Come and say hello

It has already been two months that I showed you the first flowers of spring in my garden. These last two months I spent more and more time in the garden. All the sun and rain is doing the plants well. Both the ones a I want and the ones that don't belong in my garden. So I have done a lot of weeding, planting, replanting and seeding.
I dedicated the front part of the garden, closest to the house, to edible herbs. Some of them already started to bloom. Since I don't really need all the herbs to eat, I let them bloom for the biggest part and keep just a little bit free of flowers, so I can eat them too.
The back of the garden is one big wilderness. Last year I took some different seed mixtures, both with indiginous and cultured plants and just trew them in the garden. The result was beautiful! All summer long this part of the garden was full of flowers and buzzing with bees. This year I try to get mostly indiginous species. So again I trew in some seed mixtures, but this time only with plants that belong here.
Well, I think I have talked enough now, let me take you for a little walk in the garden.

DIY - flowers part 2-

Hi :) I hope you're enjoying our creative blog! Last week i showed you how to 'pimp' your t-shirt with a flower ribbon. Today is part 2 of my little DIY serie about flowers. The coming weeks i will keep on showing you how to make (simple) flowers with different materials. This week i used crepe paper, but you can also use normal paper or blotting-paper or make a combination with them. I also made a paper giftbag. Cute to use as a pretty- little-garden-spring gift with bulbs inside ;)

DIY -flowers part 2-

Make your own crepe paper flower

& papergiftbag

Supplies for the flower

-siccors

-crepe paper

- brads

- marker/pencil

Supplies for the paper bag

- paper/ wrappingpaper (not to thin)

-crop-a-dile

-some ribbon

-eyelets

Just draw as many flowers as you like on the crepe-paper and cut them out. Then use two or three of them and secure them with a (cute) brad in the middle. I added my flower on the little paper giftbag that i made. There are a lot of different ways to make your own paper bag. If you do like to make one yourself i've found a few internet sites! You can look here , here or here.

I made holes on top of my bag with the crop-a-dile and used eyelets to make it pretty. A little cute ribbon to finish your bag & add a giftcard if you like.

I also found this site, it's just perfect if you don't know how to make your own! Click on the bag you want, just print the one you like and glue the prints together.

You can make as many flowers as you like and use them in your scrapbookalbum, on a gift, add them to a giftbag etc. If you made a prettty little giftbag or flowers, feel free to post them on our flickr site, here's the link :)

ta da, your giftbag is ready madame!

one of the printable bags, look here

i also found these pretties on Etsy

The last two peeks i found on weheartit, just a little more paper flower inspiration :) Anyone interested in a origami flower post?? Just let me know :) I hope you have enjoyed this post & see ya next week!

XO. Vera

Easter & DIY -flowers part 1-

Hi :) I can't believe that it's almost Easter already :) The question of the week is: What's your favorite way to eat your Easter egg? Quite boring ha ha just boiled or scrambled with some salt on a baked baguette hot from the oven, yummie! I love the Easter breakfast with my sweet husband or with my family. We ususally brunch together at my parents house. I also love love love eating chocolate eggs. My fav's are: cappucino, white or dark chocolate with some orange pieces in them :)

When we were little, my parents hid the easter eggs everywhere in the house & it was always so much fun finding them! I hope to do this in the future with my own kids ;)

As promised i would show you ways to make flowers with different materials! Easter, spring and flowers all belong together in my opinion. That's why i made a mixed post today that i hope you like :)

DIY -flowers part 1- Make your own flower t-shirt

You will need:

a t-shirt,

ribbon with flowers,

embroidery thread

and needle.

I bought my ribbon with flowers at the market. If you can't find any you can also use a pompom ribbon or any other cute ribbon that you might find! By hand you will be adding it to your t-shirt. Make sure that you work only through the ribbon part and not through the flowers! Just make sure that it's secure. I also made a little hairpiece with my leftover flower. I made two leaves from green felt and sewed them together with the flower. Then i used my hot glue gun to add it to my hairclip :)

ta da... your outfit is ready!

I found lovely photos on wehearit for just a little more flower and Easter inspiration :)

Wishing you a happy Easter!

Love,

Vera

Spring flowers

Hi, I am Inkie, I am the green birdie. Every tuesday I will bring you loads of green and eco-friendly inspiration and DIY's.

Spring has finally arrived in our garden, with the first bulbs flowering and some green popping up everywhere.

I like to have a little of that spring feeling and colors in my house. This weekend I made some flowers out of old magazines to bring that little bit of color in the house. It was very easy and quickly done. All you need are scissors, old (colorfull) magazines, some tape and if you like some green yarn.

First, rip out the nice, colorfull pages from the magazines (pages with no, or hardly any text and with just one main color work best for this purpose).
Next, cut out squares, about the size of normal folding paper.


Use your best origami skills to fold flowers and stick them to some rolled up paper that will be the stem. I also used some green yarn to cover the stems on some of the flowers. When you are not an origami-hero, you can also cut out flower shapes and stick those to the stems.
This is my bouquet, with all different flowers:


Want to show off your own recycled paper flowers? Come and show them in our Flickr group!

Love, Inkie