I am very proud that my blog is included in the September print issue of Martha Stewart Living! The style files is mentioned amongst fourteen recommended sites to bookmark in an article about 100 great finds for every room in the house.

THANK YOU for all your sweet comments, twitter messages and email that I received in the past week! Unfortunately I can’t send you all a personal message to thank you but I want you to know that your kind words are very much appreciated.
(image by warren heath)

Today it is time to let you know why I have not been able to post as much as I normally do. The reason for this is that I am 3.5 months pregnant. We are very happy with the news but unfortunately I was not just suffering from morning sickness: I have been nautious 24/7 [...]

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 [...]