{Angel's Trumpet}

Already on June 10, Pieter photographed our Brugmansia species 'Angel's Trumpet' with its very first blossoms. Usually they continue to bloom all through summer. This year however, because of the drought, we've waited in vain - nothing has bloomed after these two. Sorry, not much to show but this is it for 2011. We got these beauties from Logee's. This Andean native is sweetly fragrant. Look below post at {Our last Datura Angel's Trumpets and TEA with a Twist} how it looked last year in November!

It becomes a flower within a flower.

Its botanical name is: Datura inoxia var. quinquecuspida. Common names: devil's trumpet, downy thornapple, toloache, angel's trumpet. Family: Solanaceae (nightshade Family).

Related links:

{Our last Datura Angel's Trumpets and TEA with a Twist} | previous post by me

{Our Datura Angel's Trumpets} | previous post by me

BRUGMANSIAS and DATURAS | interesting info!

{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