Cocooning, 2

Strong winds, thunder, rain and hail almost the size of a
snowberry :^)
stayed indoors for two days with a sore throat and a running nose,
wrapped in a woolen blanket reading
Manhattan Transfer and browsing some magazines and photo books

but...

I wish for a bit of sun, no wind and a peaceful thick carpet of snow and then
make a nice walk in the woods!

Jardin du Luxembourg by Edouard Boubat
Sixteenth century embroidery, found here

Looking after Stella, 2.

Photo 1,2 & 4 were taken on that sunny Thursday hour;
the photo of the garden dates from November.

Looking after Stella.

I was allowed to use my neighbor's home as a setting for
my cushions ( while I was taking care for their cat Stella :^)
So on Thursday morning, shortly after they left, I ran
downstairs - my pyjamas still on - to capture the only ray
of sun in an otherwise dark and dreary week;
I have taken as many pictures as I could during that
Half Hour Sun;
the picture below is one of those series.
The other photo was taken by night with almost
no light; I had brought that snowberry branch with me,
so I cheated a little.
The white spot on the right is Stella's face.




I had a free ticket for the Peter Lindbergh exhibition :^)
this was my favourite photo.

Sweet dreams :^)

After Braeckman.

After the exhibition, in the train on the way back, we started
to compare each others pictures we had taken in the
museum; many of the photos had a clear Braeckman
influence, so we started giggling and joking and decided to manipulate
some of the pictures in a Braeckman-way and make an additional
Braeckman inspired post :^)
The first and bottom pic were taken in the museum M, the
middle picture is my mom on the right, our neighbor Jen in
the middle and her sister in-laws José on the left.
I would just mention that Jen, our neighbor had the airs of a diva,
as if she were Ava Gardner playing a housewife and as a child
I really liked her long tanned legs :^)
My mom was wearing nylons.

Have a look at Mieke's creations too.



Ok, this is the last post for this year :)
I wish you all a very nice and creative 2012!!

Dirk Braeckman.

I finally went to see the Dirk Braeckman exhibition in museum M
today, it was wonderful!
The show runs only until 08-01-2012!
Picture 3: Mieke.

Balls & balloons.

My nephew Julian was born on Christmas Eve, and last
weekend we celebrated his birthday;
four candles to blow out this time, and the little guy seemed
very focussed before going into action :^)
Hope everyone had a nice Christmas too.




All photos taken by my niece Jasperine.

Up.

'UP' from Alessandra's giveaway was in my mailbox
yesterday morning :^)
Finally I have a bauble now to cheer up my Christmas post a bit!
Thank you alessandra!





Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas.

My shell.

I think I have never been so happy with an apartment
as with my current one, as if it were designed specially for me;
that is of course nonsense, but I do know that this place
inspires and that I'm in my element here, what is very,
very important for a Cancer, ha!
Some time ago, a friend of mine made this funny joke about me,
my home & blog, saying:
'Your home is like a shell with an internet connection' :^)
Anyway, I'm a (modern) hermit and I love My Shell!




new cushion, have a look at my flickr for the back.



The Nephentes in 2010
and here
goodnight!

Little zoo.

I've bought a rhino for my little nephew and a turtle for myself;
they look so lifelike, don't you think!

( the chicken is chocolate :^)

More animals at Mieke Willems.

A mixed lot, part 10

I haven't had any chance to take some pictures last week,
so, here's another mixed lot; the theme is
'Gardening & Accessories' and the photos date from
Sept-Oct-Nov.
ok

1 cherry tomato, own cultivation :^)
2 gardening dreamsuit, found at vads
3 sage, grasses and Siberian Edelweiss.
4 love gardening at night
5 Diamond Frost