Burrs & Berries » 2010 March

The Garden Collection by H&M

Mar 262010

I recently came across The Garden Collection by H&M, and fell in love! It completely embodies spring, with it’s gorgeous material, floral prints and light colors!

This collection is made with environmentally adapted materials like recycled polyester, organic cotton, and linen. The Garden Collection is perfectly named, making you feel like you just stepped into a beautiful little garden, full of roses and flowers with a wide selection of shapes, sizes and colors. The clothes look so refreshing aren’t they? I’m loving the combination of pastels and brights, It makes me want summer to hurry up and arrive already!

(images: the garden collection by h&m)

Etsy Love for Pinks + Neutrals

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Mar 252010

Hello dear friends! I apologize for the late post today, but I have been at work all day, and have been feeling under the weather. I think I’m coming down with a throat infection, so I’m going to make myself some soup and rest. But before I go off to do that, I have put together a few things to show some Etsy Love for this week.

1. Mixed Vintage Silver, sadie olive 2. Days Stack Up, sloe gin fizz 3. Thread and Buttons, Lynda Naranjo 4. Barquentine Skirt, Makool 5. Pink and Gold Teacup and Saucer, becky’s briar patch 6. Pink Peonies, Leslie Thomson

I have been swooning over this soft palette of pink and neutral pastels, very reminiscent of spring, with a beautiful feminine touch. This style is consistent across home decor and kitchenware, illustration, photography, and fashion with a great combination of textures and patterns. Does anything catch your eye right away?

(images: sources listed above)

burrs & berries in Nonpareil Magazine!

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Mar 242010

Nonpareil Magazine is an online magazine full of great inspiration and do-it-yourself projects and templates, dedicated to crafting beautiful weddings on a budget.

The second issue was just launched a few hours ago, and it’s looking better and better! A huge congratulations to Maddy Hague of the Inspired Bride and Kristen Magee of Paper Crave.

So I can finally share with you the exciting project I was working on last month, and you can see it in the second issue of Nonpareil! How exciting! I designed printable wedding save-the-date and favor label templates inspired by a specific color palette. Visit Nonpareil Magazine for the full article, to get your copy of the printables, and for more wedding and event design inspiration.

(images: nonpareil magazine)

Thé Dansant Vintage Homeware + Jewelry

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Mar 242010

Today I would like to take you on a journey with me to Belgium, into the studio of the newly launched shop Thé Dansant. When I heard about the opening of the shop last week, I knew I had to let you in on the fun right away! If you haven’t heard about Thé Dansant yet, French for “dancing tea”, you’re in for a real treat!

I had the opportunity to ask the lovely ladies at Thé Dansant a few questions that they happily answered, so I could get some more insight into the shop and the women running it, to share with you.

How did you begin your journey with Thé Dansant?
It all started on a lovely summer evening after dinner. Nimue and Isis were dreaming together about the perfect shop, a shop were you wanted to buy everything you saw, a shop that sold not only cloting, accessories and homeware but an entire lifestyle. Somehow we couldn’t get the idea out of our heads, but for practical and financial reasons it was rather difficult to work it out. So we thought: hey, why not start with a smaller project that’s got the same philosophy behind it? That’s when we decided to open an online shop that selled vintage and handmade accessories for you and your home. Isis then came up with the name Thé Dansant. It’s what the french call a party where people dance and drink tea. While searching for the perfect logo we invented someone who embodied what we wanted to sell: a tea-drinking, stylish and creative lady: Miss TD was born.

What is your inspiration?
We are constantly inspired by prettyness we see in fashion and interior magazines and blogs. In our opinion everything you surround yourself with (from your caoch to your telephone to your dustbin) should be nice to look at. We believe that beauty makes happy and through our shop we’d like to share some happiness with the rest of the world!

How is tea a part of your work?
Oh dear, where to begin? :) Well, for starters we’re both obsessive compulsive tea-drinkers. Secondly, tea is a part of the way of life we try to live by: taking time for yourself, enjoying beautifull things, allowing yourself to be creative, cooking and/or eating quality food and putting a but of glamour in every single day…Of course this isn’t always easy. We all have so much obligations, things people expect from us, things we have to do from ourselves. But a cup of tea once in a while just helps to remind oneself to take it easy ;)

What are your hopes for Thé Dansant?
We hope the things we sell can make many people happy. In any case we’re enjoying it very much to be working on the shop. In our dreams Thé Dansant lives a long and succesfull life and maybe one day grows out to the shop we initially fantasized about.

Thank you so much for your time Nimue, Isis & Miss TD!

If you love what you see, be sure to visit their blog for some great stories from the three ladies and the launch of the beautiful Thé Dansant.

(images: thé dansant)

Spotlight on Talent: Yvette Inufio

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Mar 232010

Are you ready to dive into this week’s Spotlight on Talent with photographer Yvette Inufio? With such an abundant and absolutely amazing photography portfolio, you can get lost in Yvette’s world so fast, and wander for hours.

I didn’t even know how to start selecting my favorite photographs from this wonderful artist, it might be impossible. So instead of digging through her whole collection, I decided to focus on a particular interest of mine that is depicted through one of her sets called ‘a passion for details’. So I encourage you to visit Yvette’s flickr page for a greater selection of her photographs, and to find your favorite!

I love the way Yvette finds and captures beauty in the ‘mundane’. She shows us that simple objects around the home could be so inspiring if you look closely at the details. I feel that works for everything in life.

Her photographs have such a dreamy quality to them, such bliss. I love the soft tones and delicate textures she creates. Another great quality in Yvette’s work is the beautiful way she captures natural light. And the way she styles her photos with harmonizing balance, it makes them so easy on the eyes, don’t you think?

The combination of lines and shapes, organic, geometric, sharp merge to give great composition in each photograph, I think Yvette does that very well. Yvette has an etsy shop where she sells some of her photographs, and also authors a blog that you can visit to see more of her recent work.

Did you spot any favorites?

(images: yvette inufio)