Life lately - Parks, ducks, art, and food

1/ Kubrick (my boyfriend's cat). 2/ Potatoes with goat cheese. 3/ Lunch at Le Pain Quotidien. 4/ Ducks in Zaventem. 5/ Art Nouveau walk in Brussels. 6/ Cocktails at Bruparck. 7/ and 8/ Michael Borremans exhibition. 9/ to 12/ Bruges. 13/ Pizza. 14/ tot 16/ Woluwe park.

Life lately - New Year, Spa, restaurants, beautea, and lattes

1/ Lunch at Le Pain Quotidien. 2/ Drawing my aunt and uncle's dog Candice. 3/ Spending the last day of 2013 at the Thermes de Spa. 4/ Lattes made with the milk frother I got for New Year's (the present almost got lost when we changed rooms in our hotel, but that's another story). 5/ to 7/ Celebrating New Year at Hotel Spa Balmoral. 8/ to 10/ Walking around Spa. 11/ to 12/ Pumpkin ravioli. 13/ A press day for the new tea and cosmetics brand Beautea. 14/ Celebrating my grandmother's 84th birthday by ordering Greek Meze for two.

Life lately - Christmas, puzzles, and gingerbread lattes

If you've been a reader of my blog for any amount of time, you might have caught on that I love Christmas. It's all about creating magic in real life and having some down time with my family. So the past few weeks have been mostly about that really. Even work has been revolving around Christmas as I've been spending quite a lot of time writing from coffee shops with a gingerbread latte or a hot spiced orange juice at hand and Christmas music in the background. I've been really soaking it in.

From left to right, top to bottom: 1/ Working on my book about Avalon at Starbucks with a gingerbread latte on the side. 2/ to 5/ Christmas market in Brussels. 6/ Dinner date at Tapas Locas in Brussels. 7/ Visiting my grandmother in Zaventem. 8/ to 10/ Shopping for Christmas decorations with my sister. 11/ Making Christmas chocolate mousse with my grandmother. 12/ Going to bed early with the books A Dog Named Leaf and Chi's Sweet Home. 13/ to 16/ Christmas drinks I've been enjoying. 17/ Christmas decoration. 18/ Making a Christmas puzzle with cats. 19/ Tigris. 20/ A few books I inherited from my mom's boyfriend who passed away this summer.

What Christmassy things have you been doing lately?

Life lately - Monsters, chestnuts and autumn dreams

1/ Roasted chestnuts. 2/ to 3/ Trick 'r Treat: Tales Of Mayhem, Mystery, and Mischief by John Griffin. 4/ to 6/ At the comics, sci-fi and anime festival FACTS. 7/ Smoothie with pear, yogurt, cinnamon and maple syrup. 8/ Lunch at Helvetia in Bredene. 9/ Brunch at Le pain Quotidien in Brussels. 10/ Autumn in Bruges. 11/ and 12/ Breakfast on the patio of De Coqisserie in the Belgian seaside resort De Haan. 13/ and 14/ Walking around the Belgian seaside.

Life lately - Ibiza

1// and 2// Sunset in Cala d'Hort with a view on Es Vedrà. 3// to 6// Ibiza flea market. 7// Quinoa and vegetable lunch in the vegetarian restaurant Geco in Santa Eulària. 8// Sal de Ibiza shop. 9// and 10// Portinatx. 11// Santa Eulària. 12// My cousin's cat, Romea. 13// and 14// Cala Mastella. 15// Santa Eulària. 16// Pizza at restaurant Can Tewfik in Santa Gertrudis. 17// and 18// Benirràs. 19// and 20// Cala des Xuclar.

Life lately - Cows, flea markets, restaurants, and Michelangelo Antonioni

1/ and 2/ Going home from a day in Opwijk. 3/ and 4/ BBQ with friends (and cows). 5/ A friend's dog. 6/ Reading and blogging at Coffee Company, Brussels. 7/ and 8/ Lunch at Houtsiplou, Brussels. 9/ to 12/ Flea market in Temploux. 13/ and 14/ Michelangelo Antonioni expo at Bozar, Brussels. 15/ and 16/ Pizza dinner with Kurt Debaillie from Residual Residence at La Stalla, Ostend. 17/ and 18/ A concert of Ignatz at the Feeërieën. 18/ R.I.P. Eric.