The part inside

Now, the final part of my residence in Gesves, Wallonie. 
May I welcome you in the cottage Manoir de Haute...

Cracking doors and floors all over the place, and even holes in the doors!

Check the train! The kitchen was so awesome!

My dad took one picture with my camera and he managed to snap this bird leaving his nest. Pretty impressive!

Coucou, ç'est moi.

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The green part

Haha I loved reading your reactions on the previous post!
Now after last scary part, the adventurous part.

the garden

"the house"

the garden

the gateway

the mummy

the cave

And all of that before 12 am, goodmorning!

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The scary part

It's time for our annual family trip to les Ardennes. The whole family is here now, united for a week.
Sunday evening we arrived. It was already dark outside and it felt like I was entering a haunted castle and Dracula was waiting for us or something like that.
We entered through a barely visible gateway, followed a bumpy road over a little bridge to the house.
While parking the car, I watched aside and noticed an ancient looking doll, staring out of the window. Scary...
All quit impressive thus.
And I didn't even told you about the attic...

The other day when I was studying in the seat, I turned my head to the right without thinking. Suddenly I saw two eyes looking at me, right in the gap between the two closed curtains. You could say I moved quit fast to another room afterwards.

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Paris shoplog

Now, time for the last post about Paris. I hope you guys can have just one more after here, here and here.
This time I'm gonna show you my boughts! Just three things but (almost) all very useful. That's the way we like it!

Numéro un, a camera bag. Very useful since I just bought a camera! Big thanks to Kim, who had found him in a vintage store! And the colour is a bit more red-brown actually.

La deuxième; big earrings, bought on a flee market.

And numéro trois, a laptop sleeve. I desperately needed one after my home-made sleeve started to rip. This one caught my eye a while ago and I was so happy to find out they still had it in stock!
From Marc by Marc Jacobs.

And this is what I wore:

Day 1 - vintage blouse and skirt (both from T2) and my mum's necklace (from Cassis I think)

Day 2 - blue long cardigan also from my mum (WE), neon yellow sweater from ZARA, jegging from Esprit, gifted bracelets, owl ring from SIX, choker from French Connection

(shoes V&D, bag Cowboysbag)

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Paris, Je t'aime! 3/3

This is the third post of Paris Fashion Week, weekend. We have so many pictures, so it's hard to decide which ones we want to share. It was such a lovely time and we saw so many things, but I still want to go back to see so much more. I can't get enough of Paris. The second day we sadly had to go home but everything went perfect in our journey back. The Thalys had even vegetarian food!
Anyway, it felt like a dream.
Don't forget to check out the video :)

Untitled from Kim Geentjens on Vimeo.

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Oh mon dieu! Paris diary 2/3

These pictures are taken after dinner in the previous post. Now we went up, to the Sacre-Coeur!

Meanwhile we passed a cat, gently sitting on a windowsill. And of course our animalloving twins where unstoppable and attacked the cat with their care and love.

When we finally reached the top of Montmartre, a breathtaking view of Paris compensated our tired feet. (My tired feet at least. I think Ruby is going to kill me if she hears me complaining about it again.)

Turning away from the lovely view, the Sacre-Coeur showed up in all her glory. We all have been there before on a schooltrip, but now having the time and interest made us look more for the details.
We where gladly surprised that it was still open at 10 p.m. and took a look inside.
Unfortunately taking pictures inside wasn't allowed (it would have disturbed the Mass also). But it was incredibly! Gigantic mosaics with lots of gold leaf, marble columns in all colours you can imagine with all types of capitals. All very Byzantine if you ask me. I wonder how that is possible in the middle of France. I'm gonna ask my architecture-history docent :)

Even the outside has Byzantine details (I think). Like the several domes, columns and floor plan that isn't a Latin cross for example.

And check those gargoyles in the pictures above! Oh, I love gargoyles! :D (waterspuwers in het nederlands)
If you don't know what it is, well they spit out the rainwater to protect the stone of the building. And there monstrous looks are to scare demons. You can see them as little protectors of cathedrals. :)

Look at the green marks! The rain did this by wetting the brass sculpture.
Did you know brass is originally gold-tinted instead of green?

Amazing details...

When walking around we noticed these cute little lights beside the stairs, they where magical.

So that's it for today! I hope you enjoyed this arty and less fashionably post. And I hope you might visit it one day too :)
Au revoir mes amies!
Bisous, Siel

PS Watch the pictures of The Mad Twins here
PPS Ruby made a wonderful little movie of our Paris trip! I hope she'll post it here too :)

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