White

If there was one colour in my life, I’d have to say  W H I T E. Why? I love the crispness, the cleanliness and purity of how a room can change. Could we be safe and happy behind our white picket fences around our homes? The colour of  food brought out on a clean white plate. The framing of a room with clean white walls. The tone of our skin under a crisp white linen shirt. The outside view looking through a white window frame.

white collage 2011

“ The first of all single colors is white…We shall set down white for the representative of light, without which no color can be seen, yellow for the earth; green for water; blue for air; red for fire; and black for total darkness.” Leonardo Di Vinci

white collage 2011

White is the colour that belongs to the feng shui element of Metal. It’s feng shui energy is crisp, clear, clean and fresh. White is the colour of beginnings, as well as clear endings.White is the most versatile colour that can help brighten the energy of any challenging room.

How many times have you thought or said, ok, let’s clean the slate. Clean a space, clear everything to start creating again, start a fresh, a white new piece of paper to create a recipe ( usually a A4). A new piece of white paper to write a romantic poem, get lost in an adventurous story. A white canvas to paint with your imagination of colourful thoughts.

Each colour is an expression of the five feng shui elements: Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood. The elements are used in specific areas according to the feng shui energy map and your space.

Feng shui metal elements bring the qualities of sharpness, precision, clarity and efficiency, it’s balanced presence will help you live with clarity and lightness.

creative white collage

What’s your favourite colour in your working space? How does it make you feel? I’d love to hear your comments!

Related Topic: Feng Shui, Rodika Tchi

Yvette…x

Brush Strokes…

An adventurous outing on the weekend, and some bidding skills throughout the family, a box of wooden scraps was purchased. Old furniture legs and cornice pieces were included in this throw away box. We quickly put our creative hats on and the DIY skills into practice and planned to make a Welcome entrance sign. Nothing too fancy! Just a little country and rustic!

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Don’t put off for tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.

― James Michener

I’ve been a little loss at the moment, trying to do so many things, achieving most of them, and looking for some new creative direction for twenty eleven.

Browsing through some interesting new blogs, and some of my favourites…I’ve noticed Learn,Create,Do started a new segment on her blog 3 Discoveries, each Friday she’s doing a regular spot of 3 Discoveries, things new and exciting that she’s discovered, meaningful for her and a little interesting new discovery for us…why not join in the sharing experience of new discoveries.

I’m wanting to advance a little in my photo shooting. I love capturing a shot behind the lens of the camera, so I’m doing some classes this year, joining a group BigPictureClasses….. catch up with their blog here. Great ideas, and even free download classes, everything for the creative mind.I’ll be starting soon my first mini project,10 Summer Photo’s. As I’m in Australia still and enjoying this “warm the bones” type of Summer weather, it’s my chance to capture some special Summer shots.

Until then…Happy blogging friends!

Yvette…x

‘Twas the write before Christmas…Day 2

M agical kisses stolen beneath

In a quiet moment our lips touched

Silence and peace, our love entwined

Together in a passing moment

Love and joy,happy dreams

Every stolen kiss, how I long for your caress

Time and hope stays within my heart

Over and over in my mind

Every moment away from you,I remember that one magical kiss….

 

  

  

 

 

 

 

Day Two Prompt:

“Underneath the mistletoe last night…”

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Join in the Christmas spirit and enrich our blogs with Christmas joy. By linking up to bigger picture blogs join in and share whatever the prompts inspire.

Share your stories, poems, photo’s, baking or crafts. Whatever the inspiration…all have a way of making us feel the bond of Christmas Cheer.

Peace my friends

Yvette..x

A memorable stepping stone Pt 2…

wedding - fairylight trees

The day of my wedding the sun was shining from early morning, it was an early start for me and the girls. My house was filled with warm wishes, flowers and bubbly.

wedding - flowers

wedding - flowers

wedding - flowers

My sister did an amazing amount of needlework, silk roses and ribbons for my wedding. She’s very talented and creative.

These are the cake knife ribbons…

wedding - cake knife ribbons

The ring cushion…

wedding - ring cushion

A hat box, for all those special trinkets and cards…

wedding - hat box

wedding - hat box

The marque was filled with fresh flowers, and fairy lights…

wedding - fresh flowers

It truly was a special day…

A memorable stepping stone…

wedding

 

One of the unfortunate things of living a long distance from home, is that my wedding day was only shared with my immediate family.Family and friends sent me warm wishes for the day, so I had everyone there in spirit.

As most of my family and friends, haven’t seen these memorable moments from my wedding day… leading up to our 6th wedding anniversary I’d love to share with you this special day in my life.

I had the blessing of my parents, sister , her  husband and my niece making the long trip over to spend seven weeks before the day with me.  I was so surprised when Dad said he was coming over. He’d never flown before and Australia to Europe is a long trip. But they arrived and the wedding plans went into action.

My images in my mind were simple, elegant and of course no meringue dresses! 

 I didn’t want the confined atmosphere of a restaurant, set time limits or set menu’s. So the decision was made to have a garden wedding, not a common thing here in Italy. Our space, no time limits, just a party atmosphere. So ahead went the plans. I have to admit here is where the language barriers were stretched to extremes. Thinking about it now, it was a real challenge…setting my pace, I managed my time in between work commitments, family outings and every spare minute I  had, I think I was even going through every step  in my sleep. Was this nervousness? Not for the actual commitment of marriage, but the acceptance from Silvano’s family and friends and a personal challenge to myself that I could achieve that magical memorable fairytale wedding. Myself and my sister did all the decorations – we work well together, we’re not wedding planners but have organised a few in the past.

This is a fresh daisy heart I made with our initials in pearls.

 

wedding - daisy heart initials

One of my themes that I wanted to carry through the wedding were our initials, Y & S. From table settings, place settings, bombinere, invitations and decorations.

This was our table placing ladder. The ladder, for the day had a face lift, otherwise it’s usually lying around in the shed.

wedding - table seating ladder

With a garden wedding even the obvious is needed…w c tags…

wedding - wc tags

wedding - wc

My colour theme was a rich burgundy, with white linen and flowers.

wedding - table settings

 The marque was constructed in our backyard, with the wonderful backdrop of our vineyard.

wedding

Our initials were on the centre pieces I designed and also our bombinere, instead of sugared almonds, my sister organised custom made rock candy, what a delight, something different and chic!

wedding - bombinere

A look at my flowers tomorrow and my sister’s talent…