If I had - excuse me- balls, I'd do something like this in the house!!! More concretely I'm referring to the PHENOMENAL WALL! Maybe I'll just settle for some tastefully placed Botticelli angels floating on the ceiling in the extension. ...Nope, just kidding... I got no courage...
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I'm all about clever 'semi-DIY' stuff but this just made me go hmmm......
I visited the Woonbeurs (Interior Design Expo) Amsterdam this weekend. It was magic. I saw absolutely incredible things for the home of really surprising quality and craftsmanship. It was overwhelming But of course here at the Sunny Orangery, too much of a good thing is just about right. It was however alarming to see the number of companies that make and sell throw pillows! I have counted 35 at least. Throw pillows everywhere... Pillows that look like little carpets, pillows with silk flowers on them, pillows with birds on them, with poetry on them and so on and so forth.
I did leave with a feeling that what it all comes down to is having excellent sales people because NO ONE will know or care about your product if you don't strategically stick it under their knows at the right time.
I don't usually follow or care about celebrities in love, but this I like: Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis together! I'm rather a sucker for long brewed romances... and love at first sight. Ok, now how much sense does that make? But it's ok, I forgive myself.
I want this book! I'm obsessed with islands! The more remote and uninhibitent the better!
Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot on and Never Will.
We have not done any musical interludes lately. Of course you can trust the Sunny Orangery to come up with something...well Sunny!
If you're not a fan of country music, then you're lying to yourself. How could you not be!? Cute guys with cowboy hats singing about how their hearts belong to you? Hello? I'll take one! And another point: have you seen ONE cowboy that didn't have a nice butt!?? Something about riding horses all day and other manual labor tasks makes cowboy butts oh so smackable!
Now I know what you're thinking, I'm a married woman, how inapropriate of me to drool in such a juvenile maner. It's ok I tell ya, my hubby is a footballer so he also has them nice thighs and butt.
Anyway, here are some singing Brazilian cowboys! Sing to me boys!
Yes dears, Vito and I jetted ourselves away to a loooong weekend in Copenhagen! Ahhhh..... there is just something unexplainably dramatic and alluring about exiting the country you live in for a few days. I guess its like flyingover to Cali for a weekend from NYC. From the Netherlands however 2 hour travel in just about any direction by car or plane will lend you in another country! So we took advantage and hoped on over to Denmark. Added bonus, my friend bella Louisa lives in Copenhagen so we got to do some serious hanging around soaking up the sun.
Here are three princesess representing Gold, Silver and Iron. Just to illustrate how Iron has always been thought of as an extremely important element.
There were also a big exhibition of Chinese ancient bronzes. Very prettily done, with mysterious white gauze curtains... hanging mysteriously 'round. Of course Vito and I couldn't resist playing some hide and seek. Almost knocked one of the stands over...
I was in DIRE need of pampering!!! I mean, it took 3 WEEKS to get an appointment at this beauty salon... I mean hello, do they seriously not realize WHO I AM!?? Ugh! After Argentina I've been just waiting to get my pedi done... I literally had to sleep with my (extra fluffy white) spa socks on so that the world does not see my NAKED (as in no COLOR) toes!!! ...Not that the "WORLD" sleeps with me, but you know what I mean, I myself did not want to even look at them, see I try to block out all the depressing images.
Yeah yeah, I know, I have completely abandoned the blog. Really, I tried to log in and I realized I didn't even remember the password!
No excuses, just lots of fun stuff going on and I'm a bit overwhelmed what to write about. As my dad says. "Just write one word, don't wait too long because then you won't want to write anything at all". Maybe he is on to something! Maybe I'll just write ONE word a day :)
Anyway, I've been all huff-huff puff-puff last few days and you ladies will understand but my dear Vito had to put up with me without a clue...
Vito: What's the matter with you?
Me: (huff puff) ...nothing...
Vito: no really, tell me
Me: ...nothing!
