I think part of the reason is that Polish clothing market still lacks more creative - and at the same time affordable - brands. One of these is Didi, a Dutch clothing brand I fell in love with when I lived in Holland. Their designs are extremely feminine in their curvy cuts, imaginative, original, eye-catching, figure-flattering and simply pretty. They do attract attention though, so if you wear something by Didi, you have to indeed be ready to "dare to be different" - as the company's motto states. Here are a few pieces from their last two collections, and you can find more here: www.didiwebshop.nl
This winter month is certainly a gloomy one and this city a drab one - a fact which I think could be improved a bit if more women started to wear more interesting, colourful and eye-catching clothes. In Poland, a lot of women still tend to wear blacks, dark military greens and browns - on plain surfaces and not very excitingly cut clothes. And it's a pity, especially because a lot of Polish women is very attractive and has figures worth showing off! I think part of the reason is that Polish clothing market still lacks more creative - and at the same time affordable - brands. One of these is Didi, a Dutch clothing brand I fell in love with when I lived in Holland. Their designs are extremely feminine in their curvy cuts, imaginative, original, eye-catching, figure-flattering and simply pretty. They do attract attention though, so if you wear something by Didi, you have to indeed be ready to "dare to be different" - as the company's motto states. Here are a few pieces from their last two collections, and you can find more here: www.didiwebshop.nl
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There are many traditional ways to tell someone: "I love you" or "Congratulations" or "Happy Birthday etc. We can send a card (or an e-card, of course), give flowers, a bottle of wine or chocolates. These may not be very original, but after all they're classics for a reason - they do work ;-)
But at the same time new, more imaginative ways of conveying our feelings appear on the market - and it's definitely a good thing. Personally, I'm charmed by the idea created by an English company called Biscuiteers, which offers you a possibility of sending a decorative box full of even more decorative, cute-looking and tasty biscuits (or at least they do look delicious). They're made with meticulous attention to detail - especially when it comes to their icing - and come in quite original shapes: not only are there the popular hearts, christmas trees etc, but aslo cats, shoes, apples, road signs and even handbags! You can read more about them at www.biscuiteers.com, and here are a few shots which caught my eye. Cute, aren't they? It might be something to consider for the upcoming St Valentine's Day! You know how much I like owl-shaped accessories, don't you? And since recently almost every clothing brand has come up with at least one owl-bearing item, I'd say it's not only me ;-) But to my surprise, when recently I came across a website by Aldo, a brand know majorly for its shoes, it turned out that an owl-motif has visited quite a few of their items :-) Here is a selection from their collection, and you can find more at www.aldoshoes.com . Why should't an owl become your talisman for 2011? ;-)
Yes, I did prolong the Christmas season as long as it was possible, but by now it's definitely over :-( We're now in this long, dark and dreary part of winter, with not much to look forward to in the immediate future - until Spring finally arrives, which probably won't happen for quite some time yet... I really can't wait for the winter to be over, especially that here in Warsaw it's so extrrmely depressing, and that's why I can't quite bring myself to decorate the blog with winter colours only, such as whites and blues. So yes, I'm putting some snow and a winter bird on the banner, but I'm retaining greens in the background - after all, one can always hope! And of course I'll try to fill the remaining time till Spring with as many creative ideas as possible! The Christmas season is over, and it seems that the winter gloom has settled in for good. At least that's the case in Warsaw, which right now is at it's most depressing, dirty, dark, overcast and grey-ish. So one idea for hanging on to the Christmas cheer at home is to keep using the Christmas china - like this classical beauty from Royal Copenhagen:
And I think I finally run out of the photos with Christmas decorations - at least for now ;-) So I guess it's high time to come back to more of a variety on my blog....
Let's start with some ingenious - how should I call them? food sculptures? - I've found recently on the web. It's sculpting meets computer graphics, and the results are quite astounding. After all, now that you see it, you can imagine turning an aubergine into a pinguin or an egg shell into a house, but if you never saw it, you'de never have thought about it by yourself! The photos come from these websites: www.thiscrazyweb.com and cute-pictures.blogspot.com . Enjoy! I'm one of those people who always like to look at a decorative cake and admire the way it looks, but aren't really interested in trying to taste it. I don't like anything creamy, whipped cream makes my stomach rebel and I'm not crazy about sponge cake. So I think it's majorly for people like me that German florists came out with the idea of a cake-shaped decoration, but made entirely from flowers!
Here are two attempts at interptreting this technique, just think about all the interesting possibilities it'll povide e.g. for birthday celebrations! Not only can you decorate a table in a unique way, but also give someone a "cake-and-flowers-in-one" ;-) In Poland, it is not very common to decorate a Christmas Eve table with flowers, and I think it's a pity. Flowers always look great on a table, and combined with glittering Christmas tree balls, pine cones, cinammon sticks etc they become very festive-looking.
The one problem I do see is that there's usually not much space left on a Polish Christmas Eve table, since everything is taken up by the tradition-prescribed 12 dishes! Still, I've found a way around this problem by creating two flower balls from mini-carnations and placing them on two high candle-stands made from glass - in this way, they require minimal table space, and make the entire table look classy. You should try! Christmas is a time of abundance, so it's not surprising that Christmas flower arrangements are also characterized by their abundance, fullness and deep, vibrant colours. Following the techniques I've learnt on my recent floristry course, I have prepared these two arrangements to make my parents' house look fastive during these Holidays - and so can you, if you use them for inspiration ;-)
And yet another idea for Christmas decoration - a hanging wreath, but this time the wreath itself is not made from evergreen twigs, but from thin, fully dried, brown twigs Add to it a few green ones, and some decorations on top, and here is what you can get:
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