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It's always a good idea to start off the week with something pretty to look at. I took these photos a few weeks ago and shared on Instagram, but I like to see them a bit bigger so here they are.

I love the subtleties of colour and the sense of fragility.

 

Yay for a short working week this week. I do love Easter as I find it's a nice quiet time. Not to mention the chocolate...

Well, have a great week my friends. I hope you like these photos and I will be back with a couple of Easter posts.

xx

Friday flowers...blue

I have been enjoying using my new camera at every opportunity. Suddenly I have so many photos to show you all!

I picked these blue/purple flowers recently and photographed them on a black background. I could snap away all day. So, here we have a tiny viola, lobelia, a cornflower and a salvia bloom. I adore blue flowers and our front yard is full of them.

Well, it has been a busy week with events on at work and my market to get ready for. I'm pooped! Tomorrow is a day off and then Sunday I'll be busy at the market. Then Monday means I have to attend to all the mess I have created during this week!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend :)

xx

Friday flowers... Busy bee

I photographed this very busy bee out in the garden the other day.

It was doing circles around a stem of Liatris (or Gay Feather) in my backyard.

Don't you think the colour is beautiful?  After a slow start this plant has done so well this year, with many long, healthy stems - very pleasing to the eye.

I am happy that it's Friday. The Aus tralian Wooden Boat Festival starts today and I am hoping we can pop down after work for a look.
Hopefully you all have something fun planned too?
xx

Friday flowers - Bleached beauty

Phew, it's Friday! These last few days back at work have been a chore!

So, here's some Friday Flowers. I took these pics of some beautiful delphiniums with my new camera, intentionally over exposing them. I'm really happy with the results. I'm even thinking of printing up one big.

Hopefully you are all up to something fun this weekend. I am still at the salt mines but thems the breaks :)

xx

Dec/Jan garden moodboard

I am joining in with Karin's moodboard this month. Here is my December/January garden bits and pieces.

So what do we have?

Sort of left to right...Queen Anne's Lace, geranium, hydrangea, fuchsia, cornflower, lavender, thyme, viola, salvia and a dried Love in the Mist seedpod.

I have been doing a lot of gardening during my holidays, but there is still so much to do. The spring bulbs have left a lot of bare patches for me to fill and don't even get me started on the veggie patch. Nothing is doing well at all, so I have ripped plants out and have been digging in mushroom compost, sheep poo and our own compost. I am hoping to reap the rewards with my next veggie crops.

Busy, busy, busy!

xx

Orchid + camera news

Did you all have a lovely Christmas? I hope so. Mine was very nice. I ate a bit, drank a bit, hung out with family and had the odd nap thrown in for good measure.

I had to share the beautiful Palaenopsis orchid my parents gave me. Isn't it stunning? Just so beautiful it almost looks fake.

And did you notice how nice and clear these shots are? I hope so, because the pics were taken with my new camera!!

Yes!! I can finally stop complaining that I don't have a camera as Molly gifted me one for Christmas.

Well, at least Lyndon tells me it was from her, but I have no idea how she went to the shops with her sore knee.

So, I'm really excited and have been merrily snapping away.

Without even knowing what cameras I had been thinking about, Molly bought me a Canon 600D - one of the models I was rather keen on. So spoilt!

Yay, so you might see some nice, clear shots on the old blog from now on. I have felt like I have neglected it a bit so think might be just what I need.

So now I wish you a very happy new year - I really hope it's a great one for all of us.

xx

ps these shots were taken with a 50mm lens on f1.8 :)

Friday flowers...poppies

Having a conversation?

Friday flowers today is a bunch of poppies that I bought almost 2 weeks ago. They are just hanging on, most have dropped, but I have enjoyed their company immensely!

I hope you enjoy these images :)

Happy weekend to you all. I am a bit excited as next week is my "birthday week".

Well, it's really Monday but I thought I'd stretch it out a bit. I'm not planning much, just a family dinner, some cake and Lyn has promised me dinner out (we rarely do this!).

xx

Bits and bobs... vintage florals

Time for a new Bits and bobs and this time it's a little collection of vintage floral bits.

What have we got here? There are some old seed packet labels, millinery flowers, velvet leaves,

German glass stamens and some French beaded flowers. All so pretty I think :)

I hope you all have a lovely week. I have been busy sight-seeing with my friend but today is a relaxed, pottering day I think.

xx

ps I was forgetful and didn't remind you guys I was putting together a Bits and bobs for today. I would love it if you would like to join in though. Just leave me a comment. I promise to do it again in two weeks :)

Bits and bobs - the garden in July

Hello friends, I felt bad that I didn't post a Friday Flowers last Friday, but I've been knocked about by a yucky virus and haven't had the energy to do anything, not even blogging! I know, I was sick :)

I dragged myself outside to pick a few bits and bobs from the garden. It has been so rainy and cold here, but the flowers look nice with raindrops on them.

