1.) Fresh flowers for the bathroom. Check
2.) Fresh flowers for the kitchen. Check
3.) Make dinner for Elijah. Check

All ingredients for a pretty perfect Friday night in with my darling. How's your weekend going? Anything fun? Anything perfect?

What Can I Do?

You know how sometimes you get the feeling that you'd like to volunteer or give more of yourself to help others in some way and then you loose your steam because you are not sure where to begin? Well this is a great jumping point! My dear friend Rachel Fleischer decided to do something about it and started a grassroots campaign for the cause and kindly asked me to contribute some art for it. I tried to convey hope, love and light through my piece, and I certainly was honored to be the first artist to get asked to present a piece. Get more information here! Way to go Rachel!

Birthday Nutshell

I have to share with you that I had an incredibly heartfelt and lovely birthday this year. Mostly because I got to spend it with the people I love the very most. The gifts that really melt my heart and have me file them in my "coveted treasures file" in my heart are the gifts of time that everyone seems to carve out of their busy schedules to either make me a card, write me a letter, bake me a cake (with delicate and edible flower petals nonetheless!), fly me over to a city, take me to a show, drink birthday morning champagne with me, drink evening birthday champagne with me, laugh with me, pick out flowers for me, pick a magical plant, or closes her eyes and sends me her spirit along with some amazing cookies and feathers to wear around my neck all the way over from the City of Lights across an ocean! I am so blessed. So, so incredibly grateful for all of this. For life and the loves that make mine such a place of beauty and magic*

P.s. Have you ever been to Chicago? It's an incredibly beautiful city full of life!

Have you taken a moment to check out Deer Lolita yet? Go and see for yourself! (OK, for reals now, see you all next week)*

Took this while on a walk with v.v. The world can look and be so dreamy depending on what lens you choose to view it through, don't you think...

p.s. I'm leaving town early tomorrow for my birthday and won't be back until Monday. Have a lovely weekend xo

Some beautiful photos sent my way from my amazing and beautiful friend Cheri of Scout Holiday. She always knows what to send me whenever I need a little inspirational lift...merci beaucoup, chère Cheri*

(images from Lolita)

SFRD + Rainbow Project

Here are some of the wildflowers Olga and I put together for the Society for Rational Dress + Rainbow Project for Japan sale. I really liked how all of these turned out. A nice mix of cut flowers from the garden and some from the market. Have a peek!

On another note, how about the weather today, huh? Big beautiful gray clouds and chilly weather: perfect for a day of staying in with the animals and drawing, watercoloring or reading. A very nice surprise for the the month of May*