pile of inspiration

pic: Inke

pic: pure home

pic: Met Melk&Suiker

Six months ago I saw the great Sending Animals cabinet at Van Mij, one of my favorite shops in Arnhem [post]. Five month ago I made the Instagram picture of Floor´s Schleich animals. And the wallpaper animals by Inke I like for some years now.
This weekend while reading VK magazine I saw this picture of the Sending Animals by Seletti piled up as the animals in the famous book The Bremen Town Musicians and suddenly all the other pictures popped up in my head.
Piled inspiration!

eye candy design

I just love the interior products designed by Annebet Philips, an inspiring Dutch designer of products, concepts and fashion.
Like the Beautiful Bulb, celebrating the beauty of the light bulb itself, the chairs and couch where the cushions and foam are melted together in one shape, the knot lamp or the one in which ceiling cups decorate the wire.
They are all on my I-wish list!

kids room: color splash

Although most of the time I prefer a basic white interior, also for kids. I was stunned by this colorful kidsroom: the green floor match with a pink rug, the flowery wallpaper, the mix of pillows on the bench made of pallets and lots of lovely decoration details.

source: woonblog

blog party

pic via Lark&Linen

Today I'm celebrating my 4th blog birthday!

Showing my addiction with Pinterest with #pinlove posts, sharing other great blogs with #bloglove posts, hoping to inspire with #interior and #kidsroom posts and keeping up an online diary of my life with my #count-your-blessings posts initiated by Anki from Zilverblauw. And also sharing my blog and pictures on instagram, twitter, facebook, bloglovin or pinterest!

Today sharing:
*my first blogpost 'everyday is worth a party'
* the most visited post until now 'white x-mas': and
* the blogpost with the most comments, which are always special: thnx for the many comments on this post which was a emotional post for me!

Trying to choose the blogpost I love the most, but I couldn't. Realizing I just hope to inspire in general and share things in my life with all its beautiful and sad sides. And most of all I love to keep sharing it in the future.

So thnx for following, reading, sharing and commenting on my blog!

one hundred and one characters

pic: April&May

pic: Vosgesparis

In love with this Piet Hein Eek cabinet! Designed in collaboration with Histor.
Thinking about how to paint and decorate it, in order to win one of the 101! Mixed feelings because I love it the way it is. But meant to inspire to make your own design and even decorate it yourself on the 9th of november with the other hundred winners! Must be a great day!
So visit the Histor-site, get inspired and join in!

bike blessings #2

Today I went running and Floor joined me on his bike. When I made a picture of him on his bike I realized I made more pictures of my kids riding their bikes in front of or beside me on instagram and also sharing this earlier in a blogpost. Nice to keep making these pictures as they grow up. Just like sharing this on my blog as a bike blessing.

This week my bike blessing #2:

* Pip having her first lesson horseback riding which she enjoyed so much, just as a sleepover at her BFF this weekend who accompanied her at her first lesson
* baking apple pie with apples growing in our own garden; still so many apples left so we can bake many pies or make compote the next weeks
* starting to run again after my leg injury this summer; friday together with a friend and today accompanied by Floor on his bike
* catching up with friends I didn't visit for a long time, experiencing this long period of time with less contact in real life doesn't matter mutually if there is real friendship
* following so many inspiring blog-colleagues visiting the dutch living fair 'Woonbeurs'. Feeling sorry I couldn't be there myself, but getting inspired by all their pictures, while planning to actually having planned to visit the Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven in october.

Wishing you all a nice week with lots of blessings ahead!

Follow the weekly count your blessings-posts of all participants mentioned on Anki's blog Zilverblauw

no blessings...

Last weeks I published no blessings-post on my blog. Not because there are no blessings, but just because my head is sometimes too full to make pictures of it (in my head) everyday. But looking back there are certainly blessings to share:
* like loving my job, nowadays with a fully booked schedule but with so many positive things, like the people I work with and a dare-to-ask session at a network meeting with everybody helping each other, sharing their experience and contacts
* the kids: experiencing the open-mindedness of my children and them getting along so well together, but also basically gathering together a new winter collection for them, because oops they are growing so fast, wishing time didn't fly as it does....
* the lovely reaction by Anna-Rosa from My Lifebox winning the give-away on my blog; and
* enjoying the inspiration in MilK Decoration no.5 and Milk Magazine no.41, the 10th anniversary edition; loving the person who bought them for me in la douce France.

