lost & found

(I took these four images in four different cities around Holland during my roadtrip with my wonderful man Bjoern in April of this year. In order of appearance and occurence the photos were taken in Tjergaast, Amsterdam, Delft and Breda, where we met beautiful people and ate their beautiful meals .)

I am having a day of quiet melancholy, reminiscing about my travels and the amazing people and places I met along the way. Despite having lived there for almost two years, Holland still succeeded in making a mark on me on this trip. The quiet, the quaint and the acceptance of all things strange and wonderful really makes me want to move back there in the future. It really is an idyllic place to raise children, as the country is so abundant in green open land, delicious seafood and happy people. What better reasons to go?

Likes today

I am finally back in Kassel city again, after much travel and adventure including crazy Danes, gorgeous baking Swedes in flowering cactus gardens and cigar smoking Hungarians. Not to mention the orderly Dutch, the fancy Belgians and the amount of inspiration - both musical and visual they have given me. But more on this later!

For now I will ease myself back into the art of blogging by sharing my inspiration today and rambling a little about the current going ons in my head. This isn´t a complex thing at this time. I am in a typically quiet and lonerish mood, wherein I am so happy and content just to sit in front of the computer (a blessing in itself after the last month of "stealing" internet at friends´ houses around the place) and browse blogs and designers, listen to moody jazz and drink strange fragrant teas. I think the selection of images below is a rather accurate depiction of my current internal landscape. All is well. Peace and quiet.









the last few shots are from the lovely collection I stumbled onto here