Belgian Pearls 3rd Anniversary

 

Dear friends and readers, today it is my 3rd blog anniversary!

I have such a great time blogging and have met so many wonderful people! Some of you became really good friends. I want to thank everyone of you, from around the world, following my blog!

I sincerely thank you for the fine comments on my blog posts and for the support I receive from oh so many blogcolleagues! I do hope you will understand that I don't have time to comment all of your blogposts (I wished I could!), but I do the best I can to reply to all the emails I receive from you (being one of my readers or blogcolleagues).

THANK YOU  my readers and colleagues for all your support and for being loyal followers of Belgian Pearls!

Today I posted some random chosen images of earlier blogposts and of which I do know you loved them.

Enjoy!

 

Orangery of Axel Vervoordt (Picture by me).

 

Orangery Garnier Antiques (Photo Credit Claude Smekens).

 

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Terrace at my home (Picture by me).

 

At my sister’s home (Photo credit Montse Garriga).

 

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Our orangery (Picture by me).

 

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Image soure here.

 

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My library (Photo credit Claude Smekens).

 

Home of Natalie Haegeman (Source here).

 

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My sister’s orangery (Photo credit Montse Garriga).

 

Home of architect Xavier-François Van Damme.

 

Home of Natalie Haegeman (Source here).

 

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My home (Photo credit Claude Smekens).

 

From my home to yours : this virtual bouquet of roses!

A HUGE THANK YOU !

Without all of you ‘Belgian Pearls’ wouldn’t survive!

Bouquet of roses at my home (Photo credit Efie De Grande).

 

xx

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Belgian Pearls 3rd Anniversary

  Dear friends and readers, today it is my 3rd blog anniversary! I have such a great time blogging and have met so many wonderful people! Some of you became really good friends. I want to thank everyone of you, from around the world, following my blog! I sincerely thank you for the fine comments on my blog posts and for the support I receive from oh so many blogcolleagues! I do hope you will

Blog anniversary & our summer holidays so far

Although I was planning to slow down blogging a little these days, I wanted to announce my 2nd blog anniversary today! I can’t believe I am blogging since 2009, July the 31st !!

And I want to thank all of my readers, followers and blog colleagues, for supporting me to go on with my blog and for all the nice comments on my posts!

Without all of you there would be no BELGIAN PEARLS blog at all !

So thank you so much!!  I hope to bring you more of inspiring blogposts in future!

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As you know already we enjoy our summer holidays these days and I promised myself to spend not that much time on my computer because I really need to relax and to have some quality time with my family. We are not traveling, we hope to enjoy spending some time in our garden and inviting friends and family.

But today I wanted to post some pictures of the things that kept us busy during this first week of our holidays.

Jan’s daughter Nele, her husband Tom and the children Alexa and Tristan joined us for a couple of days. We were looking forward to their visit!

 

The family (and the half of their household!) arriving at our home.

 

A drink on our time together.

 

Alexa was proud to offer Jan the drawing she had made for pappie and mammie (= Jan & me).

 

Alexa & me.

 

Preparing the meal.

 

The weather wasn’t that nice the passed days, but fortunately it wasn’t raining so Tristan and Alexa were able to cycle !

 

 

In the afternoon we went to my mum’s house, where there is a swing in the garden.

Jan and Anthony installing the swing for the children.

 

So Jan had to push his grandchild of course.

 

Anthony tried to teach his godchild Alexa how to use the scooter.

 

Aren't they just cute ?!

 

The other day we went for a walk in our neighbourhood and had lunch in an idyllic situated restaurant 'De Zwalmmolen’.

 

 

In the afternoon we all went to the manege ‘De Paardebloem’ where Nele and me wanted to practice horse riding.

Tom and Tristan walking along the horse stables.

 

This is me on the back of Mango.

 

Alexa is watching her mum.

 

Nele and Mango.

 

Jan is encouraging his daughter.

 

 

A future horse rider?

 

Alexa and me, Ralph and a friend !

 

I hope you enjoyed this holiday post.

