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mention in martha stewart living

Posted on August 17, 2010 by danielle| 6 Comments

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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.

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thank you!!!

Posted on April 27, 2010 by danielle| Leave a comment

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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.

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news

Posted on April 15, 2010 by danielle| 41 Comments

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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 for the past 10 weeks. As a result I was not able to do anything (besides lying doing). Luckily I am doing a little bit better now (less nautious) but I am still very weak as I was dehydrated and lost weight. But I have good hope that things will improve soon!

This news is a good opportunity to introduce my new sponsor Smallable. Smallable is a stylish online shop which is based in France, but they can ship world-wide. They have a great selection of childrens clothing and furniture & accessories to decorate nurseries and kids’ rooms.

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news

Posted on March 11, 2010 by danielle| 32 Comments

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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.

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merry christmas

Posted on December 25, 2009 by danielle| 9 Comments

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

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i’m having a ‘garage sale’ on ebay

Posted on September 22, 2009 by danielle| Leave a comment

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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 pillow case with pompoms, Butterfly clothing hook, silk Ikat pillow. Click here to see all items for sale (more will follow in the next days).

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and the winner is…

Posted on August 28, 2009 by danielle| 3 Comments

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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!

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looking for great stuff to read?

Posted on August 26, 2009 by danielle| 4 Comments

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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 and blogs they recommend.

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winners of the ready-made-design competition

Posted on July 2, 2009 by danielle| 3 Comments


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 used really all kind of materials!’. Above you can see two of the winning designs.

The first prize (top images) went to Bernhard Elsässer from Germany with his striking pendant “LE MAL 6” simply made out of a 6-way-socket strip and bulbs. The pendant is very plain, shapely, easy to build and reminds us to a modern chandelier. Below you can see 3rd prize winner Pendant “SHANDALIR designed by Nir Meiri from Israel. Her lamp is made out of recycled materials from the plant nursery industry. Black plant cups, water pipes and droppers were used for this beautiful florale pendant. A thank you to Das Rote Paket for oganising such a great design competition!

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the style files is back!

Posted on May 31, 2009 by danielle| 13 Comments


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 problems remained. Then Dreamhost told me that I needed to buy additional resources which I did but this didn’t not help either. So after spending lots of money the style files was still not working properly. Dreamhost could not figure out what the problems was and weren’t very helpful. I have now transferred to a different hosting company (Lunarpages) and gladly most problems have been solved. There are still a few minor things I have to work on such as all the missing links in my blogroll. I will put the links back in the next few days. Anyway, I am glad to be back!

Are you enjoying your weekend? It is a warm day here (again) and I have been working in the garden all day. Now I’m longing for a bath. The one in the image above is perfect for today’s weather!

(image from Twig Tutchinson’s portfolio)

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