Summer Whites: what do I mean?

Lately, even with the plentyful rain, WHITE is on my mind. It goes well with everything and especially summer. It is the first time I have heard about white dinners: at YOU MAY BE WONDERING. 

Well, that means that I am looking into all white outfits as we speak. Always good to have a white dress, just like one may need a black one, in summer it is the white one we go to for help. 

Katie wore it so well at a Chloe dinner party:

Not a bad idea to Get a WHITE DRESS by Oscar De la Renta for yourself?

Valentino knows best: 

Chanel creates white drama that is sexy:

Jardin des Fleurs in White: wanna be there for an afternoon tea.

Tina's Enchanted Home Terrace: 

chateau style is always in style, white seats with a hint of blue.

White Sails and Blue Water & Sky: addictive activity of mine.

White Mountain Peaks and Clouds during our hikes:

French Doors, bathroom, walls in an old London home, I have been seeing white everywhere I look!

Great with the earth tones or the gray-black contrasts....

To freshen up my tired eyes sometimes a bit of white eyeshadow makes wonders:

Givenchy Le Prisme Shadow

Hope you are enjoying some white in your day dreaming...

XO, Z

This is

"an addition on June 21st, 2013"

ON ANOTHER SAD NOTE:

CALGARY IS FLOODED AND miraculously we are near the river yet dry. I am thankful. 

Surrounding areas just few KMS away from our house are under water and I pray it doesn't get worse and that all the people can go back home as they must feel dispair. 

The spirit in this town is amazing and people never disapointing. 

Downtown is shut down:

River near our house is still not out wild:

Wishing everyone is safe!

Breakfast room: Hydrangeas and more.

 Our last year's planted hydrangea has yet to blossom ...but in our local farmer's market flower shop you can buy anything and arrange your own choice of flowers and so I did hydrangea with carnation and rose and more...darring me?

It has been lovely for our breakfast room:

Also loving the breakfast rooms that Tina has posted at the Enchanted Home.

In the end, I also managed to re-do our family living room from having the oversized giant couch there to elegant blend of seating options (one of them being a fabulous bergere chair by the fireplace) in gray colour scheme: 

Still in search for the perfect painting for above the couch wall...must be oversized and feature the Rockies in gray, blue-green and some pink hues ...simple really (smiles). 

No, I have not found anything yet at all!

Before my Dad left, I have been very sad and still am missing him dearly, we all had a lovely hike in Kananaskis country and a goodbye "father's day" lunch which was very special.

Plus I got to use my new "chateau Jemniste" table setting with new Czech porcelain on it...fun. 

I also love how the Chateau Jemniste where we had our wedding presented hydrangeas for someone's wedding ... marvelous! 

Saying Goodbye WAS HARDer than one can imagine.....

If you want the merino wool top (which I can't recommend enough!) click here.

Skirt is by my most favourite designer: Paul Hardy!!

We miss our grandpa! 

XO, Z

Stone Facade: it is worth the effort.

Hello Ladies, or shall I say home improvement lovers?

As it so happened and we had to exchange our bedroom balcony doors, it seemed only reasonable to fix up the existing stucco with something nicer that goes with a french style door.

We continued the theme on our front house pillars, STONE. 

No complaints here, it looks lovely and so I deciced to also put them around the area of our front doors, and again, best idea ever.

How about you? Do you love stone or stucco or other on your house? 

We were in Vancouver recently and saw some lovely old stone buildings ...but Europe is my constant inspiration nonetheless.

Here are some ideas and examples ... what is your fancy?

It always looks brilliant, don't you think? So everlasting and regal....and simply stays good with hardly any effort. 

Have a lovely day. 

XX, Z

Wool in Summer: Merino, have you tried?

Me, Radovan, my dad

Hello! 

If summer looks like this...smiles...snow and ice in the mountais at Lake Louise, Rocky Mountains, Canada, you surely need Merino Wool layers. 

Have I mentioned that this product never washes out of shape, never lost it's colour, looks like new for over 4 years now (my long sleeve skiing t-shirt)?! 

And NO, Icebreaker doesn't pay me for promoting them...

Otherwise, finding out that Icebreaker now has summer dresses and T-shirts available just made my summer! It is a beautiful material that doesn't itch even the most sensitive skin, it feels soft and amazing on, and it prevents any "sweat odor" so I love to dress my hubby in it...

Obvious as it may be, I first dressed myself and would greatly recommend you these lovely looks:

SHOP HERE: STRIPED TOP

SHOP HERE: T-SHIRTS

SHOP HERE: DRESSES

SHOP HERE: MEN'S TOPS

Hope that you enjoy this superior material as much as I do, my son does, my dad does now too and of course the person who pointed it out to me, my husband who loves the men's line!

Sailing a cat last week in British Columbia was also amazing with merino Wool Clothing.

With or without merino, I hope you are having fun like us!

Have a wonderful start of summer.

XO, Z

Happy Mother's Day to You!

It just so happens that our double blossom plum is blooming this weekend and for the very first time in Calgary, we managed to grow my favourite SNOWDROPS! Can you even believe that? This year was full of them, first my sweetest hubby had them shipped for me from Vancouver in flowerpots, next I managed to smell them and love them in my home Czech Republic, and upon my return from Europe, voila, here in our backyard!  3 times this year, wow....

I am wishing you all the loveliest Mother's Day and may you be feeling as blessed and lucky as me, with the 3 most important men in my life by my side, my husband, my son and my dad. So happy! 

Enjoy your weekend, XO Z

Our very first Calgary Snowdrops!

All great things come in 3, right?

XO, Z