THERE ARE literally over four thousand photos on my phone at the moment, many of which I'd meant to sort through and file away into digital memory boxes but forgot about when new photos took their place. I may be feeling crushed by their spatial weight as an unfinished task in my mind, so I've decided to share a few a them here in a series of Life Lately photo diaries...
WHILE SEARCHING for a festive wreath for our front door, ended up coming across many wonderful florists on Instagram who we've begun following. The first sculptural garland we discovered was London-based florist Kitten Grayson's holiday installation...
IT ALL BEGAN a month ago, when someone we knew sadly lost her husband suddenly. We wanted to send flowers, of course, so I found myself searching online for florists that would deliver in her area and would not disappoint. I'd been here before, searching the internet for flowers to say thank you, only to find out later that the bouquet that arrived didn't look anything like the photo ...
IN THESE LAST DAYS before Christmas, the city sidewalks are filled with last-minute shoppers, merry with the flush of cava and happy to be jostled about by the elbows and shopping bags of grandmothers with arms filled with gifts, and couples hoping to surprise one another with their thoughtfulness. Everywhere, there seems to be a feeling of good cheer.
With Christmas behind us and a few weeks yet before the green buds of spring start to appear, it’s a...
YESTERDAY MAY HAVE BEEN THE OFFICIAL first day of winter, but before we embrace the bare trees and chilly mornings, we’re...
EMILY AVENSON is a Californian farmer-florist based in Belgium who runs Fleuropean, a small, organically run flower garden located in the Belgian...
LATELY, IT WOULD SEEM THAT flowers in hat boxes were everywhere, especially on Instagram, and could there be anything more heavenly? Simply...
[slideshow] CAN NOT REMEMBER how had come across the instagram images of Sydney florist, Simone Gooch, whose shop is called,...
WHILE MUCH TIME IS SPENT in searching for the new, sometimes, it’s lovely to go back and visit the things...
A FEW STOLEN MOMENTS here & there, of what has been happening around here lately . . . snakeskin pumps and marble staircases, quaint narrow laneways & romantic cobblestone streets, castles and antique china and white wicker baskets at favourite florists, gilded chairs and bedroom toile and roses, roses, roses, and it’s all in a day’s work . . .
It seems as if everyone were in Paris lately, if my instagram feed is any indication, and just last...
The floral arrangements by Sweet Root Village have a rambling wildness to them that is yet contained, refined and...
. . . it seems that we have all been rather happily obsessed with flowers lately, trying their hand...
. . . this week’s places is at the florist, for, despite there being bright & beautiful bouquets around here...
