it's beginning to look a lot like christmas

December 2024

The trees are up!

It's officially winter and Christmas is just around the corner.

december at work

December at Villa Augustus.

Every now and then Pippa & Liam come by for a visit and a 'hare' cookie.

Liam even calls me 'oma haasje' or 'oma koekje'.

Christmas decorations at work for the 17th year in a row. Time flies...

christmas tradition since 2013

December 2023

All lined up for christmas.

Annual tradition since 2013.

december decorations

December traditions. colored Christmas lights in the ginkgo tree.

The multicolored LED festival lights we once bought from Habitat have lasted for many years. The bottom photos are from 2011, back then the beech hedge was still low and the trunk of the ginkgo tree was a lot thinner.

december traditions

Thursday 22nd of December

It always remains a convivial tradition, decorating the big colorful Christmas tree in the restaurant at work, also for the fifteenth time hahaha...

our tiny tree ✨

Our tiny tree ✨

This time we decorated the tree with Christmas hares of Anthropologie that we have collected over the years 🐰

The seven hares below you've have seen before and this Christmas season we have expanded our collection with new metropolitan hares from New York, London and Paris.

These hares will always remain a tradition I suspect and reappear every December.

december decoration in the hallway

Colorful December decoration in our hallway.

A practical tree that takes up little space, but has a big effect on the mural in our hallway.

I actually bought the beautiful vintage Christmas balls postcards to send them, but suddenly got this bright idea.

We also have a real Christmas tree this year, because we are going to celebrate Christmas Eve with Liam-Novi for the first time.

An extra festive and special Christmas with our family and we are all looking very much forward to it.

merry christmas

Merry Christmas Eve everyone!

And a joyful Christmas to you and your family and happy holidays!

a merry & bright christmas for everyone

Happy Christmas Eve everyone!

A joyful Christmas to you all. Wishing you and your family happy holidays!

let's stay inside

In my atelier, the very first woodwoolstool, I've made in 2007 standing next to a steel vintage stool. They are both blue and dressed. The vintage bed end coverlets serve as curtains. An embroidered postcard from Marrakech in a handmade scrapwood photo frame and the disco ball popped up between the Christmas decorations. A glance in the bamboo sunburst mirror.

In the living room the Hare Family and paper Christmas stars are lined up. And although it's freezing outside, the bougainvillea in the kitchen window sill is in bloom for the umpteenth time...