Crystal, bottles & beautiful light

Some days when it all gets far to complicated to absorb any more information or images, it's nice to reflect on very simple little gatherings of objects.  Small clusters of bottles, flowers and bits & bobs.  Simple, reflective, peaceful.  If only life was always like this!

Green - the new hue

Green with envy, he's green in experience...why is so much negativity attributed to the beautiful colour green?  For me green is peaceful and fresh, and it just plain makes me feel good.  From apple, aquamarine, beryl, bice, blue-green, chartreuse, fir, forest, grass, greenish-blue, jade, kelly, lime, malachite, mint, moss, olive, pea, peacock, pine, sage, sap, sea, spinach, verdigris, vert, viridian and willow.  I'll take it all!

Green Pagoda Toile Source: Verandah House

The ever stylish Marie Antoinette obviously loved green and all that whooshing silk.  This beautiful french set of drawers is also a twist on the kelly green theme. 

I don't think I can ever look at wallpaper the same way after I'd seen deGournay silk panels.  This old french company excels in silken chinoiserie walls at nearly criminal costs - but how beautiful are they?

I'm sorry this 8 carat Emerald (below) one can get lost in!

Green & blue vignette of old frames & candle holders

Green goblets from Black & Spiro

Opaline

My dear friend Diane told me today about a beautiful antique shop in London that she is a devotee of - Alexia Amato Antiques   I don't know much about Opaline glass, so I endeavoured to find out more about it.

Perfume bottles

Green opaline decanters

This article about Opaline Glass was written by Alexia Amato for House Beautiful Magazine in 2001.