Manifest Your Good Juju!

We’re all about sharing our tips when it comes to interiors and antiques but we often receive comments from friends, family and clients that our spaces have a certain feel.. that they give off a contagious energy. So here it is Lemon Lovers.. We love the use of crystal and their magical healing properties. There are obviously tons of creative ways to take advantage of the healing power of crystals, however, one of our favourite ways to harness their positive energy is to display them within our home. Every crystals is unique and beautiful, so adding it to just about anywhere will elevate your space and immediately start dishing out the good juju.

“Crystals have a powerful effect on your personal energy, but they can also transform the energy of your home,” explains Energy Muse. “Placing crystals in the home raises the vibration and fills your space with positive energy.”

Every crystal brings its own energy and helps to align and manifest with its specific frequency, so understanding the energy of individual crystals can help you decided which energy you’d like to invite or fight off in your home.

Naturally, we wanted to help you make your space feel like the ultimate happy place - one that radiates the energy you wish to put out and receive every day. So to help us help you, we’ve decided to start carrying a curated collection of crystals for your home within Our Finds. To kick off this journey together - we’ve selected four crystals that carry meaningful and positive energy that we believe the entire world could use a bit of these days!

Now..here’s the skinny on how this crystal thing works; Find the crystal that resonates most with what you’re trying to manifest in your life, place it within your home and slowly begin to see the energy of your space align with positive vibrations.

If you’re like us.. you are probably sitting there thinking, just one crystal?! I may need them ALL! And the truth is, you can never have too many of them! If the healing properties of the crystal resonate with you - then it should absolutely go home with you!

Here’s a run down of the crystals we will be featuring on Our Finds:

Rose Quartz:

It’s known as the stone of love - it brings peace, quietness and joy, essential feelings to realization and inner peace. Rose quartz supports with expressing the true emotional state of individuals within its realm.

Citrine:

Vital energy that has an invigorating effect. Citrine creates the way for new cycles - promoting success in professional life and a fierce fighter against negative energy of any kind.

White Quartz:

Enhances intuition and supports self-confidence in decisions and actions. White Quartz is especially known for bringing luck in the search for new opportunities.

Green Quartz:

Strongly connected to health and nature - contributing to a balance between mind, heart and body. Green Quartz helps to ease anxiety and fear while bringing an energy of stillness and calm to those affected.

All gemstones are sourced from Brazil.

We hope you are as excited as we are to have access to the full scope of what it is that makes our homes beautiful and lived in spaces for all of us to share with our nearest and dearest.

Happy manifesting and happy shopping!

Xoxo,

Sanja & Nina

Calling ALL blue and white pieces!

When collectors begin collecting they often start with pieces they are drawn to. Probably the worst kept secret ever is that we’re drawn to blue and white pieces - of all kinds, no discrimination here! However, what you often don’t hear from collectors is that they start out small. I mean.. really small. This is the case for a multitude of reasons, for one, they are not sure what their collection will end up amounting to. They often think, ‘well maybe this is just a phase’ or ‘I’m not sure if I will be lucky enough to keep finding these types of pieces.’. A secondary concern that often arises is whether or not they will have the space for their growing collection within the confines of their current homes. Regardless of the reasons for WHY collectors star out small.. they often don’t continue to buy small!

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As our collection grew, we found ourselves with a large amount of smaller scaled blue and white pieces that began to make various rooms of our home feel cluttered. Worst of all..those ‘first finds’ began to feel neglected with none of them having the proper display areas.

As a result, our hunt began for the prefect way to group them all together to give them the attention they most certainly deserved! For us, that hunt took us into our garage of all of all places! This beautiful shelf made of mahogany had been taken out of our home a few years ago.. at the time it felt dated, too dark and overall no longer suited the feel of our home. Let this be a lesson to you, your feelings can change about the furniture pieces you own over the years so refrain from getting completely rid of things on a whim. Instead switch pieces out and keep them in storage or in our case, the garage until you feel the need to reintroduce them into your home.

Our big learning from grouping our smaller blue and white pieces together is that it allowed these pieces to gain purpose again. In fact, they began to play off each other and we started to notice details in each of these pieces that had not come to light before. Ultimately, it became a very whimsical way for our very traditional blue and white pieces to be display!

Good things come in three!

It's about time we spent some time gushing about these three new art pieces we recently acquired! Not only because of how stunning they are but because they gave from such a lovely home. One of our recent clients underwent a major renovation of her home and happens to be is a big time art lover - which is one of the many reasons why we LOVE her! We probably spent days and days admiring her art collection and carefully selecting which piece of art should go where. A new space required a new set of displays for her most favourite pieces. 

During one of our 'art sorting' days we stumbled upon these three charming oil paintings. Our client expressed to us that she could never really find the perfect spot for them in her home and always felt that the painting's themselves belonged in someone else's home that had all the right pre-requisites. We tried and tried to convince her otherwise but following the completion of our project she surprised us with generously gifting all the three paintings to us! We were absolutely floored at the gesture. I mean, just stop and look at these beauties!! 

What we know about these paintings is that they are oil and done on canvas. All three are signed by the same artist but the signature itself is hard to make out. We've tried to come up with the first half and the last half.. and then searched away but absolutely little comes up to match the depiction of these pieces. The frames are wood and carved with the most meticulous details. Perhaps one of the first most eye-catching components of these paintings - and when we discovered these in a dark storage space, it was the frame itself that made us think.. let's take a closer look at these. Most often than not, when something is framed with care and intention - it is a indication that the piece inside of that frame has some sort of value. 

Now, it's no secret that we are art lovers and art collectors. However, it is clear that these still life paintings are unlike any of those 'collectable' pieces we own. We tend to prefer paintings of people, specifically portraits or scenic Dutch landscapes. Despite all of those points.. we couldn't love these pieces more! These three paintings have a wonderful richness of colours, incredible depth to the still life set up (every time we look at them, we discover some new detail!) and they also pull at our heartstrings with those beautifully painted floral touches. 

This wouldn't truly be one of our posts if we didn't share some interior design wisdom with you when it comes to these pieces of art. This is what we've been able to gather that you can apply to pieces in your home! These three pieces were painted with a darker colour palette - however, not that dark that you are unable to decipher what the painting depicts. Age and storage have added to that dark appearance and these pieces would probably benefit from a good restoration. However, if you're like us you'd rather first start with trying a quick and easy fix. Remember, that art needs lots of light - whether natural or artificial. We strategically positioned these three pieces across from a large window in our home - it provides plenty of natural light without necessarily obstructing it with 'direct' light. Remember to be mindful of how any type of 'light' interacts with paintings of various materials (oil, acrylic, pastel etc.) 

Finally, we know you are itching to ask if these three pieces have to be 'displayed' together since they are all by the same artist and in the same style! As you can image, our answer is absolutely not!! We actually played around with how to hang these in our home - one wall, a pair of paintings, another wall with a single one.. next to several other paintings or on a simple panelled white wall.. 

We chose to keep all three together at least for the very start of their 'wall career' since these beauties haven't really had a chance to shine in unison yet! Once we get the inspiration to switch it up - you may very well see these pieces broken up! Have fun digging up some old storage art..we'll be busy over here gushing over these new pieces and our wonderful clients!!

xox