11 inventions to be grateful for...

4: Toothpaste! Really, imagine your life whitout thàt!!!

11 inventions to be grateful for...

3: The airplane! Imagine that trip to New-York by boat...

11 inventions to be grateful for...

2: High Heels! True, it often is a love/hate relationship, but a real beautiful pair can make us soooo happy!

The box 'n roll!

11 inventions to be grateful for...

1: The mobile phone, especially the smartphone! 

How did we ever manage without??

To be continued...

What the geek?!

The Chanel Boy Bag!!

1 Bag, 3 looks!!!

 The new 'IT'bag fall 2011!!! Love love love the Chanel boy bag!!! Please, Santa Clause!

My wedge ankle boots

Today, i ordered myself  a pair of wedge ankle boots. As much as I liked the Chloé version and Rick Owens fabulous pair, I did my shopping at Zara.com (much more friendlier prices ;-))

Cheers!

So obvious!

Hermès

Yesterday, we went for dinner with a business relation of my husband. He brought this 

'Little Nothing' for the Mrs (me!!!). Well thank you very much sir, you've made my evening :-) and I am always happy to receive 'Little Nothings' like that!

I love love love the colors!!!!

Wish i was.......... Sookie Stackhouse!

I will be doing a True Blood marathon tonight. I'm at season 4 and at the point that Sookie can't decide if she loves Eric or Bill. C'mon Sookie, make up your mind before they both leave!!! I know who I would pick.......  ;-)

Back to school : freebee !!!

To celebrate the beginning of a new school year -yiiiihaaaaa, i'm one of those mums that are really really happy about it ;-) , i made this little weekplanner for you. For free. You just click the image below and you get a high resolution (A4) image that you can print as many times as you want! Enjoy!!!

My diet!!!!

Pleeeeeeeeeaaaase, don't ask!!!!!! :-P

Cityscape 3: Going home!

This is the last one of the cityscapes!!! Been working longtime on them...  Now, I will have them printed on canvas to put on te wall of my staircase. Will show you final result , hanging on the wall!
Oh, Actually, for those who didn't notice: I made only one drawing of the background (see post 10th of august), for the other backgrounds, I copied, changed perspective and added new elements (lantern, door, flowers) to create new background. Enjoy!

Cityscape 2: The green House

Cityscape: finished!

Work in progress- Cityscape

Cityscapes: this is the background for a fashion drawing of jewelry and bags.
The building is the Salle Jules Gilly in the old center of Nice. I was there last summer.....sooooo many nice boutiques!

No comment.....

Roses are Blue

Free interpretation...

Wish I was...Penelope!

Wish I was Penelope Cruz in The Pirates...just for 1 day.

Ghanvie

The picture was taken in the Ghanvie, a lake settlement in Benin. They also call it 'The Venice of Africa'...

Beware, my underwear!

Catch of the day

Holiday!

Hello!
Tomorrow i'm going back to belgium for my holidays!
Looking forward to see my friends and family again.
Anyway, my last post for a few weeks, see you back at the end of july!!!!

Card illustration: birthday-party invitation

front

back

Invitation for a birthday-party. The text will be added at the printer.

Abu Dhabi illustration: finished!

Hooray! It's finally finished, my Abu Dhabi drawing (inspired by Carry's trip to the souks in Sex and the city 2)  (see previous posts may 2011) It was a hell of a job due to the big size, but my client was happy with it.

Illustrations for iphone slide cases!

Case Red

Case Pink

Case Blue

On sale starting today: slide cases for iphone 4,

35 euro + 3 euro shipment for Belgium, 6 euro shipment for other countries

Be quick, there's only a few of them!

For placing an order send me an e-mail: vanessa.van.meerhaeghe@gmail.com

and mention the color you want: red, pink or blue!

Enjoy!

New York, New York (photo-illustration)

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  While browsing my photo library, i came across lots of nice 'view' shots. I decided to 'fahionize' them and take you for a fashion tour around the world (o, now i really do regret that i've been to places where i didn't take any pictures!!!)
Anyway, here is a very nice Marc Jacobs dress and amazing MiuMiu pumps.
The pricture was taken in New-York in 2008.

Marc Jacobs summer 2011

Miu Miu summer 2011

Sweet Italy.... Illustration

I looooove this picture of my daughter.

It was taken in Italy last year. Love the colors and composition.

What's cooking? Illustration

Color inspiration

What's cooking: work in progress

Party invitation for friends who are leaving...

Verso

Recto

Sketch of the family

Drawing the map of Africa

Thursday afternoon of the expat wives: my cups!

Hello!
These are my cups that I used in the illustration of the expat wives, part 2.
By now, we skip the coffee and go directly to the bubbles (part 3) ;-)