Desk

At the moment, I'm studying at home and am taking a small break. Just checked out the Decor8 blog and saw a photo of this wonderful desk. Love the Eiffeltower figurines!



This is a photo of my desk. Not as nice as photo number one but beter to concentrate...!



The desk is actually in the laundryroom! It is the only place where I can work properly. It is a small space where I feel comfortable and there are no distractions. The desk and pinboard are secondhand and the lamp is from Ikea. I also made a moodboard which you can see a small bit of on the right side. More photo's will follow, it is a bit empty now.

Ok, break's over and back to work. Have a lovely evening!

Finally a sunny day!

And I spend it on our roof terrace and lot's of magazines!

Dinner tonight: lasagna leftover & green salad

New Starbucks add

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



Love the song too, anybody knows who sings it?

Yummy cupcakes

This week I have been busing baking delicious cupcakes! I started talking to my colleagues about cakes and pies and that I would love to bake everyday. Now, I just lost 25 pounds so that would be a big mistake... Fortunately, two colleagues offered to be my CTP's or also known as "Culinary Test Panel"! So this week I made vanilla cupcakes with chocolat icing.




In 2008, Syb and I visited London and before I read an article on a blog about the Hummingbird bakery and I put that on the list of being one of the things to go and eat. Look at this photo of the shop, on't you just love it? If I ever open my own cupcake shop, it will look something like this!


The recipe is from the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook that I bought a few years ago but never made anything from it yet. So this week was a good week to start!


In the meantime, I'm baking for the CTP's, friends and neighbours and yes also me... Have to go at least four times to the gym if I don't want to be a fat bride in May 2012. Lukily I still have a few months to go, so one (ok, three) cupcakes won't be so bad, will it?

Dinner tonight: broccoli soup

This is a recipe for a great soup, non fat! After eating this, you're completely satisfied!





Ingredients Broccoli soup

2 pieces of broccoli
1 onion
450 ml beef- or vegetable stock
450 ml milk
salt and pepper

Cook the broccoli, onion and stock for 15 minutes. Then add milk, salt and pepper and put everything in the blender.

Bon appetit!

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!

Favorite blog

For a few years I am reading several blogs made by interesting womem. It would be a great idea, I think, to show you some of my favorite blogs, starting with Yvestown.

For a number of years, I have a subscription on a Dutch interior magazine called Ariadne at Home. This magazine is for people, mostly women, who like the 'brocante' look in a home, so a French/ English kind of feel and sometimes a little bit of comtemporary snugged in there. A few years ago Ariadne at Home featured the home of Yvonne Eijkenduijn, a Dutch woman who lived in the south part of the Netherlands. She has a website called Yvestown. I was so inspired by her home and interior that I started following her blog. Now a few years later, she has moved from the Netherlands to Belgium and we as readers get the change to follow her as she is renovating and decorating her home. I think it's wonderful. She uses colors that make me jealous just because S. would never go for it!

Here are some inspiring photo's:





As you can see, I am a big fan of her kitchen, it looks so lovely! And don't you justy love the quality of her photo's? I am not going to deny it, I am her huge fan of her and her website!

I think it is fun to show other people's work and I think I should do a blog feature every month. I already know which blog it is going to be but is will remain a secret till then ;-)

Have a great day everyone!

Oxford & High Wycombe

We just returned from a short holiday in the UK. We flew to London Luton and then took the bus to Oxford where we stayed for one night. We stayed at a bed and breakfast which was ok but not great. The sun was shining and we walked all over town and took one of those awful touristic bus trips. The good thing is that you can see everything and get to know about the history of Oxford but still... You could better all wear hats that says: "I am a tourist" because I think it looks horrible. I would like to think that I could blend in with the rest of the people that live there, ha ha. Unfortunately I left my camera at the B&B so no pictures were taken, except the one of this nice house, which I took on the last day of our stay there.



The remaining days we stayed with family in High Wycombe which was great. We try to see each other once a year in The Hague and once a year in High Wycombe. We went to a great outlet shopping centre in Bicester, called Bicester Village . You can buy clothes from all kinds of brands, like G-Star, Diesel, Jimmy Choo, Uggs, etc. S. bought a pair of jeans from G-star and a great shirt from Diesel. I couldn't something unfortunately.

We also went to a park nearby High Wycombe, can't remember the name but took some great photo's!





There was also a playground nearby where I found back my inner child, ha ha!


So to sum it up, a great get away and I can't wait to go back there again! What about you, do you have any plans for a (short) holiday? I would love to hear from you!

Dreamhouse

After walking along the shore, I went back home and saw this house. It is just behind the dunes in a quiet area. I am told that these houses were build after the second world war for the people from Indonesia who arrived in the Netherlands. Then they were very cheap but know these houses are worth a lot of money!



I would love to live in a house like that although they are not that big. There was one for sale but I don't know what the asking price is. There is another house for sale in that area but not as beautiful as this one and it had an asking price of EUR 850.000,00!

Well, there's nothing wrong with dreaming, is there. Meanwhile I am just as happy in our home!

Have a great weekend!