ilove...my Canon Eos

Doesn't it make great pictures....?
This is not a commercial, me just an amateur that is happy with the results.        

                                                           
My dear Bambi.... surrounded by my favourite colours


                                                             Happy happy wednesday

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Creative space

Today it was kind of a fall day here....so i got some time to change clean up  my creative space.

Right now i am working on a project for a shop called JOE MERINO.
They sell the best merino pulls for men ever and have a shop in the centre of Amsterdam (they sell online too). Hence the moodboard with JOE... (and the boxing gloves)the interior has to be very masculin. I will show you the results later....

Of course this is the "after" shot..... 

(You can see my inspiration board on Pinterest)

Have a fun fun fun weekend

XX

Le marché in le Sud

ilove markets, wherever i am they always bring a smile on my face....
Holland can be rainy, so markets are a whole difference experience in a country where there is plenty of Sunshine.

Big pans full of food Basquais ( i would probably never cook again)
But the best on French markets is the rottiserie fillled with chickens (sorry vegetarian followers..)

See that chicken fat dripping on potatoes and vegetables? Thats the ultimate proof of French paradox!    

                                                                    Le menu du jour......

                                                 Le menu du jour...part two..;))

                                                                            


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Just got back

We just got back from a fantastic trip to the South West of France...Les Landes.
Le Atlantic.. I caught some waves, and they caught me..

Don't know why but in France i don't care if people are so close to my towel (in fact almost on my towel)

We lived like Gypsies...(ok maybe besides the laptop) and had a GREAT time.

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Hooked on Pinterest

Please visit me on Pinterest....neglecting my blog but maybe you will like my boards...

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ilove....multitasking

Yep! Here i am......back in my blogging mojo ( as my dear friend from Ted an Bunny calls it).
Busy with doing lots of things. There is sweet chillichicken in the oven from my new favorite cook Annabelle Langbein  (great name, long legs....)

While thats cooking i'm reading a new great online magazine Naturelle.

Did some body work because Spring is on its way (i hope) and that means bikinis have to be worn again.
Doing this workout might do the trick.....??

Then i am  playing Draw something on my phone with a friend from work

And.... i am making a new post.... Oh God my chicken!!

Have a Happy Happy  wednesday.

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ilove....cosy

When its cold outside ilove to snuggle with a blanket (sheepskin in my back) on my couch with a magazine. Our Norwegian woodburner snoring in the background.
See that cushion on my couch? A very talented friend Elsy from England handmade it for me.... ilove the colours (pastels).
My newest item is the oversized lamp, as you might know by now ilove the combination of traditional with a little design.Plus...it makes reading magazines at night easier nowadays..:))

We had close friends over for dinner. I made tortilla wraps and took my things from Christmas 2010 to decorate. (recycle,recycle,recycle....)

                                             Have a cosy,cosy Thursday

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ilove....Portugal

Happy, happy tuesday!
The sun is shining, its cold outside by the end of the week we might get lucky and can  go iceskating. THE national sport in Holland when its freezing. This reminds me of....
End of november hubby and i went to Portugal for a long weekend (yes without the children:)). We had 4 days of sunshine and 20 degrees.
We found this beachclub and settled in the beanbags with a great cappucino.( and great white wine after that)

Being there off season we were the only guests...

We had our choice of hammock....

I could live the rest of my life in that little blue house...God how i love the Ocean.

See those sunglasses.....thats Mr. R enjoying some november sunshine....

Just google this name and go there sometimes....we are in love.

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ilove....my house

So proud to have our house featured in house and styling magazine Ariadneathome.
I don't have the original pictures yet so i took some pictures from the magazine to give you an impression.(So please forgive the poor quality)

 This Jil and me sitting at our table, sipping coffee (of course just for the picture, she doesnt like coffee)

The table i got from my dear friend Antoinette when she moved to Italy. (she is back now, but no way i'm returning the table ;)). And of course my (not my brothers :)) painting and bench.

Our kitchen.. see that cookbook. My favorite from Sophie Dahl.

Our bathroom and Jils bedroom.


                                                           Have a happy,happy tuesday

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ilove....colours

I don't actually. Well of course i do, but there is a reason why i painted our house white...whiter...whitest.
But life is boring without colors.Isn't it?

So to ad some colours (and Lord knows i need colours in january:))
I stole/borrowed these French old waterbottles from mum's house . Mum knows about me borrowing things, my house is full of it .... i don't return it  
(remember my library books mum?) and the bills that came in....

This old horseshoe is from a thrift store in Sweden, boring....but not with this violet ribbon.
(Did you know that you never,ever hang a horseshoe with its opening pointed towards the floor. The luck will poor out of your house and we dont want that, do we?)

I bought this colourful rope to tie hubby  to make presents more colourful.

Have a happy,happy colourful Thursday.


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ilove.....my parents house

So the New Year has started and of course i have New Years resolutions. Behave,blog more,drink less wine, watch less soaps and eat no chocolate for a while.....( a day or so)
I also bought a new camera.(thanks to hubby)
Yesterday i went to my parents appartement and tested it. Here  you can see where my love for styling came from.















Living room
















Like me my mother loves magazines and cant throw any away.




















