Foreign Influences

Now before you get the wrong idea and think this is a sensational post.  I will be the first to tell you it is about gardening. (Photo intensive post.) The one thing that fascinates me completely about blogging is that I can sit down cozy here at my computer and scan dozen of images daily of decor and gardening from around the world.  I am an extremely visual person so it is the perfect format.  (Magazines don't want to hear that.)   I often stumble upon blogs from other countries that just stop me in my tracks.  I am so taken with how they are doing something so very different from what I see here in our magazines and retail stores.  So often the materials used for these stunning arrangements are from right out of the yard.  So what can I not love about this, they are doing something different (and you know how I like something completely different) and it is usually inexpensive!  The first blog that literally took my breath away was Blomsterverkstad.  This is the blog of Minna Mercke Schmidt she is a Swedish flower
photographer and stylist.  She has been published, her book is "Blomstrande ide'er.  I will leave you with the visual images of her work.  You don't even have to have a translate button on her blog.

All images above from   http://blomsterverkstad.blogspot.com/

Isn't her work amazing?

Okay, I found these images and I have a bad habit of saving the photo and forgetting where I saw it if it is a commercial website.  I believe this website was French and it sold herbs, of all things.  Great table ideas.

 The entire reason for this post was that, again, I stumbled across another foreign blog that I thought had some beautiful natural centerpieces.  I thought okay, Christmas is coming most of these materials we have in our yards and I thought you might get some inspiration for your decorating.  This site is called "The Forest Fairy," I believe this is a German site.

  These images are from http://die-waldfee.blogspot.com/

So now I am really inspired I want to go create something different from anything I have ever created.  Here is my translation of the lantern above.  

I will work on it.  I took many pictures of this and I am still not sure it looks as natural as the lantern above from The Forest Fairy.  I love using natural materials and I love something completely different.  The before on this would be moss, moss rocks (HobbyLobby), cinnamon sticks, anise (grocery), twigs, pinecones, pine boughs (neighborhood yards).  If you are concerned about the natural materials with the candle you can use the battery operated flameless pillars.  

I will link to these great blogs.  Go and visit them.
Just Something I Whipped Up at The Girl Creative
Tabletop Tuesday  at A Stroll Thru Life
Centerpiece Wednesdays at The Style Sisters

Before and After Party at Savvy Southern Style

Make It yours Day  at My Backyard Eden

I will join Joni at Red Couch Recipes for the Thanksgiving Challenge.  I will put at the end of every post till Thanksgiving what I am thankful for.  I am thankful for the world of blogging.  Creativity abounds and it is a wonderful thing!:)