happy friday

Images via various sources

 It is Friday once again, how the week has flown by. 

Have a lovely weekend.

Smile loads. 

xx

Pris

kura hulanda

Kura Hulanda Curacao

Photo by Walid D.

September 2011

Such a lovely and historic place on the island.

colour it bright

Colour!! I am finally getting into it (after years of only wearing neutrals. I have been trying to add as much colour to any of my daily outfits....of course it doesn't work every day. But I try). Today I am  wearing a splendid necklace by Lara Sierra with red and orange and details from Morocco. (Combined with a lovely flower shaped white skirt and a dark blue silk blouse......as my mom said, only the orange ballerinas are missing, which she so sweetly bought for me on her trip in Europe.....she will return on Saturday.....with amongst others the British Vogue...... so looking forward to that). (For the Necklace click Amazing Fez).

baiser volé

Baiser Volé
Song: Epilogue by Byeong Woo Lee

Simply lovely.

hello monday

Image via the lovely Framing Spaces

Don't you just love the flower dresses. 

"Be aware of wonder

Live a balanced life"

-Robert Fulghum-

Have an exquisite week. 

Smile loads

xx

Pris

boat lovely

Have a wonderful Sunday 

xx

Pris

giles patronus

 

Giles Patronus 

Spring Summer 2012 

Images via Park and Cube 

Visit their blog for a great range of photos. 

Absolutely stunning

happy friday

Image via Dustjacket Attic

"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 the potential to turn a life around."

-L. F. Buscaglia- 

Have a splendid weekend

Smile loads 

xx

Pris

island living

All photo by Faizal Denaoui

Curacao, September 2011

exquisite details

“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.”

-Perry Paxton-

the dressing room

Images via various sources

Including habitually chic

This week I hope to rearrange and restyle my closet. The space, which was used by the previous owners as a bedroom, has since my move to the house been transformed into the quintessential dressing room. (Yep, it' a dressing room not just a closet, more like a tiny hide-a-way from the rest of the world). The room does need some work to make into the chic "hide-a-way" I'd like it to be, so, I suppose that cleaning it out is the first step (mind you this is definitely the most difficult step). Of course the gorgeous pieces will forever remain in any size closet I will ever own in my life..... something’s, no matter how seldom worn, are essential to the balance in my closet (hmmm just sounds like an awesome excuse to keep stuff… it’s my closet, no one will mind).

One day I am sure that my dressing room will be as chic as all of the ones posted above. (How wonderful would that be). :)

peonies

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.”  

-Maya Angelou-

hello monday

Image via The Alternative Wife

Summer is officially almost over. Autumn starts in about four days (not that we notice much of this in Curacao.....usually), but today as it drizzled when I got into my car and I was (quite) surprised to see that the thermostat said it was 25 degrees (my apologies for those living in colder climates, for those who live on the island know that 25 degrees is actually quite "chilly" ..... I know...it's just not fair). I hope you had a lovely weekend as well. Mine was filled with the quintessential afternoons at the beach, pancakes, bbq hamburgers and champagne at sundown.

Have a sumptuous week.

xx

Pris

happy friday

Image via Dustjacket Attic

New York Fashion Week 2011

Design by Oscar de la Renta

Have an exquisite weekend.

Spend it where it counts.

Smile loads.

xx

Pris

midweek swim

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"Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air" 

-Ralph Waldo Emerson-

oh so chic

Images via various sources

 

"We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures."

-Thornton Wilder-



tulips

"In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful"

-Abram L. Urban-

I hope you have a wonderful garden to enjoy.

xx

Pris

fetherston

Images via "From me to you"

Designs by Erin Fetherston

New York Fashion Week 2011

For some street style images of the NYC Fashion week

visit Everything Fabulous



hello monday

Image via Mochatini

Dress by Givency Haute Couture

Love the orange :)

Good morning and welcome to another wonderful week.

It was an amazing weekend. With family parties, wardrope malfunctions (and repairs), sumptuous food, old photos and loads of swimming. Hope yours was great as well!

