Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Friday, December 31, 2010
happy 2011
Today is the last day of 2010 and I am used to the space between 20 and 10 on the clock. The year has flown!
Yesterday Pippa was my personal assistant on the last flowerday of the year. In the morning we went to the flower auction for flowers & bulbs. When we arrived at Villa we first had lunch with Naïma in the marketcafe.
We brought all kind of bulbs for the shop and some cute four leaf clover plants for happiness in the new year!
Wishing everyone a happy 2011!
Monday, December 27, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
twenty ten
Twenty Ten
Years ago I bought a FLAP clock at Habitat in London.
Every first day of the year I’ve to change the year of the analogue wall clock manually.
This year the zero & nine had to be changed in one & zero and I found out that the one-piece is less than half the size of the other numbers. There was also a blank piece to fill the extra space. It looked stupid, like a gap between the 20 and 10. So I was asking myself if I really had to look at a stupid clock for the next nine years.
I searched in the numbers to check if there was no larger "one" hidden somewhere. No, there wasn’t. So this is it. Twenty ten! Or like my son Minne said; “it looks like if it’s always ten minutes past eight”.
After a few days I’m used to it and actually I’m starting to like the sound of it; twenty ten. An alliteration that will sound all year.
It’s funny to read and hear people around me wishing eachother a Happy Twenty Ten. I wonder; do they have a FLAP clock at home?
When I took the photo it was ten minutes past ten and that happens to be the state of every IKEA clock. A friend who worked at Ikea, once told me, it's because the clock hands look like a smile that way.
The l'amour toujours print is made by Ninainvorm and the South African frame is from OXO in Den Bosch.