Neutral Summer Dining Room

Unlike my Blue Summer Living Room which I just shared with you all last week HERE.

Our dining room for this summer is quite Neutral.

The reason being, I wanted to display some of the things I bought from the Philippines in this space!

Let's take a look...

Except for some touches of green, this room is neutral territory all the way!

This beautiful abaca runner was my jumping off point.

 Abaca is a natural fiber that is commonly used in the Philippines, and I love how the leaves on the edge are embroidered on it!

Simple centerpiece with my brass candlestick collection and the glass coral I scored from WISTERIA

Simple glass shelves display

I got all the bisque urchin and shell votive containers also from the Philippines.

A lot got broken during travel, luckily for me, gluing them back together was a cinch and because of the pattern on then, not obvious at all!

My Buffet table vignette

I know it's quite atypical to display Santos in the Dining room. Not so in the Philippines where a lot of homes display a copy of Da Vinci's "Last Supper" or other religious imagery.

I scored the cross from WISTERIA as well, and the sheep is an Easter clearance find from TARGET.  The Santos Busts are genuine antique I bought in Vigan, Ilocos Sur - a northern province in the Philippines, one of the many places we visited there during our stay.

St. Paul & St. Agustin 

It's made of solid wood so it was quite heavy. 

It came from  huge old Statues acquired thru an estate sale of sorts. 

The body was in disrepair, but the heads were still beautiful and intact (lucky for me).

I love seeing these finds I brought home. 

Reminds me so much of my last visit to the Philippines.

How about you, do you like buying things for your home when you travel? What's your favorite travel find that you display in your home?

Have a Wonderful Week!

VEL 

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Design Details of the Disney Fantasy - PART 2

 

Ok, last time I showed you a lot of the design details of this fantastic ship. And today, I'll share with you their gorgeous restaurants and clubs!

The Enchanted Garden

An elegant conservatory/restaurant on the 2nd deck with a beautiful changing ceiling from dawn 'til dusk!

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The Royal Court

A Lavish and elegant dining room with the Disney Princesses in mind! You see all sorts beautiful mosaic art here and truly fit for any Prince or Princess!

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Snow White is one of my favorite and I just love this mosaic mural!

Animators Palate

A wonderously themed rotatinoal dining restaurant that boasts of two amazing shows which we all enjoyed!

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I would love to have one of these!

Ever-changing wall decor

Love all the sketches in the lobby

Mickey on the floors too!

The Cabanas

This is by the pool deck which hosts buffets all day long!

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Amazing Nemo Mosaic Mural

See the gorgeous detail!

La Piazza

We enjoyed family "Trivia games" here in the daytime and at night, great music and lighter ambience in this Italian piazza-themed bistro.

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Ooh-la-la

Perfect name for the perfect lounge. They serve different types of Champagne here and I love the peach one I tried. I felt like Marie Antoinette in this place!

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Skyline Lounge

Stayed only in this gorgeous lounge in passing since most of the crowd here were big groups. Love the changing European skyline scenery.

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O'Gills Pub

Where we watched the NBA Eastern Conference finals (Miami vs. Indiana), a real sports bar atmosphere.

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The Tube

Inspired by the London Underground, this disco is for adults only. Super cool place to hang-out.

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Remy

Inspired by the movie of the same name, this is fine dining at its best on a cruise ship. We not only enjoyed the ambience here but the servers were all informative, friendly and the food was superb! Worth every penny!

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Check out Remy up top!

A hidden rat on the chairs

My yummy dessert - too pretty to eat?! Nah! Love the Chocolate gold flakes!

The D lounge

Where we had a lot of family disco, cooking shows, family game shows and BINGO!

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Hope you enjoyed the part 2 of the tour of this marvelous ship!

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Design details of the Disney Fantasy - Part 1

We spent 8 glorious days of our vacation 3 weeks ago aboard the marvelous DISNEY FANTASY.

To say that this ship is a marvel, is a real understatement. 

But before I give you the low-down on my top 10 for this cruise (that's another post all together)

 I'd like to share with you the beauty that is this ship - the Disney in the details...

Let's step outside first on the upper deck where all the water fun is.

And when Disney does fun, it does it for the whole family!

Aquaduck- biggest water coaster at sea!

Rode this baby 2x and the kids even more!

Mickey's Pool & Slide

Donald's pool is underneath the deck behind hubs - a bit deeper than Mickey's pool

For the little ones

Water sprays and showers on the Aqualab for everybody

 One of the things I loved about this cruise was that there was a lot of things that were 'Exclusive for Adults', including the pools!

Satellite Falls

Satellite Sun deck

Quiet Cove pool and bar

Now let's head off to the beautiful Atrium...

Peacock theme from floor to ceiling

This Peacock Chandelier has 60,000 swarovski crystals!

This is the first space that greet you as soon as you step on to the ship!

love the blues and greens

Check out this stone floors!

Different brass murals all around the room

One of the many sitting areas

Love this lighting!

Where we watch all the LIVE SHOWS!

Where we watch the movies

Love this panelling!

Interactive pictures everywhere!

The attention to detail doesn't stop there. Check out the rest rooms!!!

Contemporary Mickey

Art deco Mickey

Yes, this mosaic tile art is inside the ladies room in the EUROPA!

Italian Mosaic Tiles - gorgeous!

Yup, it goes all the way in! Take note too, the door to this one is circular. ;-)

And finally, let me share with you our stateroom...

What our room looked like as we walked in...

Bunk bed for the kids at night...

And this is AFTER we were IN IT! LOL!

Sorry for the mess!!!

The split bathroom -  Image courtesy of Browniebites.net

That's it for now! Lots of pictures today, I think you can see how excited I am to share this with you. Next time, I'll share the different Restaurants in the ship!

Have a Wonderful Weekend!

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