My home featured in the latest issue of ‘More Than Classic’.

I am so thrilled to mention that our home is featured in the latest issue of the prestigious Lifestyle and Interior Design Magazine MORE THAN CLASSIC !

 

Cover MTC Issue 4-2011

 

I am very thankful to Mrs Mary Hessing, editor-in-chief, for the opportunity she has given us to be featured in one of the most beautiful and prestigious European Lifestyle Magazines!

Also a special thank to Hugo Kosters for styling.He really is a very talented stylist. He has done a wonderful job the day of the photoshoot and I have to say that Hugo was tremendously patient to bring all things together for taking the most beautiful pictures.

A thank you to Mrs Mariêtte Schrader, for the beautifully written text. Mariëtte and me were talking over the phone for a couple of hours. She interviewed me in a very amicably way.

And finally congratulations to our Belgian photographer Guy Obijn for the gorgeous photography!

 

This is only one of the pages of the feature !

 

To read the full article, click on the cover of the MTC magazine.

Thank you to everyone at More Than Classic for this honor !

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My friend Monika of Splendid Willow has recharged her online store Splendid Willow Avenue .

Take a look at all the gorgeous things she has to offer, from jewelry and fashion to home decor accessories!

Click on the Splendid Willos Avenue Shop button.

A foretaste :

Ilse Jacobsen boots

For the kids!

I wish you tons of success with the store Monika!!!!

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And finally I would love to thank Francess Russell of the blog Beautiful Interiors and 18th Century Style, for passing on to me this

‘ONE LOVELY BLOG AWARD’ !

Thank you sweet Francess! I appreciate it a lot!

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I wish everyone a wonderful rest of the week.

 

xx

A Thank You !

I would love to thank my friend Tina of THE ENCHANTED HOME, for asking me to take part in her ‘Behind the blogger’ series. Tina has interviewed lots of her bloggerfriends and I feel so honored she asked even me to take part in the series.

I was thrilled and touched by reading all of the sweet comments on this interview!

Thank you so much Tina for this post

and

a thank you to all of you who wrote a comment on this post ! You are all so sweet!!!

For those who are interested in reading the interview or do not know yet Tina’s blog The Enchanted Home,

please click here. 

Tina has a wonderful blog and she is in the middle of building a gorgeous new house. You can follow the building process on her blog every week!

I became addicted to the every-week posts about her home! It is a must-read and must-see!

 

Recap image by Tina about my interview at The Enchanted Home.

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Another Thank You to my friend Veronique of the blog MALVINI.

Veronique awarded me with her ‘Natural Sharing Award’.

Veronique wants to award people who share information, aiming to help and support each other in this competitive world.

It is a new award that Veronique introduced into the blogging community and I am the 1st person who received her brand new award!

To read more about it, please read Veronique’s post here.

 

Thank you Veronique, I am honored to be the first receiving your Natural Sharing Award!

I would love to pass on this award to 3 blogger colleagues who definitely deserve this Natural Sharing Award :

Brooke from the blog Velvet & Linen

Monika from the blog Splendid Willow

Sabine from the Home Interior and Lifestyle Blog

 

Maybe they will pass on this award to some of their blogger colleagues.

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As our Summer Holidays start today, I might maybe slow down blogging a bit the coming days.

Today I share with you some holiday atmophere eye candy images!

Let’s dream away…!!!

 

Image source Brillante

 

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Image source here

 

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Image source The Enchanted Home

 

Image source Providence Ltd

 

Image source Providence Ltd

 

Image source Trouvais

 

Image source Architectural Digest

 

Image source Home Bunch

 

Image source here 

 

Enjoy your holidays!      

xx

Sorry for the unknown sources. If someone of you knows the source of the images, please let me know.

Happiness

This week I received the Happy 101 Award from the lovely Victoria of the Art House Design blog!

She wrote me that my blog makes her happy every time she comes over! Isn’t that wonderful to hear?!

Victoria, you make me so HAPPY with this! I appreciate it a lot! Thank you so much!!!

For those who do not know Victoria’s beautiful and inspirational blog, please click on the header of her blog.

