family & friends

To celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, we travelled to Marrakech to share this special event with our children and dearest friends.

The two of us married in 1992, without a party or fuss, this time we did it again our very own way...

One year ago we made a plan to celebrate our love with a small group of loved ones. We have been looking forward to this special journey for a long time.

In our imagination the thought of this trip was already so great, but it was even better than we had ever dreamed of.
It was so very special to have all my sweethearts with me in Marrakech. My husband and best friend Henk, son Minne, daughter Pippa and her friend Joe, our friends Fred, Chris, Jeroen and Rosa.

We started each day with a breakfast in the sun on the roof terrace.

We stayed for six days at hotel Chambres d'Amis and visited the most beautiful spots in the Medina and enjoyed the road trips with our minibus to the High Atlas Mountains and the desert. We had lunch and dinner in all my favorite restaurants and ended each day with drinks on the roof.

You already know that Marrakech is my favorite city (obviously) and being among the people i adore so much, made this trip even more unforgettable.

(more about our adventures in the following posts)

superbly styled without trying

A touch of tranquility and pureness in the middle of busy Marrakech.

This is what i love about the Medina...

Moroccan hues.
Colorful vegetables in the street.
A vegetable stall made with crates, in perfect color combinations.

Everything about this is beautiful.

I came across this iPhone photo* this morning, while i was cleaning out my phone storage.
*(shot in October 2016, during the Cool Crochet workshop)

lunch hour

Today I'm going to try one of the recipes from my new cookbook. I'll make the salad with avocado, apple, pomegranete and mint. Sounds okay right?!

La Famille has released a cookbook of their Moroccan-Italian recipes.
The cookbook was a gift from my friend and workshop partner Ank, because it's one of our favorite lunch places in the Medina.

working on my green drawing skills

This weekend I've been working on my green drawing skills.
It's so fun to do, although my sketches can still use some improvement at this point.
I've been working on the workshop-program* and all green trips are worked out in detail. Can't wait to get started with the new green adventures in and around Marrakech.
*GREEN GARDENS WORKSHOP

Six days in Marrakech! Green is the theme. Price € 675,00 per person.
The price is based on a shared twin bedroom and excluding flight ticket. It's not possible to book a single room.
It's always possible to book extra nights, before or after the workshop (info@chambresdamis.com)
INCLUDED:
- transfer from airport Marrakech to Riad Chambres d'amis (v.v.)
- shared twin bedroom (5 nights) including breakfast in Chambres d'Amis. (no single rooms available)
- 3 dinners & 4 lunches (drinks not included)
- veggie cooking workshop
- collecting green memories in a herbarium
- all excursions in and around Marrakech

PROGRAMME:
During the workshop we will visit and explore all kinds of gardens in and around Marrakech; An Arabic garden, a rose garden, botanical gardens, secret city gardens, city parks, hidden courtyards, an art garden, museum gardens and vegetable- and herb gardens.

You will be surprised how green the Red City actually is. Urban jungle adventures with guided tours and delicious moroccan food, make this green travel-workshop unforgettable!

SPRING GREEN GARDENS WORKSHOP arrival: Thursday 11th of May - leaving: Tuesday 16th of May
AUTUMN GREEN GARDENS WORKSHOP arrival: Thursday 12th of October - leaving: Tuesday 17th of October

We still have a twin bedroom available for the Green Garden workshop in May!

If you would like to join one of the workshops, please send an e-mail info@woodwoolstool.com for an application form.

new season - new woodwoolstools

Two new handmade woodwoolstools in the S H O P.

Scrapwood stool legs with a cover of Moroccan wool!
One stool seat is covered in white yarn with a touch of gold.
The other one is covered with turquoise crochet.

Both handmade, spring style and unique.

saturday morning mood

Saturday morning.

Breakfast & magazines in bed.

You can find the harlequin herringbone pattern of the handmade blanket in my Etsy shop.

Have a great weekend!

keen on flowers and plants

This whole week I've enjoyed the spring flowers in the kitchen.
The flowers I got from my friend Rosa last Friday. Together with my daughter, she chose the spring beauties, in the flower shop where Pippa works.
They know what I like...

In an interview for Home & Garden, I once said, I'm not too keen on houseplants, but crazy about flowers. Plants and flowers get along fine together in our house nowadays. The reason I prefered flowers, was because they are gone after a week and it's time for something new.

You know by now, that I have revised my opinion about houseplants and I still get overjoyed by fresh flowers.