Hi everybody! I’m back with another “From Garden to Home” post! This week we are bringing in some Bleeding Hearts! I think this flower wins for one of the coolest flowers out there! They are absolutely beautiful and so intricate! I think the serving tray is my absolute favorite. I remember wood burning along with my college roommate..it was an interesting medium to say the least. The one featured here is gorgeous and of course it features bleeding heart motifs! You will also find a link to a recipe for “Bleeding Heart Pie”, I know, but it’s simply called that due to it’s use of raspberries along with a heart cut-out! Ok, enjoy!
Oh Lucas! What great images from Photographer Lucas Allens online portfolio! There are many elements that I love in each photo, from the lighting, to the placement of colors, to the décor! I think the chairs in the photos are fantastic!
Good morning ladies and gents! I’m so excited that Spring has sprung! The flowers are blooming, the bees are buzzing, the wind is warm, the air is sweet, and the cherry blossoms are showing off their beauty! Of course a sweet spring morning deserves a sweet breakfast to go along with it right!
With that said, I wanted to share a super easy breakfast idea for French toast, as seen below. I simply placed pats of cream cheese(cold, not softened) in between two pieces of bread. I sprinkled a little sugar on top of the cream cheese , placed some sliced strawberries on top, and drizzled a bit of syrup in between the two pieces of bread. This will help keep the two pieces of bread together. I then proceeded to batter them up with my custard mixture (egg, milk, vanilla). I prefer to use a pastry brush to brush my custard on, as I used regular honey wheat bread, which is quite thin in comparison to french bread or challah. This way you can keep your hands clean and avoid the risk of oversaturating or having your filling coming apart in your custard mixture. You can sprinkle a little cinnamon on the bread before brushing your batter on. Garnish with berries and powdered sugar!
This breakfast is sweet, creamy, and super comforting; and goes great with a glass of orange juice! Enjoy! Psst: if you really want to make it decadent, try adding some thinly sliced bananas to this or substituting the berries for baked cinnamon apples! You can also cut sown on the fat by using greek yogurt…toast your bread first and then dallop yogurt in between the bread along with your fruit!
Good morning everybody! I hope everyone is adjusting to the shift in time. I always hate the fact that one can just take an hour away from me, yet I do look forward to longer sunny days! You see the pic above…go ahead, I will wait while you look. Ok, finished? So, these little Daffodils sprouted out of the ground a few weeks ago. Poor things, the weather was very warm for a while here in Georgia so they must have thought that Spring was here. Boy were they in for a shock when the weather turned frigid again. Many of them began to droop over. We closed on our home in late summer/early fall of last year, so it was a warm and sunny surprise to see Daffodils popping up out of the ground! I was quite excited!
So, these little Daffodils got me thinking about doing a new weekly column here on JuBella that I will call “From Garden to Home”. I will feature a flower, plant, herb, or fruit ; and then go window shopping for you all and collect and post some of my favorite items to bring into your home that features the garden selection of the week! Most of them, but not all of them will be selected from Etsy. This week I thought it only springfully proper to kick off the column with those that inspired me….Daffodils! Here are some of my favorite Etsy finds that features Daffodils and or were inspired by that rich sunny daffodil yellow! I especially love the vintage glasses and tupperware. The glasses would look lovely filled with pink lemonade and the tupperware would fit into any eclectic, colorful, or vintage style kitchen! Enjoy!
OMG! I want this house. If I had a collection of homes, this would definitely be one of them. I heart Kate Spades creativity and I especially heart their South Hampton Home decor. Adam Rapoport (who i think is the new Editor-in-Chief of Bon Apetit) hosted a great show called Style Innovators and featured a great tour of Kate & Andy’s home back in November! By the way, you can see his home tour with Simon Doonan and Jonathan Adler in the Extra dose section in the right hand corner at the top of the page (after watching it, i think it would be pretty cool to have a printed pattern painted on a ping pong table..lol). Yay!
Swoon! I totally love these images from photographers Paul Costello’s online portfolio! I have been coming across lots of images of greens lately. I love the room with all of the green vases and chairs….so pretty! The oreo “cake” is cute too…that would make a great set up at a kids party along with mini glasses of milk along with some cute straws!
Happy Tuesday Everybody! I hope you didn’t go thinking that I had gone off and forgot about you again….oh no! I wouldn’t do that to you again, at least not on purpose. I hope you all had a great weekend. I spent most of mine watching documentaries which included: “How to Cook Your Life”, “Kings of Pastry”, and “Food Inc.” There is nothing better than being cuddled up in a warm blanket on rainy day with an endless amount of streaming movies via Netflix!
