{Fleur de Lys Cushions}

Via German blogger friend Claudia from Nu-Nu's Garn-und Stofflabor I did obtain these lovely cotton Fleur de Lys print covers for the cushions in our Veranda.
Matching the cotton/viscose upholstery and also the Fleur de Lys wall hanging with Angels...

When I did see this lovely Fleur de Lys fabric on Celia M. High Heeled Life & Resilientista's blog: Precious Blessings in Our Family, I started searching for it...

Dolcedreams did no longer have any of it in stock... so I went across the ocean for locating any of this 'Vive La France Fleur De Lis' in navy by Monaluna.

Sure enough Claudia from Nunu's Garn-und Stofflabor Die Fleur de Lis found some fabric in Europe and she created the pillows and a table runner as well. You just click on the link to her blog.

Thank you very much Claudia, you made it work!

She posted about it on November 25, but I got way behind with my surgery and all our water control projects and right after that, the trip to The Netherlands.

Never got to posting about it and when the days are so dark, photos are very hard to capture...

And YES, in yesterday's post you already did get to see a glimpse of them with those Bunnies posing for you.
Frankly, I call them always Fleur de Lys; guess I'm a Francophile that LOVES French Country Style!

Related links:

{Our Veranda} | previous post showing you the Fleur de Lys influence in our Veranda
{Fleur de Lys in our Veranda} | previous post showing our Fleur de Lys in detail
{March 2, 1809 and My French Connection} | previous post about my heritage



{Daffodils Bunnies & Hearts}

Spring is such a lovely season with flowers blooming.

Don't you love having such a vase indoors with fragrant daffodils?

From our German 'son and daughter-in-law' we did receive some lovely Easter bunnies and hearts...

Erika always is giving her heart to us in a most caring way.

We were lucky that both of them with their two children did visit us in our Vacation Home Vakantiewoning Pardoes, while we stayed in The Netherlands for Mom's 90th Birthday and Mom & Dad's 65th Wedding Anniversary.

 Yes, they drove up to us, all the way from the beautiful Eifel in Germany and gifted Mom & Dad with a beautiful handled willow basket, filled with edible goodies from their region.

Now I have turned a different fragrant white daffodil facing the camera...

Don't you like these double ones better than the single one in the first photo?

Those are the cutest little bunnies with the lace scarf buttoned around their neck.

Daffodils are inside a French Baccarat Crystal vase.

Very glossy Mr. & Mrs Bunny...

So glad they traveled well inside our suitcases.

Don't you love them too?

{We saw Our Lovely 2014 Magnolias for 1 Day...}

Each year our magnolias, Magnolia x soulangeana bloom around my Mom's Birthday of February 12...

Gorgeous blooms we got to see on February 26, in the morning as we had come home by 22:15 the day before.

Our cat-sitter did send us the above photo, while we were still in The Netherlands.

So lovely, we had been waiting now for several years as we all lost them to frost the previous years.

Next to the new retainer wall for blocking the rain water.

Even on a dreary, rainy day they look gorgeous!

What a sight after all those years!

With our new roof and the exterior painted it looks very nice.

The tiles need still to be put onto the concrete around the house.

BUT... the next night it turned into 23°F RealFeel by 6:44 AM!

So dreary the next day after FROST!

All brown again...

Blue sky but all those buds are brown...

Maybe spring 2015 will finally yield us fully opened, gorgeous Japanese magnolias...?

Related link:
{Only 4 Magnolia Blossoms for 2013} | previous post by me with more links to our magnolia blossoms