CREATIVE FUN WITH BEADS...

New version of my old bracelets... I bought these ones last summer and I have been waring them quite a lot, so some bead got damages and the elastic lost it elasticity. So I took everything a part and made new ones by adding few new beads from my bead boxes that I showed on the previous posting...

At the bead or craft shops you can find all kind of nice beads plus these flower shaped metal parts that you can add on each side of your beads, they will make the bead look nicer and also they will hide the big holes that some beads has. This 1 mm thick elastic is excellent for the bracelets, if you have thinner ones make then a double string with it. 

...And these are the results of a creative afternoon... I can ware this mixing colors or just separately by one colors...Nice accessories for many occasion...

MAISONS DU MONDE

I am in France at the moment visiting some friends. Yesterday I went to the town of Perigueux to do some shopping and visited the Decoration and Furniture Shop Maison Du Monde, they have an online shop as well.

...Today I am creating a blog for my friend...They have a Real Estate Agency in Dordogne, South West of France...www.aremeconseils.blogspot.com, they have beautiful old stone houses for sale, in the country side of Dordogne and Haute Vienne...

DESIGN HOTEL IN MILANO

A week ago when I was visiting Milano with my friends, one of them had made a booking for one night at the NHOW Milano Hotel. A real designers quarters. Here is the photo of the drive way to the hotel...Very promising already...

This is the room door, it looks like a real tagging, the corridors are painted in black and the atmosphere is really dark.

The entrance hall is huge and the place is a real  heaven for colour therapy. Most of the furniture are made of plastic and the huge chandeliers too...

                               I took these photos while eating my lunch at the hotels restaurant

I told you colour therapy, as you sit on the coach like this you feel happy straight away...

SOUTH AFRICA SURPRISE YOU EVERYTIME

  On the way to Kruger Park we stopped for a coffee in Hazyview a small town that has grown a lot since I was there last time. We found this lovely courtyard shopping place full of lovely shops and a Belgian baker with taste croissants and bread... Something that you don't always find in South Africa...

Silk Weaver

Then there was this lovely Country Design shop with full of lovely surprises... Exclusive furniture, art and decor

The colourful balls are actually a result of a genius way to use material from the nature, the balls are called monkey apples or oranges, animals eat them and especially monkeys love them. Somebody has come with a excellent idea to paint them and after varnishing they have this beautiful glow...

This shop was full of beautiful lamps and vases...

African bead work...

This shop also have lots of furniture made of exotic African wood, they are stockists of luxury teak, kiaat and sleeper wood furniture...Have a look on their website http://www.countrydesigns.co.za/

SOUTH OF SPAIN, GO ON HOLIDAY

It has been quite a long time since my last posting but there is a good reason for that. I was in the 10 days seminar in Los Romanes a small village about 40min from the Malaga airport. It is an old rustic village that has been carefully restaured back to it's beauty. During year the owner has put lots of efford to these buildings with a help of some skilled people... We had the whole village for our groupe but you can rent a individual house for your family or friends and browse the Andalusian country side. The mountains offers you hot springs that I would one day like to experience in that natural beauty. The village is surrounded by olive farms and you are surrounded by nature even the small village or restaurants are not too far... An excellent get away for a week or even for a long weekend. Just enjoy all the photos I had taken while staying there...
Find on the side bar the address details to this beautiful place...

                                                 This is the view you get from the village

                                            The entering to the village by the parking area

                                                                     The view of the village

                                                             On the way down to the pool area

                                            The pool with a view surrounded by the garden

                  Last houses and the path way down to the olive farms...Nice walk down to the lake area...

                  And what a sun rise we had there the sky even changed the colour of the lake to the pink...

                                                      Olive trees and the nature walks...

                                                                      Cosy village feeling...

The flat where I stayed had a big kitchen and a dining area, with the fire place...

Each flat has their own name... The moon house...

A moment captured on the window...

One of the different windows...

So many different details in these buildings...

On the roof top...

A part of the broken pot used to decorate the surrounding garden wall...what a brilliant idea...

There are even some fruit tree growing in the garden...

One house had this beautiful stone wall inside...

Some of the houses still had the old ceilings that the owner could safe and restore them in their original

beauty...

     

In the lounge area we had a book shelve that was hidden behind these beautiful old doors...

A small plant pot on one of the windows ...enjoying the warm sun...

Birds in the early morning sun shine...

Spring time baby...

I was told that, years ago all the buildings looked like this, but you can see the owner has put lots of effort to this place but he has added plenty things from his soul too...