Sorry for the lack of posts lately, summer’s been busy and very hot! My boyfriend’s been here a lot, he passed his exams so we’re enjoying a 3 month holiday together! We had lots of plans for the past few days but nearly all of them fell through, it’s simply been too hot to do anything lately. Though last Tuesday it wasn’t as hot, so we decided to go shopping in Antwerp. I bought tons of dresses and he bought at least six T-shirts cause he had several stolen at the Rock Werchter festival.

While he was at Rock Werchter I went to my sister’s birthday party. This is what I made her, a shoulder bag, a pencil-case and a wallet. Besides the wallet the fabrics are from IKEA, when I saw them I knew she would love them! The wallet is from an old fabric her mum bought for my mum in Africa years ago. We’re half sisters, hence… I really hope she liked them and will enjoy using them.

In Antwerp I bought this stunning lace jacket at H&M, it was a bit expensive at €39,99 but I just fell in love with it.

Ignore the clutter behind me, I’m in Dries’ room and we had to rearrange it completely so we could put two mattresses together, yay for the Simpsons pillowcases!

The black dress I’m wearing in this picture is also from H&M, and because I loved it so much (and because it was so cheap! Just €6,95) I bought it in several of other colours as well. Only the black one and the green zebra print were a size small, the others were a size medium and too loose fitting  so I’m going to take them in a bit.

peach, a blue print with hummingbirds, turquoise, black zebra print, green zebra print and white

Last week we also went to the house of his departed grandparents, the house still needs clearing out and cleaning up before it’s being sold. We went alongside his parents to see if there were things we wanted that would be chucked otherwise. I found this gorgeous snake skin clutch, I’m not sure if it’s real or fake, though I’m guessing it’s genuine.

I cut Dries’ hair on Sunday cause it was bothering him, on the back of his head it tends to grow all wonky so I cut it straight, after that I took some passport photos for his new ID!

Note the nails! Will be posting a tutorial on them very soon.

The left one is the one we picked eventually, though the one on the right would have been way more awesome! Oh god, how I love my dorky boyfriend

Have you girls been enjoying the wonderful weather as well? I sure have! Summer is finally here though weather forecasts predict that our sunny spells will be over tomorrow so I’m trying to enjoy it as much as I can while it’s still here. I hope you all had a nice weekend. My mom had a birthday party on Saturday and our family came round. We had the most gorgeous weather so we were very lucky, we planned a garden party so we would have been very sad if we had to do it indoors.

Her birthday is actually tomorrow, 25 May, but me and Dries had bought her a gift and we couldn’t wait till then. Dries was only here this weekend so we wanted to give it to her together. The wrapping paper is his fault! and sorry mommy I put a picture on my blog with you wearing your old fleece sweater, people won’t mind, I promise!

I wouldn’t normally go for gifts like this but she absolutely adores her Kneipp Lavender scented products so this was the perfect gift for her. It included a show gel, body lotion, massage oil, effervescent tablet and a fluffy bathing sponge.

It wouldn’t be personal if I didn’t make or draw something myself so I drew her this card. Left is the back and right is the front. I used Chinese ink and watercolour.

Me and Dries relaxing after dinner, we had a cold buffet and three different desserts. Everyone really loved the food it was really amazing, though my mom wants to keep it simple next year, it required so much work and preparation.

Maarten (who is technically my uncle as he’s married to my mum’s sister, though I don’t call him that) took amazing macro images of my eyes for my last post on circle lenses. It’s a lot of fun being a model, though having a bright ringflash blinding your eyes isn’t.

Dries taking fisheye pictures of me. My mom really loves that fisheye lens and so do I. I wish I had one but it’s very expensive, it’s around €800. I’m very lucky and grateful I can borrow Maarten’s from time to time.

This is an actual fisheye image. Me and Dries in the garden behind ours. I have taken lots of my past pictures there, the woods are very inspiring to me and are a great setting for photoshoots. You can see my dad taking a picture of us behind me.

This is from my dad’s point of view!  In between the trees you can sort of see our greenhouse and our house.

I enjoyed this weekend very much, sunny weather really brightens up my mood and having family around is always nice.

Happy birthday mommy, I love you and I hope you’ve enjoyed this weekend and will have a nice day tomorrow. ♥