Tuesday, April 24, 2007
2:45 PM
Studio painting & flea market trip!
Hello and welcome back to Boxwoodcottage on a sunny Wednesday everyone! I'm so glad you came by to see what's new and hope you'll let me know you were here by posting a comment! Today I like to show you what I found at our trip to the Bremen flea market last Sunday. I wasn't to our flea market for ages because I don't really like to get up this early on a Sunday morning while having to get up early for work all week long, but after all the successful flea market trips of my blogging friends I read about the last few month I decided that this Sunday I'll make it and with the help of my daughter who told me to hurry up the whole morning we actually hit the flea market in Bremen city at exactly 10.00 am lol I know it's late but I really did my very best for a Sunday morning. It was all worth it because I came back with this vintage case full of vintage goodies, what a pleasure! :)
I found lot's of gorgeous old German photos & prints from the 19th century as well as rolls of vintage satin ribbon in pink and vintage mother of pearl buttons:
But the best part were 8 old cardboard boxes full of vintage Christmas glass baubles in different forms, sizes and colors for just 15 Euros including the vintage case! :D
I felt and still feel like having found a treasure! :D Christmas in April yippieh!
I especially love this old fashion catalogue print, don't you? Click on pictures to enlarge and see more details!
Well like I hinted to you already in my Sunday post below, on Friday we decided that our loft room with my studio is too white and boring so we went and bought some turqouise and pink color (the colors my daughter loves too!) to give it a fresher feeling. Further I've painted this little kitchen table in a shabby white last week to have another little work space in my studio:
It really is just a small new space but I love it's new fresh look & colors:
Our cat Sammy loves to have a nap on the big cushion which I've put on our other big vintage case. So she can be around and close to us while we are doing some creative work, or blogging, surfing the net or whatever.
A few of my favorite tin boxes in the studio:
Can you spot them under my big working table?
I posted pictures of my space behind the wall back in January here for those of you who haven't seen the post yet and are curious what's hidden there!I hope you enjoyed my blog today and I'll come around to check your's now!
Laters! xox
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P.S. I've noticed a lot of quiet french readers recently that I can see on my "recent visitors counter" in the sidebar of my blog and that I'd like to welcome now.
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Bienvenue les blogger et lecteur francais!
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Je sais lire le francais aussie et j'aimerais bien trouve vos commentaires ici et faire la connaissance de vous et lire votre blogue si vous avez un !
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Merci beaucoup et j'espere a bientot! :)
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Il ne sont pas des accents sur les mots francais que j'ecris ici parceque "blogger" ne les aime pas!
Labels: Flea market, Studio
posted by Carol @ 2:45 PM
Saturday, April 21, 2007
10:22 PM
Blue & Pink Garden
I took a picture of our blue sky for all of you who still have no spring weather yet:
Blue is one of my fave colors in my garden too, these blue bells and white daisies are growing in my front garden:
The Aquilegia (Colombine) is growing in my mixed border at the moment:
As well as these Forget me not's:
My rosemary is als0 blooming at the moment:
And this Lavender is almost blooming:
Pink daisies (Bellis perennis) in my front garden under the window sill:
Pink is my second fave color in my garden. At the moment I'm in love with my bleeding hearts:
And my pink tulips are in full bloom now:
When they are fading my big pink Allium balls are going to bloom here:
My little lilac bush is making my patio pink along with the pink pansies:
Pink pelargonium and blue lobelias on my blue iron table:
Pink ranunculus:
I also love the pure white ranunculus right now:
We are experiencing the warmest spring ever as far as I can remember with temperatures always over 10 degrees and often up to almost 30 degrees celsius (with just one colder day yesterday, that was shocking only 8 degrees brrrr, but today we were back to 18!) and my roses already have big buds and I can't wait for them to bloom soon! My pink Wisteria is also starting to bloom now and last year it has bloomed a whole month later. The bad side of the warm weather is that it hasn't rained for weeks and the garden is very very dry. I hope for some rain now (at night please)!
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I've now sold almost all the items I had in my little etsy shop thanks to you guys :D and I have a lot of new ideas, but with the good weather outside theres not much time for my little studio of which we have just painted a part in a gorgeous turqouise & pink color (pictures to follow soon)! If we are able to get up early enough tomorrow we're planning a trip to the flea market.
