La grande epicerie de Paris

This must have been the most beautiful supermarket I've ever seen: La grande epicerie de Paris. Of course I was all over the sweets but everything else looked really nice as well! I love the way they display their products! If I would just only live in Paris....

Home made granola

I'm quite obsessed with food lately! I just love cooking, going to good restaurants and instead of fashion magazines I now buy magazines about food. I even read cookbooks in bed before I go to sleep.. One of my favourites right now is the book Home Made by the Dutch Yvette van Boven which I got as a present last Christmas. Next to her delicious cooking she also makes great illustrations. You can see more of her work and follow her on her blog. The book Home made is only out in Dutch but will be out in English this fall!
The recipe for this granola is in the book as well. It tasted really good and I gave some of it as a present to my mom in some old jars which I thought looked quite nice.
Hope you will all have a great weekend!

Paris versus New York

I don't know if there's another city which can conquer my heart like my big love Paris did.. I've never been to New York but I definitely want to go there! I'm pretty sure I will like it cause I heard so many good thinks about this city.. but will it top Paris? Do you have a city you're in love with?
The blog 'Paris versus New York' compares typical things from both of these cities. I love the simplicity of these images, just go and take a look at this great blog for more!

Lof der Zoetheid

One of my favourite places in Rotterdam definitely is Lof der Zoetheid! This place is owned by mother Anastasia and daughter Elena who serve the best home made pies and sweets in Rotterdam! If you're not a big fan of sweets (I can't imagine..) there are lots of other delicious alternatives! I like having my breakfast there and I recently had a perfect high tea which I highly recommend to everyone who loves pies! (I will post some photos of that high tea soon!) The atmosphere in this beautiful lunchroom is perfect, I love the little (vintage) details you can find there everywhere like the old pictures in the little menu books. They are closed now for a while but they will probably open again in May (from Thursdays till Sundays). So when you come to Rotterdam you really cannot leave without paying a visit to Lof der Zoetheid!

Ouen

More photos I took at Puces de St. Ouen! I could not stop taking pictures there! I just loved the box filled with old handwritten letters.. Isn't it much nicer to receive a letter like that instead of the e-mails we write nowadays??

Amber

Polaroid I took of pretty new face Amber in my Isabel Marant dress!

Cake days!

New on my wishlist: The book Cake days from The hummingbird bakery!! Don't these cakes look all delicious??

Soup

Little movie made during a shoot I did a while ago with Miep Jukkema. I posted some photos from this shoot before here..

soup from Miep Jukkema on Vimeo.

Gare du Nord

Some photos from my last trip to Paris..

With Paris being my biggest love I'm thinking about going there (again) this summer but this time for a few weeks to take a French course.. I've been trying to learn French for a long time already but I think the best way to really learn it is to live there for a while.. I can't wait for summer to come!

Back to the future

I've been gone for quite a while from the blogging world and I even thought I should stop blogging at all.. I think I would really miss it though so I'm gonna try to post some more again. I've never been so busy as I've been lately so I really couldn't find any time for blogging. I'm glad to see I still got some followers! In the future I will post some more about my inspiration starting with the work of Irina Werning who's working on her back to the future project. She's obsessed with old photos and with this project she invites people to get back to their own future by recreating one of their old photos.

Check out her website for more..