I mentioned those wooden ornament before in some previous posts. They have this great aged look, the paint is gone of a little and sometimes it has different colors. I am not really collecting them but sometimes you can find real beauties, mostly parts of old cabinets. I thought the idea of making candle holders […]
Hey you out there in blogland ….. I am very busy these last few days and can’t really find the time to write a long post. I am having a little vacation and people over at my place. So I’ll be back in a few days. Enjoy the first sunny days!
Beside the bottle of wine for diner, we Dutch like to give some flowers or plants when we go and visit family or friends. In spring there are lots of plants for the garden or balcony to choose from, but most come in boring little plastic pots and aren’t really exciting to give, so why […]
Image © Castle Gibson A while ago I found a comment on one of my posts with a name I did not recognized, so I went to see who was behind it.. I came in the middle of a wonderful post about ‘Castle Gibson’ (locations and furniture) I loved the pictures and I also loved […]
When renovating my bedroom last summer there were a few things I wanted to achieve in this room…..It had to have a white and serene athmosphere whitout being to shabby and most of all there had to be a little sparkle. I love the few touches of mercury glass decoration, the stones and the Moroccan […]
Finding the right spot at the flee market is great but most of the time I think the power cords of these kind of finds are a bit old and dirty. So when I found this little aluminium spot from some photographer I thought this would be a good opportunity to finally use that power […]
Noooo I am not having the monday morning blues… But I am sooo in love with the color of these chairs that I had to show them.They remind me of summer and long walks on sunny beaches….. sand and wind. I recently discovered some of you are surprised to see some color in my pictures […]
I have been eating hundreds of chocolate eggs already…. and Easter has not even arrived… In the Netherlands we use these branches for Easter and decorate them with easter decoration…. these little eggs are from Zink. When my children were small we used to decorate them with little wooden figures, like colored eggs and Easter […]
Thinking of Easter, the grayish color of zinc is not the first thing you might think about.But while shopping for the give away.. I couldn’t resist to buy myself these eggs made of zinc. And you, what color do you use for Easter….???
First of all I would like to thank you all for taking time to leave a comment and your wishes in both the last two posts. Thank you!! I enjoyed every one of them. I was really surprised by the total of participants to the give away and thanks to random.org I found a winner! […]
Today it’s two years ago I started blogging and that’s the reason we are having a little give away today! A way to thank you! All 468,610 visitors of the last two years! The loyal ones, the ones I know for a long time or since only yesterday, the ones who leave me funny, encouraging […]
A few months ago I have been approached by one of the major Dutch interior magazines, ‘Ariadne at Home’ with the question if I would like to cooperate with them on a new column about blogging women.. I was surprised some one of the editorial office of this magazine read my blog and actually liked […]