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Corner view  this week:  Mustache....



We got  a Mustache Envy kit in the house.....I tell you it"'s fun !!
We should all have Mustache Envy kit .

enjoy  your week
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IJM & Mieke Willems

here are my fav photos from last weekend

at the IJM Studio in Amsterdam

I love this one

an at swim-two-birds wall (I love her work)

nice to see Mieke Willems in Amsterdam

did I tell you

                                  

                              did I tell  you ...that I met  Mister Kay
                              at a kitefestival in Rome ,Italy
                                

                         

                               Mister Kay can make wonderful kites...

                                       
                                    and just like my dad ,he is a coffee lover ,
                                    he never drinks tea



  - this week-

-busy week ..
-I love  The Mysterious Life of the Metropolitan Housewife
- still loving the GYM
-planing  a trip to Brighton ,will be nice to see the Royal Pavilion  again
- swapping cakes recipes with Isabelle

string garden

I wanted to meet Fedor from string gardens for a long time.
My dream is to have a small  string garden with some meat eating plants( see second photo)
Next  time I see him I should have some coffee with Fedor
and find out how to look after a string garden !

- she reallt loves vintage Hverdagshjem

weekend-weekend

if you are in the Netherlands this weekend... there is so much  to do

here we go

• woonbeurs ( interior fair ) in Amsterdam, you can meet some of my fav dutch bloggers there, Ingrid  and Erika
• in Haarlem  is a  small home & garden fair at the Dreef  
• also in Amsterdam Inside Design ,lots of design and cool art , try to go to the ijm studio, there you find the work from Mieke Willems and at-swim-two-birds( I want to get one of her mobiles for my house)
• on Sunday  in Leiden  is Ladies Day, if you like shopping & coffee , guess you will have a good day

and there is  more if you like fashion

• Bastiaans Bazar ( fashion,fashion and some goodies bags)

What will you do this weekend??

dream house

Our dream house would be an art deco bungalow at the Kent coast.
Mister& Mrs Kay   love to go for costal drives and look for some cool  dream houses.
Tell me about your dream house??

Alain Bashung , very much my cup of tea( thanks Isabelle)

movie time

you all know that I love movies...there are  two movies I really want to see in the moment

Wallstreet- money never sleeps  ( anybody seen it yet ???)

and

Winter's Bone

home front news
have been stocking up on candles.The  cute white candlestick is from Verrassend goed
and I started crocheting a winter blanket for the little monster and me, lol

made in Hungary

sometimes I"m lucky and I find some ceramic from Granit made in Hungary 

I don"t have any information on it but know it breaks easily

my  week started with my first autumn cold...

but a wonderful ""makemefeelgoodparcel "" from Isabelle , saved my day

dolce& gabbana

I was lucky to find a vintage dolce& gabbana bag in 

a charty shop in Whistable.

Cocomaya, I really want to have some coffee& cake there where soon

lalalala

After a wet week , I hope the weekend will be better.
I""m a bit restless in the moment...hope yoga will help!

-we like& love-

mini marshmallows
O.P.I  barefoot in Barcelona nailpolish ( thanks Sandra)
thai food

-want to try-
Marshmallow tea

-want to buy -
more pillows for our living room


-this weekend-
flea market
brunch in Haarlem
a good movie
bake some muffins

enjoy

favorite

my fav summer photo
a guy playing on the beach with his kids.....

house bird

House Bird  from Eames

my fav vintage items  in the moment are cookie tins, so I was lucky to find this one on the weekend, very fifties

-wonderful music (great on a rainy day)

Rumer loves you

- Norway has some really cool vintage blogs (guess we should go there next summer on holidays)

almaPalma is one of them

-Tonight finally Glee is coming to the Netherlands

autumn flea market

Soon flea market seasons will be over here ..
We did have a good vintage summer and we still have some car boats sales in the UK in October.


This weekend on BBC1 Merlin

Nila and I are looking for a snail cookie cutter, so if you know where to find one, let me know?

If you love baking, you love this blog

This weekend  marks the nine-year anniversary of 9/11 (it was and will always be a very sad day)

Have a good weekend anyway.

kay

September

this week
-my fav word   ''nesting"
- missing my dad
-got lot''s of purple wool
- try to hold on to summer  and still drinking frapuccinos
- should be working in the garden
-made a new friend Ibabe ( she is lovely)
-tired
-loving my Rossy da Palma perfume

tell me about your week


I like Jeana  Sohn

corner view " school ''

-corner view is back-

this week ''school''

after my school run in the morning ,

I go for  coffee and sometimes breakfast,

my fav ME time of the day

want to  know more  about

corner view

book market

at the book market in Germany , I saw some beautiful record covers
and now I wish I got them ,special love the one from the ""kleinen Wassermann"



-we love the  work from Mathilde Aubier


In October we go home to Kent, I love autumn there. Will be nice to see my friends and going for some long walks on the coast 

long walk

long walk

we don "t go to Germany very  often , but we should really.

yesterday we went to Duesseldorf , I always wanted to see the Frank O Gehrys

buldings and I miss  a good breakfast .

it was a wonderful September day and there was also a vintage book fair at the Rhein

-new music from I blame coco

-love bake it pretty ( I want some baking cases)

fase

Fase lamp from  Madrid , Spain , designed in the late  1960s


-my day started with a trip to the dentist, guess I should take it easy the next couple of days.

- love the new desk  lamps from  Rie Elise Larsen

- time for a trip to the movies soon....Mademoiselle Chambone

market day

 this morning 

on my way to the gym

       

I should have lunch there next week

vintage adidas bag

                       

I  have just  started reading  

Mr Rosenblum"s List from Natasha Solomons

You know the feeling when you start a book and you know after the second page that you will love the book?

Also I did asked my friend Sally aka bookbird1 ( on flickr) 

what 's on her reading list in the moment

- A gate at the stairs by Lorrie Moore

- Noahs Compass by Ann Taylor

and anything by Richard Yates

( I want to work my way through all his books).I have only read

Cold Spring Habour so far

my all time fave is probably To kill a Mockingbird...I also really loved

Extremly loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer( love the way he writes)

What's on your reading list??