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Happy Sunday dear blogging friends and readers and a wonderful week ahead and hopefully good spring weather for everyone of you! xox
Labels: Flowers, Garden, Spring
posted by Carol @ 10:22 PM
Saturday, April 14, 2007
9:21 AM
It feels like summer here!
You won't believe it, but we had 25 degrees celsius yesterday (that is 77 fahrenheit) and it is supposed to stay this warm for the next three days as well! Everything is growing so fast now! I took the following pictures last Sunday and will take new ones this Sunday so I can compare what a difference a week makes.
Above is my new little autumn border, but right now I love the spring color blue with the grape hyacinths! And the blue of the pansies, anemones & hyacinths in the next pictures:
The only soft yellow in my garden at the moment comes from these daffodils:
The red bleeding heart is gently open it heart shaped blooms:
More gorgeous pansies:
Oh I know I have to put the Easter deco away now *sigh*
Now I have to go out in the garden, potting more flowers. Have a wonderful weekend dear blogging friends and readers! xox
Labels: Flowers, Garden, Garden ornaments, Spring
posted by Carol @ 9:21 AM
Saturday, April 07, 2007
8:52 AM
A blissful Easter to you!
Hello dear blogging friends and readers,
today I'm in the mood for a real Easter eye candy post, so I've scanned some of my fave pictures/illustrations for you to see!
The picture above is from one of my older "Marjolein Bastin" Nature calendars. I love her style very much! Isn't this a gorgeous rabbit and so very Eastere!
The next picture is the cover of a very old German children book called "Die Häschenschule" which means "The little hare school":
Doesn't it have beautiful illustrations?
I was very busy and in Easter mood while working in my studio these last weeks (always after work that is). See the mess on my desk? I so have to do a big clean up there and all around it too ha ha:
It is so much fun for me to create these paper Easter and Spring egg collages:
This big blue paper maché egg (filled with a ballon) is on I made a couple of years ago and I still like to use it for my Easter decorations:
But meanwhile my style has totally changed. The first picture in this post and the following 3 photos are of my latest paper maché egg creation called "birdie egg" :
And the side view:
I further have created these two paper egg collages for my new friend Jenny Holiday this week:
See the old German sheet music pages under the eggs? I've got lot's of them from a dear friend of my mum last week which has made me very happy and thankful! They are from her dad who passed away some years ago. I've already used them for the paper maché egg above and I'm also thinking of making some bundles for my Etsy shop if you like, they all look very old and beautiful!
I made one almost like this following egg before and normally I don't do the same egg twice, but because that one was already sold and Jenny liked it so much, I have changed some little things so that it's not the exact same egg as my first pink bunny egg. Dear Linda I hope you don't mind!
Lastly I like to thank all my dear blogging friends and readers who have bought some of my creations from my still quite new little Etsy shop during the past 3 weeks. It was and still is such an overwhelming feeling that you really like my creations so much that you actually buy them. That's awesome and makes me a very happy bunny! Thanks a million! :D
Now I wish you all, wherever you live, a wonderful, sunny and happy Easter time!
Back soon with new garden photos!
Hugs to you xox
Labels: collages, Crafts, Easter decoration, Eggs, Etsy shop, Rabbits, Spring
posted by Carol @ 8:52 AM
Monday, April 02, 2007
12:42 PM
Happy first days of April!
Hello dear blogging friends and readers and welcome in April!I've had quite a busy weekend with my mums b-day party and lot's of other things to do, so I didn't get around to take many new pictures of the garden nor to create in my studio. 
But I've got this beautiful parcel from Lilia over at Flea Market Studios Etsy shop last week and couldn't wait to see all the lovely vintage wallpaper pieces and millinery flowers and laces I have purchased with her gorgeous Mothers Day Packs:
The content:
Then here is a bit more of my Easter decoration to share with you:
The next pic is taken at Mum's place. I got her the delicate glass Easter eggs which are hanging from the branches for another of her b-days. (Clicking on pic to enlarge somehow doesn't work with this picture so I give you the link to the bigger version here for the case that you'd like to see more details)
Talking about my mum, my daugther has made her this delightful Birthday basket, with my supplies:
It contains her present for my mum which was this big, darkgreen, real Emu egg lying in a real moss nest:
Isn't it a gorgeous gift?
