Flowers

I received a beautiful bouquet of flowers from my old work. It was very beautiful and very big. So big in fact that there was no place at home to put it. So I decided to make small centerpieces and put it all over the house.



I think it looks quite good, don't you think?

Birthday present

Last week was my birthday (the B I G 30!!!) and S and I bought a chair together. Because S's birthday is next week, we bought the chair together. We saw it in the store of Riviera Maison and it was on sale and had to take it with us right away. The thing was that we weren't by car so had no idea how to bring it with us. I dedided to call for a large taxi and asked if we could bring the chair and they said it was allright. So we hurried back to the store, bought it and then rushed to the taxistand and wait for the taxi to arrive. The driver thought it was funny to have two persons and a chair in his car and it ended up being a lovely ride back to our house which is about 20 minutes by taxi.




I can't stop looking at the chair but I haven't sat on it a lot because it's more eye candy, to be honest with you. We were looking for quite a while for a chair like this so you can imagine how excited we were to find it and that is was on sale! I am sure that it will stay with us for a long time!

Christmas Brunch

So what did you do at Christmas? S and I both had to work but I couldn't let Christmas go without not celebrating it. So my dear friend V came by and we had brunch. It was lovely.

Woonbeurs 2009

Just some pictues I wanted to show you from the interior fair De Woonbeurs that I visited this year. They had so many inspiring things to see that I was overwhelmed and loved at the same time.

Kitchen

Here are some before and after pictures of our new kitchen. We weren't planning to install a new kitchen but once we started working on the house, we realised that we might as well do it now while there's a mess all around. Luckily we knew exactly how it was going to look like because we had done our research and visited a lot of kitchen stores.

This is the before...


Not very much to see. We placed a wall between the corridor and the kitchen so that the kitchen would have more space.

And this is the after...





I think that this is the best part of the new house. It has been installed now for about a week and I can't stop looking at it. Before this we already lived in the house for 7 weeks and lived on take out food and microwave meals. I am so done with it that I appreciate everything much more. On Christmas eve, we had family over and we made a great meal which everybody loved! On December 31st we're having friends over for New Years and are planning to cook again. S and I made a promise to ourselves that we won't be having take out for a long, long time.

Update 2009

So, finally an update about what is going on with me and the house. First I want to show you some great pictures of the snow we had last week. Doesn't it looks beautiful?






I had some problems with putting pictures on my computer; that's why it took so long to write and show you something nice. Well, be prepared everyone, I'm back! And it's great ot be back!

Finally...

Hello everybody,

Remember me, I'm the girl that never blogs...

I am so sorry for not keeping you updated and leaving messages on my blog but it has been such a hectic time. Between my last post in September and now, a lot has happened. On November 2nd, we recieved the key of our new house in The Hague. We immediatly started painting and making the upstairs ready so that we would be able to live there because the builders would start later that day with the ground floor on the toilet and the ceiling of the living room. Initially we wouldn't going to do the kitchen. The old kitchen would stay and we would buy a new one next spring. But when the builders started working we realised that it would be better to rip out the old kitchen and so that's what we did. We already knew what kind of kitchen we wanted so we ordered it and they ripped the old one out. So we have been out of a kitchen now for almost a month and we have been living there for about three weeks now... The new kitchen will be installed next week and I can't wait. Since last week we could start on decorating the living room and realised that most of the old furniture has to go because the shape and size of the new livingroom is different than the old one. So now everything doesn't look right. So slowly we are changing everything around and buying new furniture and getting rid of old ones.

Internet is finally working so hopefully next time I have pictures to show you. I have been looking at different websites for inspiration and boy, there's a lot out there for interior lovers like me! I can recommend the blog of madebygirl, decor 8 and Yvestown. I check out their website almost everyday and saw some great things. Go and check them out!

Well, so far a little bit about what has been going on. I promise, next time I'll have some pictures of our new house!!

Have a great weekend!

Neglect

I'm so sorry I've neglected my blog... It has been such a busy time with working and handling the sale of our current home.

But I have great news to share with you. The house has definitely been sold and we are going to move in ou new house in the beginning of November. We will have a week to move from the current home to the new one and renovations to be done but we can't wait! So we have had meetings with estate agents, mortgage people and builders. It has taken every minute of spare time but we know that eventually everything will come together and in a few months all will be done.

So just to let you know that I'm still here and I haven't forgotten you. Next time I will have some pictures as well!

Have a great weekend!

Maastricht

Last week, S and I attented a wedding in the south part of the Netherlands, Limburg, and decided to stay a few days longer (the bride looked beautiful by the way ;-).

We went to the city of Maastricht which I think lookes nothing like the other cities in the Netherlands. Maastricht has a lot of influences of Germany, Luxemburg and Belgium because it's located so nearby the border. So being in Maastricht feels like you're walking in a completely different country and I love it there.



We took a boattrip along the Maas and made a few pictures of the forest.

Now let me explain why being around a forest is so special for me. I live along the sea in a very crowded part of the Netherlands. So every piece of land is being used to built houses on. There are small forests in the area but nothing compared to those in Limburg. And not even mentioning the hills there are over there. You might know that the Netherlands is basically flat, especially where I'm from. But not in Limburg! No, there are actually hills over there, not very high... But there still there.




So again, it doesn't feel like being in the Netherlands. You should really give it a try.

At home

I was working on my computer at home this evening and saw a beautiful sky from my window. I tried to make a picture of it but I'm not wel skilled for that with my camera so it ended up looking like this.




What do you think?