Light vs Blues

Blue Monday My Ass. Voilà, that’s out. My sincere apologies for the dirty language but it’s my aversion to winter talking here. 

Winter Wonderland by night

It has been a few years since the winter blues have hit me this hard. Waking up on weekdays is like hell, making it through the day feels like climbing the Mount Everest (at least I suppose so as I’ve never actually done that) and once I’ve reached the sofa in the evening I simply can not get out of it. But then again there’s light, winter light. We’re not talking about candles in the living room (for once). It is the Antwerp Zoo that has helped brighten up this winter. For six weeks or so Chinese lanterns of all kinds have lit the Zoo: extremely nice, funnily colourful and incredibly enlightening. My personal favourites:

Flower Power or something like that

Butterflies made me feel Spring-like already

Living Room Winter Light

P.S. Any survival tips on your behalf?

Wishful blogging

Good luck, love and finding the key to succes in whatever it is that you do as well as plenty of quality time. 

my jewellery says it all

Maybe I shouldn't have told you this because it's my wish for the year to come. You know one is not supposed to say one's wish out loud because if one does it might never come true. Well ... we'll see about that, right?

P.S. Any special wishes for you this year?

Parties and miracles

Christmas is over, luckily we have some partying left to do. At the moment we’re getting totally ready for a dinner NY’s Eve party with friends - cava is cold, wine is on the table, Le Boyfriend and I have spent hours in the kitchen over the past few days, etc. No need to say that I’ve created that merry tablescape again. 

source: liquorlist                                                  source: notonthehighstreet

Oh and did I already mention this year’s Christmas Miracle? Well … I got the honour to become godmother on the day of Christmas Eve. Guess no one will ever get me a better present than that. (You can read about previous miraculous Christmas events here and here.)

P.S. The best wishes for the year to come. 

Merry table

The nice thing about Christmas tables: no need for special decorations as the dining room usually is already filled with ornaments that breathe joy, love, happiness and believe (and thus X-mas). Bow-napkins and red candles can be enough to create a "merry table". On days like these (Christmas or New Year’s eve) one might add best wishes to make the merriness complete. 

Silver, shining mushrooms and the little cutie pie stood and watched 

how we were having a pre-Christmas party with friends.

P.S. An extremely merry Christmas to you all!

Classic Combo

Eleven months of waiting, about 333 days of thinking about it and then the time is finally right to install the Christmas tree again.

After all I think it’s kind of a classical tree, must be because of the traditional combo of tree green with Santa red, silver and gold. The Eiffel Towers obviously add something French and a (news)paper-fan-garland saved the tree from a „naked” look. In the end it’s about 400 „warm white” led lights that set the tree (and hence our living room) on fire. 

P.S. What does your tree look like? 

In the mood

Christmas is almost all around, which means that we’re all set for the season of joy, fun, love and - obviously - Christmas parties. For now it’s boxes with ribbons, pine cones and seasonal ornaments that make the (Christmas) magic happen in our apartment. A decorated tree (plan for next weekend) will make the winter-wonder-setting complete. 

Apart from „fake” gift boxes there are true presents lying around too. The „fakes” house my jewellery and that way I can open a present every morning. It’s definitely helping to get me in a 200% Christmas mood.

P.S. Any tips for more nice decorations?

(face)book wall

Piling up beautiful art, lifestyle and fashion books results in an alternative facebook wall. Yup, you got it right: a wall built with books (some with a face on the cover).

Our library brings some colour and interesting, enlightening literature into the “dark” corner of the living room. The trick to building a solid wall is putting nice (steady) boxes in the middle of the “book works”. Another practicability to keep in mind: think about what books you love most when constructing your library. You don’t want to restore your wall every time you want to turn to favourite reads. Anyway, that’s what I did: my bibles are on top.

Looking at the picture I realize how bows and ribbons around the boxes could add a touch of “Christmasness” to the wall. Do you see it too?

P.S. What does your library look like?