Time for UPDATES! :-)


Hi Everyone,

I apologize for not posting this week.
I’ve been busy (again). I know, my excuses are lame 😉

Because I didn’t gave you much reading lately, here is a HUGE update, just like I promised.

Monday I went to Antwerp with Jan. He took a day off so we could go shopping together (sweet huh?) He doesn’t really love shopping much but I still find it very sweet. We bought A LOT 😉 and I went to Fragile, the pregnancy clothing shop I told you about. I made an appointment with Vanessa, a very nice woman who told me more about Fragile. She did help me to pick out the very first clothes I’ll be using for my new pregnancy series. I’m still looking for pregnant woman to participate, so if you are pregnant or you know someone who’s pregnant, please leave a comment or contact me right away at info(at)melissamilis.com. You get yourself a free shoot with the most beautiful maternity clothing.

We’ll be making a series from week 25 untill the last week pregnancy. Every week will be a picture with another girl/woman. So I will be very busy the next few weeks. It’s nice to expend my portfolio. I think I have so much more to learn but I’m so ready to learn more. I’m very nervous about the shoots. I hope that’s one thing I’ll learn from this: getting more and more faith and believe in myself. I hope.

Here are the 5 dresses I picked up on Monday. I took this pictures on my regular dress form so if you want to see the beautifull effect when a pregnant woman puts on these dresses, please visit www.fragile.be

So this project will take lots of my free time.

On saturday I’ll be having my first shoot for a communion. I’ll be taking pictures with a little boy @ Doel (I got to know this place a little when I was a model for Yasmin, a few days ago). I’m excited to do the very first shoot 🙂

Back to monday. Like I said: we bought A LOT.
Because I didn’t find the time to post a look of the day on tuesday, here’s one for today.
I’m wearing some new things I bought.

new cardigan by urban outfitters (50 euros)
(I’m sorry for looking very stupid :-))



New shoes from Tommy Hilfiger (around 45-50 euros I think)


I finally found this perfect green nail polish. I’m really unhappy for not looking better at the sticker ‘matte’. This is just a matte nail polish! Ugly as hell (think about paint that dried on your fingertops) so I did 2 coats and a final transparent coat to finish off.

I bought a lot more, just like Jan did. I’ve been convincing him to do some guestblogging out here but I don’t think he’s really sure what to write about. So maybe you can help him out. Would you like to read a monthly blogpost from him? What would you like to read from him? 🙂

I’m ending this post for today.
A lot of new things to post about – later on.
It’s time for some television right now. Almost friday, one day left, weekend is coming soon.

Lots of love.
Melissa

ps. my heart felt spring for the first time this year. My energy levels are hitting air. I love spring, it’s my favourite season of the year. Love.

sunday Love : Week 21


Sunday (hmm it’s past midnight so technically we are Monday ;)).
Time for the pregnancy series. This week I tried to focus a little bit on the father because it’s also about him this time. Since we heard the news about the pregnancy, he’s just more happy than I can imagine. So happy for them.

hope you still enjoy the series. It’s a pleasure to make this one.

Love,
Melissa

ps. tomorrow I’m in Antwerp for some shopping with Jan and I’ll be visiting fragile (www.fragile.be). I’ll make a new pregnancy series with their clothes. Excited! More about the project this week.

Sleep well x

I’m back.


OMG, I didn’t check my blogger account for more than 5 days now. It’s crazy. I guess I’ll have to read for hours.
I’m sorry for not posting and reading. I’ve been so busy (and I still am).

Here are some things that happened in my life (more details this weekend) :

– I’ve been a model for a day. Yasmin Broos, a good friend of mine asked me to be her model for a fashion shoot. We worked with vintage clothing I bought for my shop. A little sneaky preview for you at the top of this blog. I like this picture a lot 🙂 You’ve seen this clothes already (*sorry for that) but when she finishes her assignment, I’ll put the other pictures (with new clothes) online.

– I got my first real big ‘fight’ with Jan since we moved, I slept on the couch. Ugh. * never again?

– We had our last housewarming party at the weekend. We’re glad it’s over 😉 getting drunk for 5 weeks and having to clean up the house the next day has been fun but it’s good now 😉

– I have my first little shoot for a boy’s communion (is this the right way to say ‘communie’ in english?) maybe one day I’ll be a professional photographer (wow! let’s hope *fingers crossed)

– Some other good new from my photography world: Fragile ( a dutch clothing line for pregnant woman) got me some clothes to do a pregnancy series. Will be awesome, still in search for some pregnant girls/women, who wants to be photographed (you can mail me if you want). I’m totally excited. I’ll pick up the clothes this monday!

– my dad finally got himself a computer * haay daddy, welcome to the www. I’ll be making a website for our business soon 😉 *promise.

– bought some really nice dresses at kapaza from:http://redheaded-woman.blogspot.com – she’s so sweet, she delivered the dresses herself and got some free things with it. She’s like sweet! Will buy from her again!

– I really have to go know. Still working at the shop today but I really wanted to give you a little update on my life.

Weekend is coming so probably I’ll give you a big update soon.
All my love.

Melissa

Fashion Tuesday: Roses by Natalie.



Hi everyone.

How is your tuesday going?
I don’t have to work today so I’m busy keeping everything up to date out here and also enjoying some free time off course.

I have some beautiful earrings I want to share with you. I received them a week ago with a little card wishing me congrats with my new home. It was the sweetest thing. I never really met Natalie (except the time I was selling my christmas cards to her ;)) but she’s so sweet and I hope we can meet really soon.

In the meantime, please make a visit at her blog. She’s sweet and makes the perfect earrings, what do you want more?
http://lataniedesign.blogspot.com

Love,
Melissa


ps. I went to retro-day this weekend. My collection is growing. Selling starts soon.

Monday Movie Time: Life unexpected



Today is monday, so it’s movie time! I’m not going to take a movie today but a new series I discovered thanks to my friend yasmin. ‘life unexpected’ is a series about a young teenager, Lux, who has spent her life going from foster family to foster family. She has finally decided to become an emancipated minor. During her journey through the legal maze, Lux finds her biological father, 30-something Nate “Baze” Bazile, who lives above a bar and is astonished to learn he has a daughter. Lux learns that her mother is Cate Cassidy, a star on local radio, along with her boyfriend, Ryan Thomas. A judge decides to grant temporary custody of Lux to Baze and Cate instead of emancipating her.

This series is really a good one if you like tv series like gossip girl, veronica mars, privileged, gilmore girls and other movies or series about teenage shit 😉 It’s not really something you should watch if you don’t like talking 🙂 because it’s almost everything this series is 😉 it’s the typical girly ‘let’s not stop talking’ series.

I’m going to watch my 5th episode today. Here’s a trailer for all the ones who wants to take a look.

Lots of love,
Melissa

PS. the best movie news: Gossip Girl hits air again this evening! We waited so long for this xoxo.

Sunday Love : Week 19



Another weekly pregnancy picture. Jeroen had to work so it’s only Mieke in the picture this week.In the photo, you can see spring is finally coming trough. I love it. Next week I try to make a slideshow, so you can see all the pictures at once.

All my Love,
Melissa

going to clean my house now, we had our third housewarming yesterday and the place is a mess. But is was a really lovely party with my close friends. Pictures later! x