• Botanisk Have & Museum
  • COS
  • Illums Bolighus
  • HAY
  • Filippa K
  • 42 Raw
  • Acne
  • Urban Outfitters
  • Café Mormors
  • Café Europa
feb 9 2013 ∞
mar 17 2013 +

Languages

  • French
  • Danish

Crafts

  • cake decoration
  • freestyle embroidery
  • stamp making
  • knitting
  • 2d graphic design
  • crocheting
  • knitting
dec 12 2012 ∞
feb 9 2013 +
  • Susan Cain - Quiet: the power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
  • Heidi Swanson - Super Natural Cooking
  • Larissa Bertonasco - La Cucina Verde
  • Alice Hart - Vegetarian
  • Gillian McKeith - You are what you eat
  • Jennifer Causey - Brooklyn Makers
  • Gretchen Rubin - The Happiness Project
  • Alice Waters - The Art of Simple Food
  • Jack Kerouac - On The Road
  • Sophie Dahl - From Season to Season
  • Kyra de Vreeze - Daytox
  • Sibella Court - Bowerbird
  • Saska Graville - London Style Guide
oct 19 2012 ∞
dec 27 2012 +
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ongoing collection process

COOKING

  • wooden spoons and spatulas
  • large wooden cutting board
  • small wooden cutting board
  • ceramic chef's knife & paring knife & bread knife & potato peeler & speed peeler
  • homemade spoon oil or olive oil
  • box grater & mandoline cutter & cheese grater & zester
  • measurement spoons & cups
  • 3 kg scale
  • cast iron skillet
  • skillet
  • 2 medium cooking pots
  • 1 soup pot
  • 1 small pot
  • vintage enamel roasting tins
  • stainless steel roasting tin
  • fine sieve
  • superpower blender (Vitamix?)
sep 30 2012 ∞
may 2 2013 +
  • Paris (toujours Paris!)
  • Copenhagen (near future, hopefully!)
  • Budapest
  • L'Île de Ré
  • Norway: northern lights, fjords, Oslo
  • Bourgogne
  • Normandy in spring (poppy fields, WWII beaches)
  • Sicily
  • Rome
  • Florence/Tuscany
  • Venice
  • New York
  • Berlin (east)
sep 26 2012 ∞
oct 3 2012 +
  • Amber Albarda's Eet jezelf mooi, slank en gelukkig
  • Delicious magazine
  • Claudia Reina's Onze Smultuin
  • the scarves at sjaalmania.nl
  • fleamarket finds from Lille
  • browsing through the label 'bits and bobs' on fashionbitsandbobs.com. heaps of inspiration :)
  • Swan Market in Rotterdam
  • Martha Marcy May Marlene
sep 3 2012 ∞
sep 23 2012 +
  • Alice Waters - The Art of Simple Cooking
  • Yotam Ottolenghi - Plenty
  • Kim Boyce - Good to the Grain
  • Breakfast, Lunch, Tea: The Many Little Meals of the Rose Bakery
  • Elizabeth Prueitt & Chad Robertson - Tartine Bread
  • Molly Wizenberg - A Homemade Life
  • Heidi Swanson - Super Natural Cooking
  • Yvette van Boven - Winter
  • Sophie Dahl - From Season to Season
  • At Elizabeth David's Table: Her Very Best Everyday Recipes
  • Julia Child & Simone Beck - Mastering the Art of French Cooking (Volume 1 & 2)
  • Allegra McEvedy & more - Leon: Ingredients and Recipes
  • Liana Krissoff - Canning for a New Generation
  • Nigella Lawson - Kitchen

other food related books:

