At the beginning of the extended autumn holiday, due to high rates of Covid-19 contaminations, we went for a weekend away to the Ardennen, in the south of Belgium. We stayed at a cozy airbnb with an organic garden in Fontenoille and enjoyed the wide view with autumn coloured woods. Although Fontenoille is a small…
Today I’m going to tell a story only with images and not with a long written post! I would love to take you with me for a little walk in my garden and welcome you in my studio where I’m creating botanical work in porcelain! I hope you will enjoy this new video!
October… it’s all about autumn, falling leaves, fading colors, coziness, candlelight, warmth and harvest. I hope you are all doing well and ready for this new season! “Anyone can love a rose, but it takes a lot to love a leaf. It’s ordinary to love the beautiful, but it’s beautiful to love the ordinary.” Unknown…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
Finally, we can officially welcome Summer today! And I would love to celebrate it with a bouquet of chamomile! This wonderful herb perfectly represents summer for me. They are such happy and beneficial flowers with their bright sunny flower heads! This most delicate illustration of Chamomile is from my book “In and out of the…