Due to personal circumstances I was not able to post for while. I hope to be able to resume to regular posting from today. I hope you are still around! These beautiful images are from Morten Holtum’s portfolio.

Merry Christmas everyone! We are having a white Christmas here in The Netherlands.

I’m having a ‘garage sale’ on Ebay! Most of the items that I have for sale are new: things that I bought but never used, products that I bought for Le Souk but are not placed in the webshop yet, etc. Above are some of the items that I am selling: silver Moroccan teapot, embroidered [...]

The winner of the Volksfaden give-away is Lana from South Africa. I used random.org to draw a number between 1 – 63 (the total number of comments). Comment no. 21 has won which is the comment from Lana. Congratulations! Thank you all for participating!

I am very honoured to be asked by Google to be one of their ‘Power Readers’ ! For this new project Google has approached people across a variety of fields and ask them what they read online. Click here to explore and subscribe to any of the participants’ reading lists, or to any individual sites [...]

A while ago I announced the ready-made-design competition organised by online shop Das Rote Paket. The assignment was to create and build a ‘ready made light’ from prefabricated parts. Sonja from Das Rote Paket: ‘From all over the world clever people sent us their ready-made-lights. All together nearly 50 fantastic ready-mades…People had amazing ideas and [...]

I’m happy and relieved that the style files is back in the air (thanks to Ivar!). I’ve been having problems with hosting party Dreamhost. A few months ago they told me that I needed a private server to solve the downtime problems. I have been paying lots of money for a private server but the [...]

I can now be found on twitter where I will be twittering about what I am up to as well as about new posts on the style files. See you there! Click here for my profile.

I am happy to know that a lot of you have used my Amsterdam guide for a visit to Amsterdam. In addition to this guide I will be featuring a shop, restaurant, cafe or another place of interest in Amsterdam every week. I start off with Marqt, a great shop that I visited this weekend. [...]

At 1st November 2006 I started this blog. And today I got a wonderful 2-year anniversary present: the style files is mentioned in the November issue of Domino magazine. I am very happy with this and I am honoured to be mentioned on the same page as great blogs such as Decor8, Apartment Therapy and [...]