Happiness

This week I received the Happy 101 Award from the lovely Victoria of the Art House Design blog!

She wrote me that my blog makes her happy every time she comes over! Isn’t that wonderful to hear?!

Victoria, you make me so HAPPY with this! I appreciate it a lot! Thank you so much!!!

For those who do not know Victoria’s beautiful and inspirational blog, please click on the header of her blog.

So Victoria asked me to tell about 10 things that make me happy.

Here I go!

1/My family : my husband Jan and my son Anthony make me happy.

I love raising my son into a good and respectful young man. He is 14 years old now and I know that time is going on so fast and that he is growing up so fast. I have to enjoy every moment with him!

My husband supports me in everything I do and together, we are managing our business in the best way possible.

Watching my husband being happy with his grandchildren makes me happy!

2/ Family reunions : I so love gathering with our family. Especially when Nele (my husband’s daughter) and her husband  

                                           with the 2 grandchildren come to visit us.

My husband and his daughter with the grandchildren Alexa and Tristan.

I especially love summer reunions. Here a family reunion at my sisters last summer.

3/ Flowers : I really love flowers and love to decorate with these beauties.

This is a rambler rose, named Kir Royal, at the back of our house.

I can’t imagine living without flowers! Every week I bring fresh flowers to decorate my home.

4/Decorating : it is a way of destressing to me.

Sometimes it happens that I decorate and redo that same corner twice a week. I can’t help!

5/Inviting friends : to prepare a good meal (I have to admit that my husband is the best cook at home.) and setting the table for

                                         friends and guests is making me happy.

My private cook!

6/France : going to France is making me so happy.

                      A city trip to Paris,  spending our holiday at the south of France, visiting the wine castles at Bordeaux,

                     a search for antiques at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue,….. I adore the French way of living. It makes me happy!

                    

A few years ago at the Ritz in Paris.

A view from Eze Village on the Mediterranean Sea, I took 2 years ago.

Me in one of the antiques shops at Isle-sur-la-Sorgue.

 

7/ Castles : I love visiting castles. In Belgium there are a lot of beautiful castles to visit. Lucky me!

                        The interiors of them give me inspiration for my job!

                    The Castle of Beloeil.

8/Satisfied clients : one of the very important things in my life that really makes me happy and that gives me satisfaction!

9/ Reading books and magazines : mostly related to my job.

 

                                     It is relaxing reading a book or a magazine, in the evening, after a busy day of work.

10/ Blogging : It makes me so happy that I met all these wonderful people through blogging!!! Some of them became

                              very good friends! I am so thankful for that.

This is my home office, where I also spend a lot of time blogging.

 

So now it is my turn to tag 10 other bloggers with this HAPPY 101 Award !

I would love to hear from them the 10 things that make them happy.

1. Miss Baptista

2. Oakview Cottage

3. Malvini Puur

4. Toile de Jouy

5. Holding Court

6. French Kissed

7. Trouvais

8. Splendid Willow

9. Desde my Ventana

10. Céline Chollet Aquarelles

 

Have a wonderful weekend!

xx

Greet

Artist Delphine Boël and blog awards

 

Delphine Boël is a Belgian artist. She is known for creating multi-media artworks overflowing with colour, texture and humour.

Even though she has lived the majority of her life in London (now she lives in Belgium), her spirit remains absolutely and typically Belgian : “la joie de vivre” ; not taking ones-self too seriously; individualistic; and rather child-like.

 

This is Delphine her-self.

 

 

Black, yellow and red are the colours of the Belgian flag.

 

In a lot of her works, she refers to Belgium.

 

 

Delphine is not only a painter, she also makes sculptures of papier maché.

  Delphine is also known for making larger-than-life sculptures.

 

 

  Her atelier in Brussels.

 

For those who live in Belgium or those who want to visit Belgium in the next days, you can discover the work of Delphine Boël at Guy Pieters Gallery in Knokke, from April 3 till April 28.

http://www.guypietersgallery.com

You can visit the website of Delphine at http://www.delphineboel.com

 

I wanted to thank all of you for your kind Easter wishes my friends!

And a special thank to my friends Charlotta of Space For Inspiration blog and Veronique of Malvini blog for the award I was given by them!!!

