Cath Kidston's tea cosy

In the beginning of this month, we went to London and visited the Cath Kidston Store in Notting Hill.


I bought the house tea cosy and put with the rest of my collection of specials things and I think it looks great. By the way, this is the rest of the collection:



I would love to see your special collection so please send me your pictures! Maybe I'll get inspired to change my things or even buy something new to expand the collection!

Talk to you soon!

New shelves

Recently I talked about that my father and I put new shelves up and now I have pictures to show you. This is a before picture, taken in the morning...


The night before S and I discussed how it should be hung. We didn't agree right away and but finally this is the result in the afternoon...



I love it, it looks like it is the only place where it should hang. You can also see on the right the new lamp that we bought and I think it's a perfect combination of us both. I'm really happy with the result!

I love this city!

This is not the first time I talked about my love for Amsterdam. Some people ask me why I never moved there. But unfortunately it's too far away from my family and I still like to see them regularly plus S would never want to move there, has something to do with football...

Fortunately S doesn't mind going to Amsterdam for a day so we go about 5 times a year to our capital city. We went a few weeks ago and made some great pictures with the new camera. It seems as though the pictures are black/white with some colour accents but it really was like this, real Dutch autumn weather.


This is a canal nearby the Herengracht which is in the city centre and we had lunch at this great place.

We walked around for hours, did a little bit of shopping and took a boatride along the canals. The captain was very nice and showed us some great locations and waited patiently while I made pictures



These tours are great for tourists who are interested in the architecture of the city. The buildings are so beautiful and you rarely see them in any other country.

We ended the day eating in a Thai restaurant that I won't recommend knowing there are better places to eat.

Please remember that Amsterdam has much more to offer than only just coffeeshops; there's so much history, culture, museums, architecture, great food and shops. I talk to a lot of people from around the world in the hotel that I work and I try to explain them that Amsterdam has many treasures but you need to know where to go. The same is for The Hague. When the weather is better, I'll show you some great places to go. In the meantime, please enjoy these pictures. There will be more to come!

Have a great day!

Home Project

Finally I had the change to spend some time in our home because we're usually busy with working or doing stuff outside of our house.

So I had the last two days of and S was out working or playing football (or soccer as some call it) so I was all alone at home and looking around to what has to change around the house. This is my list so far:

- a new bathroom and find a contractor to do it
- new counters in the kitchen and find somebody who can install that for us
- a new fridge
- redoing the doors of the wardrobe closet (we didn't hang them correct so they're open all the time and I have to close it with an elastic band)
- Finally hang the shelves that I bought from Ikea months ago
- paint the diningroom chairs white
- buy the cabinet that I say at a second hand store which is on my way to work and paint it white and put it in the bedroom
- buy flowers and plants to make the home cosier
- Find a solution for a glass door that I don't like and maybe look for a new door or only replace the glass inside it. Maybe discuss that with S first...
- Finally hang a lamp in the study after three years (I live in our house for three years but never hang a lamp in the study so it looked empty and unfinished)
- Put up the paintings and pictures that are still standing in the study for years and never taken the time and effort to do it.

So I started on my list by calling my father to help me. So he came by today and we redid the doors of the wardrobe closet, hang the Ikea shelves, hang the lamp and put a new door handle on the door with the glass. When my father left I hang some frames with pictures in the study and so far, it already looks so great. I'll show you pictures another time.

S and I talked about the kitchen and we're doing that in January but we haven't decided on the bathroom because that's going to cost a lot of money. So what's left of the list is this:

- a new bathroom and find a contractor to do it
- new counters in the kitchen and find somebody who can install that for us
- a new fridge
- paint the diningroom chairs white
- buy the cabinet that I say at a second hand store which is on my way to work and paint it white and put it in the bedroom
- buy flowers and plants to make the home cosier
- Find a solution for a glass door that I don't like and maybe look for a new door or only replace the glass inside it. Maybe discuss that with S first...

Well, there's still a lot to do but we're getting there. This saturday, hopefully we're starting on painting the dining room chairs after after that, we will see... But I'm sure it's going to look great and then I can show you!

