Decorating Alongside Bees........ It's Real French!

This past times summertime piece sitting inwards the backyard, I started remembering how when I was young, the clover flowers were e'er covered alongside bees. I can't say you lot how many times I was stung on the feet or toes because I loved to become barefoot. As I sat at that spot I started looking for bees. I entirely counted v equally far equally I could meet surrounding me. I knew at that spot was a employment because I convey meet the numbers decrease over the past times few years, only it actually disturbed in addition to saddened me that I may move watching the extinction of a species.

This is my tribute to the bee, in addition to existence a pattern blog, it volition of course focus on how to decorate your interiors alongside them. Enjoy, in addition to I promise you lot larn some ideas!!

L'abeille - The bee. This dark lacquered sign was in i trial posted on the door of a French store. Long a symbol of French royalty, the bee was the model for the fleur de lys.  

Napoleon chose the bee equally his personal symbol.There are several theories of how this came about. One interesting theory is when he overthrew the French authorities in addition to took upwards residence inwards the Royal Palace at Tuileries, he refused to pass coin on novel decor. However, he could non permit the curtains - alongside their embroidered fleur-de-lis, (the French Royal emblem), to buy the farm on to hang inwards the windows of the palace. His solution was to convey the rich in addition to elegant velvet drapes turned upside down. The inverted symbol of the overthrown monarchy looked similar a bee. 

Interesting honeycomb patterned door.

There are beautiful bee inspired accessories in home decor stores that volition add together a send upon of "french" to your home.

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 gorgeous antique embroidered  piece alongside the bee symbol side past times side to a crown.  (perhaps from the courtroom of Napoleon)

Bee skeps are a pop pattern element. They are wonderful when used inwards exterior garden areas.

Honey was originally collected from the bees’ nest inwards hollow trees. To brand collecting the dear much easier artificial nests for the dear bees to alive inwards were made. Before wooden hives came into use, European in addition to British beekeepers used inverted straw or wicker baskets called a “skep”. Skeps are baskets placed opened upwards terminate downwards alongside a pocket-size hole at the bottom for the bees to enter.

Skeps are pretty to purpose equally tabular array decorations.

Vintage dear jars shaped similar skeps.

Bee skeps tin fifty-fifty move used inwards interiors as chandeliers.

Take a instant to scout this immature human being play Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight of the Bumblebee. It is INCREDIBLE!

There is a multifariousness of bee themed fabrics on the marketplace today that are gorgeous when used to upholster furniture.........

or purpose equally window treatments.

Lovely antique dish!

I collect miniature French Limoges porcelain boxes therefore this manus painted bee one caught my eye.

Beeswax... a wonderful production nosotros tin give cheers bees for!

The color of beeswax comprising a comb is at offset white in addition to and therefore darkens alongside historic menses in addition to use. This is specially truthful if it is used to heighten brood. Pigmentation inwards the wax tin upshot inwards colors ranging from white, through shades of yellow, orange, in addition to carmine all the agency to brown.

Bees fifty-fifty demo upwards inwards jewelry!

Incredible bee embellished antique dress!

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 BIG give cheers you lot to the bees for this yummy treat!!

Don't forget bee inspired arts and crafts projects!

Vintage art.

Old dear tins are neat for a county vogue interior.

Increasingly each spring, beekeepers opened upwards their hives to abide by entire colonies wiped out. But beekeepers aren't the entirely ones who are worried - bees pollinate at to the lowest degree a 3rd of the world's crops. If the dramatic decline inwards worldwide bee populations continues, essential nutrient crops could disappear, along alongside entire ecosystems. The Strange Disappearance of the Bees is a frightening reveal (and i nosotros should all see) on the massive deaths of bees latterly sweeping the world. Bringing together the latest scientific research, this documentary explores the constellation of factors causing dramatic colony collapses inwards beehives around the world.  If they become inwards sufficient numbers.......