What a week !

The Kammenstraat was the Holebi street of the week ! Every shop made some window display to reffer to the fact you always have to be proud ; gay, straight or bisexual ...

Uh Oh, that look again ! Is she going to attack me darlin' ?

The colours of the dishes tell if the pintxos are veggie, fish or meat...

You see the pintxos passing by, just like in a sushi parlor...

Some tiny strong coffee with a '43 liqueur surprise' in it ...

What a week it has been, no ?

The world stood still for a split second...In Belgium, we were saddened by the death of a wonderful, beautiful and talented young woman...

Her heart was broken and she couldn't cope with life anymore...Everyone saw she wasn't doing well but even her closest of friends didn't see this coming.

RIP Yasmine, you will be missed intensely.

Then the news came Farrah Fawcett lost her battle with cancer. I loved you so much Farrah when I was just a little girl. Charlie's Angels were my superhero girls ; I had the 3 dolls and Farrah was my favorite one ! I see myself wearing a pin button with the Angels on it in many pictures when I was about 8 ; talking about a real little fan back then !

When I came home late night on Thursday after India's prom-night, I wanted to watch a little telly and some news and then 'thunderstruck' ; breaking news ! Michael Jackson had been rushed off to hospital but it pretty soon became clear this wasn't a star with an attitude for some extra attention (we have Perez Hilton for some shitty drama, don't we ?) ; this was serious !

Another teenage icon of mine died...

Reality check ; it hit me again that we are all just tiny little stars and no one is immortal in this life.

Michael Jackson leaves us a legacy of some damn' good and fine music ! And don't you just love watching those old videoclips ?

To end off this somewhat 'special' week (I had a strange feeling the whole Friday, it was like life would never be the same..like we stepped in another era or something...) we didn't dine out at our local Brasserie, but went to ComoComo to have some Bask Pintxos (tapas) at the Kammenstraat..

A little and once very hip street were Laundry Day took off in the beginning years ...

Laundry Day is always due in the beginning of September and has moved already to other locations because of the ten thousands of visitors every year...If you look at the pic of the Kammenstraat, you can imagine this is too small to hold 25.000 to 30.000 people at the same time...

Oct 18th, Design du jour

As promised, I would go and visit Anne Zellien's shop today to watch the designs...
She had laid out the 38 little diamonds to let me see what kind of shape the ring eventually will have and let me try a similar model but with a blue gem.
The pink gem my ring will have is called a 'morganite'...
Now I now again and I hope I won't forget because the moment you start wearing her designs, people always get excited when they see the jewel you are wearing...
Have some pictures to show what kind of ring it will become in the end...Imagine it with the bright pink gem (the pink shows in one picture on the left in a box)
On my way to her shop, we walked by a new interior design shop called a.puur.a (translated as "A dot pure dot A")
In the window display we saw a tray with a deer head on it !
My shop is called 'oh deer' so you can imagine the scream it provoked...:-)

note : if the pics seem a bit blurry it's because I took them with my cellphone, sorry !!

Cry baby # 2

Today started very sad .... a phone call of the Antwerp police informed me that there was a burglary in my shop ...
I was crying all the way to the shop but was happy at first sight to see they did not take any clothes or accessories ...
My second door was kicked in and they 'just' took my Macbook ....(a**holes)
Luckily I still have some back up and ther isn't too much lost...

Tomorrow I have to go to Anne Zellien, the jewel-designer, as she finished some drawings for my new ring to come...
I bought a bright pink oval stone (forgot the name of the rock, but I'll keep you guys informed) - and had some extra little diamonds she could use to complete the design...(in rosé gold instead of the traditionel more yellowish golden colour)
I hope it's not over the top as we speak about 1 big pink gem and 38 little diamonds...
Hope I get to take a picture or 2, so I can let you see what she imagined the ring would look like...
I'll leave you as promised with a picture of my bright blue gem and white golden ring she has made for me last year ...