A new season is here! Today we welcome autumn, the season of abundance, harvest and cosiness! I’ve made an autumn wreath with dried flowers in warm autumn colors, collected from the garden. It was such a simple but yet delightful thing to do! “Oh, September! You are the doorway to the season that awakens my…
Have you ever noticed how much there’s to be seen when one walks, just slowly walks? Walking offers us the ability to move slowly and it’s the perfect way to be attentive to the world around us. We will be able to see big and small things that will fill us with joy and wonder.…
As Autumn is slowly approaching, I’ve done a little update of my Etsy shop. Fallen leaves, mushrooms, moss and tiny wood creatures have now become the main characters of the brooches in these Woodland Stories! A little squirrel has found a safe place in this subtle coloured leaf. Tiny mushrooms are slowly growing on a…
I’ve created new Botanical Stories in vintage golden frames. They all tell a unique story about the beauty of nature and wildflowers. This tiny golden frame is filled contains a miniature autumn forest with moss, ferns, mushrooms and a delicate blooming wildflower. This frame is filled with lovely pink flowers. They all bloom in the…
Even though August is the last full month of summer and everything might be bleached by the heat of the sun, there still so much color to be found. These summer colors have rich hues and secretly allude to autumn to come. It all starts with the sunrise! Slowly everything is lightened with a golden…
In this blogpost I would like to share some of the recent porcelain flowers I’ve been making for the new glass domes. As these flowers are all so unique and diverse I thought they deserve some attention of their own before being put together in a new creation. So here’s part II of the flower…
We’re heading into the last full month of summer. Days filled with heat, dry scented air, golden harvested fields, flowers in faded colors, buzzing bees and fluttering butterflies who enjoy the nectar of the buddleja. During summer many purple flowers are in full bloom in our garden. Most of them are bee- and butterfly-friendly! I…
I hope you are doing fine during these summer months (or winter, on the other side of the globe!). Probably many aspects of your life will look different now as covid-19 is still holding the world in it’s grip. The regulations in Belgium are very strong right now as we have a high rate of…
On a cloudy and windy day we started the summer holidays with a trip to the seaside. I prefer these kind of days at the sea as it’s calm and not crowded at all so I can enjoy the vastness of the sea and an almost empty beach. I’ve collected some of these pretty coloured…
I just want to share this beautiful poem of John O’ Donohue, an Irish poet and philosopher. We’re entering the first summer days now and I think it’s one of the seasons in which we can fully experience life around us with all our senses. And is there any place better than nature, in these…