Count your blessings

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A stroll through a beautiful yellow forest. Nice flowers. Celebrating my 30th birthday with the ones I love. My Love unfolding my new pompoms, while Molly struggles to get his attention (she can be very persuasive). (Bought the pompoms here by the way, Martine’s shop makes me very happy, it’s filled with paper devine-nes!) Being featured in an Italian home decor magazine called Casa Facile (thanks Ilaria)! Plus a day out with my in-laws, I’m so blessed with my bonus brothers, sisters and parents!

Anki started counting her blessings, Anne, Arnika, Belinda, Debora, Esther, Frederieke, Froukje, Iris, Judith, Leontien, Maartje, Maartje, Mariëlle, Marit, Martine, Marie-Lu, Maureen, Mireille, Saskia, Sacha, Suus, Tabitha and I joined her in this series (please let me know if I forgot someone!).

Great! Britain

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First of all thanks so much for all your kind birthday wishes! My birthday makes me realise all the more how many sweet people (invisible and visible ;-) I have in my life. I feel truly blessed.

I found these items in Utrecht last Friday, they come from great British shops (hence the title). On top cards by Kate Hindley (for my Dutch readers: I stumbled upon them at Dille&Kamille, the last place on earth where I would go looking for Kate Hindley cards!). Like the rest of my humongous stash of beautiful cards, they will stick to some wall or cupboard and will never be send out..ever. (Recognise that? You keep promising yourself that this time you really, 100% sure, without a doubt will send off your newly purchased, gorgeous cards? Who are we kidding?) Kate Hindley has an Etsy shop too, you can find it here, the cards with the anteater and dog can also be found at Ninetyseventythree here.

The nesting dolls come from Paperchase, I’m so happy they opened shops in The Netherlands! I keep asking the husband which one of the dolls is his favourite…and keep telling him which is mine. (I sometimes drive him bonkers with my silly childish games, haha.) In case you’d wonder, the deer is my favourite. But that’s probably because he looks a bit sad. I can’t stand sad looking creatures. So I compensate that by giving them a lot of love.

P.S: The husband finally made a decision: his favourite is the cat. Because it looks like Molly. What stupid reason is that? ;-DD

The big 3-0 (an Instagram birthday)

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Today I turned 30. To celebrate this, we went a grand day out!

1. The year I turned 30 written by Aaf Brand Corstius (a very funny lady!)
2. Cool notebooks at Paperchase
3. Very hysterical Christmasornaments at Bijenkorf
4. Yummie pastry
5. The mighty Domtoren of Utrecht (Too hot for a wintercoat: 62 F!)
6. The famous origami birds shade by Tas-ka at Maan
7. Us in the train
8. Lion on het Neude

(Already) feels good to be 30. I’m looking forward to the next 50 years :-)
(A special welcome for those who found my blog via Casa Facile! So nice of you to stop by!)

It’s her happy place

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Molly has moved into a box. We find her like this every morning.

Even cats need a happy place.

The miracle of seasons

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Every time a season changes into another, I’m deeply impressed by the incredible changes in nature. When sweeping up the fallen leaves in the garden this morning, I got struck by Autumn’s beauty. Look at those spectacular colours! These leaves are so beautiful just on themselves. I put them on the table and shot the picture, that’s all. Nature did the rest.