Happy first days of April everyone! xox
P.S. I can't wait for all of you who were at Artfest over the last few days to come back and show and tell everything about it on your blogs!
Labels: birds, Crafts, Easter decoration, Eggs, Nests
posted by Carol @ 12:42 PM
2:45 PM
Hello and welcome back to Boxwoodcottage on a sunny Wednesday everyone! I'm so glad you came by to see what's new and hope you'll let me know you were here by posting a comment! Today I like to show you what I found at our trip to the Bremen flea market last Sunday. I wasn't to our flea market for ages because I don't really like to get up this early on a Sunday morning while having to get up early for work all week long, but after all the successful flea market trips of my blogging friends I read about the last few month I decided that this Sunday I'll make it and with the help of my daughter who told me to hurry up the whole morning we actually hit the flea market in Bremen city at exactly 10.00 am lol I know it's late but I really did my very best for a Sunday morning. It was all worth it because I came back with this vintage case full of vintage goodies, what a pleasure! :) I found lot's of gorgeous old German photos & prints from the 19th century as well as rolls of vintage satin ribbon in pink and vintage mother of pearl buttons:But the best part were 8 old cardboard boxes full of vintage Christmas glass baubles in different forms, sizes and colors for just 15 Euros including the vintage case! :DI felt and still feel like having found a treasure! :D Christmas in April yippieh! I especially love this old fashion catalogue print, don't you? Click on pictures to enlarge and see more details!Well like I hinted to you already in my Sunday post below, on Friday we decided that our loft room with my studio is too white and boring so we went and bought some turqouise and pink color (the colors my daughter loves too!) to give it a fresher feeling. Further I've painted this little kitchen table in a shabby white last week to have another little work space in my studio:
It really is just a small new space but I love it's new fresh look & colors:
Our cat Sammy loves to have a nap on the big cushion which I've put on our other big vintage case. So she can be around and close to us while we are doing some creative work, or blogging, surfing the net or whatever.A few of my favorite tin boxes in the studio:Can you spot them under my big working table?I posted pictures of my space behind the wall back in January here for those of you who haven't seen the post yet and are curious what's hidden there! I hope you enjoyed my blog today and I'll come around to check your's now!
Laters! xox
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
P.S. I've noticed a lot of quiet french readers recently that I can see on my "recent visitors counter" in the sidebar of my blog and that I'd like to welcome now.
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Bienvenue les blogger et lecteur francais!
*********************************
Je sais lire le francais aussie et j'aimerais bien trouve vos commentaires ici et faire la connaissance de vous et lire votre blogue si vous avez un !
*********************************
Merci beaucoup et j'espere a bientot! :)
*********************************
Il ne sont pas des accents sur les mots francais que j'ecris ici parceque "blogger" ne les aime pas!
Labels: Flea market, Studio
10:22 PM
I took a picture of our blue sky for all of you who still have no spring weather yet: Blue is one of my fave colors in my garden too, these blue bells and white daisies are growing in my front garden:
The Aquilegia (Colombine) is growing in my mixed border at the moment:
As well as these Forget me not's:My rosemary is als0 blooming at the moment:And this Lavender is almost blooming:Pink daisies (Bellis perennis) in my front garden under the window sill:Pink is my second fave color in my garden. At the moment I'm in love with my bleeding hearts:
And my pink tulips are in full bloom now:When they are fading my big pink Allium balls are going to bloom here:My little lilac bush is making my patio pink along with the pink pansies:Pink pelargonium and blue lobelias on my blue iron table:Pink ranunculus:
I also love the pure white ranunculus right now:We are experiencing the warmest spring ever as far as I can remember with temperatures always over 10 degrees and often up to almost 30 degrees celsius (with just one colder day yesterday, that was shocking only 8 degrees brrrr, but today we were back to 18!) and my roses already have big buds and I can't wait for them to bloom soon! My pink Wisteria is also starting to bloom now and last year it has bloomed a whole month later. The bad side of the warm weather is that it hasn't rained for weeks and the garden is very very dry. I hope for some rain now (at night please)!
**********************************
I've now sold almost all the items I had in my little etsy shop thanks to you guys :D and I have a lot of new ideas, but with the good weather outside theres not much time for my little studio of which we have just painted a part in a gorgeous turqouise & pink color (pictures to follow soon)! If we are able to get up early enough tomorrow we're planning a trip to the flea market.
