How I stop what I believe was a thief, targeting me in Barcelona, while shopping for our home.
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- čas přidán 18. 07. 2023
- This week, in Barcelona, Camilla is buying materials for a French armchair upholstery project and she's on a quest to find the right paint colours for future restoration work at the Magical Modernist Mansion. It was definitely a day of discovery!
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The more we get to know you, Camilla, the more I learn to respect and admire your tenacity and cool thinking. Your style sense is awesome as well.
Thank you Sarah 💖
I had similar experiences, once in London and in Paris. It’s a tingly feeling, when all your senses go on high alert. My solution was a confident stare and ducking into a shop doorway (Paris) and crossing the street (London). Good on you for heeding your intuition. ❤
Thank you. It is such a disconcerting feeling. 💖
What a delightful shopping day. Thank you for taking us with you. Looking forward to seeing your finished chair. 🫶🥂☀️
What a splendid day out, despite the grim guy. Good for you to catch him with your camera. 😊
💖👑👑💖🎬📽🎥Am so happy you are ok But loved how you turned your camera on him fantastic move Camilla 😊 Love all the little shops thay are all so cute 😊 Am so happy you are ok and didnt get Robbed thqnk goodness 😊
I am glad you were not caught by the potential thief and though I feel you were right, it is important to stress, as you did, innocent until proven guilty. Some scammers tried to rob me in Paris once and I was rescued by French police but prevention is better than cure. I am super cautious now. The building is so beautiful. It is fully worthy of all the trouble you are taking! Thank you for the video!
Thank you
I LOVED all the color matching, trimmings, and stores you visited. This was a very enjoyable video, thanks so much for sharing it. You are a great host and designer.
Thank you 💖💖
You chose the trim I was hoping you would.👏
I really enjoyed this post. It had so many things I love - wandering in Barcelona, choosing fabric colours and trims, and trying out numerous paint colors. Many thanks!
What a beautiful city … and a fun way to get to explore
Girl you are getting around so much and seeing so many things that is wonderful. But you were very smart to do what you did that gut feeling is in os women that intuition is there for a reason! Smart woman
@@barbarakloise6790 Thank you Barbara
Super lovely video Camilla! So interesting, fabrics, trims and paints loooovely! 💕💕
You are so lucky all the special shops are gone and it is now online mostly
Love what you are doing ❤❤😊😊😊
Great video Camilla. The paint matching is fascinating. You did good realizing someone was acting suspicious. Blessings.
Thank you
Your tenacity in researching the paint is to be admired!
Hi! I used to work as a picture framer.I worked with a young man who had the most amazing ability. He could look at a color and match it perfectly even months later. It is an special ability, like being a professional
“Nose.” You might ask around at your local picture framers, art colleges, designers, artists, to see if you can find a similar talent. That way you could get the exact match. The other thing you can do is to go to your local library in Spain and look at historical volumes of decoration. It is possible that there were only a limited number of paint formulas for your historical period and you can get the original formula so you don’t have to worry that when the paints fade they fade to different tones. Historical museums in your area might be able to help as well. It would make some great videos to research this.
Thank you Jane. That is such great advice. I will look into it. 💖
Oh Camilla! I'm so thankful you are aware of your surroundings, and your intuition for possible dangers. 😳
I loved being able to see a few of your favorite shops, and the trim you picked was PERFECT! The paint project will be fabulous in your capable hands. Thanks for another great video!! ❤❤😊
Thank you Kelly 💖
Beautiful colors! Glad you’re putting the love seat inside!
What a beautiful city Thank you for touring it for us😍 you are braver than I with that alleged pick pocket cheers
You picked the right trim....Way-to-go!!!!! You could stay all day in that shop!! Amazing.
Hi Cami 😊
Don't stop posting. You talent and great taste. I admire you so much. Wish I had your house.... There are lots of beautiful items for the house but, money is the only thing missing to buy them to beautify a home😢
Camilla you are a joy to watch. You really have a good eye for design. I could listen to you talking all night about your description of all the lovely shops you visited. Thank you . X🇨🇮
💖I love the gold trim but what ever you chose will look Beautiful because thay are all stunningly Beautiful 💖😊💖
Good job foiling the felonious fellow!
I absolutely love the beautiful shops . I would have bought everything i could carry then ship the rest home . I so enjoy your videos .
Another Brilliant magical video 🤗👍🌹🍸🍾☕🍩
Love Sue ❤❤❤🇬🇧❤❤❤
Your sheer pleasure in the trim shop was contagious. Your family is the perfect choice to steward the mansion. Keep taking it bit by bit, and your dreams for a beautiful home will come true. Great job with the potential thief.
