The quote of the day!

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Something I must tell myself every once in a while, don't we all?

Today S. and me are going to the Woonbeurs. I hope to be inspired and make lot's op photo's

New Starbucks add

Love the new Starbucks add!Watch it here...



Love the song too, anybody knows who sings it?

I'm back again!

After such a long absence I am glad to tell you that I'm am back! From now on, I will post regurlary, post pictures that I have made or that are from the internet that inspires me.



The last couple of months I have been working at my new job, being on a diet, going to the gym and losing almost 25 pounds! S. has also asked me to marry him! we're getting married in May 2012 and I already found the dress! We have had a few pre-wedding dinners and ate a lot of cake so it is time for the diet to start again. I have a few great recipes for yu that will share very soon!

It's great to be back and talk to you soon!

Sunny breakfast

So, I don't know how you spend your sunday mornings but mine is very peaceful. Just having a glass of orange juice outside, enjoying the sun. It has been great weather all week and I'm trying to enjoy it when I'm off work.



Last friday was the very important worldcup match between the Netherlands and Brasil and it was the hottest day of the year so far. So after the Dutch won the match(Hup Holland Hup) all the people in the street went crazy, especially the children! Everybody were outside cheering and cars were driving and waving with Dutch flags. It was just so beautiful to see everybody so happy. I really hope that we win the worldcup! I think then there's going to be a great party in Amsterdam and I want to be there and enjoy the atmosphere. But now the focus is back on and we have to beat Uruguay first.
Yes maybe you're surprised but it's not only my home and furniture that I love, ha ha.

Well, I'm about to go out and visit family. I wish you all a great day, enjoy the sun and relax!

Lazy sunday

The sun has finally started shining and I'm enjoying it fully!

What am I doing this weekd? Well not much... Bought an stool yesterday at a secondhand store and have sanded it and already gave it three coats of paint. I think it will be finished tomorrow and then I will show you.

Furthermore, nothing exciting, watched some episodes of the Dutch Antique Roadshow called Tussen Kunst en Kitch. I secretly love this show. Every time it's exciting to see if someone has an item in their possesion which is so expensive and they have no idea! Two weeks ago there was a man who had an old wooden statue of an African man and it turned out to have a value of 80.000 Euros!!! I wish I had something at home that is worth a lot of money. Sadly, our budget reduces a lot lately because of the renovation on the house and all kinds of plans we have which we need to save money for. Meanwhile, I'll just bought a stool that I love and is going to look great in the living room and then read a few interior magazines. My sister gave me a few old one of 2008. See if the interior taste has changed of the last two years.

I'll leave you with a few bright pictures and enjoy your sunday!

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!

The beach

Yesterday S and I had dinner with two friends of ours at the beach of Scheveningen. The Hague is located near the sea and went you want to go to the beach, you can go to Kijkduin or Scheveningen. It's has a special place in my heart because my mother had lived there for about 20 years before the family moved to Maassluis where I was born. But quite often we would go to Scheveningen see the beach. A few years ago I worked in a hotel what was along side the beach and saw the beach everyday. Now I go there to visit my friends and having something to eat and drink on the boulevard. And this is my view:



Our friends live opposite this building which was recently beautiful restored and I love it. We checked out how much it would sell for and it is far over our budget, starting at 350.000 euro. But you can so much for it, everything new and a fabulous view over the sea.


Hmm, maybe in the future...!

Sorry...

Hi Guys,

It has been a while... You will not believe the hectic time that has been and is still going on. We found a new buyer for our house but yesterday, the real estate agent told us that the buyer possibly can't buy the house and we will know more at the end of the week. That ,with some family issues, is making me not the most positive person in the world. And I believe that this blog should only have positive things to be talked about so therefore I kept a low profile.

And I will not complain and just carry on. I have to keep on believing that everything will be okay. So I'm sure that the photography will eventually come at some point because it has been some time since I last took a photo and now with the sun shining, I should just go to the beach and start shooting. But it will come.

So please have some patience and the fun will start on this blog which, despite everything, I'm still proud of.

Talk to you soon!

Paris, here I come...

Hi Everybody,

Just wanted to say HI and tell you all that tomorrow we're off to Paris for 5 days! I can't wait and I'll promise to make lot's of pictures and show then to you!

Also, our house was sold last week en we need to find a new house before the end of August because we need to be out of the currect house by then. So we have been looking on the internet and been visiting several houses. So hopefully in a few weeks time I have more to tell you...

Have a great weekend and talk to you soon!

-x-

Weekend!!!

I want to wish you all a great weekend, enjoy the sun when it shines and just relax...

S is away this weekend with his friends so I have the time to cath up on my reading. This morning, I read a chapter in Eat Pray Love and just now I read an article in the Home and Garden section of the New York Times and saw this great bathroom!


We'll, I'm about to leave to visit family and tonight I'll continue reading the book in bed! Can't wait!

Weekend

I made some pictures last friday. It was a very busy day and to relax, I started making some pictures...




I also bought a new book, Bazar style in the Dutch translation, and I recieved the interior magazine VT wonen by mail.


