Living close to nature with a shower or bath outside, heavenly! Moon to moon

I rather have a cosy kitchen than a cold designer one. This one will be easier to afford also. Bohemian shoebox

The perfect spot for a nap or some artistic endeavor. Sophie Munns

Imagine having such a view while preparing your food. Bohemian homes

A triangular home, how sweet! I would totally sleep on that balcony. Bohemian Shoebox

These and other inspiration can be found on my Pinterest Bohemian Rhapsody board. Most of the links are unfortunately Tumblr links which means almost impossible to find the original source. If you know where an image comes from I would be glad to know so I can credit correctly.

As you might notice the name of my blog has changed. When I redesigned my blog I needed a better name and after a long search I came up with ‘Linden blossoms in my tea’ but it never sounded right. Now I’ve chosen for ‘Bohemian green bird’. I have a better feeling about this one but can’t promise it’s the definitive name. Green bird refers to my interest in a green (and simple) lifestyle plus it’s a song from the awesome anime Cowboy Bebop. Bohemian because it’s a style that inspires greatly. Do you like it?

Individual flowers have been hand-cut from lace and hand-engineered onto ivory silk tulle to create a unique and organic design, which incorporates the rose, thistle, daffodil and shamrock.

I am very impressed by the craftmanship of this. I’ve seen this done on corsets and have seen tutorials of it and it’s lot’s of work to create a seamless design.

The dress is made with ivory and white satin gazar.  The skirt echoes an opening flower, with white satin gazar arches and pleats.  The train measures two metres 70 centimetres.  The ivory satin bodice, which is narrowed at the waist and padded at the hips, draws on the Victorian tradition of corsetry and is a hallmark of Alexander McQueen’s designs.  The back is finished with 58 gazar and organza covered buttons fastened by Rouleau loops.  The underskirt is made of silk tulle trimmed with Cluny lace.

It not only reminded me of corsetry but also the shaping that happened in the 50′s without the pointy bras. The pleats at the back remind me of Watteau pleats. I have a small obsession with Watteau pleats so I love this detail.

Pippa’s dress, her sister and maid of honor, was also wearing a Sarah Burton creation and I love it in it’s simplicity. Some people like it better than Kate’s dress but if Kate had worn this I would have found it to simple. It’s perfect for a maid of honor and Pippa rocks this dress.

I wish Prins Wiliam and Kate a blessed marriage and many happy days together.

I met this little family on the banks of the Leie on a bycicle ride last week. Mama duck was protective of her ducklings but still allowed us to came fairly close. It was so sweet! I wanted to hug them squichy.

Here in Belgium I’ve had the most sunny weather I can remember for the Easter holiday. There’s been 2 full weeks of summer weather. For a few days we’ve even had the warmest weather in Europe! I made the best of the weather and took walks and bycicle trips. I sat outside in my little garden with my bunny and my cat for company. Miel (my bunny) tried to eat my food each time, while Keira simply stared bored at me (usually at my back as if I can’t look behind me).

I have a new dress. It’s secondhand but I never mind that. It does good things for my figure like hiding my tummy. Normally I don’t do outfit posts but with this pretty dress I want to share.

This is my watch locket I bought a few years back in London at Camden market. I want to go back to London!

This fashion plate is from 1920 and shows a very 1950′s silhouette don’t you think? I was quite surprised to see it since it differs so much from the silhouette of the time. Le goût du jour was a French fashion magazine that only printed in the year 1920. The info about it online is very scarce but seems this was an expensive and exclusive magazine at the time.

I have a copy of this plate in a book full with fashion plates from the 18th Century to 1930, I’ll share other plates that have caught my attention at a later time.

The Artist’s Way is a 12 week long path which I will take again. I know it will help me to be more creative and productive. I want to sew more and better, and I want inspiration for this blog, but most important is I want more energy so I can accomplish these things. Taking the artist’s way is not an easy trajectory from what I remember but I plan to give it my best.

So far I’ve read the introduction and the explanation of the basic tools. Tomorrow I’ll start on my morning pages. I’ve set my alarm clock a bit earlier than usual to get an early start with them. At the moment I’m looking positive to the next 12 weeks.

This all may have looked as one big praise for Julia Cameron and her book, but let me be clear that I have one big problem with the book. It’s written way to New Age. She even knows this. She says the book feels to Christian or to New Age for some and gives an unsatisfactory solution for this, namely that you should fill in whatever you want when she speaks about God. As a Christian all this writing about a Great Creator and such without any real believe in a real Almighty God is wrong. If you don’t believe in God but do ask questions or pray to an unknown power (like this book asks of you), it’s empty. For me there is only one God and I know my creativity is a talent given by him. I am thankful to the Lord and will keep him close when I work with this book.

What do you think of the header images? Personally I’m crazy about them. I used images by Portia Lawrie of Miss P. Some simple photoshopping and they fit right in with the rest of the layout. The tartan background was made with an online tartan generator. I love little gadgets like that, so ingenious!

by tExTuReMaTtIc on Deviantart

Linden blossoms do not look like these at all, but wouldn’t they look good as little icons?

Here in Belgium we had great weather for the past week. It finally is spring and my pets and I are enjoying it. It’s time for sitting in the sun and long walks. I feel my batteries recharging. It’s easier to get up in the mornings and I feel creative again. Which is a good thing because I have some big gaps in my wardrobe. I’ll have to remember to only make things I need and not frivolous things like a robe à l’Anglaise… I’m thinking of buying Wearing history’s Smooth sailing pattern, for the trousers, because those I need the most. At the moment I have only  one pair that fits! But before that I’m going to make the 1940′s Swing dress from Sense & Sensibility. I have this pattern for about a year already so sewing it is far overdue. I have it as an epattern so I printed it and puzzled/taped it together. It was quite the task, I felt like giving up on it before I got well started! That promises! So far I’ve done that, made some necessary adjustments to the pattern and cut it out. Tomorrow I might cut out the fabric for the toile. I won’t follow a schedule to make this, which is why I didn’t do Casey’s sew-along of this dress. If it takes me a week or a month, it’s all fine by me. (It’ll take more than a week on a guess since my favourite fabric is closed this week.)

To end I want to link you to my Pinterest to show you what I’m inspired to wear/make this spring. Click on the image for the link.

by Very Prairie

BTW: do check out the Essentiel collection, it’s a lovely summery collection.

Found trough google search

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