At this moment I am working on a new collection for Lennebelle with new items in gold plated! A few years ago I had never guessed I would fall in love with gold. I still very much like silver as well, especially the combination silver & gold. Next week I will do a GOLDEN GIVE-AWAY so touch base with A little hamster often next week and join!

Love these booties by Beatrice Valenzuela. See the whole collection here and the very stylish and inspiring designer herself in this nice interview and  this short movie and her beautiful eclectic home here.

It’s Dutch Design Week in Einhoven and the perfect timing for the ubercool conceptstore YOU ARE HERE to start selling ‘Lennebelle’! Me very happy ^_^!

I really like hats but there are not many occasions where you get to wear one. Luckily I had three weddings this summer. I wore a dark blue velvet one to the first wedding, at the Italian wedding I had this amazing hairdo with braids so no hat needed and on the third one I bought this camel colored hat and had a run to the market the morning of the wedding and made a fresh flowerpiece which I put on the hat.

Anthropologie (sister of Urban Outfitters) is selling a customised safetypin necklace with different colour tassels from Lennebelle! I must confess I am pretty proud a  brand like Anthropologie appreciates my jewellery!

The necklace comes with a small linen bag and you can restring and choose the colours according to your outfit. See the necklace here online.

I am becoming a model wannabe! The last two weeks I have helped out a friend at her fashion agency with the very cool brand Monique van Heist, pretty bags from Ellen Truijen, I love it all Les prairies de Paris and Rue Blanche. I am not really into fashion but this makes you fall in love with clothes and the showroom is so pretty!

We booked our trip to Argentina! We will celebrate New Years eve in Buenos Aires and will take in all the wonders, culture, food and life of Argentina for 3 weeks. I am counting the days till our flight takes of. I can all picture it; the morning I wake up on the first of january, starting a brand new year in such an amazing city, drinking my morning coffee in a cosy bar, strolling down the narrow streets, my love enjoying a good steak for lunch, snooping around in little antique stores, getting my dress on for a long night out!

We won’t plan the whole trip and we will see what happens when we get there. I would love to meet some nice local people, I will check out some spots for Petite Passport but I also would love to hear from you any tips, reccomendations, do’s or don’t do’s when in Argentina! What to do with New Years eve, that romantic restaurant, the must do bike tour, the best wine to taste, the prettiest guesthouse. We will be traveling on budget but will splurge once in a while!

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Last weekend we went to Antwerp. Even though it’s only an hour by train it always feels like a small vacation. We did some shopping (bought a great wintercoat at COS) but mostly enjoyed the ‘spring weather’ (after nog summer at all in the Netherlands) and had a lovely dinner at ‘Chez Fred’ and drinks out side till far after midnight! A bit hangover we went the next day to have a hearty breakfast and enjoyed a stroll over the thrift market at the Kloosterstraat and Sint Jans Vliet.

Don’t you think my new necklace is gorgeous?! I found it at Koster + Korstanje and love the colours. This necklace fits perfectly with my new pair of wine red curderoy pants. Its hand made by Sookyeong Kim from Korea and it’s called ‘Rainbow bridge’. Check out her website here.

Remember this childrens’ tv series ‘Super Gran‘? My grandmother is just like that and she turned 90 two weeks ago, still going strong!

She decided to celebrate her birthday in this amazing setting, the Millinger tea garden near Nijmegen. This lucious garden in the middle of nature was full in bloom and everyting was perfect to the detail, the cuttlery, the tiles, the decoration, the cakes. We went there by carriage with two horses and had a lovely high tea with family. Whenever you are close by don’t forget to visit this little gem in the middle of the Netherlands.