Simple Delights

{A bouquet of roses in the prettiest shade of ballerina-slipper pink.}

{A quiet afternoon with a selection of interior design magazines and soft-baked cookies.}

This particular spread makes me want to work on growing my (tiny as of yet) blue and white porcelain collection.  I feel a major urge to go antiquing. 

{Proof that mother nature is the best artist there is.}

We noticed this incredible frost pattern on our window one late evening and had to capture it on film. Growing up in a cold climate I've seen quite a few impressive feather or fern-like frost patterns, but this one was so unique that it left us in awe and disbelief.

{Family heirlooms.}

Knowing how sentimental a person I am, and how much I long for anything that reminds me of my home in Lithuania, my mother created a very special gift for me. She gathered a few little treasures from the past (silver spoons and a ring from her childhood, her favorite pair of earrings, a few Lithuanian coins that were recently replaced by euros) and framed them in a shadowbox. It is so comforting and heartwarming to have a little piece of my native country and family history in my home. 

The little painting below is another item I brought back from home that holds a lot of meaning. It is one of my mother's old paintings inspired by the best-known Lithuanian fairy tale Egle the Queen of Serpents. I will cherish these items forever and hopefully pass them on to my children some day.

{Wrist warmers I brought back from Lithuania that can turn a plain old sweater into something special.}