiful adornment to your Easter table setting! They are made of thin twigs and filled with delicate quail eggs & feathers. In one nest there even sits a cute tiny hatchling in a quail egg! I only have 6 of these sets in stock and if you place your order fast enough you'll have them at your home before Easter!
I was quite happy to take these pictures of one of my fave little garden visitors a titmouse (chikadee) this week:The decoration in the cottage is slowly changing to a more Easter like look as well, as you can see in the next 3 pictures:
I wish you all a happy & creative spring weekend and a wonderful week ahead dear blogging friends and readers! xox
Labels: birds, collages, Easter decoration, Eggs, Etsy shop, Nests, patio
11:22 AM
Hello dear blogging friends and readers!I hope you all had a splendid weekend! Mine was wonderful, Saturday we've planted lots of Violas and other spring flowers and yesterday was the first real sunny spring day and I've spend the whole day in the garden :D. The temperature has even reached 21 degrees celsius in the sun on my patio! I took some pictures of course, but first I have a very exciting announcement to make, maybe not as exciting for you as it is to me lol it's the opening of my own Etsy shop !
I proudly present to you "Boxwoodcottage" Decorational crafts & more! My daughter was so kind to make me the shop banner above. I've got several e-mails from blog readers lately with the question if I would also sell my hearts, collages etc. and I thought Etsy would be the best way to do it. Also the purchase through Etsy and the payment through Paypal is so very easy! For the beginning I've created 4 Easter egg collages and also added 4 heart collages to the shop, but there is more to follow, I'll keep you updated here on my blog. I'd appreciate your feedback and hope that you'll like my little shop! Just click on the banner to go there! Thank you! Back to the garden now! Here is the patio view on sunny Sunday morning:
My hanging baskets and pots are slowly getting filled again with fresh flowers:
Also my crocusses have finally opened their blooms:
This is the stunning view to my right hand neighbour:
It's spring! :D
Lastly I like to thank all you lovely people to the overwhelming response to my "Tribute to Summer" post! I loved to read all your kind comments, keep them coming please :D! I wish you all a wonderful spring week ahead! xox
Labels: Etsy shop, Flowers, Garden, Violas
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
12:01 PM
I've been searching for a special photo today and while I went through hundreds of pages of my imageshack account and saw all the glorious summer flower photos that I took in my garden last year I had the idea of making a summer tribute post today, so we have something to look forward too! I guess that most of you are longing for blue sky and beautiful greens and flowers as much as I do during these gray days. So lay back and enjoy!
It was hard to select just a few photos from so many. Is there something more gorgeous and perfect in the world than flowers? Oh beautiful summer please come back soon! *sigh* Labels: Flowers, Roses, Summer
10:06 AM
When I came home from work on Thursday afternoon I found this lovely vintage swap heart from Ginny over @ Twinkle Pink blog in my mail box:
Isn't it gorgeous? I love all the details, like the little baby heart with the tiny crystal, the beautiful rose buttons and the pretty pink spotted bow and of course the vintage linnen she has used and then that it is filled to the brim with real Lavender and it secents just heavenly! Thanks a lot dear Ginny!I have just realised that I have never posted the lovely fabric rose heart which I've got from Anita @ My Country Cottage Garden for my b-day in January:I have now attached Ginny's heart and both of Anitas hearts, the one from my b-day and the one from our swap, to my mantlepiece and I really like the look of it! How do you like it? (Click on picture to enlarge)Oh and look what I found while shopping for spring flowers on Friday afternoon, delicate little birdies sitting in tiny nests with tiny eggs and feathers, awe I just had to take them home with me:Of course I found some beautiful flowers too like this pansy with its pretty rippled border:I also had to take a picture of it with my favourite garden model the terracotta princess:
Further I bought this wonderful pink filled prime rose:
and lots of my fave spring flowers which are Viola Cornuta (Johnny jump-ups):
Oh and there is more like lots of pink Bellis perennis and lots more different Pansies in gorgeous shades of soft pink and terracotta and more Johnny jump-ups in beautiful colors!
The weather this last weekend wasn't really gardening weather, it was rainy, cold and windy with an exception of yesterday where I had to cut back all the shrubs and bushes and perennials from last year and had no time left to plant my new flowers before the dark, so hopefully I'll get around to do it sometime this week. Labels: birds, Eggs, Flowers, Hearts, Nests, Pansies, Primeroses, Tulips
11:13 AM
From the meteorological side of view it's Spring today, hurray, finally! :D Let's just hope that Winter is really over now and will not come back for at least the next 8 month! To celebrate the first day of March I've created my first paper egg of the season last night: And now I have to do a last post about hearts because I've got almost all my hearts from Anita's Nostalgic hearts swap by now. Only one from England is still missing but I'm sure it's on it's way and maybe I'll find it in my letter box when I get home tonight.
This is the last 2 sided paper heart I have finished and send off to Delila today along with some embellishments that she might find a use for in her beautiful art work:
And this is the gorgeous paper heart which Delila of Sepia Art Studio has created and send to me, along with on of her pretty wee paper bundles :D:
Further I had a little private swap with Miz Smoochie Lips and she has sent me this sweet little two sided wooden heart:
Now this next one is the fabric nostalgic heart which Anita the swap organiser herself has made for me. My cat is totally in love with it because it smells so good, she can't stop sniffing @ it lol:
Last but not least my dear finnish friend Maria from Woodpecker Cottage has made me this two sided fabric heart with my initial C on one side and gorgeous crotcheting filled with little pink roses on the other side. What a lot of effort she has put in there, have a look:
Ladies I must say that it was a big pleasure for me to swap hearts with so many of you and to get to see some of your beautiful works in reality. I'm quite happy to call you my friends and to own some of your gorgeous works now to adorn my house and studio :D Thanks a lot! xox
P.S. This last one is a picture of 3 of the heart I've sent off and some doves I had made as place names for the dinner party I gave last month (the template is taken out of Kari Mengs wonderful book "The french inspired home").
As always, click on the pictures to enlarge them and see more details!
Have a beautiful weekend everyone! I so hope I can spend mine working in the garden this time. Fingers crossed! xox
Labels: birds, Crafts, Hearts, Nests, Spring; Eggs, Swaps