"When you look at your life, the greatest happinesses are family happinesses"

-Joyce Brothers-

Have a splendid week

Smile loads

xx

Pris

the cuckoo clock

The Anna C

A few days ago (hmm this is now a few weeks ago), while driving to work over the Juliana bridge making my way down into Otrabanda, the voice of Robert Fulghum coming from my computer told a story about a cuckoo clock he once bought for his wife for Christmas. This story reminded me of a cuckoo clock that my grandmother had in her home in the Netherlands. I somehow remembered this clock as being a distinct feature in her home; one that was wound up every evening. It was the highlight of the day when we were visiting. The history behind this clock somehow escaped me. (probably due to my age…. Or at least some lack of consciousness regarding the history of things).

My curiosity for the clock took up most of my free time during the days to follow. I talked to my father about it, e-mailed my aunts in the Netherlands and had a distant cousin (who happened to be visiting Curacao that week) bring some old family photos. It was a part of each of our lives and represented something special. We all remembered it in our own special way.

In 1962 the Anna C left the harbor of Curacao. It was to be a grand journey. (Though I obviously don’t know this from experience I can imagine that a journey from the Caribbean to Italy on a cruise ship, taking along a family of 5 (and a car) can only be defined as ‘grand’). In my mind, I see them leaving an almost empty house, packing up whatever would fit into the Morris Oxford (I gladly admit I had to look this car up on google) for the 6 month trip they would be making through Europe. I picture them driving from their home, with great anticipation towards the harbor and onto the boat. As the horns echoed through Willemstad, the Anna C made its way to Naples, Italy, a place my grandfather noted: ‘ one must see before one dies’. My grandmother (I’d like to believe) dressing up for dinner (and surely lunch as well) in chic dresses and enjoying the cool sea breeze for 3 weeks of sheer bliss.

They left Naples for Pompeii, Vesuvius, Rome, Genua, Ivrea and Milan, slowly making their way towards Switzerland where my grandfather bought the cuckoo clock for my grandmother. What an impressive journey this must have been. To visit the old Italian cities- appreciate the immense amount of art all around and drive through the serene county side. How exceptional that only a few weeks earlier their very own car was limited to the sixty kilometers of our tiny island and it was now driving through Europe with the very same passengers.

The cuckoo clock made its way back to Curacao and hung in their house at the Dr. Maalweg until my grandmother moved back to the Netherlands in 1978. The clock, delicately crafted in Switzerland, was no match for the Caribbean breeze and did not function during the years it spent here. It was only back in Breukelen, The Netherlands that the tiny cuckoo bird made its way out of the clock again. How delighted my grandmother must have been; not only at the sound but mostly of all the memories this very special cuckoo clock must have brought with it.

I now sit in my office and hear the horns of the ships entering and leaving the harbor. As I drive over the bridge (which was not build yet in 1962) I can picture the ship leaving the harbor, my grandparents standing on the deck and the children waving towards whoever might be looking on as the ship departs on its journey. Oma and Opa have passed away. The clock however is still hanging in my grandmothers old home and I do hope that the little cuckoo bird still makes it way out of the clock every half and full hour of the day, simply as a remembrance to my grandparents.

happy friday

Image via Dustjacket Attic

"If you want an interesting party sometime combine a few cocktails and a box of crayons."

-Robert Fulghum-

Have an exquisite weekend.

Laugh loads

Spend it where it counts.

 

xx

Pris

a tiny escape

Images via Everything Fabulous

Provence, France

Oh so lovely.

Could we go there today?.......please.......

mutual weirdness

Images via various sources

"We're all a little weird. Life's a little weird. When you find someone whose weirdness is compatible with yours, you fall into mutual weirdness together."

 -Robert Fulghum-

I love the weird type of serenity of both these photographs. 

Have a great day. 

xx

Pris 

interior inspiration

Images via The Coveteur.com

Styling by WWW

purple tulips

Image by Elizabeth Joy Kimes