{rosy notes: roses at home}

While searching for inspiration for rosy notes, I stumbled upon the beautiful pictures of Raggedroses home on flickr. Always love finding beautiful roses everywhere in the house, especially in a real house in somebody's real life.

Ah, can you feel the real love... I'd love to stay in this kind of house. Serene, fresh, and happy.

{music sheets balls and painting}{vintage tins}{table cloth}

{rosy soaps}{cupboard cover}{cushion}{sitting pretty}{curtain}{wallpaper}{in lauundry room}

{summery fabric}{stool in the bathroom}

{reading nook}{bird house}{rosy corner}{rosy cards}

{lamp shade}{cheerful seating matching the curtain}

{rosy cushion}{monogram and a rose}

More rosy inspiration visit Raggedroses' photostream here.

{rosy notes: rosy details}

Love is in the details, they say. I couldn't help but marvel at all these prettiest rosy details, in the home of a lifelong lover of roses, Anna Florio.

{rosy slippers}{rosy wallpaper}{rosy vase}{bouquet of pink roses}{painting of roses}

{rose-themed tabletops}{sitting pretty on rosy seats}

{rose fabric cupboard cover}{rosy china}{rosy tablecloth}{rose print book cover}

Happy Sunday!

{rosy notes: someday}

...someday, I want to be seen wearing a stylish rain jacket, cute knee-length boots, carrying a tin bucket full of fresh cut fragrant big petaled pink roses. It would certainly be in a pretty day...


{words}

"Fragrance is the rightful heritage of the Rose, and it is what we consciously or unconsciously expect of it" - Louise Beebe Wilder in The Fragrant Path.

{rosy notes: rosy welcome}

Isn't this happiness, the moment you come home, a fragrant, extravagant bunch of rosy beauties greets you at the entrance?


Let me tell you a tale. Once upon a time there was a girl who had a weakness for pink roses. Any kind of roses, any kind of pink. One lovely summer she made a long trip and stayed at a lovely cottage in a lovely little village in the middle of Sweden. Next to the cottage there was a chicken house, not an ordinary chicken house, because a beautiful bush of pink roses adorned its wall. The girl found herself in love with the cottage, but she also loved going to the chicken house, she felt a delicate happiness just by walking pass the bloom of roses.

Then the girl continued her trip in Sweden. She arrived in a cute little town by the Baltic Sea and her wandering led her to a streetful of cute houses and, 'oh my god' the girl sighed 'pink roses everywhere!' Strange might it seem, but the girl took her time to stop at every door of houses with pink roses on the wall, and those moments she felt warmly, cheerfully welcome. 'Oh boy' the girl looked around her. It was far prettier than her years of dreams. The girl was overwhelmed. By the beauty. And the happiness. Love. The girl didn't mind to be overwhelmed like that!

That day, the girl learned one of many ways that made her oh so happy when coming home: pink roses at the entrance. A rosy welcome.

{rosy notes: anne sophie mutter, mendelssohn's birthday}

Counting down to happy heart's day, I want everything rosy in my home and blog. Even the music. I start with this. One rosy note a day.



Violinist.com sent me a message on facebook: "Interview with Anne-Sophie Mutter: She has returned to the Mendelssohn Concerto, with a new recording and performances with the NY Phil this week in honor of Mendelssohn's 200th birthday."

Ow, one of my favorite violin concertos, on the hands of one of my favorite violinists, isn't that a fabulous combination! I jumped on the link. Landed on the page where Laurie Niles had the interview with the first lady of the violin. There she is, in turquoise gown with her ultra famous Stradivarius violin, surrounded by oh-so romantic pink petals, ready for a birthday party. A special one, Felix Mendelssohn's, the very one who composed the violin concerto Ms Mutter is playing.

Reading the interview, and looking at the pictures of the CD cover, it's just perfect for my must-listen list for the happy heart's day. Can't wait. I can already hear the concerto playing, the brilliant notes dancing in my head and suddenly a rain of pink petals surrounds me, so fragrant I'm transported to a rosy world full of loving hearts. It's only a start...

{envie: red and gold}

Ok, last entry for today's special Happy Moo Moo Year posts :o)

Just because I checked my email box a few minutes ago and here I got a Chinese New Year message from Vivre - and can't help but having to post it here:



And here's a bunch of splurges I'd want to steal...at least as inspiration, in the spirit of red and gold - for a fortunate, happy, lucky and beautiful life and home!

{got idea: chinoiserie}

Ow, I'm really into everything chinese today, aren't I? In any case it's chinese new year, perhaps that's why I'm so inspired :o)

I had a bowlful of chinese noodle this morning to start the day (noodle for breakfast is something very common here) and throughout the afternoon thinking of my new found obsession: chinoiserie.

Sure, I swear by Domino everytime I need some decorating inspiration. And besides the chinoiserie print in the blue bedroom that I posted in my previous entry, I found some more quirky decor ideas which wowed me, really!

Now I'm thinking of what I may be able to do to give a chinoiserie touch to my room...


covering one part of my room with a shimmery chinese pattern, just right for an eye catcher


this chinese print gives a graphic focus on the fireplace, probably the idea can be applied to the bookshelves instead


how can't you feel abundant when you have a room like this? :0)


an idea for the bed side of the room


aw, chinese wall covering with light blue background! and the table tops details! a real mix of east and west. love it.

{reading list: china everyday}

A week ago, while browsing the design section at a bookstore in Jakarta, I saw this book "China Everyday" by Zhang Yao and Bu Yi (Page One Publishing Private Ltd), and was completely captivated by its retro design and by the way the authors present the chinese everyday life into something like a work of art. Oh yes, I guess the editors were right, they wrote this on the back cover: "A fresh and insightful book that is a piece of art on its own!" I picked it! And enjoying it now specially for the chinese new year :o)

{magical fancy}

I found out about a magical eye behind camera Amanda Pratt through Absolutely Beautiful Things today and her shots just left me dreaming this whole evening...


Wanna look fabulously good, wanna feel extravagantly good. I put on red, throw myself into a sea of pink flowers...


A girl like me can have a fanciful life too! It's magical.


And colorfully fun. Yes I can, I can! :o)

{got idea: happy blue}

Oh, thumbs up again to Domino for ideas to create a happy room when 'the walls are blue...' :o)



On my own list:
Chinoiserie
Folksy details
Cheerful patterns
Flower power
Happy artwork
Pictures of happy moments
Books on display
Dash of lime and red