So what have we got here?

Jonquils, earlicheer, a daffodil, violets, white daphne, a simple daisy and a stem of love in the mist (I love that name). Any of your favourites?

I am joining in with Karin's July flower moodboard :)

I am going to aim to do a Bits and bobs post this coming Monday so I hope some of you might like to join in.

xx

Friday flower... striking dahlia

Isn't she a beaut?

No computer image fiddle faddling going on here either. It's all real :)

This is the beautiful dahlia I brought home with me from last Sunday's Farmers Market.

I just love it. Mum has already requested a piece of tuber when it has grown a little.

Doesn't nature create the most amazing things?

Wishing you all a great Friday. Bring on the weekennd I say!

xx

Summer mantel

After the mammoth task of packing away the Christmas decorations I decided to freshen up the loungeroom with a bit of bright colour.

I love decorating the mantelpiece and try to create different looks each time I do it.

This time I have gone for a fresh blue, yellow and white theme with a collection of bottles, Mozi fruit tea lights and flowers from the garden. Loving the dahlias.

I'm also clearly still loving "the stick".

And of course some iceberg roses.

The garden is in between blooms at the moment so there's not a lot out. I love the yellow with the blues though. Must plant more dahlias :)
Well, did you guys have a lovely weekend? I have to say I did. After some pottering in the garden the lovely Kerry and her partner Richard came to visit. That means Kerry is now privy to all the dodgy, fallen down bits at Molly's Maison. We had a great time! On Sunday I went to the farmers market and came home with some lovely flowers, a plant and some fantastic French pastries. Boy, the pastries didn't last long. Lyndon was lucky I didn't eat his!
Have a great week bloggies. Looks like being a warm one here :)

xx

Friday Flowers and a Merry Christmas

Aren't these beautiful hippeastrums so festive?

They always remind me of Christmas at mum and dads as my father grows the same variety and brings them inside at Christmas.

Lyndon's dad brought this one around for us to enjoy.

I wanted to wish you all a lovely Christmas. I hope it's everything you wish for.

Not long now and it will be 2012. Thank goodness. I haven't been a fan of 2011.

Anyway, thanks for dropping by. Take care

xx

still life

I recently decided to create a nice Victorian-era inspired still life for my glass dome.

I fiddle-faddled with ivy, fir branches, vintage flowers and leaves, butterflies, sticks and oasis.

Boy, was there some fiddle-faddling!

The results were a little squishy but quite pleasing, if I do say so myself :)

But...

...a day or so later the whole thing turned into a terrarium. It became so moist it was impossible to see inside. Darn it! Even propping up the dome to ventilate the display didn't work, so I gave up.

Bit of a pity. Oh well, I took a few photos to share before I dismantled it. Next time I wont use living bits :)

Have any of the Aussie readers been watching the tv show, "who's been sleeping in my house"? What a fascinating show. I was really inspired by last Monday night's show (set in Hobart) to investigate our home a bit more. Maybe over my Christmas break I'll pop onto the Titles Office for a look.

xx

a little pressie pour moi

Some pretty aqua Mason jars have been on my wish list for ages.

So, I decided to treat myself with some of my recent market stall earnings.

Here they are in my old bathroom with some white hydrangeas from the backyard.

I have to recommend Tanya, the Etsy seller I bought them off, she was so kind. You might like to check her store out - Jestti's Treasures (no more aqua jars there at the moment unfortunately).

I'm just so happy with my jars - they're beautiful!

Have a lovely week my friends!

xx

Friday flowers - moody blue and mauve

Delphiniums are one of my favourite blooms.

I love the colours, how they have little faces, the delicacy of the petals...

what's not to love?

These beauties came from the local Farmer's Market recently.

I visited with the sole purpose of buying handmade soap but as soon as I saw people wandering around with beautiful blue bunches I was on another mission (the soap lady wasn't there anyway).

This variety is grown in glasshouses and is much taller than the Pacific Giant variety we grow in our gardens. The stems are HUGE!

As you can see I went to town with the camera. Dad lent me his Canon DSLR, so I made the most of it :)

The light was really low (that wall in the background is in fact white) but I think the camera did a nice job.

Oh so gorgeous!!

I might have to pop back this week and see if the flower man is there :)

What's your fave flower? Or are you like me and have many?
It looks like being a chilly weekend here in Tassie. Tomorrow is tree erecting day so that'll be fun as I have some new deccys to display. I'll show the results soon.
Have a good weekend friends.

xx