I know that I am asked to talk about a few things about myself but I do hope you don’t mind that I refer to these 2 posts on my blog : here and here.

I give this blog award to….ALL OF MY BLOGGER FRIENDS!!!

I wish you all a nice blog week !!!                                     

xx

Greet

 

Almost all pictures from the website of Delphine Boël

A few things to know

First of all I want to thank my Belgian friend Brigitte from Brigitte Garnier’s Lifestyle blog for the Kreativ blogger award I received from her. She asked me to tell 7 things about myself. In earlier posts I already wrote about myself so I like to refer to these posts here and here.

 

Thank you so much Brigitte!

 

For those who do not know yet Brigitte’s blog, please visit her beautiful blog! Click on the picture here below to visit.

A few days ago my friend Brooke from Velvet and Linen, did an amazing post! She told about a client’s room design she did together with her husband Steve!  Well, I was so impressed  that I wanted to mention this here and to advise you to go to see her post! I know that a lot of you have seen it already but maybe you should go see it for a second time! I LOOVVEE Brooke’s design of this room!!!

I assume that everything started with this beautiful Swedish cabinet Brooke found. So she begged her clients to buy it!

Isn’t it a gorgeous piece of furniture?

 

So Brooke’s husband Steve started to make a drawing of the room! Do you notice the Swedish Cabinet on the right of the chimney ?!

And here the cabinet is finally brought into the room!

 

  I might think that Brooke’s clients are proud now with this room and that they really are happy to have followed Brooke’s advice to buy the cabinet!

If you want to see more about this room or if you want to see it for a second time, go to visit Brooke’s post here.

Congratulations Brooke and Steve! I hope to work together with you on a room’s design once!

 

2 new blogs I discovered

Finally I want you to visit 2 interesting blogs I discovered.

Malvini Puur

This is a new Belgian blog. Véronique the author of the blog tells about the beautiful furniture of the company Malvini that she and her husband own and about all things in which she is interested.

As…this

a wine table of the Malvini Collection

a dining table of the Malvini Collection

Or this…

stoneware of Charlotte Storrs

or Anne Linneman.

So check Véronique’s blog on http://malvini.blogspot.com.

 

This Cobbled Path

 

This is a design blog. The authors are the owners of an interior design boutique in Tampa, Florida.

This boutique is called The Cobbled Path.

Check this blog on http://thiscobbledpath.blogspot.com.

 

So I assume that you know what to do this evening!

xx

Greet

Pay it Forward

This morning I received by mail a package all the way from Canada! Yes! It is from my blogger friend Cindy from the Oakview Cottage blog.

Cindy is one of my first contacts in the blogger world and became a very good friend.

Her blog is so beautiful. She writes about all things beautiful that surround her and which make her feel happy! Like being a mother and a grandmother...She really is a person who enjoys the little things in life! She loves her children and adores her grandchildren, she loves walking in the beautiful region where she lives and she is always a helping hand to people in need!

Her cottage is very beautiful and charming.

Reading her posts makes me feel calm and peaceful!



So a few weeks ago I received from her this Pay it Forward award.






I was so thrilled to open this Pay it Forward gift I received from her today! So exciting!

Cindy sent me this beautiful self made apron!!!! Together with some memocards!

Isn't that wonderful!

And I also found a beautiful hand-written postcard from Cindy in the package!

Thank you so much Cindy!

I will always think about you when wearing this beautiful apron!

So, now it is my turn to give this Pay it Forward to another blogger!

If you want to join this, all you have to do is to leave a comment on this or the following posts before Sunday the 22nd at midnight.

And you have to give this Pay it Forward award to another blogger the moment you received your Pay it Forward package from me!

What will you receive? This oak tray that I designed and which is made in the working place of our company Lefèvre Interiors. The tray is one of a Limited Edition of 20 pieces.

Oak tray to win!

At the backside of the tray you will notice the brandmark of our company.

J.Lefèvre 1890

It was my father who started to use this brandmark, so the letter "J" is the first letter of my father's name Jacques.

1890 is the year that our company was founded by my great-grandfather.

How can you use this tray?

As I did here.

Or here....

...or here.

It is up to you to choose!

I wish you good luck! On monday the 23th I will post the name of the lucky blogger I will give this Pay it Forward award and who will receive this Pay it Forward tray!

xx

Greet