My mum loves designers stuff...















And she irons all her bedlinnen....not something i inherited :))














My favorite colors...
















Ilove this chinese room divider, the Maria statue was found on the streets of Barcelona years ago.
Mum almost had to buy an extra plain ticket to take her home.....





















Mum and i both love to mix old and new stuff.

ILOVE her house and ilove her......(and Dad too of course)




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ilove......Christmas

Yes, yes still alive and kicking. Not going to write that i'll be blogging as usual again (as if anyone would still be remotely interested :)))  But for you who hung in there..
Just wanted to wish everyone a happy new year.... may all your dreams come true ...

Here are some photos i wanted to share.
We had a wonderful Christmas with lots of wine,good wine,great wine, desert wine, red wine, white wine, french wine, spanish wine ... (and a head ache). Oh yes and we had some lovely food.

See that drawing on my mantle... i copied it from something i saw on Desperate housewives ( see watching this does make you creative :)) 

   
































Candles, candles, candles.
Just used my good old pastels again.

No white Christmas this year...... dont you hate it when its green and rainy?

Anyways darlings...wishing you all the best for 2012 and hope to "see" everyone again soon.



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ilove....livingrooms

Its out of sheer frustration that i am making this post. Too lazy to make pictures of my own house(which is a mess anyway).Nothing has changed out of lack of inspiration and me preffering watching Desperate housewives with my mouth full of chocolate instead of arranging some fresh flowers....
Now that this has been said i would like to share these pictures of different livingrooms and hope in doing so i get off my lazy b*tt and start making my own livingroom ready for Fall. (or clean it would be nice too)

   































This aint exactly Fall, iloveit anyway...maybe next summer (oh summer PLEASE come back, i miss you)

I might go and live in a lofty house someday  (oh that garden is driving us nuts sometimes, imagine spending a sunday morning on your terrace overlooking Barcelona) and start learning spanish, and go poledancing, kickboxing.....start a restaurant or foodtruck.....surfing.... and begin a webshop or a bed and breakfast ( i think i might have ADHD)

Me likee the combinations here....clean crisp

This is my inspiration for Fall colors, and the mix of styles. Perfect!

Have a happy, happy Wednesday..its sunny outside!

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ilove......route du soleil

For all of you who want to test your relationship. Try driving in the rain on the " route du soleil" (sunshine highway) and have nothing but traffic jams.

See that Lonely planet? Very optimisticly we headed towards Spain. It took us 22 hours to get there....

Because on this saturday everyone in France decided they had to go south also ( how dare they?)

Making a stop for gas and find at least 15 people in line in front of you having the same idea. (And i am not even talking about getting a cup of coffee)

 Jil gave up,the DVD player did not work.........

But we ended up in Spain. This is our VW in San Sebastian, a great town with great food.

Lessons learned.....

Our relationship still rocks....

And  never ever go to the South of Europe  on a saturday in august.

Have a great weekend...it feels great to be back.

                                                      XX

  

ilove....milesofsmiles

On a Danish beach

After having so much fun with our VW camper we decided to rent it to other people sometimes. (And to make some money :)) let's be honest....
I made a blog called milesofsmiles. It's in Dutch. But if my friends from overseas are ever interested in a fun trip trough Europe.....get in touch.


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Back again......

My dear dear followers. I cannot explain why i have not been posting for such a long time. This is so typically me i guess. I'm pretty good at starting something but finishing it......and the fact that i am a lazy person :)
Anyway, just wanted to let you know ( if anyone is still interested...) that i am doing well and i missed all you guys. Many Thanks to themiddlestsister, Temps Perdu and Crumpets and cakes who asked where i was and in that giving me the final push to pick up blogging again.
Anyway everything is well with me and my family  just got back from a very nice vacation in Spain and the south of France with our Old Volkswagen.  We had a great time and such beautiful weather, amazing. Made us realise that we might, might just sell our house and live over there. You never know.Will post some pictures of our trip soon.

The exciting news is that our house will be featured (with an interview with me) in one of Hollands leading interior magazines Ariadneathome  and they will mention my blog. It will probably come out somewhere in October, will keep you posted. Pinky promiss :)

So now back to my ilove......

This is one picture ilove  

contemporary spaces design by san francisco Urrutia Design

It has everything ilove. The outdoors, the combination of old and new. And lets not forget that swimmingpool. Check out Houzz.com for more inspiration.

That's it for now, lets not overdo it :)


XX

ilove.......work in progress

This weekend we've been busy with Jil's new room.We finally made the decision to give her Nick's room.As Nick went to university and lives there i found it hard to give his room away too soon. But Jil's room was so small it made no sense anymore to keep Nick's room  just for the rare occasion he sleeps here ( very busy social life :)).

So we started painting and i was soo happy when Jil and i agreed about this beautiful wallpaper of Nina Campbell. ( ok i pushed here just a little ...)
So this is where we left it, still got lots and lots of work to do.I'll keep you posted.

 
































I still had some wallpaper left ( in fact it was a whole roll but please don't tell hubby...he was in shock when he saw the price).So i made a panell for our own bedroom with it.

I makes me happy, everytime i see it.

Have a happy, happy week.

                              
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