bloginpiratie: Liebster blog award

aime

Eenig wonen

interieur-coosje

mijn huisstijl en ik

This week I received another Liebster blog award by &SUUS. Suus started her lifestyle and interior blog &SUUS recently and I think she really deserves receiving the award. She labeled my blog as 'personal' which feels like such a nice compiment!

I love to give the Liebster to five great dutch inspiring blogs:

kleur de dag by Anouk

mijn huisstijl en ik by Imke

interieurcoosje by Stephanie

eenig wonen by Karin

aimeejiline by Aimée

The Liebster Blog Award is given to blogs with less than 200 followers. When you are given the award you:

* thank the one who gave you the award & post a link

* mention five blogs to forward the award to & let them know by leaving a comment on their blog)

* keep your fingers crossed that the chosen ones want to keep forwarding the award :)

beautiful weekly blessings

This week I started working after a great holiday with my loved ones. The kids are still celebrating there holiday for three more weeks, which makes my days off feeling like holiday too. This week:
* the kids enjoyed staying with their friends and their friends staying at our home
* I bought my favorite thermos jug at the market
* I read the wonderfull book on biographical coaching called The warrior and the dancer by Eva de Waard, knowing I want to give the dancer more space in my job as a carreer coach
* Irene mentioned my Pinterest board 'JUST LOVELY' on her Bloesem blog! Such a wonderful compliment!

Wishing you a nice week!

Picture 1 & 3: Met Melk&Suiker

Picture 2: source unknown

Volg de wekelijkse count your blessings van alle deelnemers vermeld op het blog van initiatiefneemster Anki

SIGN moa+holmberg

Two of my favorite blogs started a marvellous online magazine called SIGN.
SIGN is an art and design cross-over magazine. They share their passion through photography and visual illustration. There first edition is available on their new blogsite SIGN moa+holmberg.
You should absolutely take a look!

moodboard on the wall | pinspiratie

Pins of small and big and most of all changing moodboards on your wall:
* cloud on One Happy Mess
* magazine storage on Riazzoli
* styling board by Gitte Kjaer on Yellows Photography

Your welcome to follow my pinboards on Pinterest: Met Melk&Suiker

S*B

Last weekend I received a colorful printable poster as give away from Studio Blomm. S*B is a webshop not only selling this lovely printable poster (for sale this week!), but also beautiful felt blankets, wooden cutting boards and magnets made of buttons designed by Goed in Stijl. You should really take a look yourself! 

lovely blessings

This week we enjoyed the sun:

* celebrating Pippi's 7th birtday at the beach in Zandvoort on monday

* walking along the canals in Amsterdam on flip flops on tuesday; and 

* spending most of the other days swimming, sunbathing and having diner in our garden

It was a lovely week to spend our holiday and have so much quality time with our kids!

Volg de wekelijkse count your blessings van alle deelnemers vermeld op het blog van initiatiefneemster Anki

bloginspiratie: design & splendours

Design & Splendours means:

+ black, white & grey

+ concrete & wood

+ a little bit splendid color

+ real bloglove

shoppinglist XXX

Interior shopping in Amsterdam to me means visiting distinctive stores that don't exist in my own homepart of the country. So on my shoppinglist were: Sukha Amsterdam, OPTIONS! and Hutspot.

I went to Options and Sukha, accidentally bumping into Frozen Fountain on my way to Sukha. 

And as I expected I fell in love with these original shops, selling so many beautiful interior and lifestyle products. 

At Sukha Amsterdam (1,2,3) I bought 'The World of Sukha' containing a collection of the great poetry made by Jaap Langenberg. It was put in a paper bag with the great dutch poem:

Wat je ook met je meeneemt

Je hoeft het maar te vragen

Laat het lekker los

Ik zal het voor je dragen

OPTIONS! (4) is a great department store selling design specials and dutch handcraft situated at the Damrak underneath the Exchange hotel, with rooms dressed like models. 

Frozen Fountain (5,6) is a store located at the Prinsengracht. In their shop window I saw the white Mal 1956 by Bob Copray and Niels Wildenberg and the shadylace parasol by Droog pulling me inside. 

Unfortunately I didn't have time to visit Hutspot because of the great weather and therefore the opportunity to spent a day at the beach. So there is a nice excuse to go back to Amsterdam soon!

FAIR+FAIR

Staying at the Singel in Amsterdam for some days I had made a list of interior design shops I wanted to attend.

While shopping some cute dresses for Pip's birthday last monday at Exota, we walked home to the apartment. Then all of a sudden I discovered a great lifestyle shop at the corner Herengracht - Raadhuisstraat called FAIR+FAIR. 

FAIR+FAIR stands for FAIR shopping for a FAIR home with really wonderful, mostly handmade, accessories from all over the world. 

It wasn't on my shoplist, but I can only advice you to put it on yours :)

prinsengracht 263

Last week, while we spend a couple of days in Amsterdam, I visited the Anne Frank House with our eldest son Sam. It made a lot of impression to actually see the house of which he had heard during history lessons for real. So small and dark, realising she lived here for more than 2 years and knowing she moved to this hiding place when she was 13, just like he is now.
For me it felt special to share this visit with him. Counting our blessings for so much freedom.