nov 14 2011 ∞
mar 25 2012 +
  • framed butterflies
  • glass jars
  • leather bags
  • teapots, plates, cups, bowls
  • wicker baskets
  • picture frames
  • glass vases
  • leather belts
  • books
  • dining table chairs
  • small book cabinets
  • old apple crates
  • bed side cabinets
may 30 2011 ∞
jun 11 2011 +
  • Olijfje
  • Poes
  • De Kolonel
  • Mr. Darcy
  • Baba
  • Toulouse
may 29 2011 ∞
jan 1 2013 +
  • rain on earth
  • pancakes
  • coffee
  • fresh basil
  • forest
  • spring
  • chanel 'coco mademoiselle' eau de parfum
  • clean bedsheets which dried outside
  • céline dion 'belong' eau de toilette
  • chloé 'eau de fleurs lavande' eau de parfum
  • chanel 'rouge coco' lipstick
  • lilac
  • winter air: fireplaces, cinnamon, just the cold
  • apple pie
  • strawberries
  • bacon
  • bakeries & fresh bread
  • home
  • soy sauce
may 29 2011 ∞
jan 1 2013 +
  • the album No Man's Land by Qeaux Qeaux Joans
  • my trip to Copenhagen (March 11-17) <3
  • getting positive feedback (and constructive criticism) on the biggest stress-inducing project of my life so far (master thesis)
mar 9 2013 ∞
mar 9 2013 +
  • navy miniskirt
  • breton tops
    • red
    • navy
  • navy breton knit sweater
  • leather sandals
  • navy feminine dress
  • floaty blouses or tops
  • good quality white t-shirt
  • good quality grey t-shirt
  • burgundy ballet flats
  • pale blue straight jeans (Filippa K?)
  • black loafers (Dieppa Restrepo?)
  • black or brown leather chelsea boots
  • navy trenchcoat
  • spring parka
apr 27 2010 ∞
mar 17 2013 +
  • finish my thesis and graduate
  • get better results than our shops first years turnover
  • buy more sexy lingerie
  • go to Copenhagen
    • order a plane ticket
    • plan trip in Moleskine Copenhagen
  • go to Paris alone
  • become vegetarian
  • cook & eat & learn more about superfoods
  • learn all the basics of digital slr photography
  • create amazing pictures
  • ride the bike more frequently (i.e. up my stamina)
  • create more beautiful things
  • learn organic gardening
  • ...
jan 24 2013 ∞
may 2 2013 +
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Items that I wear nearly every day, every season

Tops

  • cashmere sweaters
  • breton tops
  • silk shirt
  • white t-shirt

Bottoms

  • black skinny jeans
  • slim blue jeans, rolled-up hem

Shoes

  • ballet flats (supple leather)
  • Isabel Marant Dicker boots

Coats

  • navy peacoat
  • beige trench coat

Accessories

nov 21 2012 ∞
nov 21 2012 +
  • cover part of wall in old book paper (French, English)
    • plus some handwritten poems/quotes on white paper
  • 200x200cm duvet, with white & beige cotton sheets
  • white linen bed skirt (nog om mijn bed hangen)
  • white or gray antique wardrobe (or mint green)
  • fifties bookcase
  • invisible bookshelf (nog op te hangen)
  • merci bags for storage
  • brightly coloured geraniums (summer)
  • lemon geranium
  • succulents
  • stolp met plakletters op het glas: fijne quote
  • oude landschapsschilderijtjes waar ik de lijst van af sloop
aug 24 2012 ∞
may 2 2013 +
  • red and white plaid tablecloth
  • antique (pine) cabinet (painted white or grey)
  • enamel spoons
  • old French linens
  • (gray or white) wooden floors
  • fifties book cabinet
  • old French café au lait bowls and plates
  • simplistic cookware (Dille & Kamille, Muji, Le Creuset)
  • cast iron pots and pans
  • enamel gas stove with oven
  • marble top table or kitchen countertops
  • Bodum French press
  • a furry cat named Baba, Olijfje or Toulouse (or all 3 of them :D)
  • succulents
  • air plants
  • a wood & wool stool
apr 7 2012 ∞
dec 17 2012 +
  • English cottage
  • Dutch farm house
  • Parisian apartment
  • French country house
  • Dutch canal house
jun 8 2011 ∞
sep 30 2012 +
  • the first cup of tea of the day
  • my family
  • cooking good food
  • trying new dishes and foods
  • dessert
  • Villa Augustus
  • cats
  • reading cookbooks
  • my younger brother
  • the smell of rain on earth
  • thrift shopping
  • organic food
  • flea markets
  • spending the holiday in France
  • roaming around Paris
  • dolce far niente
  • foreign languages
  • brocante
  • inspiring shop interiors (like COS, Villa Augustus, De Bakkerswinkel)
  • good hair days
jun 4 2011 ∞
jun 12 2011 +

I love icecream, I would eat it more than once a day if only it were healthy...

  • strawberry
  • hazelnut
  • vanilla
  • caramel
  • macademia-caramel
  • yoghurt-forest fruit
  • ben & jerry's 'fairly nuts'
  • festini
  • split (niet de ola-versie)
  • magnum
  • calippo
may 29 2011 ∞
may 30 2011 +

Past

  • black and white cat, Saartje
  • black and white cat, Swieber
  • brown, black and white guinea pig
  • grey bunny, Snuitje
  • 2 rats
  • black and white cat, Zosja (blind in one eye)
  • black and white cat, Snoet

Current

  • red cat, Mickey (nicknames: Poes, Dikkie Dik)
may 29 2011 ∞
sep 26 2012 +
  • navy
  • white
  • cream
  • dark grey
  • red
  • pale orange
  • delft's blue
  • black
  • taupe
  • beige
  • dark brown leather

But when asked to randomly choose from a range of colours, I unconsciously tend to choose pink, always.

mar 9 2011 ∞
jun 1 2011 +