„If I had a flower for every time I thought of You, I could walk in my garden forever.“ 

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson ~

There are countless poems about flowers…

Ladies, I couldn’t live without water, and I don’t think I could live without flowers either — otherwise, my soul would be completely dehydrated. 🌸

This Love Letter is my little confession about what even the smallest flower can do to me.

Sometimes, so little is enough to make us happy. 🤍

Love,
MiMi

I made this ikebana at our country house, on a completely ordinary Sunday morning.

I woke up, made myself a cup of tea, and wandered into the garden. I picked the flowers my mother-in-law had planted there, one by one, without thinking too much about what they might become.

The vase was not really a vase at all — just an empty bottle of good wine from the dinner the night before.

I had no plan. No sketch, no idea of how it should look. I simply followed the flowers — their curves, their imperfections, their unexpected directions. I let the shape of the bottle become part of the composition and allowed the flowers to tell me where they wanted to go.

There was no intention to create anything perfect.

Just a quiet Sunday morning, a garden, a cup of tea, an empty wine bottle — and a little time to let everything come together.

Perhaps this is what I love most about ikebana: when you stop trying to control the beauty and simply allow it to happen. 🌿

We are a sustainable brand in every sense of the word.

Not only in the way we create our collections, but, more importantly, in the way we choose to live our own lives.

Because how could we create sustainable fashion if sustainability wasn’t part of the way we live?

We love markets, seasonal vegetables, flowers that bloom in their own time, and things that come from somewhere close to home. We choose local products and small producers whenever we can, because we believe beauty doesn’t have to travel halfway around the world to have value.

We love to travel. And because we do, we also try to think about the way we travel — choosing more conscious ways of getting around, slowing down, and being mindful of the places we visit.

For us, sustainability is not something that begins with a new collection and ends with its packaging.

It is a way of making choices every day.
What we buy. What we eat. Where we travel. What we wear. And, perhaps most importantly, what we believe is enough.

Because we believe that sustainable fashion can only grow from a sustainable way of living.

I think understanding the vase you are going to arrange your flowers in is just as important as understanding the flowers themselves.

It took me a little while to get used to this particular vase. Now I love it. I received it as a birthday gift from my friend’s sons — the boys broke open their piggy bank and bought it for me. 🤍

Since then, it has become part of our showroom, and over time I have learned to really understand it.

Unlike an ordinary wine bottle, this vase doesn’t like anything too long. It simply doesn’t suit her. The flowers need to be shorter, closer to the body of the vase, almost as if they need to embrace it.

And she loves big leaves.

It’s funny how even a vase can have its own character. With every arrangement, I learn to listen not only to the flowers, but to the vase as well — to its proportions, its shape, what looks right in it and what suddenly feels like too much.

Perhaps that is where the beauty of ikebana lies. Not in imposing your own idea on the flowers, but in pausing, observing, listening — and allowing them to show you where they belong. 🌿

Sometimes I use things I have collected from the forest floor as decoration on our dining table instead of flowers.

Especially when it’s out of season, when everything is dry and there aren’t many local flowers available. I actually love these moments because they make me look at my surroundings a little differently.

This time, instead of a vase, I used a simple bowl.

And it works.

The water hides beautifully inside it, so everything lasts much longer. And things we might normally walk past without noticing suddenly become part of the table.

Sometimes, all you need is to look a little closer.

The forest has so much more to offer than we sometimes realise. 🌿

And of course, nature is one huge beautiful Ikebana…..

Now we are moving into our home, into the kitchen.

On the table is a glass vase, handmade by an Italian designer whose name, unfortunately, I can no longer remember after 25 years. 😅

I bought this vase twenty-five years ago. It was far too expensive for me at the time. But I fell in love with it, and I simply had to have it.

So I bought it… and then I probably didn’t eat for about two weeks. 😂

Today, I think it was actually a very good investment. Because this vase has one wonderful quality: everything looks good in it.

Here is a perfect example. The flowers in this photo are a mix of things we picked on different occasions, in different places, at different times. We simply gathered them together and put them into this vase.

And voilà…….

And those red roses? I received them for Christmas. I simply popped them into the vase as well.

I didn’t plan anything.
I didn’t design anything.
No composition, no concept, no strategy.

I simply respected the vase. :-)))

And perhaps that is exactly why it works.

Sometimes you don’t need to create anything. You just need to give the flowers the right place — and let them be themselves. 🌿

And this vase is a completely different story from the Italian one above. 🙂

It’s from IKEA. Cheap, simple, completely ordinary. 🙂

And into this very ordinary vase, I put moss that we collected in the forest behind our country house. I was a little inspired by The Little Prince — by his tiny planet, where even the simplest plant can become its own little universe. 🌿

And do you know what I love most about it?

The moss lasts.

This has already been here for six months, and it is still beautiful.

I just mustn’t forget about it. It loves moisture, so I water it regularly and let it live at its own slow pace.

Maybe that’s why I love this simple combination so much — an inexpensive IKEA vase, moss from the forest behind our country house, and a little bit of imagination.

Sometimes, you really don’t need anything more. 🌿

There is beauty in simplicity. And perhaps that is what ikebana is all about.

You don’t need to plan and overthink everything. Instead, let yourself be guided by nature, by the flowers, and by the moment you find yourself in. Respect their shapes, their beauty and their imperfections — and simply let things unfold.

Wishing you all a little inspiration.

And most importantly — buy yourself some flowers. For yourself and for someone you love. Give yourself a little joy. 🌸

Love,
MiMi 🤍