Vases, Vessels and Vintage - # 3 - Pink & Red Vases

I have a confession to make - I have a lot of vases!

I have a large collection of all kinds of vases and containers - but I don't feel guilty about it. I use them in my daily work - while styling and photographing flowers.

Vases, vessels or containers - call them what you like - can be so much fun when you arrange flowers. Here is a small part of my collection - the pink and red one.

I have some very old antique vases, I have a lot of vintage and retro containers and I also have a lot of new ones. 

Some are inherited, others are bought at antique fairs, some are from car boot sales and flea markets and a lot are from charity stores. I have never spent a lot of money as you don't have to because vases are often cheep. 

This, my small red and pink vase collection, range from a Victorian scent bottle, a fairy light candle holder, a two-toned 1920's glass vase, a pink 1940's retro ceramic vase to some new mini bud vases and a small candle holder.

 Here are some images of a few of the pink and red vases. 

I have used five different tulips in a range of different pinks - it's a mix of parrot, fringed and double tulips - all gorgeous.  

What is interesting about tulips is that they continue to grow in the vase, the petals also open up and they often change colour - they are almost the most beautiful just before the petals drop. 

The last image is similar to the first one. It's the same flowers in the same vases - just a few days later. You can clearly see the change in the tulips. I think even more beautiful!

  

Have a Creative Floral Day!

See you on Friday with another FLOWERS by ingrid and titti and this time it's about something a little bit different!

xoxo Ingrid

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

Vases, Vessels and Vintage # 2: Cream Coloured Bottles and Jars

I have a collection of cream coloured bottles and jars that I often use as vases - I also often use them as props - sometimes empty sometimes filled with something interesting. 

The bottle on the left is an old sake bottle that I never had the heart to throw away and I have kept over many years.

A few of them are French honey and mustard jars bought over time and then also used as vases. Others are vintage jars and bottles bought at London antique markets for a few pounds. It's a great feeling to recycle beautiful object of really no monetary value.

Here is an antique Dundee Marmalade jar and some others that I don't know what they were used for. All have that distinctive crazing and beautiful patina that happens to old china.   

What holds the collection together is that they are all of a similar colour and I thought it would be fun to feature them in my series - Vases, Vessels and Vintage.

The cream colour is very easy to combine with all kinds of different coloured flowers. The one that I have used to make the flower arrangement in is one of the old French mustard jars. The flowers I have used are five pink tulips, five pink hyacinths and a few stems of Eucalyptus leaves.

This is the second in the series called Vases, Vessels and Vintage - the first one was called Kähler Vase and Grass.

Have a Wonderful Floral Day!

Back soon!

xoxo Ingrid

Vases, Vessels and Vintage # 1: Kähler Vase and Grass

This is the first in a new series called Vases, Vessels and Vintage. 
The arrangement is very simple but dramatic - using long slender grass - cut to length to be in proportion to the vase.

I have used a vase from the Danish company Kähler - they are made of stoneware ceramics and are available in many different colours and dimensions.

This one is from the Omaggio line in black and violet. The line is designed by Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou Nordentoft - their vases has a modern shape and the irregular horizontal stripes are made with course brushstrokes.

It has a perfect shape with a not too wide neck - just wide enough to nicely hold a small bunch of flowers, or like here, grass in place.

The vintage that I have added are three tiny little blue glass ink bottles. The same but all a little bit different - they are only about 4 cm high. Very cute!

I hope you'll be enjoying my new series featuring vases and different kinds of containers both new and vintage - and how to combine them with flowers.

Have a good day and until next time - have some fun with flowers.

xoxo Ingrid

[Styling and photography by Ingrid Henningsson for Of Spring and Summer.]