vase d'octobre

Vase d'octobre, or in other words a vase d'avril with dahlias.

The ever spectacular bonus of the flower season!

avril dans le vase

Thursdays are for flowers. Every week we have fresh flowers at Villa Augustus. My florist day is my favorite workday and these are some bouquets I made last Thursday.

spring has sprung

On the 23rd of March spring has finally sprung...

What a world of difference with that sunshine in da house and at work!

After coffee & newspaper at the kitchentable off to Villa Augustus for thursday flower day with lots of pink ranunculus and orange popping poppies. Instantaneous spring joy!

tiny tulip garden

Saturday 11 of February 2023

Henk brought me a tiny tulip garden from the saturday market.



One week later it's a tiny tulip festival!

thursdays are for flowers

Every Thursday fresh flowers at Villa Augustus.

I arrange at least 8 large bouquets, now with flowers from the auction, later in the season also with freshly picked flowers from the garden.

A weekly job as house florist at Villa Augustus for 15 years now. It's still not a routine after all these years, I work on intuition and also the offer is different every time.

The variety of vases is interesting, the effect of a vase should not be underestimated either, it can really complete a bouquet.

Vase d'Avril by Tsé & Tsé associées is my all time favorite. The vase is a series of glass test tubes connected with zinc covered steel holders.

This week I used a ceramic Cor Unum Carter Gear Vaas by Floris Hovers, it's inspired by an engine block, for Floris is a car enthusiast.

Both vases are quite expensive, but a simple green plastic pitcher can also do the tric...

Speaking of low budget, a bunch of cow parsley, which is now in full bloom on the roadside, is also beautiful!

vase d'août

Vase d'avril août

Playing with flowers, half from the florist and the other half from our garden.

hyacinth fragrance all over the place

You should smell the fragrance of hyacinths in the kitchen and bedroom.

Henk brought out a bucket full of it from a tiny local flower shop and arranged the flowers in the vase d'Avril and the leftovers got a spot on my bedside table.

the ever-changing cupboard circle

The ever-changing cupboard circle in our house.

A number of cupboards will soon leave my studio when Pippa gets her new home.
The cupboards in my atelier are originally Pippa's closets, so I knew I could use them only 'temporarily'.
They are stuffed with wool, books and handicrafts, so a new storage place has to be created.

Since we have enough furniture and I strongly support reuse, we cleared out the tall old wooden hall cupboard.
But hey, where do you put the things that are inside? Vases, paperwork etc...
As a flower lover I naturally have many vases. So the 'less beautiful' ones moved to the storage shed and Pippa is happy with my golden gun vase for her new home.

Next I emptied the steel circle cupboard in the living room (mainly wool inside) and that's the new vase cupboard.

Conclusion; in my studio it's a mess at the moment, it's rather a storage place, with even more wool and furniture waiting for their new spot.

Nonetheless, the 'vase collection' looks pretty behind the round windows of the cupboard.

forget-me-nots

Flower day with forget-me-nots today.

alluring dahlias

A bunch of bright and beautiful Dahlias on the kitchen table.

Dahlias are so elegant, lush and stylish, they simply have a certain 'allure'.

For a change I chose to put the tubes of the Vase d'Avril in a circle. An awesome sight, especially from above.

The dahlias are from the Villa Augustus garden, they have been blooming abundantly since the beginning of summer, it has been a great dahlia season so far.

I really can't choose which dahlia is the prettiest...

colorpop

Zinnas in nature-neon colors pop on this first rainy day since weeks.

The woman who's peeking though the flowers, is a print we made from a street art photo, shot in Palermo during the Manifesta 12 in June. The artist of the original work is BR1.

keen on flowers and plants

This whole week I've enjoyed the spring flowers in the kitchen.
The flowers I got from my friend Rosa last Friday. Together with my daughter, she chose the spring beauties, in the flower shop where Pippa works.
They know what I like...

In an interview for Home & Garden, I once said, I'm not too keen on houseplants, but crazy about flowers. Plants and flowers get along fine together in our house nowadays. The reason I prefered flowers, was because they are gone after a week and it's time for something new.

You know by now, that I have revised my opinion about houseplants and I still get overjoyed by fresh flowers.

vase d'amour

Vase d'avril, but i call it vase d'amour for the occasion.

Last week in Paris, Henk surprised me with a very special wedding anniversary gift.
We visited the shop of Tsé & Tsé Associés in Paris and while i was looking around upstairs in the amazing shop, Henk bought my favorite vase.
It was an amazing surprise!

I've been working with the Vase d'Avril for almost ten years now, during my flowerdays at Villa Augustus.
During the years I've sold a lot of vases in the market shop and told the happy new owners it's a great investment, because you can create a tiny flowerfield with just a few flowers.
This morning I bought some tulips at the flowershop, where my daughter Pippa is working and she choose those pretty pastel pink tulips for me.

I think it looks amazing on the small table in our kitchen and I'm very happy with it. So precious!

augustus in april

Today at Villa Augustus.