Fifi Flowers: February 2011

2.28.2011

Blue Sports View

Unfortunately I was too business today to finish a painting I was working on... soooo you will have to settle for the photo I am in the middle of painting... if I finish it today I will post it late...

Please be sure to visit other Blue postings today via Smiling Sally... and today is the LAST DAY of the Reading is Fashionable GIVEAWAY... be sure to enter!

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2.25.2011

PINK Weekend

Four PINK dresses... One pair of PINK shoes...

Bon Weekend to EVERYONE!!! Be sure to visit Beverly and all her PINK participants!!!

Don't forget to pop over to Reading is Fashionable to enter the GIVEWAY!!! Bonne Chance!

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2.24.2011

Booked a Table for YOU...

Look at these tables made out of books... not sure I would want one in my home... but I do appreciate their uniqueness... would you want one in your home?

Book Tables via Google Image

Ooooh these tables are FUN and perfect for Fifi's NEW site Reading is Fashionable... oui oui oui a NEW site dedicated to the LOVE of READING ANYTHING... books, magazines, blogs, textbooks, newspapers, etc etc and be sure to ENTER the WELCOME GIVEAWAY on the site!!!

anddddddddddd of course be sure to visit other Tablescape Postings via Between Naps on the Porch!

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2.23.2011

Outdoor Flower Series Week 2

Bird of Paradise... I photographed this in my neighbor's garden... you can see it is just starting to bloom...

According to the book "The Meaning of Flowers" by Gretchen Scoble & Ann Field... Bird of Paradise also known as Strelitzia Reginae... and in Asia it is known as "the crane lily for its shape, which resembles a folded paper crane." The flower is native to South Africa... "suggests that something STRANGE and WONDERFUL is about to occur." For moi... it inspires PAINTING... that are turned into an invitation design...

envelope artwork...

Bird of Paradise paper...

invitation card...

paper cut to be an envelope liner...

I will be showing you more of these flower invitation designs as I continue my flower series throughout the year... hope you ENJOY it! Please be sure to visit other Outdoor Wednesday posts via A Southern Daydreamer! See YOU tomorrow... I've BOOKED us a table!

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2.22.2011

Bookmarks that make YOU smile!

Not only was I introducing EVERYONE to my NEW adventure Reading is Fashionable... I was adding NEW items to My SHOP... BRIGHT, COLOURFUL, FUN handpainted bookmarks... here you see the front and the back of each one...

I have sooooo MANY bookmarks... I LOVE to paint them... and I REALLY LOVE to give them as gifts with a book... oui oui oui... Fifi will be painting MORE bookmarks to go with books... MORE details coming SOON and For NOW you CAN see ANOTHER handpainted bookmark by Fifi Flowers on Reading is Fashionable... See if you can spot it!!!

SPECIAL READING IS FASHIONABLE WELCOME SALE... oui oui oui... ART is a FABuLOUS gift... MUST use COUPONCODE: READ15 to receive 15% off EVERYTHING in My Shop until February 28th at checkout!!!

See you tomorrow outdoors... NEW flowers to show YOU!!!

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2.21.2011

A New Adventure Begins...

Fifi is THRILLED to announce a NEW site dedicated to the LOVE of reading... oui oui oui... Reading is Fashionable... Pop over and take a peek by simply clicking on this banner...

PLEASE ME SURE TO VISIT THE SITE FOR A CHANCE TO WIN
these 2 items complete with BLUE background and ribbon!!!

Be sure to visit BLUE postings today via Smiling Sally!

Fifi will back Tomorrow with some NEW paintings... this site will still be HERE... just adding a NEW adventure to EVERYONE's LIFE... ENJOY!

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2.18.2011

The LEGS have it...

These legs from the New York FASHION WEEK Runway are reported by Christina Binkley for the Wall Street Journal...

Have a Fashionable Weekend and be sure to visit Beverly and her PINK participants on Saturday... I'm sure Beverly will be wearing the PINK tights from Fifi Flowers' ORIGINAL PAINTING in this post!

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2.17.2011

A LOVE ly Dining Room...

inspired by a dining room design by Richard Hallberg...

that table was a PARFAIT setting for the sweets my hubby brought moi for Valentines Day...

along with one of my FAVOURITE sparkling wines via France...

andddd I baked PINK cupcakes for him and my little (bigger than moi) darlings...

ooops... almost forgot the très belle bouquet hubby brought moi aussi...

Hope YOUR Valentines day was equally FABuLOUS!!! Be sure to peek at other Valentine tables via Between Naps on the Porch... andddd so come back tomorrow... you will get a KICK out of FASHIONABLE Friday!

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2.16.2011

Outdoor Flower Series

Fifi has decided to start a NEW series for Outdoor Wednesday postings... oui oui oui... Fifi will be posting FLOWERS throughout the year... the idea came to moi after sorting through books... finding a book titled "The Meaning of Flowers" by Gretchen Scoble & Ann Field... it was a FAB gift from someone... wish I knew who... the giver did NOT write a little something in the book... NOTE to ANYONE buying a book as a gift... WRITE a little something... sign it and date it aussi!!! Anyway... I will be using this book for inspiration...

Today I will start with my first flower... or I should say BLOSSOM that is NOT in the book...

but I saw it in my garden and could NOT resist snapping a photo of it... these are on my Apricot tree and some day they will be delicious fruit...ooh la la...

Here is some history via Wikipedia... The apricot was known in Armenia during ancient times, and has been cultivated there for so long it is often thought to be native there. However, the Vavilov center of origin locates the origin of the apricot's domestication in the Chinese region, and other sources say the apricot was first cultivated in India in about 3000 BC. Turkey (Malatya region) is the leading apricot producer.

Another tidbit via Wikipedia... In Europe, apricots were long considered an aphrodisiac, and were used in this context in William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, and as an inducer of childbirth, as depicted in John Webster's The Duchess of Malfi ...