Trois Petites Filles

8.5.15

One Spring Day

This is just a picture diary of one spring day in our life. My parents are here and our lives seem so much fuller and brighter because of them. May your spring days be full of sunshine and warm breeze.

Yesterday I took a quick picture of each girl and it is amazing how each picture truly portray their personalities.

Love,
Victoria

28.4.15

Easy Floral crowns.

This is a long over due post. When I hosted my best friend, Jess's garden bridal shower, I had a few people asked me about a flower crown tutorial. I know it is like six months late but here it is.

I think most of you are aware of my obsession with flowers. I usually have an abundant amount of them in the house. I am also so lucky to have a man who feeds my addiction. This morning B sent me all these flowers and I have been on cloud 9 ever since. As I was putting them around the house, I thought this would be the perfect day to make some flower crowns.

Of course you will need your choice of flowers. I find that flowers with smaller buds are easier to work with.

You will need a scissor, a floral wire and floral tape.

Twist two wires together to create a circle. Put it on your head to make sure it fits. I like to put floral tape around the parts where the ends are sticking out.

Now all you have to do is cut the flowers and tape them around the wire with the floral tape. You can either go all the way around the circle or just do it half way like I did here.

Quick and easy.

Do you realize how much bribing I had to do to take this one picture?

Lily, on the other hand, is always ready with a pose.

Love,
Victoria

16.4.15

Falling in love with spring

Don't you just love spring? I don't want to jinx myself but I think it is here to stay? I can't wait to get my gardening on. So far nothing is coming back yet. In the mean time, I like to buy myself flowers and put them in random places. There is nothing like being surrounded by flowers.

Bucket of flowers by the bed is the best way to wake up.

I love the mix of rustic and glam, don't you?

I can't seem to stop buying books.

Here is a little corner in the living room. Cottage iron daybed with a bucket of roses just sound so dreamy.

Somebody asked me why I don't use vases to put my flowers in. My answer was have you seen my kids and dogs? These plastic floral buckets are just so wonderful. I think I am going to paint them in different shabby colors.

I don't take bath but if I do, this is not a bad sight. The girls and the pups, however, enjoy their bubble baths.

I am still so in love with the details from this gilded cabinet. It is the perfect space for all our towels and my facial masks...lots and lots of them. That should be a post all on its own.

Here is Aurora on her bike. I just can't wait to be able to enjoy nature with them again. This summer is a bit busy for us. My parents are coming back next month and staying for three months. Then the girls and I are going to Burma and Singapore for three weeks in August. I am so excited and nervous at the same time. They have never been and I haven't been back in eight years. I plan to sleep, eat, spa and shop. Yup. It will be glorious. I am planning to go to California in June and July. I would love to know of cool flea markets or vintage shops around the OC area. B is loving California. He came back for the weekend last week and it was so wonderful to see him. The girls and I miss him very much.

How adorable are those two? This is kind of our every morning routine. She likes to go through my closet for accessories. She looks very Annie Hall-ish. Bella doesn't like to have her pictures taken anymore. She said she likes to supervise. Oh children.

Love,

Victoria

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30.3.15

Finding inspirations

I am new to this whole learning about furniture and history behind it. I have to admit that I started repurposing and painting furniture because I was running out of wall spaces to play with. There are so many different style of furniture but favorite of mine has been french chairs. There is something incredibly feminine and regal about them. I can't get enough of them. Recently I found a pair of these french dining chairs for $30 at my favorite place in the whole world, The Trading Post. The caning needed help and the legs need to be reglued but they were just so pretty. As I was leaving, the owner asked me to take the other two chairs from the set for free. They were in even more bad shape than the ones I bought. She said if anyone could fix them, it would be me. So I came home with all four of them.

Here's the deal. I love to paint. I have pretty much no problem painting anything...but do you remember I made that promise to my upholstery instructor that I wouldn't paint something if there were over a hundred years old??? Sooooo...these were. I found out that these chairs were made in the late 19th century French before there was electricity. They were hand craved out of fruitwood. I imagine young french apprentices craving out the details and making these chairs by the window since there was no such things as electricity yet. Isn't that crazy?

As much as I appreciate nicely painted chairs, I am going to just restore these chairs. My plan is to upholster them in a faded shabby blush and light blue velvet. I think they will look very nice with the dark wood. The goal really is to appreciate and show off as much of the details as possible. Hopefully I will get these ladies done by next week. In the mean time, I have been doing a lot of doodling and painting. It is funny because I started this blog to share my passion for art and creativity with other like minded people. I have to tell you blogging world is a serious business. I never realized that. I am in awe of the amount of amazing projects and blog posts people can bang out in a week. I found myself starting to put pressure on myself to do a project just so I could have something new on the blog. That is never a good sign. So I put my upholstery tools down. Put away my furniture. Grabbed my camera and had a little photo shoot with my ever ready model, Aurora.

That, of course, inspired me to want to paint something whimsical and springy. I am not a trained painter. I have never taken a painting class and it is my dream to be able to really paint. I have been inspired by Katie Rodger of Paperfashion for awhile now. She paints the most amazing and whimsical fashion illustrations and she also has mini tutorials on how to paint. So this is what happened. Insomnia+inspirations+the girls' Birthday invitations= Me painting on every single envelop.

Here is a magical world where wearing a gown everyday is completely normal.

Everything is inspired by flowers and spending the whole day swinging on a floral swing is acceptable.

You can run down a field of flowers in your ball gown without somebody calling the police.

I had so much fun painting these even though they will be ripped and thrown away within seconds of the kids opening them. I excitedly asked Bella what she thought of them today. Her reply was "But where are the ninja dragons??" : )

Love,
Victoria

8.3.15

Floral Art

Almost everyday now I look out my window and think there is no way all of this snow is going to melt for my gardening season. Since spring seems so far away and it will be awhile before I can get my hands dirty in my garden, I decided to create my own little indoor garden...well sort of. This idea of creating a floral installation has been on my mind for quite some time now. Today just kind of seem like the perfect day to work on it.

This spot is right by my front door. I love the idea of having a statement wall right when you walk into the house. If you know me, then you know I always have plenty of empty picture frames and chairs...just ridiculous amount of chairs. I stapled chicken wire to my frames to use as a base for my installation. Actually what I really wanted was everything to feel like a painting but with real flowers in them.

It just feels like spring every time you look at it, doesn't it? I love the fact that they will still look good when the flowers become dry flowers and if I want to, I can just simply add new flowers to the frame. Oh and how gorgeous are these chairs? They are antique French Louis XV dinning chairs. I bought a pair at my favorite antique shop, The Trading Post. Then as I was leaving she made me take two more that needed re caning. I am probably going to upholster them then...I am afraid to say this... paint the frame. I always feel guilty painting real antique but I feel like these ladies need it? Now back to my floral installations.