summer in august - joie de vivre

August is almost over and I'm a bit behind on my blog posts, so here's a hodgepodge-post of the last few weeks.

- surprise visit from Minne & Liam at work
- new old French folding table that we bought at Lammie
- joie de vivre in the backyard
- Liam came over for the night because his parents were having their joint August-birthday-gardenparty
- Sunday evening we went out for dinner at Portúgalia Tasca in Rotterdam. We enjoyed the summer-food and portuguese vibe and had a lovely night and toasted to Pippa's birthday!
- On Monday evening we celebrated our annual Augustus party with all colleagues in the Villa Augustus garden. After dinner a hula hoop session in the orchard and dance party in the Limonaia with Bootsy Paul
- Tuesday with Liam, he chats all day long and is always cheerful and we have lots of fun
- Wednesday at the beach!

first of august - petit party

Rotterdam - Tuesday 1st of August

Can't imagine a happier birthday lunch than this, with my lovelies!

occasional dress

Some dresses you only wear on special occasions. The dress I wear every few years.

The silk Fornarina dress is a bit over the top, but above all very elegant and feminine. It's almost vintage, because I already have it for many years. It popped up from my wardrobe, to be the party dress for the wedding party part two of our friends Marleen and Mick last Saturday.



The last time I was wearing it before, was when we visited the Theatre-Museum Dalí in Fiqueres in July 2014.

And the previous occasion was in Paris, April 2009, see below the funny 'upskirt' picture, with mini Pippa in the background.

hurray for pippa

Hurray, hurray!
Our daughter Pippa graduated high school today!

The mentor who called her, asked if we have a Dutch flag.
Pippa said, yes of course.
Well, you can raise the flag!

Hurray for Pippa! We all are very proud of her!
We went to Rotterdam to celebrate Pippa's party on the terrace of Hotel New York!
(and we had a special evening together in the sunshine...)