publication vt wonen lifestyle

VT Wonen gathered more than 300 hotspots to shop, eat, stay and relax.
A lifestyle tour guide book along all the provinces in the Netherlands.
You can buy this smart 'keep issue' with the newest VT Wonen issue for next to nothing.
Highly recommended; a magazine packed with fun addresses.
(and it was a nice surprise to find myself at work on the Villa Augustus page)

stripes, socks & bookcover

Socks in heels. Stipes on stripes. I like it a lot, those unusual combinations.

The red shoes are already ten years old and I hardly wear them, since the sneakers made their entry in my shoe collection.
Every now and then I bring them out of the shoe rack.

This weekend I started to read The Year of the Runaways.
The English translation of a novel by Sunjeev Sahota.
I received the book from India in the mail last week.
Just a few months ago I got a request from Bhavi Mehta to use my [red suitcase] photo from London for the cover of the book.
She said the picture is just right for the story.
I like those unexpected surprising twists.

amsterdam blue

Friday the 13th in Amsterdam. Our lucky day ;-)
Lunchdate with my dear friend Ank, we're both very excited about the new Marrakech projects for 2017.
After lunch a boattrip to the city center with my man.
We tried to escape the crowded places and walked along the canals and decided to finish the day on the beach at Pllek until sunset.

a harlequin a day

To me crochet in the backyard during these summer may nights are so relaxing.
I love love love to sit outside and working on tiny crochet projects.
During the last cool crochet workshop in Marrakech, we were joking about a new motto 'a harlequin a day, keeps the stress away...'
For me it really works.

At the moment I'm working on a new harlequin blanket.
Lots of 'white' harlequins with and also many different colors to make it 'work'.
Tonight I even made 3 harlequin in a row (i'm totally zen haha)
If you feel you need a harlequin a day prescription, you can find the recipe in my Etsy shop.

*only side effect: it is addictive

lucky vintage finds

Some second-hand summer finds from Lucky Vintage, Witte de witstraat 19A in Rotterdam.

french curiosities

Just a small selection of the French finds by Lammie.
We picked the cute vegetable jug and a matching plate.

You can visit the Saturday shop with lots of great brocante finds from France almost every Saturday at the Knolhaven in Dordrecht.

sowing season

The sowing season has begun.

Saturday night was a wonderful summer evening and we've been 'working' in the garden until sunset.
We have sowed the zinnia seeds in our backyard, hoping for a zinnia jungle like we had in 2014!
For some reason the zinnia's we sowed last year didn't work out like the ones in 2014.
This time I've mixed three different kinds for a colorful zinnia field in the backyard.