{Things Look Rosy}

We had a lovely weekend with dear friends. So things were really looking  'ROSY' for me. No, I'm not talking about the economy but about my crocheted rose filet cotton batiste blouse. The pattern appeared in Anna Burda magazine and I fell in love with it. So I bought the cotton batiste and some DMC nr 50 thread to crochet those romantic roses and sew this blouse. Voilà!

This is in the front porch on Sunday morning after Church, before calling Mom & Dad. That's our normal routine, over a cup of coffee we talk with them.

This is the Anna Burda model...

Worn with my Krizia Jeans skirt from Italy and Escada platform sandals.

From the back it looks rosy too! Had to put my hair up so you could see those filet crochet roses...

For those of you who would like to copy this, here below is the pattern...

Some x's are missing to the left (lower part) but that is suppose to be a double row, just like the bottom outer edge. You can also make a doily out of it and sew some linen inside the center and make it square.

{LOOK My Vintage Train Case Arrived!}

Oh, I have to share this with all of you! On this post: {Chocolate and Silver Alphabet Letters for Saint Nicholas} I received my very first comment from Rebecca, who writes the fabulous blog 'A Gathering Place'. Next day I stumbled upon Rebecca's Vintage Train Case at Mari's A POCKET FULL OF ROSES blog: MY BEAUTIFUL ANNIVERSARY GIFT :) and fell in love... Rebecca did point me to her older blog post: ~ VINTAGE TRAINCASE - Transformed into a Work of Art~. It took her quite a while for finding such a vintage train case again and in June she started with the makeover of it. Due to the hot and humid weather in her area, the paint took a long time to dry. But finally on Thursday it arrived! Now have a look yourself and tell me if you would not fall in love with it too?

Related link:

{My Utterly RomanticTrain Case} | previous post by me about talented Rebecca

{Mistery Oma Rose Resolved!}

Remember my post from two days ago? Sad that ONLY on June 10 we had some 'Oma Roses'... My prized rose bushes that I have from my paternal grandmother. We never knew the name for this beautiful rose, but thanks to friend Bea from Modern Country Lady the mistery got resolved! Even though she was extremely busy all week with all the publicity she suddenly got, she did tip me. As a Pet Parent all of her fur babies have made it into the Country Living Readers' pets album! Her delicious jam recipes got published on The Instructables editor's pick. If you scroll down on her blog Modern Country Lady, you will get there. Clicking on the hyperlink of Modern Country Lady above, will get you to her feature in 'Homemade' a British Craft Magazine.

So what did Bea name this Oma Rose? Queen Elizabeth, a Floribunda rose that got introduced in 1954 by Lammerts, USA. In 1979 it became 'World's Favorite' Rose! When I looked it up in the many books about roses that I got, I found it right there of course. And it matches all criteria. I AM SO HAPPY!

A Pocket Guide to Roses is one of the books that features the Queen Elizabeth Floribunda rose. As well as All-America Roses.

A Pocket Guide to Roses shows The Queen Elizabeth Rose on Page 160.

All-America Roses shows The Queen Elizabeth rose on Page 69.

Our Queen Elizabeth Floribunda Rose...

Here are two lovely Dutch books about roses, that were mailed to me by my brother Harry and sister-in-law Elly in 2009.

I did grow up near Lottum where every 2 years there is a Rose Festival see De Rozenhof Lottum.

That said, you know a bit more about my love for roses...

The Rose Bible by Rayford Clayton Reddell that I have here is a hard cover and a beautiful book.

Photo quality on glossy paper is exceptional. There are several photos of the Queen Elizabeth rose inside.

Another prized book of course is Victoria At Home With Roses, as is my most favorite magazine Victoria.

On a rainy day such books are a super 'pick-me-up' with all their romantic ideas!

When the roses from the garden have wilted away; then the silver roses give you joy...

This excellent book Rosen-Bestecke by Johanna Gehrlein, with lots of high quality photos for identifying your romantic silver flatware is available as Rosen-Bestecke.

Now you know a lot more about me... but I think I inherited that love for roses!