flowers & food

Summer flowers & summer food in Portugal.

space age

Our latest vintage find; a yellow design chair by Gilac, France from the seventies.

The beautifully designed Space Age chair, the design is one-piece molded plastic.

The African electric wire antlers from the stairwell got a prominent place in our bedroom today.

A tiny interior update in our bedroom. Space age meets eclectic style.

pantone 2 0 2 1 mittens

Pantone has chosen two shades for its Color of the Year 2021.

The bright yellow shade, called Illuminating, is meant to evoke the optimistic promise of a sunshine-filled day, while Ultimate Gray is a much quieter hue that speaks more of composure, steadiness and resilience.

PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray & PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating, two independent colors that highlight how different elements come together to support one another, best express the mood for Pantone Color of the Year 2021.

Practical and rock solid but at the same time warming and optimistic, the union of Ultimate Gray & Illuminating is one of strength and positivity. It is a story of color that encapsulates deeper feelings of thoughtfulness with the promise of something sunny and friendly.

A message of happiness supported by fortitude, the combination of grey & yellow is aspirational and gives us hope. We need to feel that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit.

I love this color combination and the idea behind it. So i decided to crochet a pair of fingerless mittens in the Pantone colors of the year 2021.

The diagonal striped pantone 2021 mittens are available in my ETSY SHOP now.

For over 20 years, Pantone’s Color of the Year has influenced product development and purchasing decisions in multiple industries, including fashion, home furnishings, and industrial design, as well as product packaging and graphic design.

Every Pantone Color of the Year from 2000 - 2020 is shown HERE.

easy like sunday morning

Waking up at nine and getting out of bed at twelve.

Last night we traditionally celebrated a typical Dutch 'pakjesavond' with our family at Pippa's. We had such a lovely and cozy evening together. 'Sinterklaas' gifts under the Christmas tree, for this year it is Pippa's first Christmas tree in her own home. Joky and touching Sinterklaas poems, music and lots of fun memories of pakjesavond when the children were younger.

Perfect weekend sofar.

creating a color story entrance - hallway wall painting

Yesterday while wearing my sunday dress but not having any plans for the day yet, I decided to make a wallpainting in the hallway out of the blue.

Impulsive projects are often the best...

So I just started using tray the pots with paint from previous projects.

We had already removed the scrap wood wall a while ago, to give the hallway a freshening up.

At the end of the day I only had a few more colors to go... But I had enough of it and it was getting too dark anyway, so I decided to clean the paint brushes and finish the hallway wallpainting tomorrow.

After breakfast I went on with the wallpainting and now I only have to paint the final block, but the original wall color goes actually beautiful with the rest.

I will sleep on it for another night, for I think I might consider the wallpainting 'unfinished' otherwise.

The other walls have to be repainted anyway, because of stains and minor damage. So if I use a different color for the other walls, the gray area at the bottom might seems a 'new' color in the end.

Making a fresh colorful entrance was super fun to do and now I truly hope we can welcome our friends and family soon!

color story

Color story of the new bedroom.

And yes, my first painting made it into the bedroom!

Moreover Henk surprised me with a cool Majorelle blue table, on his side of the bed.
As agreed, we both bought 'our side of the bed' part separately.

The room is awesome, things go together so well. We hadn't really planned this in advance, but it worked out well.