Home Interior Design: Juli 2011

Minggu, 31 Juli 2011

Blog anniversary & our summer holidays so far

Although I was planning to slow down blogging a little these days, I wanted to announce my 2nd blog anniversary today! I can’t believe I am blogging since 2009, July the 31st !!

And I want to thank all of my readers, followers and blog colleagues, for supporting me to go on with my blog and for all the nice comments on my posts!

Without all of you there would be no BELGIAN PEARLS blog at all !

So thank you so much!! I hope to bring you more of inspiring blogposts in future!

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As you know already we enjoy our summer holidays these days and I promised myself to spend not that much time on my computer because I really need to relax and to have some quality time with my family. We are not traveling, we hope to enjoy spending some time in our garden and inviting friends and family.

But today I wanted to post some pictures of the things that kept us busy during this first week of our holidays.

Jan’s daughter Nele, her husband Tom and the children Alexa and Tristan joined us for a couple of days. We were looking forward to their visit!

The family (and the half of their household!) arriving at our home.

A drink on our time together.

Alexa was proud to offer Jan the drawing she had made for pappie and mammie (= Jan & me).

Alexa & me.

Preparing the meal.

The weather wasn’t that nice the passed days, but fortunately it wasn’t raining so Tristan and Alexa were able to cycle !

In the afternoon we went to my mum’s house, where there is a swing in the garden.

Jan and Anthony installing the swing for the children.

So Jan had to push his grandchild of course.

Anthony tried to teach his godchild Alexa how to use the scooter.

Aren't they just cute ?!

The other day we went for a walk in our neighbourhood and had lunch in an idyllic situated restaurant 'De Zwalmmolen’.

In the afternoon we all went to the manege ‘De Paardebloem’ where Nele and me wanted to practice horse riding.

Tom and Tristan walking along the horse stables.

This is me on the back of Mango.

Alexa is watching her mum.

Nele and Mango.

Jan is encouraging his daughter.

A future horse rider?

Alexa and me, Ralph and a friend !

I hope you enjoyed this holiday post.

Talk to you soon!

Jumat, 29 Juli 2011

What happened

Wedding is done. I am so glad it's done for so many reasons I wouldn't know how or where to start. Anyways as promised I will show you how it turned out. I was very proud of my team and our ability to pull it off. We worked for 3 solid days from 6:30 am till 9 pm and that's not counting last weeks countless hours and nightmares to finish my clients back yard construction. Super stressful and yeah I am really glad it's over.

CAR FLOWERS

TABLES AND UMBRELLAS

BRIDES BOUQUET

CENTERPIECES

WEDDING CAKES

BEST GUESTS AT THE WHOLE SHIN DIG

Now it's back to business as usual. New clients. New projects. New mind frame....woop woop.

Kamis, 28 Juli 2011

"please do not disturb"

I feel like I have just given birth. I am so tired and think I am coming down with a cold........boo. The wedding I designed and planned, took place in my clients backyard yesterday. It was really, really pretty, if I do say so myself, and I am quite proud and shocked that me and my AMAZING BEYOND WORDS TEAM were able to pull it off without burning the house down. We did the work of 20 pack mules, but there was only 4 of us ......pretty impressive. Thank the high heavens I am blessed with the craftiest of crews who are not only work horses, but are pleasant AND easy on the eyes to boot!!

I promise that after I have a day or re-couping, I will be back to my regularly scheduled programming.

Here are some pretty pictures to tide you over.

Selasa, 26 Juli 2011

Outside Pretties

So I got home at 9PM last night after leaving my house at 8AM..... I was with one client bathing in fabrics and then up to my "outside room" gig where I am seting up for my clients wedding tomorrow! I have no time to write this post so I will just put some progress shots.. stay tuned.

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