Vito: tell me!
Me: ...ok... it's just ... i'm SO BORED with my wardrobe! I wear the same stuff all the time, there is nothing exciting and fabulous in shops... and even if there were... it's .... blaaabla blaaa for 5 minutes at least..... I'm just so meeeeaaaad... I need new clotheeeeeesssss!
Vito: .........R U serious....??????????????
Me: ...pouty lip- yes!
Anyway, darlin' Vito sent me a few links to good european shopping websites and tonight I made my very first internet order for clothes. I definitely have to try stuff on, but I'm willing to give it a try.
Well this is one I gave a go this time: www.dress-for-less.com I just randomly decided if I would be considered small, medium or large depending on the brand and material... hope it worked.
btw: The picture on top is of Hoorn. Yet another cute town in the Netherlands. Yawn Yawn :)
A: Hiiiii!! Hiiiiiii!!!! I'm loving Paris, soooooo loving Paris!!!!!
V: Hey! Nice huh, so you arrived ok, how is the hotel?
A: Good good!!!!! We are having breakfast at this aHHHmazing terrace... coffee and chocolate croissont!!!!
V: Ahhh very nice... so, did you buy any shoes yet??
A: Honey! I got here late last night... and I told you, we just set down to have breakfast..!
V: Right, so did you get any shoes yet?
A: ...noooo! ...I did get boots... just now... HOW did you KNOW!???? ...at this gorgeous store just across the street... I'm going to pick them up later... I'm not gonna carry them around all day... like I said, we are just having breakfast..
picture:
It's not close enough to see, but she is wearing at least 8 inch heels!!! And they were thinner then pencils! I don't know where she was walking but I was hoping she'd get there fast before the wind blows her over and she'd fall and break!!!
Oh and...
Next week? Madrid!!!! (For the first time as well!) But this one is for work so won't be possible to play much and buy Zara sweaters in every color...
And how funny is this- Vito dear is going to Germany for work that same day!!! Sometimes I feel like we're some kind of movie stars with hectic work/travel schedule. heeeeeehe!
Well, I'm jetting of to Bean Town for work. (I love saying that! Although I believe "jetting"is really a term reserved for PRIVATE jet, and that's definitely not what I'll be flying, but still fun to say... Makes me want to have a glass of champagne already.) I'm also super excited that I'll get to visit my parents and brother!
Vito and I get to have another one of our dramatic goodbyes at the airport, I was not planning on that for a while, and what's more, Bean Town was actually the last place we went to when I still lived in NY and he here.
For a week... Oh and I'm bringing an extra suitcase for shopping. Yeah, who knew Target would all of the sudden become exotic!? Plus the whole Euro/Dollar situation. I remember exactly the MOMENT that shopping in Europe has become depressing. Four years ago (wow, has it been that long already?) when Kaiya and I were running around Rome buying everything in sight... then realizing the exchange rate was actually NOT in our favor. Yep it was depressing. Well, just think of how uplifting shopping in Target is going to be! ;)
ciaociao y'all be good now!
Read more...As we frolic here in green fields among the cows.....
...there ain't no cows on the green fields of Bryant Park... (Photos thanks to my friend on location.)
Hmmm... personally I think that's how I like NYC... from a distance! NYC and I were having irreconcilable differences. NYC is HUGE, in your face, has ADD and always competes for attention. That did not sit well with me. I LIKE to be the center of attention! NYC and I just can't be in the same town together... there is no room for the both of us... but I'm glad to see the pictures and see NYC in its element.
And now... I present you with a snapshot of my commute to and from work back in NY:
The Staten Island Ferry! This is actually my favorite view of NYC... seeing it get smaller and disappear into the horizon...
I think NYC is like a big rich chocolate cake, it's more delicious when you admire it from a distance, rather then eating it and getting a stomach ache and never wanting to see another chocolate cake ever again in your life. But then again, I'm not really into deserts anyway.
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