FLOWERS by ingrid and titti - Happy Easter!

The theme for FLOWERS this week is 'Easter' and here in the UK its four days of holiday!

The flowers I have used are Narcissus 'Erlicheer' - its a highly scented cream double narcissi that has multiple florets on each flower stem. What a beauty!!

I bought he flowers at my local farmer's market where the lovely Cel Robertson and her partner Rob are back selling spring flowers from their weekly stall every Saturday morning. Cel grows all the flowers they sell on their organic farm Forever Green Flower Company in Norfolk and drives down to London every week. 

We often associate Easter with the colour yellow - well yellow is lovely, bright and cheerful - but I find that a lot of people say they don't like yellow.

So I decided to go for a white and cream Easter. I made a hand-tied bunch and put them in a white vintage jug - simple and easy. The flowers are so beautiful just on their own I felt they didn't really need anything else.

How do you like my mini chicken in her little basket? I bought it a few years ago from an antique shop out in the country - in a part of Sweden called Österlen - in the south of the country.

I made a birds-nest out of raffia, bakers twine and chicken feathers. Its very simply made by taking a small handful of natural coloured raffia and making a circle - cut three lengths of baker's twine and make three ties around the raffia to hold it in place - place as many feathers as you like - around the sides and the top of the little nest - by placing them into the raffia and under the tied twine. That is it - quick and simple.

These wooden eggs I'm told were used to encourage chickens to lay eggs. They still have some of the original paint. Also bought from the same antique store in Sweden as the chicken in the basket.

The small quail eggs are real - they are empty - the content is already eaten. I think they look sweet in the little nest.

Pompoms are always fun and these white fluffy ones are perfect for the white colour scheme. I'm not sure which ones I like the best the honeycomb kind or these ones. What do you think?

Titti Malmberg - my Swedish based collaborator - who I work alongside on FLOWERS - has also created an Easter post on her blog HWIT BLOGG - so please follow the link and go over and see what she has done. 

You can see all our FLOWERS posts Here. 

We also have a special board over on Pinterest with images from FLOWERS.

Have a Very Happy Easter!

See you later in the week.

~ xoxo ~ 

Ingrid

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for FLOWERS and Of Spring and Summer.]
[Flowers from Forever Green Flower Company.]

FLOWERS by ingrid & titti - For the Easter Table

Here is another instalment of FLOWERS by titti and I and this time it's about decorating your the Easter table.

We probably all associate Easter with different things - it might be Easter bunnies and chocolate eggs or yellow daffodils and painted eggs.

I wanted to do a Easter table with some colourful tulips and a mixture of vintage and some black & white more contemporary items.    

I found some dramatic pink tulips with darker stripes down the petals. The two containers I've used as vases are vintage clear glass milk bottles with writing on the sides. Around the neck of the bottles I wound some black garden twine around one of them and some black & white bakers' twine around the other.

In the back are some pussy willow branches in an old white apothecary jar. Instead of tying the feathers to the branches I decided to just simply place the feathers in a jar next to the branches.

It's quite nice to be able to use cloth napkins and here I have used some vintage damask linen napkins. I have just rolled them and tied a mixture of raffia, bakers' twine and garden twine around the middle. I also stuck a white feather with some short twigs of pussy willow and rosemary under the twine.

I put all the napkins together in a black Zulu basket from South Africa that is made from telephone wires. Usually they are much more colourful than this one that is mainly black.  

I inherited the two chickens from my grandmother and I thought they fitted perfectly into my colour scheme with their black and white feathers.

A few little quail eggs stacked in three white vintage eggcups - these eggs are empty but you could hard-boiled some and use them as decoration until you are ready to eat the delicious eggs.

As a tablecloth I have used a very contemporary black and white fabric with a great graphic design. It's Swedish and I bought it back in the 1980's - I loved the simplicity of the graphic black and white pattern of swirls and parallel hand drawn lines. 

You also have to go over and have a look at what kind of Easter table Titti has created over on her blog HWIT BLOGG.

Here is a link to all the previous FLOWERS by Titti and I. 

Have a Wonderful and Floral Easter Holiday!

See you later in the week!

xoxo Ingrid

[Styling and photography © Ingrid Henningsson for FLOWERS/Of Spring and Summer.]