Image via Simply Luxurious
As the rainy Sunday continues I long for a cup of tea with a sweetness of macaroons.
Sunday 31 October 2010
Saturday 30 October 2010
halloween
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.”
- G. Steinem -
Friday 29 October 2010
cocktails
Image via Haute Design
On this wonderful Friday evening we shall dress in little black dresses, Louboutin shoes, a touch of leather and lace, while enjoying scrumptious cocktails.
Have a wonderful Friday night.
"Be ready to be surprised"
-Loesje-
les petites romantiques
Images via Simply Seductive
Happy Friday
Welcome to yet another edition of this wonderful day of the week.
Relax, put your feet up, enjoy the sun, admire the butterflies and look forward to a beautiful, fun filled weekend of Saints.
Let the music guide you and bring you many smiles.
much love
xx
Relax, put your feet up, enjoy the sun, admire the butterflies and look forward to a beautiful, fun filled weekend of Saints.
Let the music guide you and bring you many smiles.
much love
xx
Thursday 28 October 2010
helmut
Image via My Nothing Hill
"My job as a portrait photographer is to seduce, amuse and entertain"
-Helmut Newton-
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Tuesday 26 October 2010
bloemhof II
Photo from own collection
Landhuis Bloemhof, 25 October 2010
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”
-Leo Buscaglia-
Monday 25 October 2010
bloemhof
Photo from own collection
Landhuis Bloefhof, 25 October 2010
I sat on the wooden floor of Lanhuis Bloemhof, the gallery filled with chatter and anticipation for three movies made by Frank and Tita M. Chumaceiro in the 1950’s and beginning of the 1960’s in Curacao. The first movie, ten minutes of music and dance; the men in white suits, the women is long dresses as the band at the Piscadera resort plays a local waltz. As the movie goes on, the audience joins in with the singing and the air is filled with a wonderful sense of nostalgia.
The fashion, though over 50 years ago, makes the 2010 Louis Vuitton winter collection come alive (combined with some “Mad Men”).
The second film brings back scenes of when traveling still had its allure; the women walking off the cruise-ships in beautiful dresses and heels and walking into airplanes with little white gloves (despite the heat). The scenery of the island, so wonderfully shown, makes one smile of happiness just to realize that we live on this wonderful ‘rock’.
The third film brings us more music and dance; gorgeously dressed women sitting by the ocean singing and dancing and a wonderful closing scene of an incredibly proud group of people singing as they celebrate the beginning of the Netherlands Antilles.
And so, on this very special Monday in October, I left Landhuis Bloemhof, my grandma holding on to me (or I onto her…) appreciating evermore this paradise island that we call home.
bag beauty
Image via This is glamorous
Bag by Yves Saint Laurent
Worn by Viviana Volpicella (Vogue Nippon)
"We lived for love and lust and beauty. Pleasure then our only duty"
- part of the script of "dangerous beauty"
Sunday 24 October 2010
Thursday 21 October 2010
for the love of heels
Photo from Own collection
Harpers Bazaar UK, September issue.
Article by Simon Schama, Photos by Matthew Shave
If the detailed shot of this wonderful calf hair red Louboutin pump does not immediately take your attention, then surely the first sentence of this article will: " Shoes are the exclamation marks of a women's wardrobe, the punctuation point from which you read the grammar of her body". I am enjoying every word of this article in the comfort of my bed (after having worn wonderful high heels all day), drinking a warm cup of English tea, while reading my newly received English magazine and dreaming of French shoes.
Hope you are having an equally diversified evening.
Photo from net-a-porter
Shoe from Christian Louboutin
Wednesday 20 October 2010
hermés
Images via Simply Seductive
Hermes (Paris) winter campaing '06
One of the Hermés winter campaigns; simply chic.
Tuesday 19 October 2010
grey and camel
Image via Sacramento Street
"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity"
-Bo Bennett -
Monday 18 October 2010
happy monday
Photo by Mario Sierra
"Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us"
- Boris Pasternak-
Saturday 16 October 2010
inspiration
Photo by Jos Kottmann
This week has been quite hectic. I have been in Econometrics class for most of the week. Though interesting it does not add much to ones creative imagination, mostly because at the end of the day there is simply a lack of energy to write or look up beautiful things. However, this morning, on my last day of class, I did take some additional time to look over some of my favourite blogs and came across a wonderful post by Sarah Klaussen on her blog Haute Design with gorgeous photos by Jos Kottmann. It transported me immediately out of the world of numbers to that of beauty. Now it is back to class. Enjoy your Saturday.
