Just some more

Photo's that is!

on the beach at Carnac looking for wildlife

catching a fish at the market

watching Sylvester trying to catch Tweety

enjoying the countryside

just incase you feel like Obelix

don't, those stones belong to L'Etat!

but if you do want to try, do it with help!

thinking this whole car-breaking-

down-thing isn't so bad... :)

making the best of waiting in

the shade of a tree

And now slowly turning back to the normal routine with hopefully some trips to the beach & a bit of summer!

Have a great week!

xoxox

Back home

Just a small impression in photo's of our holiday in Brittany:

Had a wonderful 3 weeks with lots of sunshine, trips to the beach & fleamarkets. We ate fresh oysters, crêpes, croissants & baguette.

Really had a great time camping, although it did take me a few days to adjust to the rhythm, we did enjoy living outside!

The campsite had a brandnew swimming pool that the boys enjoyed almost daily. 

Too bad on the way back home on thursday the car decided it wanted to stay a bit longer in la douce France & broke down on the highway near Amiens.

We arrived back home fridaynight (or saturdaymorning around 2...) with our caravan & a rentalcar. Our own car will arrive in about 2 weeks, I guess it was in need of a holiday? Too bad some of my fleamarketfindings are in the back of the car, keeping my fingers crossed they will get here in one piece!

Do hope you all had a beautiful july month!

Have a great weekend!

xoxox

Bonne vacances!

Thank you all for your sweet comments on our sad news.
Due to that sad happening & the fact that I am in big need of a break I've decided to start the holiday-blog-break today instead of friday. 

via Pinterest

This song has been in my head today, getting in the mood I guess!


Have a wonderful summer! 
Au revoir!


xoxox


ps will be back in august!

Suddenly sad

My dear, sweet witch cat, our beautiful black girl. She looked black, but in sunlight you could see she was actually darkbrown stripey with one white whisker. 
She would talk to you & especially in the morning in the bathroom friendly ask you to please open the tap so she could drink. 
She always came in to our bedroom for a morning cuddle & when I was ill she would sleep by me side. 

When we went to pick her from the litter, we already decided on her name & when we entered the village the radio played Josephine by Chris Rea. My magical witch cat, Fientje.


A. found her yesterday in the early evening, she died probably due to a stroke not even 8 years old.
The boys & Cobus had their time to say goodbye & I did a lot of crying after the boys went to sleep. This hit me harder than I ever imagined...


She will be deeply missed.
xoxox

Hello july

Dear july,

Good to see you are off to a good start! 

I do hope you'll give us a month filled with playing outside, eating fresh summerfruit, having the laundry out to dry and some long, warm evenings outdoors with wine & good company. I hope it's not too much to ask...

Sincerly,

Saskia, A., J. & T.

xoxox

Projects

For this weekend.

Make more lists of what to see, where & when can we visit vide greniers/brocantes, etc.. And I will make little gifts for the boys for the backseat-holiday-surprise-bag. I've found 60 of these medieval warriors that will keep them occupied for a while, I hope.

Write some letters, cards & send the giveaway out. And make a start on the holiday-journal. (notebook, maskingtape & little memobook from HEMA)

Finish some little embroidery-project that has been in my head for a while.

But mostly I will keep a huge smirk on my face of pure proudness! J. got his reportcard in from school & he will go to the fourth grade (groep 4) next year!!!

So what are you up to this weekend?

What ever you do:

Have a wonderful weekend!

xoxox

Ps. Please check out Makiko Hastings' blog for the HELP JAPAN PROJECT 2, last year she made a 1000 porcelain birds to help Japan. If you've missed out now is your chance to get a bird & help Japan. 

Random piece of art

Saw Ohn Nyum by Sir Gerald Kelly

Have you ever spotted something, fell in love & went out on a quest to find it? I fell for this (kind of) painting when I spotted it in the book 'Als Nieuw' by Emily Chalmers & Ali Hananfell. No information about the painter whatsoever, so I was looking for a needle in a haystack.
Until Kay did a post where she showed a similair painting & mentioned the artist, yay!
Now I can finally put it on my vintage/thriftstore-list.


The postcards-from-France, 17 of you wanted to receive a card, so the 17 of you just drop me an email with your address & I will send you one! (saskia.vanderzee ~at~ yahoo ~dot~ com)


xoxox