Thank you Mary
Dulcinea = From Don Quijote = A play on words, very clever
So many beautiful colours ❤ So sensible taking the time with research and making samples. Great idea with the daybed. ⭐️
It looks like such a lovely day in Barcelona! Glad you spotted the would-be thief and warded him off. I can't wait to see you upholstering the chair! x
Really loved this video, wandering the little streets and alleyways and that shop was fabulous, it’s so hard when you have too many selections ❤
Can hardly wait for another creative episode from you.❤❤❤❤❤
My idea of heaven, browsing fabric, trim and all things interor. Thank you
I have shopping dreams about places just like this! Please keep making videos like this. I can’t travel any more and I dooooo enjoy it!
I''m using Little Green paints at the moment with great success. Your colour pallet is lovely. Let's hope these wonderful specialist shops have a bright future in this day of online shopping. Well done you on tackling the guy following you. Creep. Take care. Maria
We are just researching at the moment and I have also been in contact with Little Greene as they work in restoration paint and also colour match.
Great save; what a creep. Hahaha Stephanie's Philip would love that shop: so many trims, tassels, appliqués...
The home furnishings specialty shops and workshops you are taking us to are the making of a great city (food shops, too). So fascinating.
Thank you for the tour of the town. I loved the coffee shop & the sweets shop.
Women have very good instincts. Always trust them. Never second guess. Well done, you.
I remember in La sagrada family me and my partner were followed by a group of thieves - they don’t work alone.
I wish all shops were like this! Beautiful, classic ,a joy!
I love all the care you are taking in the restoration ❤ Your family is the perfect ones to be the caretakers of this beautiful mansion. Yes you were being targeted by a thief and you foiled him!
Thank you 💖💖
Love the fabric and trim choices. Can’t wait to see the renovation tithe chair. Great job spoiling the possible thief. Such a beautiful city otherwise 😍😘
You were so awesome in how you handled that possible pick pocket! And I'm excited to see how the paints and the furniture come along. You are doing such a good job!
Thank you 💖
I love the green with top border. But, Camilla, you will pull off something spectacular.
I was voting for the second trim, so glad you chose that one. The paint colors are looking lovely on camera, I'm sure you're on the right track.
Great Vlog really enjoyed it ❤
He WAS following you!! That was awesome intuition you had.
Very smart!!
Beautiful fabrics and choices! Love the colors! You are a strong woman and I think you were super smart in how you handled yourself with a possible thief! Bravo
You clever, girl! Well done, bravo, and it didn't ruin your day 🎉
On by gosh, what a FABULOUS shop. In the Autumn I shall go straight thee. This is a super video and so glad that vermin was not able to get your bag.
What a mouth watering shop all those beautiful trims. Happy days. 👍
Way to stay alert and so calm! Glad you are safe.
The gothic area is my favorite! So much of Barcelona jammed in there. So fun!
All these choices... 😮 But you are so interested and curious. A day like this, in the Spanish summer might have been a challenge for me. I'm sure everything is going to look beautiful. Brigitte 🌷
Absolutely the right decision with the trim xxx
Camilla, I loved watching your shopping excursion experience (& even your super sleuthing!) as well as at home getting inspired to start painting and upholstering!
Oh thank you! xx
I like the top and bottom trims the best 😊 But on phone screens its harder to tell ❣️🥰 so fun !
💖💖💖Camilla l also love your vlogging you are so good at vlogging alone Brilliant 💖😊💖
That trim was a great choice. My eye was instantly drawn to that one as complementary for both the pink and green fabrics.
Looking forward to the finished product.
Loved your vlog. Thank you. So pleased you were vigilant. Well done you.
I love the trim you selected, it will look lovely on your chair!!
Quick thinking! Enjoyed your vlog
Oh well done. Terrible that a woman can't go about her business. I lived in Spain for 12 years it was uncomfortable. Keeping eyes n ears open at all times. I'm glad you were in a public place. Keep safe.
That fabric shop is fantastic. I see why you love it!
Like the color matching Camila
Wow, going into that shoppe would have been so fun plus I’d spend hours just looking -you definitely have a good eye for what you want. Thank you for taking us along.
I just love your videos! Thank you!
The house and it's painted walls are so lovely- and so are the paint colors! I don't know if you meant to, yet your beautiful sage? green dress matches!!!! Also, what a cute cat!!!! (and dogs too!!!!) This is such a great series! I just discovered it...
You were very sharp in noticing wrong doing and I'm so glad you turned on him and filmed him! You are so lovely and I'd hate for anyone to upset you in any way. In the end, It is wonderful that you had a wonderful trip to the shops and got lots of ideas for your mansion.
Thank you 💖
I am so glad you listened to your women’s intuition, God gave us that and it is almost never wrong.