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit"
-Aristotle-
Friday 15 October 2010
Thursday 14 October 2010
saab
Image via Shelter
Home of Ellie Saab
Beirut, Lebanon
"In my view, no space without natural light is worthy of human occupation"
-John Saladino-
Wednesday 13 October 2010
Tuesday 12 October 2010
dinner planning
Image via Mochatini
We live on a small island, with a little more than a hundred thousand people, and some how it seems the most impossible task to get together with a few girl friends. We are either traveling, cooking, working, studying, and more traveling (yes, we all travel often). So between the trips to Brazil, New York and Europe we have actually set a date. It is October, and this will most probably be the last time this year we will all meet for a quiet dinner together.... such busy lives we have here. Who knew that island living would be so hectic and filled with social events.
A big hug to the girls.
red and camel
Image by Garance Dore
I absolutely love this combination of colours.
So simple and elegent.
"The preciousness of every moment is emphasized with every tick of the clock.
Isn’t it a magnificent day today?"
- Bel Kaufman-
Monday 11 October 2010
happy monday
Image via Audrey Hepburn Complex
Good morning on this wonderful sunny Monday.
I hope you had a brilliant weekend.
"Dream is the spark of passion; talent is the firework of its expression; perseverance, the sacred fire of its accomplishment"
-Daniel Chabot-
apple green
Photo from own collection
Interior of home in Curacao
"Among the several kinds of beauty, the eye takes most delight in colors"
-Joseph Addison-
Sunday 10 October 2010
Saturday 9 October 2010
curaçao
source of photo unknown
In 1954 the colonial islands of the Dutch Kingdom became the Netherlands Antilles; it is a status we have become accustomed to, a status that has a prestige many other islands simply did not have. Tonight is the last night the Netherlands Antilles, as a country, will exist. Tomorrow when we wake up, in the country of Curacao, we will start a new chapter on this tiny island of ours.
Of course, we will still be part of the Dutch Kingdom, a status I hope we never lose. Not because of any political or economic reason; simply because I find that it is on itself an added value we should not live without or take for granted. Though opinions differ, Curacao would not be the island it is today without the Netherlands, or without its history in the Netherlands Antilles.
Curaçao, as a country will start off with a clean slate (financially speaking), and thus the opportunities lie in the ability of a new country and a new government to promote, encourage, inspire a nation (or small island) to rise to the best of its abilities and to use its resources in a positive and constructive manner, enabling the whole of the population to benefit from this opportunity.
With any new beginning there are always challenges and surprising opportunities; all of which I am sure will be handled accordingly in due course. All we can do is look to the past for lessons learned, look to the future with assured hope and live today as well we can on our little piece of paradise.
“One step must start each journey.”
Author Unknown
Friday 8 October 2010
winter heat
Authum 2010 collection
Before we get all roused up on the spring collections let’s just focus on the fact that winter is just around the corner (I love saying this now, especially as it is, and will remain, around 30 degrees Celsius here for the whole year). But there is something about the winter; the coziness, the fireplaces, the coats, the fur (yes, I wrote fur…), the gloves and the hats that just makes it wonderful.
So, where ever you are in the world; remember the bliss of winter. Even if that means you are suffering from the unbearable island heat which comes after the rain falls. (yes, it is still raining).
Thursday 7 October 2010
louis vuitton
Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton
Louis Vuitton Spring 2011
Images via NYmag
"I love to take things that are everyday and comforting and make them into the most luxurious things in the world"
-Marc Jacobs-
Wednesday 6 October 2010
chanel
Image from the Sartorialist
Paris Fashion Week
It is fashion week in the city of lights and yesterday was the ever so wonderful Chanel show. Karl Lagerfeld created, as always, an exceptional collection representing both the chic that is Coco and the imagination that is Karl. One of the aspects I always enjoy about these shows is the presentation, the scene and the universal dream you are transported to, even when only looking at the photos.
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world"
- Albert Einstein-
sofia
"Imagination is of three kinds: joined with belief of that which is to come; joined with memory of that which is past; and of things present"
- Francis Bacon-
Tuesday 5 October 2010
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