Pictures taken with room for thought, a lovely iPhone and android app reminding to take a picture everyday!

Follow the weekly count your blessings-posts of all participants mentioned on Anki's blog Zilverblauw

bloglove: my lifebox

Today I announced the winner of the give-away on my blog published recently. In this blogpost I want to thank the ones who reacted on the give away and the ones who made it possible: DaWanda and Cotton&Stone!

The winner of the black Owl tea towel is Anna-Rosa from Greece, blogger on My Lifebox. Anna-Rosa is a student of architecture, believing in less is more, blogging about design, DIY, recipes and a tiny bit of herself. Recipes like a traditional Greek fish soup!
Discovering I was already following her on twitter, but not on pinterest, instagram, bloglovin or facebook, but I do now! Inspiring you to do this too!

sweet whites | pinspiration

Sweet white pins on a greyish rainy day:

* white panna cotta by Donna Hay

* white cake on white swallows

* white limoncello + coconut ice cream cake source unknown :(

PS. two days left to win the great black tea towel Owl by Red Carp on my blog!

shop inspiration: Red Carp on DaWanda

 

 

Recently I discovered DaWanda, an online designmarket for unique handmade products. DaWanda is founded in Berlin, but also has a portal for Dutch designers selling original products made with love. 

Like Red Carpet, a label by Cotton&Stone producing organic cotton tea towels with an eco friendly print. Fairtrade and beautiful!

So I'm happy to pronounce my first give-away powered by Da Wanda and Cotton&Stone: 

the black tea towel Owl! 

I fell in love with it the moment I opened the package and it can be yours!

Just let me know if you would love to win this give-away by leaving a comment on my blog.

It would be nice if you like DaWanda on facebook or follow them on twitter or pinterest. They also have a blog keeping you posted of DIY-items or all DaWanda events!

Cotton&Stone is also on facebook, twitter and pinterest.

But don't feel obliged.

I will pronounce the winner on the 16th of september, so you're welcome to join in until the 15th of september.  

PS. Da Wanda also represents the favourite products of bloggers sold by different shops on DaWanda. Nice to get so much inspiration for my I-wish-list by blog colleagues!

Happy to let you know the black Owl tea towel goes to Anna-Rosa! I hope you'll enjoy it. It will be on it's way to Greece soon!

Thnx to everybody who joined my first give-away!

kids room: storage styling

We have a crush on LEGO. 

Floor really likes his LEGO train a lot, Pip started collecting LEGO friendz for girls and I immediately fell for the great storage products designed by Room Copenhagen, like the LEGO storage brick. 

So great to actually have one in Floor's room now.

You can buy this great storage brick at Fonq, an online store also selling interior products. 

Fonq sells the LEGO storage brick in different sizes and colors and you can actually build with them like real LEGO stones.

We chose the black one for Floor's room to store his railroad tracks and are dreaming about a white or pink one in Pip's room.

I also decided to store Floor's Schleich animals in a creative way, inspired by a picture on Pinterest. We bought shelves at IKEA and I even managed to hang them myself. 

So nice to see his collection exposed this way. 

And after painting a wall army green it really felt like a real kidsroom make-over.

follow (my) blessings

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Met Melk&Suiker on Instagram

Last week I had a lot of following blessings:
* on Pinterest I reached 9000 followers. Pinterest gives so much inspiration and it feels great to inspire so many other Pinterest-lovers
* I love keeping up a diary of my life in pics on Instagram and sharing this with 500 followers is so nice: thnx for following :)
* planning to change the follow buttons on my blog so you can link directly from the small buttons beside each other, but I don't know how. If you do, please let me know as a comment on my blog or by mail: metmelkensuiker@gmail.com
* following 4 kids at De Spelerij last wednesday while they were running around enjoying this great place to be for kids
and last not least:
* I followed my heart these three weeks off, experiencing I can rely on that far better than I ever did. A great blessing!

Follow the weekly count your blessings-posts of all participants mentioned on Anki's blog Zilverblauw

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