palermo

Palermo - Sicily - Saturday 16th of June

La Vita e Bella...

medina messi

The sound of kids playing football outside, has the same sound, no matter where in the world you are.


There are Messi's all around the world and it's so special that kids play the same way, wherever you are.

When I'm in Marrakech in the riad, and I hear the kids play football outside and having much fun together, it's the same sound as when I'm at home or somewhere else in Europe.

A long time ago, I had this idea of making a portrait book of Messi kids around the world.
Just a portrait from a boy wearing a Messi shirt (front and the back) with only a name, age, date and place.
I loved the idea that young boys are the all the same. You can spot small boys wearing Messi shirt everywhere.

I regret that I never started making the 'Messi portraits', because it would have been wonderful. I thought it would be a problem to take pictures of children and trouble with rights and privacy etc...
And after some years, when I was in Marrakech in October 2014, we met the neighborhood boys in the street, two of them wearing Messi shirts and I told my friend Ank of this idea of mine. She loved it too and said; you can still do it. I asked the boys if I could take their picture and they were proud to pose for the camera. We treated them on a drink and had fun with the 'team'.

Well the photo's I still have, but the Mondial Messi book never made it.

Today Morocco is playing their first match in the World Cup 2018 and I wish them all the luck!

C /\ B /\ N /\

CABANA Magazine is about intimacy and explores that close relationship that every person has with interiors. Not only grand rooms but odd corners, exquisite details and the objects that make a room feel personal.

'Each issue is a journey through obsessive collecting, colors and fabrics brought to life with luscious photography that will inspire you to discover a new world.' - C A B A N A magazine -

The cover itself is already worth to get a C /\ B /\ N /\ , each one has a unique fabric cover.

This issue was a birthday gift for Henk from our newlywed friends and it adorns the 'new' harlequin table. Muchas gracias M & S!

palmtree pattern

A new cool crochet summer project.

You can download the PALMTREE PATTERN in my Etsy shop.

The palmtree pattern I've designed, is made in filet crochet and you can it use as a curtain (back to the seventies) or as a wall hanging.

I've made it with a unbleached cotton, but you can also use any another yarn.

running

Tuesday evening run in the polder.

My 'weekly' 5 km run. At least I try to run every week and during the summer months more often. For me it's never easy to start and I often think I will run tomorrow... so I have to motivate myself and I know afterwards it always feels good.

"It's supposed to be hard... the hard is what makes it great"

summer season shoes

My favorite summer season shoe collection clockwise:

All Stars - Cacatoes - Betsy Palmer - Replay - Zeket - Voltan - Maypol - Isabel Marant - Raffiacraft by 33 Rue Majorelle - L.K. Bennett.

The Brazilian Cacatoes I've bought in Antwerp some weeks ago and they are my new 'Havaianas'.

In a few weeks we will fly to Sicily and I have to make a choice which ones to bring in my suitcase.

Casual choice has already been made; the All Stars, Cacatoes and Isabel Marant sandals I will certainly bring with me. One pair of dressy heels and ... ?

public vintage sale june in amsterdam

Today we went to the premiere of the public vintage sale of Lammie & Maria in Amsterdam.

photos:
1: urban jungle veranda
2: wooden 'harlequin' table top of the French round table we bought at L & M
3: curiosities in the cupboard
4: terrace chair and wooden cones on the checkered wooden floor
5: outdoor vintage furniture on the veranda
6: oldtimers in the P.C. Hooftstraat
7: university of Amsterdam, Nieuwe Achtergracht

Open House

1 - 2 - 3 June
8 - 9 - 10 June

open from 11 am

Sarphatipark 126hs
1073 ED Amsterdam

Maria de Haan & Lammie Snoeken