Work in progress again

Dear Bloggers,

Thanks for the compliments on my previous project. After that I decided to frame the ancient pictures my boyfriend bought this year. Last two weeks was very busy, because on top the office was moving :-s. So in the evening there was no power anymore to produce something nice on the internet. Here are some result of the framing jobs. They are sometimes 16th, 17th or 18th century pictures.

And on top of it I did some shopping and found a wonderful round frame with a portrait of a lady. The funny thing is that the wonderful blog the essence of frenchness made a nice articles about portraits. The more funny is picture number then it's our bed before we bought it from a Paris antique dealer :-). It's a small world!!!

Isn't it nice to be surrounded by such little beauty's!!!!

From several crap objects to one New item in my collection

In my last article I wrote that I was working on several projects. Well here are some results. Like everybody around the world already will know. I am always shopping!!!! I even have a cupboard with shopping bags :-). But I am always also buying objects that most people would "call" crap.

Two weeks ago I went out with my friends and what better to do than to go hunting for some crap the morning after a nice night. It's a good way to get some fresh air!!!

So I bought some frames. And one of them was a gold one with a bulb glass. There were some wonderful plastic flowers in them. My boyfriend called my crazy to buy something like that.

I don't have to say the flowers didn't live long. I think one hour after the frame came home the frame was empty.

The only question was "What to put in the frame"

One of my best friends "Tottie" bought such a frame also a time ago and did also some DIY on it.

After a week of sleepless nights. I saw the light!!! I have a big box full of old belgian money.

So after some trying and some glue here is the result, I hope you like it.

Times is passing by

Well to be honest I don't see it passing by. Everything goes too quick, but I suppose thats a good sign. 24 hours a day isn't enough, 36hours would be ideal.

I am on several projects for the moment working in our house, keeping the bed and breakfast together with my boyfriend. Doing some little DIY projects on my own, creating a website, some antiques shopping and off course reading. Because don't we all read a lot on the internet. Looking for fantastic articles in blogland :-)

A couple of days ago, I think Last week ago I saw some gorgeous pictures in the New York Times.

And I just saw that Renee from Renee Finberg 'Tells All' wrote a nice article about it with gorgeous pictures.

What a great taste she has, thanks for sharing and I just put here the one's a really love. So I can drool on them.

Maison le dragon

I don't have to tell that Bruges is one of the nicest city's in Belgium. The whole town seems old and patinated. Well it's almost true. Off course some places are nicer than others. Maison le dragon is one of the nicer. If not the nicest. If you plan to stay in Bruges, go there you will never forget it.

Video: Maison le dragon

Website: Maison le dragon

New items to my collection

Tomorrow I am back to the office. So this evening I am looking back on some days of hard work. Our bed and breakfast is going very well. The cleaning lady left us for two months because she's building her house in Poland :-s, so that's a less good part. Meaning that my boyfriend and me have to clean the whole house.

It was a heavy week, but I am glad with did everything.

I even had time to do some shopping. I bought a wonderful cristal chandelier for in the guest bedroom. Isn't it charming, the best thing is that it comes from a big house not far from our house.

Here are some pictures of the the two chandeliers I hung in the bedrooms, and some random pictures from the house.

Hope you will enjoy!!!

Holidays is equal to relax for once!!!

So for once I am on holiday at home. There is always something to do here. Today I prepared my apartment because somebody is renting it for a couple of days. And like I am a perfectionist, I went to double check everything. So now I can relax, everything is all right. So what better proof of that than pictures in our bed. This morning we used new bedlinen. So this evening we will sleep in wonderful toile de joy.

This week of course I did some shopping. Yes don't look like that! A week without looking for something gorgeous is a lost week.

I added two old Medici urns to our collection. They are on the marble chimney on one of the guest rooms. They remind of the two urns i saw on a chest on Room Seventeen a very nice blog I follow.

Bed & Breakfast Van Eyck

Well it was a dream of me to have a B&B one day. And finally I have one. My boyfriend and me are running one at our place. We love to share our lifestyle and our taste for the ancient.

And what better way to feel that than to stay over.

It's called Van Eyck, simply because we live in the Van Eyck street in Brussels and we love the painter :-)

Van Eyck room 1

Van Eyck room 2

Here are some pictures of the rooms. The green room is at the front of the house and the other at the garden side. That last one has to have a make over. But because we're so busy, we wnat to enjoy a bit of the summer and slow down a bit. So we will have more energy to make miracles again.