I had a lot of reading to do but had to work yesterday and enjoyed the sun today so I have a lot of catching up to do.

Have a great week!

My neighbourhoud

Yesterday, the weather wass so great, I spend more time outside then inside. I walked around and made a picture of this house which is nearby mine. I love the red door and the stain glass windows! And what do you thonk of the bike?


This is the view from my balcony. It's facinating because there's always something going on... (and yes, that's my laundry that hanging there ;-)


And my downstairs neighbour has the nicest cat ever. Look at him, don't you just love him!




Talk to you soon everybody!

Too long...

Wow, it has been a while since I last posted something on my blog... I have been so busy with work and trying to sell our house and looking for a new house (both are not going quite so good) and beind really tired at the end of the day. I don't know what it is but I'm just so tired all the time. Probably because of all the house stress. There have been some people looking at our house but then we hear nothing anymore. We are not in any hurry to move but I would like to start with a new project and start working on all the dreams and ideas that I have for the new house. It has almost become an obsession, really. I wake up with an idea and go to bed trying to remember everything that went through my mind.

Anyway, more fun things now... I was looking at the website of the English interior magazine Living etc and saw some great pictures, really inspiring!


First, my favourite chair, the Egg chair in a different fabric, love it!

I like the idea of having a kind of coffee/ tea corner in the new kitchen. S and I drink a lot of tea and I love to collect tea- and coffeemugs so that would be great!

And then I love this picture of the kitchen. The idea of a basic white on the wall and then a wooden floor and put colourful accessories is something I love. I don't know how S would feel about that, but it definitely works for me!

Unfortunately, I haven't been making pictures lately but this weekend we are going away with S's family to the east part of the Netherlands where there's more green than in the west part where we live so hopefully I'll make great pictures!

And in May, we are going to Paris for five days!!! I can't wait! I used to work in Paris a couple of years ago but haven't been back since so I'm looking forward to it!

High tea

Last week, we celebrated the my mother's birthday and we went for high tea. We went to this little shop that has a tearoom at the back. I never went there before and loved it!







In the front of the shop you can buy interior things and scarfs. Very beautiful and well put together.

Den Haag The Hague part two

Here are some more pictures that I made of my city...







While I'm writing this, it's snowing outside... I love it when it snows, especially when I'm inside and I know that I don't have to go outside! Enjoy your mondays everyone!

It's starting to feel...

No, I'm not singing a christmas song... Today, I went outside to do some errands and suddenly it hit me that spring is on it's way. It may take some time but it's coming. And when I was back home again, I noticed my coffee table and how it looked. I thought it was a great picture so I took my camera and made a picture of it.


In about an hour, I'm going to work but fow now I'm just enjoying seeing the sun shine in our house. Hope you have the time too that too today...

Den Haag, The Hague

I have been feeling guilty... In my blog, I tell you that I live in The Hague but I never show you pictures of this great city. So today I had the day of and went on my bike and drove around to make a few pictures.

After seeing the inauguration of Barack Obama yesterday, I felt inspired to go to our own Dutch goverment. The building is spectacular...



The archtecture is amazing. Inside the building is a kind of courtyard where everybody can walk.



Outside there's a monument of, I think, William of Orange, but I'm not quite sure. But there was a bird on the head of the monument and it looked like a model, ha ha




Well, that's for now. The next time, I'll show you some other pictures of The Hague, we'll call it Part two...

Where were you when...

Well, it has finally happened... Barack Obama is president of the United States and I'm happy with it. I think it's a good choice and to be honest there was nobody in my surroundings that liked John Mccain so for me it was unlikely that he was the right candidate.


The inauguration will become one of those moments when people will ask you: "Where were you when Barack Obama became president?" For me, I was at work and during my break I watched tv and saw Joe Biden en Barack Obama being inaugurated. Shortly after, I had to go back to work. I saw a small part of his speech and for me the message is "The former guys made a mess of it and now I will pick up the pieces and restore everything". For a split second I thought about that he hasn't got a lot of experience so I'll be interested to see how he will do. But all the best for Barack, he's an inspirational person and we haven't seen that for a while...

Thanks for CBC and the Daily telegraphe for putting the pictures online...

My home town

Last saturday, I went to see my sisters and have some tea at Monsieur Paul, a croissanterie where I like to go when I'm in Maassluis, the town where I lived for the first 25 years of my life. But before that I made some pictures of the harbour...





The town is nearby the sea so the harbour is important for Maassluis and everytime I'm there, I want to go there and feel the energy and atmosphere. For some reason, It calms me and all kinds of memories come back to me. I think it's a great town to visit in the spring. So whenever you're in the Netherlands....

Winter in The Hague

It has been freezing the last couple of weeks and Dutch people get excited when that happens! This is becaue we have the dream of skating on natural ice. Today, we went to the park nearby and I put my iceskates on and went on the ice!

The sun was shining and a lot of people were on the ice, it was great! After skating we walked around the park and then went back to our house for a cup of hot chocolate and whipped cream! And of course, sitting by the heater...


It doesn't get better than that on a sunday afternoon...