**********************************
Happy Sunday dear blogging friends and readers and a wonderful week ahead and hopefully good spring weather for everyone of you! xox
Labels: Flowers, Garden, Spring
9:21 AM
You won't believe it, but we had 25 degrees celsius yesterday (that is 77 fahrenheit) and it is supposed to stay this warm for the next three days as well! Everything is growing so fast now! I took the following pictures last Sunday and will take new ones this Sunday so I can compare what a difference a week makes.
Above is my new little autumn border, but right now I love the spring color blue with the grape hyacinths! And the blue of the pansies, anemones & hyacinths in the next pictures:
The only soft yellow in my garden at the moment comes from these daffodils:
The red bleeding heart is gently open it heart shaped blooms:
More gorgeous pansies:
Oh I know I have to put the Easter deco away now *sigh*
Now I have to go out in the garden, potting more flowers. Have a wonderful weekend dear blogging friends and readers! xox
Labels: Flowers, Garden, Garden ornaments, Spring
8:52 AM
Hello dear blogging friends and readers,
today I'm in the mood for a real Easter eye candy post, so I've scanned some of my fave pictures/illustrations for you to see!
The picture above is from one of my older "Marjolein Bastin" Nature calendars. I love her style very much! Isn't this a gorgeous rabbit and so very Eastere!
The next picture is the cover of a very old German children book called "Die Häschenschule" which means "The little hare school": Doesn't it have beautiful illustrations?
I was very busy and in Easter mood while working in my studio these last weeks (always after work that is). See the mess on my desk? I so have to do a big clean up there and all around it too ha ha:
It is so much fun for me to create these paper Easter and Spring egg collages:
This big blue paper maché egg (filled with a ballon) is on I made a couple of years ago and I still like to use it for my Easter decorations:
But meanwhile my style has totally changed. The first picture in this post and the following 3 photos are of my latest paper maché egg creation called "birdie egg" :
And the side view:
I further have created these two paper egg collages for my new friend Jenny Holiday this week:
See the old German sheet music pages under the eggs? I've got lot's of them from a dear friend of my mum last week which has made me very happy and thankful! They are from her dad who passed away some years ago. I've already used them for the paper maché egg above and I'm also thinking of making some bundles for my Etsy shop if you like, they all look very old and beautiful!
I made one almost like this following egg before and normally I don't do the same egg twice, but because that one was already sold and Jenny liked it so much, I have changed some little things so that it's not the exact same egg as my first pink bunny egg. Dear Linda I hope you don't mind!
Lastly I like to thank all my dear blogging friends and readers who have bought some of my creations from my still quite new little Etsy shop during the past 3 weeks. It was and still is such an overwhelming feeling that you really like my creations so much that you actually buy them. That's awesome and makes me a very happy bunny! Thanks a million! :D
Now I wish you all, wherever you live, a wonderful, sunny and happy Easter time!
Back soon with new garden photos!
Hugs to you xox
Labels: collages, Crafts, Easter decoration, Eggs, Etsy shop, Rabbits, Spring
12:42 PM
Hello dear blogging friends and readers and welcome in April!I've had quite a busy weekend with my mums b-day party and lot's of other things to do, so I didn't get around to take many new pictures of the garden nor to create in my studio.
But I've got this beautiful parcel from Lilia over at Flea Market Studios Etsy shop last week and couldn't wait to see all the lovely vintage wallpaper pieces and millinery flowers and laces I have purchased with her gorgeous Mothers Day Packs:
The content:
Then here is a bit more of my Easter decoration to share with you:
The next pic is taken at Mum's place. I got her the delicate glass Easter eggs which are hanging from the branches for another of her b-days. (Clicking on pic to enlarge somehow doesn't work with this picture so I give you the link to the bigger version here for the case that you'd like to see more details)
Talking about my mum, my daugther has made her this delightful Birthday basket, with my supplies:
It contains her present for my mum which was this big, darkgreen, real Emu egg lying in a real moss nest: Isn't it a gorgeous gift?
Happy first days of April everyone! xox
P.S. I can't wait for all of you who were at Artfest over the last few days to come back and show and tell everything about it on your blogs!
Labels: birds, Crafts, Easter decoration, Eggs, Nests
