Small updates

The top of this small cabinet keeps changing all the time. We are still waiting for our new teak cabinet. We ordered it back in October last year and it will FINALLY arrive on Monday. Phew, what a long wait! Then we still need to paint it, but at least we are finally making some progress with our dining room plan.

We bought these candlesticks yesterday from Steedehuys in Haarlem. I like the "patina" and the shape of them. I seem to be obsessed with candlesticks and -holders. My boyfriend thinks we will soon be up to our eyeballs in candlesticks and he is probably right ;-)

This small delicate pencil drawing is by my great uncle Pepe. He was a great man with a personality larger than life. His specialty were watercolours and pencil drawings of Finnish landscapes and old buildings.

Back to white

Pink lasted about a month, but now I have gone back to white. The dark brown leather chair belongs to my boyfriend and surprisingly he suggested we should replace it with a bit more comfortable and lighter colour chair. He has been very much into dark colonial furniture in the past (for example our dining room furniture is his), but now he is singing a different tune ;-) He has become a big fan of white and other light neutral colours, which is great. White just makes the rooms look so much more spacious, and lighter of course.
The candlesticks are from The Mill and the silk cushion cover from Pentik (a present from my mother).

Slowly slowly

Last couple of months have been very frustrating for me. Currently I am suffering of RSI - Repetitive Strain Injury (due to too much computer work) and it has been very bad, although now slowly getting better. I have not been allowed to touch a computer, so have been heavily depending on my boyfriend's help with my blog.

I have taken the photos and written the texts on paper. Then my boyfriend has done the actual computer work in order to publish my posts, bless him :-) In order to save his time I have tried to keep things short and sweet.

There are so many lovely blogs out there and I am dying to dig into them, post loads of comments etc. However, currently I am not really able do much of that at all. Such a shame. Slowly slowly it is getting better, but it will still take some time. I just have to be very VERY patient :-)

New couch

Our new couch arrived today and we love it. I have had this Ikea's Ektorp couch before, but I left it behind when I moved to The Netherlands. Ever since I have been pining after it and now we have it again. It is such a comfortable couch, very cheap and it also looks nice. We got three different covers for it; this flower pattern, a beige and a white one. So if we get bored with flowers, we just flip another one on. So easy :-) Now I just need to replace few cushion covers...

Cigar press

Old cheese moulds and cigar presses, anything goes in our household. I like these old rustic pieces where you can see the patina developed over time. I reckon they make the interior a bit more interesting. I quite happily mix different styles and new & old together, as long as it pleases my eye.

Old cheese mould

This is an old(ish) Dutch cheese mould, or in Dutch kaasmaker. We found it from a second hand shop in Lisse and liked it as an object, even before we knew what is was. Funny enough, we use it as a decoration in our living room. It sits right next to our Indian box and I reckon they fit together just fine, although they are worlds apart.

Indian box

I like the Nordic/Scandinavian style, but also Asian/Oriental style. I found this old Indian box from an antiques market at The Hague. The dealer told me it is a wedding box, given as a present to a wedding couple (perhaps filled with something). I have no idea if this is true, but it does not really matter. I like it a lot :-)

Sugar sticks

I got these sugar sticks from Dille & Kamille. I find them so pretty I almost do not have a heart to use them. They are like little jewels and they definitely make a simple cup of coffee a wee bit more special.