A little bit of nature in the house

I know winter is getting closer, and for sure its not a season of flowers, but I think every apartment and house should have at least one bouquet during the whole year. Personally I love tulips, but usually you can find them during spring, roses are also beautiful, but mostly I like light colors. Whatever flower you choose , I am sure it will bring brightness, freshness, nature and good spirit into your home. Substitute for flowers may be plats. I have orchids in my house and I love them, it is very interesting to watch them grow and to see flowers coming up each time.

What are your favourite colors for Christmas decor?

     When December arrives, in our house we are already preparing for the holiday decoration. During my childhood and until now we always had a Christmas tree. My family has been collecting ornaments all these years, and each year my mom and I would buy some more and add them to our collection. The colors that we choose are red, gold, and green.

     There is a chance that in a year I will get my own apartment and it makes me think about my personal holiday decor. Not long time ago I was looking at some magazines and I realized that I really like the white color for the decoration of interior of the house. So, I started searching online for some pictures of Christmas white decor, and this is what I picked up:

Inslee Haynes

I was blown away with the artwork of this young New York City artist. She makes sketches, mostly fashion ones, but they are so interesting, I think personally that each tells us a different story. I found out about her through our Serbian web magazine and I was amazed by her work. So I wanted to share as fast as I could some sketches of talented Inslee Haynes. I think I can look at them over and over again....

Inslee Haynes - http://www.inslee.net/about/index.html

Rustic touch.

For me the style of comfort and warmth is for sure the rustic style. It represents a little bit of history and romance. It may seem cold to some people, but it depends what colors you use. I personally like white for the interior and combination of styles. Here some pictures for you of kitchens and kitchen elements that I chose. In this type of kitchen I would like to cook more and more, I think it makes you feel comfortable.  

 

Here is how one of the sites UNIVERSLIUM gave the description of rustic style -  in decorative arts, any ruralizing influence; more precisely, a type of furniture made of wood or metal, the main components of which are carved and fretted to resemble the branches of trees. Stemming from the idealization of nature and the “simple life” that occurred in the mid-18th century, the vogue for this kind of product persisted well into the 20th century. It was especially popular in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. It naturally endeared itself to the British Victorians, with their passion for the picturesque, and was also generally admired in the United States, where it is often termed “Adirondack furniture” after the upstate New York wilderness preserve. Cast-iron rustic furniture proliferated in the late 19th century, and the style was applied even to terra-cotta garden seats.

Living rooms and other rooms and places in your house or apartment also can have this rustic touch. Maybe it doesn't have to be the whole design of your own place, but you can choose maybe just one corner or some elements that will feel rustic and vintage to you, and make your apartment look better. 

Here is some glitter !

You know, because the holidays are actually coming, I think we should play a little with colors and try to shine as much as we can. My association with New Year and generally with this time of year is GLITTER and SPARKLE.

One way to create this fun world around yourself and enjoy looking at your nails is by putting some glitter on it. I didn’t even know it looks so good until I bought a red glittery polish yesterday. I put a dark red polish first and then this red glittery one, it looks so fun, I just cant stop looking at my hands and nails :)

Take a look yourself! 

I bought his polish in a DM market that we have in Belgrade, the brand is called Essence, its only 175dinars, which is about 1,60 Euros, and they have really fun new colors with glitter and shine.

Be fun this year, and wait for 2012 with nails like that! This is also and ART and you can really express your creativity and imagination through picking some fun nail polishes and combining them.

Here is some glitter for you ladies ;)

Snoopy the dog...

Snoopy is an fictional character in the long-running comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. He is Charlie Brown's pet beagle. Snoopy began his life in the strip as a fairly conventional dog, but eventually evolved into perhaps the strip's most dynamic character—and among the most recognizable comic characters in the world. The original drawings of Snoopy were "slightly patterned" after Spike, one of Schulz's childhood dogs.

 Since its Christmas soon and New Years Eve, I want to share with you "winter Snoopy pictures". Beagles are amazing and Snoopy is too. 

Enjoy a wonderful Christmas video of Charlie Brown and his friends, maybe some of your wishes will come true this Christmas. I don't know how about you but I am already feeling the snow is coming and presents are too. Be creative, wait for snow, make your own snowman and snow angel on the ground, pick something special for your friends and family and put hose presents under the Christmas tree :) Hurry up! ;)

Vintage posters!

Don't you just love those vintage posters? Personally I find them so interesting, for me it is the art of the past, and i think they will look great on the walls in your apartment. They make me think about the past and how little could be done regarding marketing back then. Now we have internet and everything is computerized. If you like that vintage look, just put some posters on the walls of the place you live in, I am sure it will look amazing !

And here is how you can enrich your apartment and make it more vintage!