Thriftstore finds!!

We were at my local thriftstore, (I call it mine because I like to go there, if I can ones a week, and my love does not! :) ). But this time he was with me and he found these great chairs for in our yard. For a moment it looked like they were sold, but no. they're just perfect for us. I also liked this 'ear'table. So happy.
It was a good day!.


We waren bij de mijn kringloopwinkel ( ik noem het mijn, omdat ik er graag naar toe ga en mijn lief niet! :) ) En ik moet zeggen het is ook de enige waar ik wat koop, het is er goedkoop en lekker rommelig en genoeg te vinden. Maar goed deze keer kwam lief mee, en hij zag deze geweldige rieten stoelen staan, het leek er even op dat ze al verkocht waren, maar gelukkig waren ze voor ons. Ik zag het "oor"tafeltje en moest die mee nemen. Hier maak je me blij mee!


















In a next post I will show you the transformation.



In een volgende post zal ik de verandering laten zien.

What is it? ........it's a hotel!

Yesterday we had a job to do in Rotterdam, now this city was, as many others in Holland, old with lots and lots of old buildings. But than WW2 came and a lot of the city was gone. Now it has all these amazing new buildings and its a big interesting city these day,s. We were across the street at (yet a new building site) for a new appartement building. Before they sell the appartements they let the potenial buyers see the vieuw from 30m, 60m, 90m, etc. etc. We make the panorama pictures for them to use in their computer program.








Any way, across the street I saw this great house boat, in the center of the city, wich turned out to be a hotel. Isn't it great, it is very modern and the quest can take out this round rubber boat to tour the city, I had never seen it before. I would stay there. (Its a bit stuppid of me, we have this great hi tech camera and I used my little one to make these foto's, so you can't see the little boat very well but it even has a sun umbrella.)

A little bit of summer yet to come??

So, the change in weather came, well its been a weird summer overall. But this last week its been pretty good, Not to Shabby at all ;). This is good for us for the photography work, and it seems like also for the cats and the flowers.











This flower I bought a couple of months ago and the same day the winds started up, so the flowers where gone immidiatly. And now after all this time,... some more purple flowers. It makes me so happy.

From fabric into a pilow!

I got this fabric at a store that had a lot of choice, this one I thought was on sale
but when I paid for it....not so much, realy expensive. Any way I made this large ( 90cm x 90cm) pilow out of it. The little ones I made also.



Deze stof komt uit een stoffen winkel met enorm veel keuze. Ik dacht dat deze in de aanbieding was maar helaas bij betaling bleek dat niet echt het geval. Ik heb er deze geweldig grote kussen van gemaakt 90cm x 90cm.















On the other side I used a bright color, it turned out realy nice if I say so myself.


Voor de andere kant heb ik deze kleurige roze gebruikt, hij is erg mooi geworden al zeg ik het zelf.

I LIKE

This great sofa, I would realy like to have, unfortunatly I don't need a new one ( wel what is need?....but I would like to have have have it, very much.)
And its been sitting there in that showroom waiting for me or so it seems;)

A Dutch summer

And then after a view days of sun, you can be sure that there wil be rain and thunder. And afcourse the rainbow.

Not looking...... but finding!

Een paar weken geleden ging ik met mijn moeder naar franeker te winkelen, gewoon even rond kijken, het was mooi weer en pas één uur dat we gingen.
Uiteindelijk na het shoppen vertokken we weer met de auto en reden via een b- weggetje terug. Nog voor dat je Franeker uitrijdt kom je lang een brocante winkeltje.
"Het Allegaartje". Het doet zijn naam eer aan hoor!.
We zijn er al heel wat keren geweest, maar dachten dat het al dicht zou zijn, niet dus, veel spullen stonden nog buiten. Nou het is echt een héél klein winkeltje en je struikeld over de spullen, je moet diep graven in de kastjes en tussen de opgestappelde stoelen door om je 'schat' te vinden, en je moet vooral je tijd nemen.
Maar het is zo leuk om daar rond te snuffelen. Een paar berichten terug had ik al geschreven over de bordjes met paarse bloemen print die ik daar gevonden heb, (er was ook een soep terine met deksel en een salade schaal en saus schaaltje die ik waarschijnlijk ook mee had moeten nemen!?, en alhoewel het nog niet echt vreselijk prijzig is, is het toch al snel een stuk duurder dan bij de kringloop). Toen ik afrekende bij de kassa zag ik dit schattige tasje hangen, het is heel klein en doet nu dienst als mijn portomonee. Weer eens wat anders.



















