how d'ya like your eggs in the morning?

Saturday 18th of February 2023

When he asks how I want my egg and I say surprise me...

Henk prepared all the options; fried egg, omelette, boiled egg, scrambled egg and a poached egg. Bon appetit!

faire la vaisselle

Souvenirs de Paris.

French plates by Paola Navone and vintage cutlery by Sabre.

After Paris in August for a couple of days, we had bruch today with our new plates and cutlery from Merci.

Both not dishwasher proof, so I did the dishes myself, with pleasure!

In the next days I will come back with some Paris posts. We had an amazing time, I think it was our best stay in Paris ever.

lunch in marseille

Marseille - 28th of July

Mediterranean lunch at Marseille with Henk, Minne, Souf & Wes.

Marseille is a rough southern French eatery on the quay in Rotterdam. Casual atmosphere, French vibe, pure food, decor and design are just right.

And because I like the Marseille house style with arabic punctuation so much, Henk surprised me with an early birthday present. The friendly owner agreed to sell 4 Marseille dinner plates (high exception).

We will definitely come back for a breakfast, apéro or dinner. Au revoir.

classic blue - pantone color of the year 2020

Haha, so I was com-ple-te-ly wrong about the color. My divination of a golden yellow hue didn't come true.

Pantone Color of the Year 2020 is Classic Blue, PANTONE 19-4052, to be more precisely.

Pantone introduced the new color yesterday as a timeless and enduring blue hue elegant in its simplicity. Suggestive of the sky at dusk, the reassuring qualities of Classic Blue offer the promise of protection; highlighting our desire for a dependable and stable foundation from which to build. As we cross the threshold into a new era, Pantone has translated the hue into a multi-sensory experience to reach a greater diversity of people and provide an opportunity for everyone to engage with the color.

I had to laugh about some of the comments after the reveal. Someone said; very disappointing, looks like Facebook... But most of the comments on the new color of the year are positive.

Although it's not my favorite blue, it is a classic, relaxing and timeless color. Something like Levis 501, comfy and never goes out of style.

open doors

Daily routine.

Unpacking the dishwasher.
Open the kitchen cupboard doors and put everything back in place.
Nothing special, a daily recurring activity.
Yet I can see the 'fun' of this daily routine.
All the personal things, the mix of colors, the collections...

and when everything is back in place, close the doors again, because I'm allergic to open doors.

doing the dishes

The kitchen table full of dishes, a beautiful sight!

The vintage serving cart in our kitchen is the perfect place to store the dishes.
Some of them we use daily, most of them we use very often, but some we hardly ever use.
Because the kitchen cart is open, every now and than the cart including stacks need to be cleaned.
Doing the dishes is not as much work as it might seem, thank goodness we have a dishwasher.

Everything is cleaned up and tidy and all the stacks are back on the cart again.

plants & plates

The spider plant - chlorophytum comosum - has never really been away, because it's so easy to maintain and multiply.

One of the most interesting points of the spider plant is its ability to rapidly propagate itself. A spider baby from the mother plant will often root and within a year it's producing babies of its own, you can give out to your family and friends.

I've send a couple of spider babies to my niece in London and I hope they will survice the journey.

The small green harlequin pot I brought from Anthropogie in Londen and the leafs plate I found at Portazul in The Hague.

what's for dinner?

I don't allow myself to buy another cookbook for the time being.
As long as there are at least four cookbooks on the cart, from which we have not tried a single recipe yet...
We have so many wonderful cookbooks and yet I do not know what to make for dinner tonight?

spike

Spike, the dachshund.
By far my favorite plate in tha house!

This plate by Nathalie L'été is a painting of her own dog Spike.

Love at first sight.