GIVEAWAY MARATHON KICK OFF

Today is the kick off of the Monday Giveaway Marathon!

And the shop that starts of the festivities is...

Broesj is a great Etsy-shop filled with the most amazing brooches

&

today she is giving away this beautiful one:

What do you have to do to win this swallow brooch?

 Visit the Broesj-shop & leave a comment to this post!

That's it!

Monday the 8th of october I will announce the winner

&

present the new giveaway!!!

Have a beautiful new week!

xoxox

The Giveaway Marathon starts october 1st & will run for as long as there are shops willing to participate. If you have a shop & you're interested send me an email: saskia.vanderzee [at] yahoo [dot] com

Took home

Remember I wasn't going to buy anything for a month except for groceries?
But then I went to the Woonbeurs & so I failed at not buying anything...

This is what I took home:

 

To the left: the tiny vase 'Daisy' by Lenneke Wispelwey I bought at the boot from Studio De Winkel! I really had to bite my tongue not to buy more at this shop. Got the Jurianne Matter circel for free, so sweet!

To the right: the broken plate I repaired in a workshop given at the Humade boot using the 'new kintsugi repair kit'! This gives your broken pieces of china a second life with beautiful golden

scars!

 Ofcourse I took some inspiration back home with me as well.
From the VT-wonen & 101-Woonideeën houses (which actually had a few similarities, the entrance of the 101 house looked very VT to me, but hey I am not an expert! :))
I spotted glass domes & vintage, black desklamps. So I dusted off one of my vintage lamps & gave it a new spot in the livingroom together with the new vase & plate.

 

And last but definitely not least Het Kattenpandje from KekAmsterdam!

It was handed out for free for the people of the press & the bloggers that were busy blogging there live! A big thank you to Yvonne for giving Sjaan her own PurrrrFactory! 



 

All in all I did pretty good considering the temptation I had to face!

October starts tomorrow & I'll keep a low shopping-profile for a bit longer!

 

And tomorrow I will host the first giveaway by a shop!!! Stay tuned!

 

xoxox 

Woonbeurs & the Bloggers

An impression of the Woonbeurs 2012:

 

 

101 Woonideeën house

 

 

Maantje Piet does confetti ♥

 

Necklace at Studio De Winkel

 

 

Tweelink cute wooden robots

VT Wonen house

  

 

Sophie Walraven's studio

 

 

A big thank you to: Iris, Anki (with Casper & Wolf), Marlous, Yvonne, Philomeen for making me feel really welcome & at home at the Meet the Bloggers corner!

 

Kei-leuk man!!!

 

Finally met Daan (who came with Elvis & Maantje Piet!) & Joscha (with Pippa) & Moniek & Liesbeth & Lisa!!

 

Finished this wonderful day with my sister-in-law, great Italian food, good wine & lots of laugther in Amsterdam!

 

Have a great weekend!

xoxox

 

Random

 

Some random interior glimpses.
xoxox

Woonbeurs 2012

 

The Amsterdam Woonbeurs started today & I won a ticket

at the Enigheid - blog!!!

 

I'll go there on friday so I can meet up with Iris from Enigheid & other bloggers, see the houses of VTWonen, 101Woonideeën

& the latest on interior design!

 

So looking forward to it!

 

Maybe we'll meet!

xoxox

A winner & more!

Congratulations Sjaantje! Please mail me your adress so

I can ship you the eggcups & pearplate!

saskia.vanderzee [at] yahoo [dot] com

 

Thank you all for playing! So sorry you can't all win but... don't be sad!

Because I like to do giveaways so much I asked on Twitter if there are shops around who would love to do a giveaway on my blog...
 
Some amazing shops responded & so:

From monday october first a giveaway-marathon starts on this blog! 

 

What better way to start your week than with a giveaway!?

Have a happy week!
xoxox

ps winner is drawn with the help from True Random Number Generator

psps if you are a shop owner & you want to participate in the giveaway as well, please send me an email: saskia.vanderzee [at] yahoo [dot] com

CYB

Some very sad news from a family member made me realise it's a true blessing that I am healthy & the ones real close me are as well!

What made me smile this past week: 

 Seeing a beautiful rainbow just before I went out for a run.
 

 

Finding a small army of so called koppoters made by T., he really got bitten by the drawing-bug! ♥

 

Eating my first mandarin in months, that means autumn really started!

 

Have a beautiful new week!

xoxox

 

Visit Zilverblauw if you want to see more blessings!

 

By the way: you can still enter my giveaway! I will announce the winner tomorrow!

 

If you want to win tickets to visit the Woonbeurs hop on over to Enigheid!