A couple of weeks ago I went with my mom to Franeker, wich is a nice little old town. It was a saterday and sunny, we went late around one aclock (shops close at 5).
We both did our thing and got back in the car around 16.45. We took a back road to leave the city and past a little brocante shop 'Het Allegaartje. We had been there many times, but thougt that it would be closed, but no, stuff still stood outside, so we went in and looked around. Let me tell you its a tiny réaly tiny shop, with so much stuff!, you look every where and there is stuff. It's so full you have to pick up pots and pans and chairs and glasses to find just that plate or tea-cup you are looking for. It is absolutly not overseeable, but só much fun to search through.
A view post back I showed the plates I found there with the purple flowers, (there was also a salad bowl and a soup terine with the same flowers, wich I didn't buy and probably should have!? But the prices are a little higher than I am used to at my thriftshop!).
And while paying for the plates I say this little old bag, its small and I use it as a wallet.




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Deze thee kopjes heb ik ergens anders gevonden, ze zijn zo mooi. Als ik een keer een luie middag heb en de zon schijnt, dan neem ik een pot thee en één van deze kopjes en drink mijn thee. Het is zo veel beter dan het drinken uit een mok, toch dat doe ik wel elke avond voor ik ga slapen. Maar als ik de tijd heb dan doe ik het hele engelse tavereel;).












The tea cups I got at a different place, they are so cute. When ever I have a lazzy afternoon and the sun is out, I take my teapot with one of these cups and drink my tea. Its so much better than drinking it from a mug, which I do in the evening before I go to sleep. But when I have the time I do the whole english tea thing;).

Lavender love and Comfy cosy

Some more lavender love! I can't get enough of it just yet.






































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This idea I got from my friend Ellen from pjotrtom. She is very crafty with a lot of ideas, lots of inspiration in her home!.
I made these blankets with different patterns on front and back.
They are so comfy for the cold evenings.
The other day it was still realy hot, but afcourse than when it gets too hot here in Holland the weather gods give us a lot of rain, and thunder and lightning.
After dinner I still sat outside when it started raining, I had this new tryangel cover hung up and could sit underneath it (must be like having a veranda) while the rain realy came down. So I took my blankets and sat outside, nice and warm!.

Lavender Heart

My memories of summer holiday in french are many, and most of all those large fields of lavender. It is such a wonderful smell. In Holland we don't have those fields but we have to make do with some in the garden, how ever small.
Now is the time to cut them and I have been making these lavender hearts full with the flowers. Nice to but in between the towels or under your pilow. (The fragrance has a calming effect). mmmmm.

Small Treasures great Joy

The plates (9 pieces) with the purple flowers I found at a antiek/curiosa store, I bit more expensive than the local thriftstore but still not to bad!.

The colour RED with Sadie Olive

Here is the red colour of my life, this picture was made last queensday in a typical tourist store. A bit of RED white and blue, (our flag colours but also the American flag afcourse).



























This scarf i bought resently my favorite colour pink with a bit of red!, the rose you can put her in your hair and pin it on a shirt or dress, so much fun!!.
























I never knew i had lots of nailpolish in the colour red, but al diverent shades!.
























I am 1.82 meter ( 6.1 in feet) but nobody keeps me from wearing high hiels. thank the gods my love is also tall!!!






















Well and than afcourse you got to have the red lips, on occasion!!.

Are you asleep yet!?

They are back

They return every year to the same spot, perhaps these are the little ones from last year? These 'homes' where still intact and survived the winter. We have been wanting to paint this part, but didn't want them to come back for nothing.

















But this little one needs to make one from scrats!
























And as these are making themselfs comfortable.........
























Is this one still working his little tail off.

Treasure hunt

I was at the thriftstore and was about to leave, this time not finding anything.
A truck stopped and pulled into the yard of the store, delivering stuff.
There was not much in the truck but I spotted this beauty rightaway, all the way in the back.
The guy from the store took everything out and put it on one side in the building, while I waited for the chair.
One man took it out of the truck,.....and swang it high! up in the air!, I am not kidding you, and threw it on a pile of (what I thougt was real trash). I mean sure it has some broken parts, but come on!
I run over and asked them to take it of the pile!!
Then it was mine for € 2,-.

Ik was in de kringloop winkel en zou net weggaan, had niet echt wat gevonden.
Toen een vrachtwagen het terrein op reed en spul kwam brengen. Ik zag de stoel meteen al staan, helemaal achter in.
Ik wachtte af terwijl een man of 3 alles uitladen, ze zetten alles netjes aan één
kant van de loods.
Één man pakte de stoel........gooide met een grote boog (geen grap), de stoel op een (waar ik van dacht dat is echt rotzooi). Ik rende er naar toe en vroeg of ze hem weer terug konden pakken. Voor € 2,- was ie van mij.























This is a servingtray with magezine holders on each side, found it at te same thriftstore. Paint intact, nothing wrong with it.

Deze ook in de zelfde kringloop gevonden, een dienblad met vakken voor magazines, helemaal heel, niets mis mee.