Fracas Noir – Susanne Waldau – te Brake ~ for better or worse

It’s been some time ago…I’m not going to bore you with the details. Too few and equally too many. I guess that is the point of where confusion strikes. I’m still batteling chronic pain, so the last weeks I’ve mostly been spending time in bed. Today I had an appointment with my physiotherapist to strengthen [...]

Just came across a really great website – www.polyvore.com – where you can be your own stylist, create chic sets of clothing and embed it on your blog. Isn’t it neat? Hereby style by FracasNoir… Party in Style by fracasnoir featuring a bodice dress Milly Rosette silk-blend mini dress $695 - net-a-porter.com Bodice dress » Knitted Lace [...]

Reinout surprised me with a candle light breakfast downstairs. Berries, coffee and Champagne was a perfect start to my Sunday. Today I’m going to try to relax a bit. I just finished a great book (although long and sometimes a bit tedious) called Satan’s Circus by Mike Dash. It’s based on the documents of the [...]

The first salsa lesson after the season stop, and I’m a bundle of nerves. It’s not so much that there is a gap of a season between my last spins but more like two. The last time I saw my salsa teacher was not in the class room but at the hospital. And the patient [...]

I always dreamed of a Valentino dress. It’s the Ferrari of fashion (not to mention the same colour!), which would make any girl, woman and lady quiver with delight. It’s what Sharon Stone wore in Basic Instinct (or so I imagine), and it’s what Jackie O would have worn if Valentino would have started his [...]

I’m in Reinout’s office, which is increasingly becoming more of my own. It’s great, a turn-of-the-century villa, a stone throw from where we live. It’s quiet today as Reinout is in a meeting off-site. I have the attic room for myself, and working with great speed on diminishing my action list. It’s raining outside and [...]

It’s been one of those loooong days. Two meetings, one of which lasting for half a day. Dinner that didn’t work out so well on my part (I dread another veggie burger), numerous glasses of wines later and a late night business conversation with my hubby. Eventually I’m so tired of business, I make my [...]

The first time I came across an album of Putumayo was in a small lunch cafe on a side street off the Haarlem market square. It was one of those cafes that takes great pride in their organic coffee, vitamin infused smoothies and vegetarian sandwiches. Each time I walked through the door to order a [...]

Forget Indian Summer, and say hello to pouring rain and cold Eastern winds. I found myself staring at a summer wardrobe filled with flimsy dresses and kitten heeled shoes. No other solution than do bring a whole load of winter and autumn gear from the near forgotten, mahogany cupboard upstairs. In the end I settled [...]

It’s wonderful weather, Indian Summer. A gentle breeze is sweeping through our open windows making the french doors open and close to a rhythmic beat. A lot has happened in the last days. Thursday we were suppose to finally go on our summer holiday. For various reasons we had to cancel. I felt cheated of [...]