 

Talk to you soon!

xx

Blog anniversary & our summer holidays so far

Although I was planning to slow down blogging a little these days, I wanted to announce my 2nd blog anniversary today! I can’t believe I am blogging since 2009, July the 31st !! And I want to thank all of my readers, followers and blog colleagues, for supporting me to go on with my blog and for all the nice comments on my posts! Without all of you there would be no BELGIAN PEARLS blog at all ! So

Natural, grey or weathered , old or new – and my blog ANNIVERSARY GIVE-AWAY!

 

Saturday, the 31st of July I will celebrate my FIRST BLOG ANNIVERSARY !! I can’t hardly believe that I really am blogging for a year now!

Blogging has given my life a new dimension! So many lovely people from around the world I have learned to know the past year! So many of you became friends!

Every morning, the first thing I do, is reading your comments and emails! And I love it!

A special thank to my friend Brooke from Velvet and Linen (I know that most of you know this wonderful, lovely lady), who introduced me to the blogger community the 2nd of August 2009, HERE !

Thank you Brooke! You are so special to me!

And I want to thank my colleague bloggers who wrote or mentionned me in their blogposts (and a lot of you did!)!

Thank you my friends!

And thank you to all of you, my readers, who support me through reading, following my blog or through commenting my blogposts. Or through adding Belgian Pearls to their bloglist.

Thank you my readers!

So many of you emailed me to say that you love my blog and some of you mentionned that I am as an ambassador of my country Belgium. … I am so pleased to hear this and honestly it makes me feel proud!

Thank you so much!

At the end of this post I will mention you my give-away and will explain how to take part in my anniversary give-away.

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This year I noticed that most of you love all things Belgian and especially the typical Belgian design look. That’s why today I will show you some beautiful pieces of furniture with a Belgian look. The furniture are antique pieces of new-made pieces, with a natural, grey or weathered look!

All the images I posted are from 3 Belgian companies, one of them (Malvini Belgium) is a company that makes beautiful new furniture with the Belgian look, the other 2 Belgian companies are selling beautiful antique pieces.

 

I want to mention explicitly that I have no benefits or that I am not getting paid to post about any of these companies or these mentionned in earlier blogposts! I would never do that! I write about them because I am proud of our Belgian companies and I love to introduce all things Belgian to you, my readers!!!

So, enjoy this post and don’t forget to read the instructions for my give-away at the end of this post!

 

Image 1  Am Projects

 

Image 2 Am Projects

 

Image 3  Am Projects

 

Image 4  Am Projects

 

Image 5  Am Projects

 

If you are interested in the furniture and decorative items of image 1 till 5, please contact AM PROJECTS HERE .

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Image 6  Garnier Antiques

 

Image 7  Garnier Antiques

 

Image 8 Garnier Antiques

 

Image 9  Garnier Antiques

 

Image 10  Garnier Antiques

 

If you are interested in the furniture and decorative items of image 6 till 10, please contact GARNIER ANTIQUES HERE .

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Image 11  Malvini Belgium

 

Image 12  Malvini Belgium

 

Image 13  Malvini Belgium

 

Image 14  Malvini Belgium

 

 

Image 15  Malvini Belgium

 

If you are interested in the furniture of image 11 till 15, please contact MALVINI BELGIUM HERE .

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My blog anniversary give-away.

All you have to do to take part in my give-away, is to become a follower of my blog (if you are not yet) and to leave me a comment on this post before Sunday the 1st of August, at 12 pm Belgian time.

And don’t forget to mention which of this two presents you would prefer to have : the organizer or the tea light candles.

I will announce the 2 winners on Monday, the 2nd of August.

The RIVERDALE organizer box.

The RIVERDALE tea light candles.

 

THE ONLY THING I WISH TO DO RIGHT NOW IS TO THANK ALL OF YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT THE PAST YEAR! MY BLOG WOULDN’T HAVE ANY MEANING AND WOULDN’T BE OF ANY IMPORTANCE WITHOUT ALL OF YOU!

THANK YOU !

xx