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adorn til dusk

When in London, I met with the talented Julia Cameron, the designer behind a gorgeous jewelry line, Adorn til dusk. At the function where we met, I couldn't help but staring at her beautiful headpiece and I eventually made sure to get myself my own. I love the vintage feel of it and how easy it is to add to any type of look. Can only imagine how well it will go with either a long, goddess type of maxi dress, or a dressed down hippie ensemble. As vintage is a passion of hers, you'll also find handpicked vintage bags, belts, sunglasses and shoes in Julia's online store. Check it all out here if you're into that kind of stuff. Or have a look on the Facebook page where all new jewelry are posted. I really love the star and crystal headpieces that are not yet on the website. Here's the link to the gorgeous style that I have btw.

As I probably will get the question like so many times before: "why do I write about and promote fashion brands on a sailing blog?" Well firstly, this isn't probably your typical sailing blog after all, but also as around half of our readers are girls/women and because many of those 50% have followed me since my early blog years, started already in 2005, when I was working in fashion. I think I wouldn't enjoy writing this blog to this extent if I wasn't able to share with you the mixture of all the things that I love, and quite naturally, all those females would probably not follow us around the world if this blog was only about boat maintenance and sailing... gotta keep you all (myself included) satisfied somehow, and it seems to have worked out pretty well thus far, no?

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Moroccan handmade

When we were in St Martin last week, we picked up some of the few remaining things that were left on Caos and cleaned her out once and for all. These handmade plates from Morocco were some of the things we flew home with. Suits the style of our "new" galley most perfectly.

Scroll through this chapter if you wish to see how it looked like when Alex, Caos and me stayed 6 weeks in Morocco, a bit more than a year ago. Would love to get back there one day with Duende too.

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Treasure hunting

Continuing our search for beautiful treasures and choosing which items and collections we'll have in our web-shop that I spoke about a few months ago. We've been busy with so many other things lately but finally I got some time to continue the development of this little project. Hoping to have the shop up and running in the end of next month. Can't wait to set sail in February to pick up a few more things from Dominica, Martinique and St Lucia to this shop of ours.. so many beautiful handmade things on these islands that we believe you might be interested in. The shop will be filled with jewelry, interior items, a few bags, sandals and some clothing as well. Can't wait to show it all to you.

This handmade jade, rose quartz and volcanic stone necklace is a beauty, I love how it's twisted in three layers and at only $39 it's good value too. One of these days I'll show you the woman behind it and other beautiful local jewelry this lady makes, Ruth is her name and she has become a very good friend of mine during our stay here in Antigua. 

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Collecting memories

I love it when our home (boat) slowly gets filled with personally handpicked treasures from all of our travels and we can make use of them at various occasions while getting reminded of the beauty of other times, other places that we've shared during this journey. Like this exquisite tea pot in silver and the perfectly accompanying Arabic tea glasses with golden scripture that we purchased on the winding streets in the bustling city of Rabat, Morocco. Those were the times, so different life than what we experience here, one ocean apart. Both has their charm and fascinating atmosphere of course, just that they're very unequal to each other. I think it is beautiful to gather details around you that has soul and a history and this little pot and these glasses will always be here to remind us of those past moments of our lives. 

Read here to see how beautiful first night we had in Morocco, almost one year ago. And here's even more from the same colorful country. Do not forget to check out all the amazing amazing food that we devoured in over there. Besides of the famous Moroccan mint tea, we also bought and collected tons of West African spices which I use quite often in my concoctions of today. That's just another great way to store memories of taste, pleasure and enjoyment for days to come..

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