While I did no actual blogging this weekend I did do a lot of link hopping. There was just something about the illustrations of Artist Nicole Sharp of Cole & Josephine that really inspired me. While attending art school I absolutely hated using watercolor and let’s not even talk about my temperament with gouache. However somewhere down the line while freelancing I fell in love with watercolor. I love how you can change and control the fluidity and how you can layer transparent over opaque. I really like the wittiness of Nicoles pieces (note the humorous text that goes along with her prints in her etsy shop!
I picked up the February edition of Better Homes & Gardens a while back and this space jumped out at me for many reasons. I think that the built in bookshelf is fantastic! We have two open spaces on both sides of our fireplace in which we plan to install built ins! yay! The rich hardwood floors are a dream. I cannot wait until we have hardwood floors on our lower level! Carpet + toddlers = evil! I also love the “rustic” aqua/turquoise coffee table along with the deep green and clear aqua vases. This space screams “ultra beach cottage” in my opinion, and feels very open, playful, and relaxed! This pic also has me daydreaming of us ripping out the god awful granite around our fireplace. Oh how I hate it! Brick, Slate/Stones…yes, but marble nor granite should ever be around a fireplace. It never fails to make me think of a tombstone…lol. We plan to redo ours with brick veneers one day!
Good Morning creative people! You know, I love me some pancakes! Oh, especially really dainty ones that’s adorned with colorful sprinkles, decorative candles, pats of butter, and drizzles of flavored syrup to tickle your taste buds. Remember on Friday when I said I had some wonderful party pics to share. Well, here they are. The first set is from Ashley Meaders. She creates pretty nifty things for weddings and parties and such and here she styled some great things to make for a great spread! I think what makes these pancakes so special and worth posting are all of the wonderful accessories around them: gorgeous flowers, pretty china, handmade name tags, vintage dishes, iced beverages in pretty jars! All intricately placed to be celebrated! Be sure to check out Ashleys website. She creates so many great items to make a party feel extra special!
Ok, now, I totally fell in love with not only the photos from creative mom extraordinaire Rubyellen Bratchers blog called “Cakies” but I just adore the fact that she takes so much pride and puts in so much creativity with her 3 daughters! I am always inspired by creative people but creative mothers..oh they make me so happy. Imagine if most moms were willing to tap into their creative energy to fill their children’s lives with handmade joy! How awesome would the world be? Pretty awesome in my opinion. I tell everyone: “Creativity can embellish the world, and a creative mom can save it”. LOL. Anyhow, back to the photos shall we.
Ruby celebrated her daughters first (she has 3 daughters named Brave, True, and Soul…how insanely sweet is that!) birthday by throwing one lavish breakfast party for her. I love the vintage feel and simplicity of this. My favorites are the vintage syrup containers, the yellow balloons, and the pretty pancake batter. This totally makes me want to make a ton of pancakes and invite people over to eat them ,yet I fear my accessories would not be as grand and vintage as Rubys…lol. Anyhow, even if you have no party to celebrate, you can still celebrate the mornings (especially the weekend mornings) by taking a little extra time to make your breakfast something special with color, thrifted dishes/fabric, and lots of creative love!
Oh, and for a triple bonus, enjoy this video Rubyellen made with her daughters…it’s so cute! Ok, hope you all are having a great Monday morning!
Never can a girl grow tired of looking at engagement and wedding photos. They are always so enchanting and when you have the help of wedding Stylists such as Grey Likes Weddings, you are bound to be in for some magical and creative eye candy. I love the details in these photos from various weddings from their blog. I especially love the little vintage buttons on the wedding cake. So simple, but clever! I also like the charm of re-purposing vegetable and fruit cans as flower vases! I will be posting more fantastic celebration photos to share next week as well…so be on the lookout for those!
I just can’t get enough of scrolling through the portfolios of interior, fashion, and prop stylists. I love the fact that they can make something so ordinary appear to be so extraordinary. Stylist Twig Hutchinson offers up a yummy portfolio to be inspired by. She can make something feel so antiquated, beautiful, and simple!
I can almost expect the home of a photographer to be immaculately composed. What better profession to have than to be that of a photographer with an attention to detail, light, color, shadow, and placement! I loved this video tour of photographers Victoria Pearsons home. You may recognize her name an/or photos from the pages of Martha Stewart. Her kitchen is sublime! The neutral kitchen s gorgeous and all of the dishes lined up in such an orderly but natural way is fantastic. I must admit that it would make me nervous, I would be sure that with one slam of the door my loving little dishes would come crashing down to the floor. Nevertheless I thought you guys would like this little video tour of of her home as well as a few shots of inspirational colors from her portfolio.
