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A polka red christening candy bar – Part III

Tuesday, April 10th, 2012

Happy Tuesday girls,

Bank holidays are never long enough, especially when it means spending time eating with the family on Easter, meeting with friends coming in Pordenone from time to time, and taking the opportunity for the last customer calls a few days before their big day!!!

After a couple of posts on my polka red origami windmills christening invitations inspired by WOP Photography and my DYI white and red tags, here I am with part III of My Troussepinette‘s christening! Again inspired from the fabulous yellow and grey sweet and cakes buffet from wop girl Stephanie from WOP photograpy!

Here you are with the result: a red and white candy bar I wanted to fill with mostly French specialties: Madeleines, Macarons, Calissons, Financiers, Petits Choux à la crème, Berlingots Nantais,…

Believe me, a few minutes after I made my pics, there was simply NOTHING left on the table…

Un grand merci to Stephanie who inspired me…

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Old tins for vintage wedding decorations

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Hi girls!

I love going around flea markets on Sundays with my Troussepinette! Especially, when I come across some unexpected treasures!

Here I am with some Italian vintage tin boxes I found in excellent conditions at a feal market in Pordenone. I guess I’ll fill them soon with some yummy yummy home-made biscuits! Can’t wait for using these tin boxes as vintage wedding decorations for our 2012 lovely brides!

Apologies for the quality of the pic! Am not a real expert of Iphone…

Have a nice day!

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Loves me, loves me not

Sunday, March 20th, 2011

Hey,

How many times have you played the “loves me, loves me not” game when you were little? I can’t count them…but when I saw these creative wedding bouquet and decorations made of daisies I thought of those afternoons spent in the garden with my girlfriends guessing which guys liked us…
Have you seen Federica’s kissing ball bouquet? I had heart shaped eyes when I saw it!

She got married in Varese, not very far from Milano, and chose white and green daisy flowers for her bouquet and her table decorations as well! Here you are with her experience and how she came with this idea!

“I was looking for a bouquet which would be creative and discret at the same time, as well as elegant, simple and unconventional; in one word: unique! I wanted my bouquet to be a precious detail of my overall bride look, but a bouquet that I would hold in an really easy way! I found everything I was looking for in one flower, the daisy, and in one shape, the sphere.

A satin ribbon was binding the bouquet, so I could hold it like a handbag, in a pretty distracting way, just as I would hold no bouquet actually, in a way of a person who cares about details, but who does not show up!”

Lovely, isn’t it?

Picture courtesy of Vagabondando

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A relaxing Saturday morning

Sunday, March 6th, 2011

Buongiorno!

What have you been up to this week end?
I was in Stamford with MrB , doing absolutely nothing except of thinking of what to put in my luggage to go back to Italy (in a week time, yuhu!).

Plus, I was in a creative mood, so on Saturday I spoiled MrB with a “royal” breakfast…daffodils, Italian coffè, muffins with cream and cherries, chocolate eggs.
When he got up and saw all these yummy things he asked me: “Is it real? Can I eat something?”.
Some ideas could be used for a wedding too I guess…

I wanted to use daffodils because I like to buy flowers which are in season. I thought to play with yellow and brown, and use a few kind of vintage objects I had at home such as the cake stand, some old cuttlery and pottery and an Italian coffè machine (moka). The final touch was to find some browny luggage tags which I used as place older.

Here below a few details on the table decorations you see in these pictures:
Cake stand and napkin: Rapport of Stamford Gifts and Home
Vintage luggage tags: The Wedding of My Dreams
Cakes: Pudding & Pie
Moka Coffè machine: My mum
Cuttlery and pottery: Horncastle crockery

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The last day of Autumn…

Monday, December 20th, 2010

Good morning everyone,

Have you realised today it’s the last day of Autumn? Orange, dark red, yellow…where are all these autumnal colours? Burried under the snow? Probably…

I thought to dedicate a post on orange and red calla lilies to this last day of Autumn, which has nothing of autumnal…

The above hand-tied bouquet by Holly Heider Chapple Flowers has mixed orange mango and yellow callas with circus roses, red spray roses, billy balls, fiddle head fern and orange dahlias. The bouquet is finally decorated with some mini grapevine balls and collared with angle vine…and I love the groom’s boutonniere!

The other bouquet I chose today is a red coloured bouquet by Kio Kreations. Red callas, ranunculus and amaryllis, I think it could be perfect for a Christmas wedding! I like the detail of the white ribbon which recalls the bride dress! Love it!
I’ve also found a picture of the bridesmaids bouquets…I really like this unusual combination of white and red colour with a black ribbon…

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A winter bouquet

Thursday, December 9th, 2010

A simple pleasure for your eyes and heart today.
A wild bridal bouquet that included muscari and a lot of other things. Miss Pickering made it for a bride a couple of weeks ago…it is just amazing!

Picture courtesy of Miss Pickering

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Winter floral decorations for your tables

Wednesday, December 1st, 2010

Hi girls,

I’m looking outside the window and all I can see are white little icy things coming down from the sky. Snow? Again?
It’s winter even though is not winter yet!
Yesterday, while I was going around the icy streets searching for something to be inspired by, I ended up in front of one of my favourite shops in town – Miss Pickering and her lovely flowers! I got stucked in front of her windows as usual…have a look at these lovely ideas for winter wedding table decorations…

If you are a vintage type of girl (like me!) you’d love the idea of Ilex in old bottles which must be in all sorts of different shapes and colours.

While if you are a wild one…then you will be humble looking at these flowers with wild leaves and berries…simply gorgeous!

Winter floral decorations

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Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers

Monday, August 30th, 2010

White with a touch of gold! Too traditional?
I think a white and gold palette has got a retro kind of effect…and I think Leda had the same idea when she arranged this lovely set for us! Yes, just for our blog! I feel so honoured!

I met Leda by chance, while going around hundreds of blogs…and I immediately felt in love with hers - Gustosamente is an adorable place with an awful lot of quick and fresh recipies. Not only is she a great cooker, but she also a great photographer…I love the pics she adds to all her recipies!
So after writing a couple of comments on her blog we started talking about…about weddings of course…and she was so kind to offer her help for shooting creative table decorations photos.
This is the first one, but many other will follow very soon! Keep tuned with us!
Everything you see comes from her house – some are new objects, other ones come from Italian flea markets…I find everything adorable! So simply enjoy!

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What better than orchids for my bouquet?

Monday, March 8th, 2010

I have read in some bridal magazines that Bon Ton would not recommend exotic flowers for a wedding… I’m not quite sure whether orchids are considered as exotic as Papyrus or Bamboo really… but white orchids were the flowers I wanted really for my bouquet, so I didn’t worry too much!

While my caterer was looking after our tables’ centerpieces following my indications, I personally took care of my bouquet with my preferred fleuriste in Pordenone. It took her a few minutes to figure out what she would prepare for me: a modern composition which was decorated with some fabric used for my dress in order to give the bouquet the right touch of colour.

And my fleuriste really got it! It was delivered by my bridesmaid on the morning of my Day - a fab modern wired wedding bouquet featuring white Phalenopsis orchids with greenery and trailing grasses. Some orchids were cascading asides giving thus the bouquet an elongated nice shape. Together with some laces of my bronze coloured dress the bouque had a creative sort of white wicker small ball which gave an informal and funny effect – that really reflected the spirit of the day!

Photo courtesy of EmozionInFoto

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