Excited to see the chair done.
Yes you picked no 2 for your chair edging. 👏🏻 😊❤
That trim shop is heaven! I would have spent a fortune without even a plan in mind! 😊
Well that was a nice adventure into the city. Thank you for taking us all along. Those fabrics are soooo pretty. You are doing such a great job with matching those paint colors. So subtle the differences but you are doing it!!!
Thank you Betty 💖
What an eye you have. Love the daybed and the dining table is just magnificent!! Well done.
Loved going through a passimentarie shop again, so excitingl. Such beautiful painting on your Mansiion walls.
Always such a pleasure to watch your videos.
Muted sage green fabric is fantastic!
Beautiful, colourful, calm episode. It is joy to watch.
Few years back in my interior design business i used to design trimmings and tie backs, and get them made in Egypt in any material(silk, cotton,linen) to match the exact colours of the fabrics of my clients.
The price was a fraction of any high street prices. For example once we made curtains for a really large, wide window of over 3 meters high, it needed a substantial tie backs. I designed a large 1 meter long tie backs. In uk the quote was £400, in Egypt i got it made in silk for £30.
Wow that is definitely worth looking into. Are you able to recommend suppliers for this?
There are quite few in cairo, they are called alaqadeen(العقادين). You just take your fabrics, a sketch or any picture of what you want to be done and they will make it for you. If you wish i can get you names and addresses. It would be better If you have an arab or egyptian friend to take with you (so you will not be taken advantage of).
Really nice job, Camilla. Thoughtful and interesting commentary on fabrics, paint, and the matching process. You have such a detailed and precise attitude - your beautiful home will thank you for your hard work for many, many years. And the filming of the city is so well done. Bravo!
Thank you
It is going to be so beautiful!
so many pretty things in that store. I would be so anxious and would not be able to decide.
Hi Camilla, both fabrics are beautiful, I like the green with the second border, (I wrote this as you were showing the border, now I will see which one you pick) The murals are so beautiful what a painstaking, project that is going to be, but will be so beautiful when you are done. Always be aware of your surroundings, especially when traveling alone, good job on letting him know, that you knew he was there, and you weren't having it. Well done, looking so forward to seeing the rooms come back to life, and to see how the chairs turns out. Love from N.Y.
Thank you
I like the bottom one, which is the cheapest one. Thank God you noticed that guy following you. I am glad you're ok. I love the greens in the paint. I have couple of different rooms in green myself.
So many exciting choices to make .. good luck❤
I’m so pleased you were on the ball with the pick pocket situation.. stay safe out there🌸
The hearing impaired who follow your chanel find it difficult to understand you when only on auto play. Closed captioning would be greatly appreciated. We miss out on pertinent information . Thank you. We love your videos !
Lucky you spotted that guy, and you reacted fabulous. They are so sly.
Those colors are really the closest to your needs. Hope you will have help with all of the intricat painting. ❤
I’ll be in Barcelona in October : I’ve never been and am excited to see a new city. Thank you for the video, very well timed for me. Just wanted to add that this house was so very lucky to find you to be its new owner and care taker. Your passion for the house is very evident.
Camilla I would really recommend getting a Pantone color card stack. It’s kind of expensive, but you can completely match your colors and that way any paint company can do a match if they have a scanner.
Thank you. We are in touch with lots of historical paint companies, so they are helping us with this.
Good choice of the trim. Love both fabrics to cover the mattress. That will look beautiful in the room!!!
Wow so many beautiful items 🥰🥰
Dulcinea was the name of the woman in Man of La Mancha. Glad you were so aware of the possible harm. That happened to me once in London so I just popped into a shop and stayed there for awhile.
Your choices are very good. Keep up the good work!
Camilla I think it would pay off to find a local upholstery shop you have so much to get done.
I love the one you choose for the chair😊❤
Camilla don’t forget paint gets a bit darker with time
I suppose the advantage of your wait for permissions is that you have time to research and plan. I am so excited for your upholstery projects, Camilla. Ya don't need government approval for those!
Exactly! Lots of time for research, shopping and upholstery. So enjoyable! 💖
I really enjoy watching your vlogs more and more. It is like travelling. Also they are connected with your life: you go to the shops looking for something to decorate your chairs. And so we get to know the shops surrounding the trim shop, which is a good reason. An elegant and natural way initiating the story...
This really gives me an appetite to also see these places. Especially the trim shop.
i love the work that your doing , step by step , its going to be amazed
Think I was in the same shop years ago! It is a beautiful part of Barcelona just to wander around and get inspired...
Congrats in handling the pick pocket situation 👏👏. Also, great choices for the furniture and rooms design. Loved this vlog 🩷🤍