Pretty Pastel Crochet Workshop

Wednesday, 20 March 2013 by 10 Comments

Please come and join me on Friday when I’ll be hosting a crochet workshop at Selina Lake’s book launch party. I’ll be there most of the day with my cotton 8 yarn. You can just pull in a chair and tag along, I’ll be teaching how to make these coasters.

There will be stalls with goodies for you to buy, Mollie Makes goodie bags for a lucky few, you’ll be able to win a bike, there will be food, drinks … the beautiful and lovely Selina Lake and … a wonderful new book, Pretty Pastel Style,with my home featured in it!

It’s going to be a good day!

Filed Under: Books & Magazines, Out & About, Press

Goodbye Google Reader

Thursday, 14 March 2013 by 8 Comments

Follow on Bloglovin

Google Reader is shutting down July 1st, God knows why, so please follow my blog with Bloglovin.

Filed Under: Life & Style

Tonight We Shoot

Wednesday, 13 March 2013 by 22 Comments

Tonight is the night that I’ll most likely have my face covered behind a pillow for at least 30 minutes as the first episode of Shoot will air at 22:10 on VIJF.

VIJF is a Belgian commercial TV channel with women as their target group. I haven’t seen any of the episodes yet and I really don’t know what to expect. Am I nervous? No, I’m not a nervous kind of person so I’ll just wait and see. Am I going to host a big party with lots of family and friends? No, My friends and family don’t watch TV, myself included – how ironic. Are you (yvestown readers) able to watch episodes online? I don’t think so, but I’ll let you know when I do know. Are you all that happy as on that photo? Hell yes, Sharon, Anna-Belle, Sabine and Sofie are so much fun and such awesome people. Am I excited? YES!!

So if you are in Belgium
Tonight – 22:10 – Shoot – op VIJF

And please don’t make fun of me tomorrow!!

Filed Under: Press

MTB London – Mock Up Wall Part One

Tuesday, 12 March 2013 by 11 Comments

So on to the technical stuff of Meet The Blogger London. I’ve made this for the workshop Will and I did on Saturday. The lovely people at Cath Kidston were willing to sponsor us. We filmed for Shoot how Will and I collected the top items at the Marylebone High Street shop, my all time favourite Cath Kidston shop in the world. I hope I get to show that episode here on my blog as it’s in English and it must be so super cute.

Because Will really loves animated Gifs, and taught the crowd how to make them, I did one for you …

This is what I demonstrated at Meet The Blogger only the lightning of the venue was super crappy so I decided to do one at home for all of you to see and get inspired by.

I’ve used floorboards and painted them white. In one of my next posts I’ll teach you how to make your own mock up wall.

Nobody will know after seeing these top images that it’s a mock up wall, right?

Filed Under: Out & About, Press, Sponsors

MTB London – Thank Yous

Tuesday, 12 March 2013 by 8 Comments

My Meet The Blogger / filming for Shoot weekend was a whirlwind of so many things wonderful. A car drive that normally takes me 3 hours now took me 6 hours of incredible scary car skidding due to the sudden snowfall. I want to sincerely thank the provinces of Antwerp and Limburg (where I live) for their amazing road cleaning.

I’ve made it back home in one piece.

While in London I stayed at the extremely ‘sexy’ ME hotel on Strand. Although I had a wonderful stay, it didn’t make me feel sexier it just made me appreciate my home more. When I got home late last night, after the road trip from HELL, I felt so happy with all the colours and the clean white floors I just wanted to hug my home a welcome home – but how does one do that?

Meet The Blogger was amazingly fun, so much fun that I want to do it again next weekend.

We were so spoiled with information, goodies, workshops, laughs, amazing food, shops, impressions, talks, burgers, sponsors, people, cuddles …. I feel very blessed to be a part of this community and I’d like to thank all of you who gave me such sweet comments on my speech.

A BIG THANK YOU TO:

Selina Lake for filming (and fake talking) with me on Friday
Will Taylor for filming with me on Friday at Cath Kidston on MHS also thanks to the two Charlottes from head office and especially Charlotte Jay for pretending to work the till and for being such a super star
Liselore, Mary-Ellen and Kelly you are such an amazing team
The ME hotel – Kevin and Raol, thank you for walking up and down for me
Tina Bernstein for an amazing design tour and for keeping us warm

Phew … there is more, more technical stuff but I’m going to put that in another post later today.

Filed Under: Out & About, Press, Sponsors

SAVE THE DATE – The Yvestown Fair 2013

Thursday, 7 March 2013 by 15 Comments

Just before I leave for Meet The Blogger London (tonight at 3:30 to be exact!!) I want to leave you with something fun to look forward to.

Last year was such a blast so we are going to do another one on Saturday the 7th of September.

This year with:

Wood & Wool Stool
MondaysMilk
Zilverblauw
ByPetra
All The Luck in the World
MUSwerk
MaandagDaandag
Eline Pellinkhof
MikoDesign
Ninainvorm

And newcomers:

Twinklebird & Silly Old Suitcase

See you again next Tuesday when I’ll be back with lots of stories and photos of the next few days.

xox Yvonne

Filed Under: The Yvestown Fair, Yvesworld

Brown Free Living

Monday, 4 March 2013 by 25 Comments

Can I just say in one word that I’m POOPED? I am …

But I’m a pooped woman with one part of the living room almost ready for moving furniture in. With roller blinds up so that I don’t have to see the hideous buildings next door and no brownness anymore. Hurrah! for brown-free-living.

We need radiators that are ordered and after they are here, and installed, I need to paint the floors one more time and we can move in.

We can move in … I so deserve to decorate this room.

But now I need to continue with my crazy life that is right now. With press meetings, premiers, Meet The Blogger and last days of filming. After this week I’ll be back with so much fun blogging as my Shoot contract will end and time to potter in my home and garden will begin.

And it will be Easter soon!

Filed Under: Living Room, My Home, Renovating