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lulilu, you can show your gardener the photos of MB's and tell them you want yours to look like that! LOL! But seriously, I hope you get it sorted out soon. Gardens are lovely to look at when it's nice but require a lot of work!
In my dreams, XX. I am happy if I have flowers and the weeds are kept at bay for the most part. Now, the fallen tree will be part of cleaning up the yard for the winter. I get a zillion leaves and have to have someone clean it up.
My tomatoes were terrible this year. Not producing and didn’t taste that great. Next year I’m going back to starting from seed
I don't have a green thumb at all and any plants would just die on me. We were in South of France last week and drove passed some nurseries with lovely palm trees and giant bonsai trees which looked ever so cute! My SO and I will look into introducing something like them into our country house's garden. Although our garden revamp project has been postponed so don't know when any of this will be done.
This is a year of good tomatoes for us, however, the green peppers were pitiful. We had nice squash too...not a lot but what we got was nice. The green beans were also good which was a surprise as they are usually terrible and I tell DH that we shouldn't even grow them. My friend told me her trick for eliminating weeds. She puts newspaper down on the soil then covers it with straw. I tried it this year and it worked well. She said you just let the two things rot into the ground then till it up next season. She does this every year. I guess I'll see what happens in the spring.
Mindi, this does have a narrow selection to match if you want to tone it down. I would stick with white tops underneath. And yes jeans jeans and jeans. Although I do like pink + beige/stone too. So maybe chinos? I am a totally skirt girl so I would totally wear it with a beige cotton skirt.I have a fashion question for the chic men and women of the cafe. I have a double-breasted pink velvet blazer. Fairly fitted but broad-shouldered. And it's a firm velvet, not drapey. I can't imagine myself ever wearing a pink velvet SUIT, so I really don't want to buy the matching trousers. But aside from jeans and neutrals like black/grey/navy, any ideas of what sort of trousers (and tops, for that matter) would work with this thingie? I want to tone down the precious factor (pink velvet. Really, Mindi?) and I am casual 99% of the time, so it can be pretty much anything (except skirts. I don't do skirts. Okay, that's not "pretty much everything," that's a big exception. Sorry).
Ideas welcome!
I agree red trousers would be dialling it up for sure!I agree, xiangxiang. It's not the most versatile piece. I'm wondering about red trousers. . . . the right shade of red. I guess that's not exactly toning it down, though--more like dialing it up.
how about burgundy?
