First steps on the catwalk for nephew Simon!

Nephew Simon, the oldest son of my sister Inge, made his first steps on the catwalk!! A few weeks ago he was asked to take part of the autumn/winter teenager 2010 fashion shoot for the new magazine of the Belgian fashion store, DELEYE.

The new Magazine was edited just yesterday, so I wanted to surprise Simon with this post!!!

Cover of the new magazine, with at the bottom…

the reference to the TEEN-FASHION shoot.

This is our 13 years old model Simon.

And this is the teenager photo shoot.

Doesn’t he look cute with this cap?

And what a beautiful girl at his side!

If you want to discover the TEEN–FASHION SHOOT, CLICK HERE and go over to page 48 .

CONGRATULATIONS SIMON! YOU ARE A GORGEOUS MODEL!

Click on Logo to discover DELEYE FASHION STORE.

Click on the Magazine cover to browse through the DELEYE FASHION MAGAZINE.

Simon and his proud mum !

What do you think of our model Simon? I am sure he would love to hear it from you!!!

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Weekend announcements

 

Susan from the blog LOVE WHERE YOU LIVE  launched on her blog a few days ago, a serie called “Her Personal Space…At Home With…”. She asked some bloggerfriends -even me-, to participate and to send her some pictures of a room or a space at home they love to retreat, to take a break.

Past weekend she posted about the favorite spots of Vicky at Room Service~Decorating 101 and about my favorite ones.

If you are interested in discovering my favorite spots to retreat, you should visit Susan’s post HERE.

More blogger favorite spots to see this weekend at Susan’s blog!

Susan and her dog Sam, nestled at her favorite home spot.

You  will love Susan’s blog! She gives us a lot of decorating ideas!

 

As this panel with a wall light installed behind.

 

Or the use of this lovely kitchen wall paper!

Thank you so much Susan for giving me the opportunity to participate in this serie!

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And there is another Susan I want you to meet! Susan at TWO MAISONS blog. Susan lives in France, in a beautiful village in Provence!

Can you imagine! This postcard view is from the window of Susan’s bedroom!!!

 

When I saw Susan’s post about her kitchen redo, I was so excited about it, that I wanted all of you my readers, to see it!

This is a picture of her beautiful kitchen door!

Please go to see this ‘before and after post HERE !!! You will love this post and you will certainly love Susan’s blog!!

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This week I discovered a new Italian blog , called  MAISON CHARMANTE.

Unfortunately Ididn’t found the name of the author yet. But I enjoyed her posts!

The author is living in Tuscany and tells a lot about the work at her home in progress .

The author’s house in progress.

And she write a lot of posts of dream houses!

One of the dream house posts pictures.

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And a totally different subject I want to bring up today is about young piano players in my family!

Yes my family counts a lot of piano players. My mother plays the piano, my father did, my brother does, my uncle does,…

And now I want you to meet the youngest two piano players of our family:

My nephew Alex, who is the son of my brother and my youngest nephew Justin, who is my sister’s son.

Both of them have to do their examination within a couple of days! By posting a picture and a video of them on my blog I would encourage them and wishing these boys good luck with the examination!

Alex, who is 14 years old plays the piano for about 4 years now.

Unfortunately I have no video clip of Alex playing the piano.

 

If you love piano music , then you will enjoy this video of Justin, our youngest piano player in the family!

Justin who is 11 years old plays the piano for 2 years now.

Good luck boys!

 

And to all of you a wonderful weekend!

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How did you start this New Year?

On the first day of this new year my husband's daughter Nele and her husband Tom and their children came to visit us!

It is always so nice to have them all around us!

Nele, Tom, Alexa and Tristan.

And of course the New Year's presents could not be missed...

My proud husband with his new born grandson Tristan.

Me and our lovely Alexa.

Alexa loves eating cookies!

Alexa has to read her New Year's letter to my son Anthony because he is her godfather!
Not an easy job to do for her first time!

Anthony and Alexa.

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And how did you spent your very first days of the new year?

Daydreaming about the passed year ...

...and thinking about what has to come in 2010?

I certainly did!

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Our new born pearl

We are so proud to announce the birth of Tristan, our first grandson!!!
Tristan is the son of my husbands daughter Nele and her husband Tom.
And Tristan is the brother of our granddaughter Alexa! See post of my family here.

Tristan is born on the 4th of November. He is healthy and just gorgeous!!
Congratulations to mum Nele and dad Tom and of course to big sister Alexa!!

First picture of Tristan in maternity clinic.

3,800 kg and 51 cm

Big sis Alexa. She is now 1,5 years old.

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The make-over of my brother's office

Some of you do know yet that I run our company Lefèvre Interiors together with my youngest brother Stefaan.

My brother and me.

A few months ago, my brother needed to move his office to another area in our company buildings. But the only place available, was an old storage room!

The old storage room.
Sight 1 Before

So my brother asked me to make a proposal to renovate this place into his new office! A challenge of course!

So I started making a few designs and after my brother's approval, we could finally start the production of the cabinetry in our workplaces.

Sight 1 After

We decided to leave the place open to the peak of the roof so that the construction beam was integrated in the interior concept.

The picture of sight 1 (above) shows the inside of the cabinet, where a lot of files can be hidden.

Sight 1 After

The wood we used for the cabinetry is european oak. And for the desk, we have chosen for a table in an exotic type of wood. And as hardware we used these furniture knobs.

Furniture knobs.

Sight 1 After
I love to use some modern lighting in an office room.




Sight 2 Before

On this side of the room we created the entrance door.

Sight 2 After



Sight 2
One of the oval windows on both sides of the door.

Sight 3 Before

To me an office needs to be very cosy because most people ( certainly my brother) spend a lot of time in this room. So to add warmth , I have chosen for a shade of orange for the lime paint on the walls and even for the blinds.

Our painter mixed the paint as long as he needed to become the same colour as the Belgian linen, chosen for the blinds.

Sight 3 After
Lime paint and linen blinds in a warm shade of orange.



Sight 3 After
On every wall there are seen spotlights.




Sight 4 Before

Sight 4 After

On this window you can notice wooden blinds. They provide a functional and a decorative feature to add warmth and variation. They filter the light in a subtle way.

Sight 4 After

My brother is a piano player and wanted to bring in the piano into his office.

So where there was the entrance door before, is now standing his piano.

On the outside.

The entrance to the office.

What do you think? Does my brother look happy sitting in his brand new office?

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