Talk to you soon!

the UK, part 2

So last week we went to the UK to visit the cousin of S and his family. They live in High Wycombe which is an hour away from London and we had such a great time! And... I love their home:


Love the kitchen, especially the green tiles!


Love the piano, tried to play a tune but it was too long ago so it sounded rather silly!

They have two children and, well look:


I asked her to smile as adorable as possible...


Doesn't she look adorable, even with the green stuff allover her face?

We had dinner with the family last saturday to celebrate the birthday of S's cousin
and there was a special birthday cake. Guess how old...



The dinner was wonderful, so was the company and the wine which made the evening fantastic.



So thank you dear family for making us feel like home. See you again next year.

The UK

S and me went to the UK last week and really enjoyes ourselves...

We went to London a few times...





Visited Notting Hill... (remember the movie?)



Had tea and cupcakes at the Hummingbird Bakery...




And shopped a lot in special stores that they don't have in the Netherlands...



Harrods



Cath Kidston



A local doorknobstore

So we really renjoyed ourselves and we're planning to come back soon!

A new Camera

My grandmother left me and my sisters some money and I decided to buy a new camera from that money and I'm so happy with it!

A new Camera

My grandmother left me and my sisters some money and I decided to buy a new camera from that money and I'm so happy with it!




So immediatly, I started making pictures! What do you think?





Especially now little nephew Mischa is born, it's great to make pictures of him. He looks so cute!




So in the future my pictures will become better so that you can get to enjoy them! So just come by my site to check it all out.

Talk to you soon!

Bored...

S is wathing the movie Alexander and I'm not in the mood so instead, I want to show you a few pictures of our home. Starting with the kitchen:



It lookes a bit boring but then there's also the other side:



I like a white basis and accessorize with colour:



I've told you about my love for Starbucks, haven't I?

Also a picture of our little walk in closet but the light wasn't very good...



I sit here in the morning and having breakfast before going to work so a chair is essential. By the way, there three closets in that room because we have too much clothes and need all the space there is. The tumble dryer, a small closet and a washbasin are also in there so really a small room, haha

Moving on to the little workroom where I hope to change a little bit...



I have two shelfs from Ikea that S hopefully will put up this week so that there's more space. As soon as it there, I'll make pictures and show you.

Finally a picture of our small balcony, taken last summer when it was really hot. I love this picture and dreaming of better wheather...



Enjoy the last moments of the weekend!

Chocolat fondue

Yesterday, two friends of mine came over. I asked them what they would like to eat, cake or chocolate and both of them said chocolate. So I decided to make a little tea/ chocolate party. Bought some special tea (Sinterklaas- en Zwarte Piet tea from Simon Levelt) and made chocolate fondue (not really myself...) and set the table. Because I have all kind of crockery, I put it together and it looked like this:




The girls looked so happy when they saw that there was chocolate fondue and we ended up talking and eating the whole evening at the dinner table and having a great night.

And because the room felt so comfortable, I tried to make a few nice pictures of the living- and diningroom





So, although there's fall and it's cold, it's still possible to have a great evening inside and be warm. I could encourage everyone to do this at home with their friends.

Have a great evening!

Grandma's cabinet

My grandmother died a few weeks ago, she was 95 years old. Today I found out from my mother that she married my grandfather. When I was at her home as a child, I used to love her cabinet where she had her paperwork and when I was older I said how much I liked it. So to my surprise, my mother called me to tell me that I get to have the cabinet. S and I picked it up and now it stands in my corridor with a lot of pride!



Before, I had an old coat rack which was really in the way. So I made a little coat hanger myself (it's the one hanging on the left)and now it looks great when you walk inside our house. Maybe I'll buy a little bowl to put our keys in. What do you think, what kind?

Maybe some people think it's old fashioned but I love and it will always stays with me. Everytime I open it, I smell my grandmother. I miss her...

The little prince

We went to see the new member of the familiy, little Mischa and he's precious!