So Victoria asked me to tell about 10 things that make me happy.

Here I go!

1/My family : my husband Jan and my son Anthony make me happy.

I love raising my son into a good and respectful young man. He is 14 years old now and I know that time is going on so fast and that he is growing up so fast. I have to enjoy every moment with him!

My husband supports me in everything I do and together, we are managing our business in the best way possible.

Watching my husband being happy with his grandchildren makes me happy!

2/ Family reunions : I so love gathering with our family. Especially when Nele (my husband’s daughter) and her husband  

                                           with the 2 grandchildren come to visit us.

My husband and his daughter with the grandchildren Alexa and Tristan.

I especially love summer reunions. Here a family reunion at my sisters last summer.

3/ Flowers : I really love flowers and love to decorate with these beauties.

This is a rambler rose, named Kir Royal, at the back of our house.

I can’t imagine living without flowers! Every week I bring fresh flowers to decorate my home.

4/Decorating : it is a way of destressing to me.

Sometimes it happens that I decorate and redo that same corner twice a week. I can’t help!

5/Inviting friends : to prepare a good meal (I have to admit that my husband is the best cook at home.) and setting the table for

                                         friends and guests is making me happy.

My private cook!

6/France : going to France is making me so happy.

                      A city trip to Paris,  spending our holiday at the south of France, visiting the wine castles at Bordeaux,

                     a search for antiques at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue,….. I adore the French way of living. It makes me happy!

                    

A few years ago at the Ritz in Paris.

A view from Eze Village on the Mediterranean Sea, I took 2 years ago.

Me in one of the antiques shops at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

 

7/ Castles : I love visiting castles. In Belgium there are a lot of beautiful castles to visit. Lucky me!

                        The interiors of them give me inspiration for my job!

                    The Castle of Beloeil.

8/Satisfied clients : one of the very important things in my life that really makes me happy and that gives me satisfaction!

9/ Reading books and magazines : mostly related to my job.

 

                                     It is relaxing reading a book or a magazine, in the evening, after a busy day of work.

10/ Blogging : It makes me so happy that I met all these wonderful people through blogging!!! Some of them became

                              very good friends! I am so thankful for that.

This is my home office, where I also spend a lot of time blogging.

 

So now it is my turn to tag 10 other bloggers with this HAPPY 101 Award !

I would love to hear from them the 10 things that make them happy.

1. Miss Baptista

2. Oakview Cottage

3. Malvini Puur

4. Toile de Jouy

5. Holding Court

6. French Kissed

7. Trouvais

8. Splendid Willow

9. Desde my Ventana

10. Céline Chollet Aquarelles

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

xx

Greet

Artist Delphine Boël and blog awards

 

Delphine Boël is a Belgian artist. She is known for creating multi-media artworks overflowing with colour, texture and humour.

Even though she has lived the majority of her life in London (now she lives in Belgium), her spirit remains absolutely and typically Belgian : “la joie de vivre” ; not taking ones-self too seriously; individualistic; and rather child-like.

 

This is Delphine her-self.

 

 

Black, yellow and red are the colours of the Belgian flag.

 

In a lot of her works, she refers to Belgium.

 

 

Delphine is not only a painter, she also makes sculptures of papier maché.

  Delphine is also known for making larger-than-life sculptures.

 

 

  Her atelier in Brussels.

 

For those who live in Belgium or those who want to visit Belgium in the next days, you can discover the work of Delphine Boël at Guy Pieters Gallery in Knokke, from April 3 till April 28.

http://www.guypietersgallery.com

You can visit the website of Delphine at http://www.delphineboel.com

 

I wanted to thank all of you for your kind Easter wishes my friends!

And a special thank to my friends Charlotta of Space For Inspiration blog and Veronique of Malvini blog for the award I was given by them!!!

I know that I am asked to talk about a few things about myself but I do hope you don’t mind that I refer to these 2 posts on my blog : here and here.

I give this blog award to….ALL OF MY BLOGGER FRIENDS!!!

I wish you all a nice blog week !!!                                     

xx

Greet

 

Almost all pictures from the website of Delphine Boël