august in december

It was on my to-go-list for such a long time, but today we actually experienced "Villa August" in december. It was a grey and cold winterday, but it felt warm and bright being there. Sharing our visit at Villa Augustus with lovely friends and all our kids. Knowing we will visit it on a sunny day (perhaps in august) some time.

PS. the neon pink christmas decoration fish left at the top of the tree (at picture nine) has moved to our X-MAS tree in Zutphen as a sweet souvenir :)

fave board | pinspiration

In the range of social media Instagram and Pinterest are my favorites. In 2014 I will start a #instamonth-post on my blog and now I'm sharing some favorite pins. New ones and some of my fave board: just lovely:

* kids room with a bite on smam

* faux fur on shepine

* pastel on here comes the sun

* polkadot on oneadornedday

* door love on sfgirlbay

* let it snow on for the love of megan

* love (this) swimsuit on cabane-chic

Wishing you a weekend filled with inspiration!

b-day blessings

A busy week, actually too busy and most of all with lots of mixed emotions, but nevertheless, or perhaps because of that, a great week, like:
* Sam singing at the Muzehof on tuesday recorded by Floor also recording himself singing along and Pip warning him :)
* Sam performing at 'Mighty Mathilda' with school at the Hanzehof on friday and saturday evening. It was such a great performance shared with my loved ones on friday. For Sam it meant ending one and a half year practising with fellow students, which was quite emotional; and
* yesterday celebrating Floor's seventh birthday together with lovely presents but most of all lovely people. While going to sleep he said it was his most wonderful birthday ever :)

Have a nice week, perhaps enjoying celebrating 'Sinterklaas' on 5 December!

Follow the weekly count your blessings posts of all participants mentioned on Anki's blog Zilverblauw.

counting down till XMAS

Still eight days left and it will be the 1th of december. The day our youngest son will celebrate his seventh B-day and the start of counting down the days until XMAS. 

Recently I collected some great DIY advent calenders on Pinterest. Still one week left to make your own personal one!

Check my advent-pinterestboard for more inspiration!

By the way on 1 december the episodes of 'Christmas with Linus' will be on television again. 

One of our most favorite pre-XMAS traditions!

tile love | pinspiration

source: room of creativity

source: emmas designblog

source: ingerstedt

Just a lot of white tiles, combined with concrete and wood, copper or tire-baskets accessories. Basic minimalistic and so beautiful.

positive life | pinspiration

Live a positive life and count your blessings:

* stenciled concrete floor source unknown
* positive life on picquote
* club love on out of office

Enjoy your weekend!

bloginspiration: pirates and peonies

Pirates and peonies is the blog by Shaynah or @ruffledsnob. A lovely one. About styling, clothes for kids and adults, sharing real life, interior en family love. Shaynah also contributes to La Petite Mag blog. And in love with her post They will remember!

crushed blessings

A busy week, feeling a little bit crushed between loving my job and enjoying to be home with the kids, but also with nice blessings like:

* rearranging and restyling the bedrooms: Pip and Floor sleeping together from now on. Just hoping they don't make it too cosy every evening :)

* feeling gifted the kids enjoy their sports activities so much: Floor playing football and making a goal last saturday with his left leg!, Pip loving horse riding and Sam enjoying his singing lessons and practising for the stage performance 'Mathilda' (with three performances at the end of this month at the Hanzehof!)

* celebrating the birthday-party of Roos, the daughter of very lovely friends, this sunday

* winning a 'Plak 't' sticker designed by Lidewijs on facebook for our LOVE WALL. Happy and sharing a picture of it soon!

* a very nice, new cooperation on my blog, sharing a guestblog in january or february next year!

Have a nice week!

Follow the weekly count your blessings posts of all participants mentoined on Anki's blog Zilverblauw.

Sint inspiration

SINT stamp by Miss Honeybird 

cardboard deer by Laat mij maar schuiven

Fox cushions by Cake-Mixstore

postcard-my stars by Worldly Treasury

knit by La Retahila

Moustache button by Jootje Styling

Haringmaatjes by VIS-R

Recently I launched my first give-away in collaboration with DaWanda, an online platform for shops selling handmade, unique and sometimes individualized products.

Happy to share the Met Melk&Suiker favorites for the Sinterklaas-special on the Dutch DaWanda-site. Because the old Sint-Nicholas really needs your help to buy all the presents in time for his b-day event on December 5th*.

But be carefull, you can wander around for hours on this lovely site for your Sint-event preparation :)

And while the shops on DaWanda share products which are nice to have every event or moment of the year I will update my I-wish list every now and then!

Enjoy the 'Sint-voorpret'!

*for all foreign followers on my blog: Sinterklaas is a dutch event where Sint Nicholas ;) is celebrating his birthday on the 5th of December buying presents for all the children in The Netherlands.