In September I went on holiday to Menorca an incredible Unesco heritage site. It’s a bewitching island with its unique landscape, amazing colours and magnificent light.
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3 Perfect Palettes for your Wedding with Pantone 2024
Being January I always like to start the year with Pantone’s chosen colour. Peach fuzz’ is this year’s choice. Three colours schemes that Iike most
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The Manhattan Flower market in New York
As soon as I found out that there was a Flower market in New York, I immediately decided to put it on my bucket list!So I organized my expedition to leave bright and early 6.30 am. I was so excited as I approached West 28th, I had butterflies in my stomach!
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Iconic New York
In October I was lucky enough to visit iconic New York and its incredible vibe amazed me in a thousand ways!
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4 colour palettes for my Design week in Milan
This year I show you my Design week in Milan with 4 colour palettes: lively, earth, pink and light blue.
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14 perfect flowers for the 2023 pantone!
Being January I always like to start the year with Pantone’s chosen colour. ‘Viva Magenta’ is this year’s choice and I absolutely love it!
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3 ideas to create a flower bar for your event
In this post I would like to explain my creative approach in creating 3 themes for a unique flower bar. For the different themed creations I gathered images to make mood-boards and then carefully chose each colour palette. The first step was to gather images to create some moodboards and then I chose the colour palette. Only after these two steps I developed the three different themes.
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7 flowers for a unique autumnal bouquet
Early in October I organized a one-day floral master-class in a former industrial space. In this first post I’ll talk to you about the autumnal bouquet we created.For this floral arrangement I was inspired by the image of ‘a young barefoot woman in a small garden picking flowers for her bouquet!’. The style and mood was bohemian but with my own personal twist.
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A warm floral festive table
Christmas decoration. For this festive table I chose a very delicate palette of pure white, dusty pink and a touch of blue violet. For the greenery I opted for different shades of bottle and silver green.
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An impressionist garden in the Tuscan hills
An impressionist slow flower farmer in Tuscany
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4 reasons to choose carnations
Today I would like to write about carnation, a flower that is very often underestimated without being able to stand up for itself. These opinions come from the past when the floral arrangements were very basic or because here in Italy the custom is to use them on sad occasions. But I think the time has arrived to open up the doors to this special flower which has a lot to offer. Let me give you at least 4 reasons to change your mind about carnations
Read Moreideas for decorating your home at Christmas
In the last few days I’ve been checking out the latest Christmas decorations. Out of the many Christmas images I was always attracted to a natural and cozy atmosphere.
Let’s start with some useful tips:
- As I wrote in my last post, do start by choosing your colour palette (maximum 3) and the style you desire to have in your home. These two tips will make it easier for you to focus on what you like best and how to make it. (Do take a look at what you have at your disposal)
- Do use a lot of candles, they help a lot to create a warm atmosphere.
- Do try to decorate all your home so each room will look festive
By the way the official date to start all Christmas decorations is the 8th of December, but we can start them a little bit earlier to make the magic last longer!
I love to use what nature offers in this season, so I’ll give you a list of foliage that you can buy at the local florist or find in the woods
Pine
Pine is the king of this season. In the shops, you may find two different varieties that don’t lose needles and last for all the period: Norway pine (bottle green colour) and silver pine (silver green). Not forgetting the very perfumed strobus pine.
Cypress
Silver and green cypress branches always remind me of vintage lace and will add an unusual twist.
Eucalyptus
When dried, eucalyptus silver green leaves change to an ash grey colour. I personally love the silver berried eucalyptus as they look like little fireworks when blossoming.
Berries
You’ll be spoiled for choice with berries: from pillar box red right down to a wide range of browns and burgundies.
Moss
Moss is an absolute must for any festive occasion. Its softness will add a fairy magic to your home!
Here are some photos of easy and interesting things to make.
In a nutshell try to use different kinds of foliage to add texture to your creations. And don’t forget a splash of colour!
Do you find this post helpful? Send me your feedback and photos about your creations.
Some pics are mine, other from Pinterest!