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Decorating is the ongoing and favourite project in our home. This corner in our livingroom makes me so, so happy, as it turned out how I imagined it to be: bright and funny.

I’m always on the lookout for accessories that are funny or on the edge of tacky (‘cause let’s be honest, white cockatoo and dog statues do fall in that categorie of items that could ruin your good reputation). There’s always room for eyebrow-raising items in our home and the louder visitors yell that an item is very and utterly Not Done or sheer ugly (people tend to say “Oh, that is so very you”, in other words: “It’s as mad and wacky as you are” ;-)) the more I become to love it, secretly. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. In my humble opinion, as long as the space makes you smile in whatever way, your good. No matter what other people say (unless that makes you like it more, then you’re good also…;-))

Last week I visited a thriftshop with some sweet former-cyberspace friends (my shop and blog brought so much happiness and sweet people into my life!) where I bumped into the fellow below. My thriftcompanion bumped into it at that same moment, but kindly (and generously!) let me buy it, which made me blush and even more appreciate this treasure. I can see why we both loved it, his ears and little tail are hysterical, yet he’s the cutest guy I stumbled onto in months. He made us laugh and so he passed my bended rules of beauty and found a place in our living room. Happy endings all over the place.

From now on I’m gonna count my blessings every week. I enjoy reading the ‘Blessings’ posts of other bloggers very much and I feel it’s very important to realise we have a lot of reasons to be happy for! So I’m joining Anki (the one who started counting her blessings), Anne, Arnika, Belinda, Debora, Esther, Frederieke, Froukje, Iris, Judith, Leontien, Maartje, Maartje, Mariëlle, Marit, Martine, Marie-Lu, Maureen, Mireille, Suus and Tabitha in this series.

Boy, there were a lot of things that made me happy this week! There’s of course Little Mole, who makes us laugh with everything she does (even when she sleeps). There was this nice evening walk with my parents. And a grand day out with my Love: we went thrifting (I married the most wonderful man that wants to go thrifting with me, which is on itself one big blessing) and I found the world famous Chatter Telephone of Fisherprice (in good condition, more about that in a different post). After that, we went to Utrecht where I bought the cute Nümph dress and some fab Marimekko scraps of fabric for € 1,-! We strolled around a bit, ate sushi and enjoyed the weather (the sun shined friendly, it was a bit windy, not too hot). It was a perfect Summer day.

The song of Gotye made me very happy too, I watched the clip endless times last week, I think it’s the most original clip I’ve seen in ages. I can be a bit of a Teletubbie when it comes to songs or movies, I can watch or listen to them over and over, until somebody gets sick and tired of it and offers me money to stop doing that (that really happened once, when my brother offered me 50 euros to get me stop listening to a record of Savage Garden. In didn’t work though).

What made you happy this week?