1 year anniversary

Today this blog exists 1 year! I'm happy I made it this far... And of course, as promised, I'm doing an anniversary give-away later on this week! You will find out more about this soon. Anyway thank you all for reading, and my aim -as always- is to blog more, bigger and better all the time!

award - have to tell you all my secrets! not.

I recently got a Stylish Blogger Award from sophiesweetvintage. Many thanks for that. I'm supposed to tell some things about myself that you probably don't know, so here it goes (let's see if I can come up with something interesting):

• I studied to become a journalist and although I work in television, which is also in the media sector, I still want to do some more writing, but somehow I always end up back doing television productions.

• I come from a very musical family. My boyfriend sometimes hides away in shame behind the sofa when the whole family is at home. Because when one of us starts singing, we all sing along. It's like a really tacky musical scene, we don't really give it a second thought, I guess it can be annoying to those who didn't grow up like me and my singing siblings. I used to play the flute as well, now I'm just sad I didn't choose to learn to play the piano...

• Things I don't eat: mayonaise and garlic. yuck.
• Things I eat too much of: cheese and pasta. yum.

• The reason I started blogging? Casey's Elegant Musings The first blog I was hooked on!

• I've mentioned my daughters before, but never given their names away. Well, they are Mia and Mona. My two little darlings.

• For the last month, I've been listening to just one cd in my car (and since I have a daily commute of about 2 hours, that's a lot of repeats): The Alkali Flats - live. It just brings me in a better mood when I'm stuck in traffic. I'm afraid to jinx my good mood by putting on another record.

• I'm very curious. The verb to google, or in fact google itself, must have been invented for people like me. I google everything...just to see what it says. If I have a conversation during lunch that's interesting, I google the subject to know more about it. I google for spelling checks, driving directions, pictures, blogs, books, you name it, I google it. Ok, this just makes me sound creepy. Enough with the award-confessions!

I tag:

Saskookt

Lifeinapinkhouse

Intheheyday

thesueperblog

Greetzfromtiz

a week in pictures

Stuck in traffic, what's new?

work hard - need to clean up my desk

watching The Big Lebowsky - again -still funny

Birthday Party for my eldest - 5 already!

Making Hello Kitty cakes and bonbons - yum

Introducing Spring in the house - hoping to speed the seasons up

Buying stock for the webshop!

 rock 'n roll concert last night!

Shopping bag

I won the fabulous Greetz from Tiz give-away! Last week I got this beautiful shopping bag by mail and I'm so happy with it. The gift-wrapping was also very cute! And it's so much more fun to go out grocery shopping with this bag at hand. It's really big, so it definitely comes in handy. Thank you again, Tiz, I love your style! Do check out her blog and Etsy shop!

How do you blog?

I wish I had more time to put into blogging. There's always so much going on, I usually write posts rather hastily. That's why I'm always trying to do several things at the same time. I find it useful to paint my nails while working on my laptop, if you type carefully your nails will dry at the same time you're typing! Multifunctional me! I'm also drinking coffee and I'm writing in my trusty Moleskine notebook while the girls are fabricating some girly pink artwork next to me. I wonder, how do you blog?

La dolce vita - see you soon!

I can't believe it's been over a month since I last posted on my blog. It's been a hectic couple of weeks in which I changed jobs, did a lot of soulsearching and basically left my computer aside. I guess bad time management between a full time job, two kids and blogging got the better of me... I'm leaving for Italy this weekend for two weeks, I hope to come back refreshed and ready to start blogging consistently again after a taste of la dolce vita! So bear with me...

I'll have to catch up on some blog reading because besides my lack of posting I've also neglected commenting on all of my favourite blogs. I missed you all.

A warm welcome to my new readers by the way!

Since I'm leaving for the Italian countryside, I want to leave you with the fabulous Kitty, Daisy and Lewis.

Computer says NO

My laptop broke down a few weeks ago and there still seems to be a problem since it doesn't work properly...so there isn't much blogging action going on here! I hope to get it up and running very soon!

Mijn laptop weigerde een paar weken geleden dienst en hapert nog steeds, vandaar dat er weinig geblogd wordt hier! Ik hoop dat ik hem heel snel terug aan de praat krijg!

But...since we've been having beautiful weather the past couple of days I've been thinking about summer parties and tiki bars. I would love to build one (= have one built by my lovely crafty husband. - it doesn't hurt to give him some compliments in advance to speed up the whole process -). It doesn't have to be a permanent one (if that can make the task somewhat easier on him). For some Tiki inspiration:

Have a great weekend and I hope to join you back again soon!

Lovely Surprise

Soms kan een complimentje je dagen doen glimlachen. Ik kreeg namelijk een blogger award! Heel erg bedankt! De lieve woorden van Coedith van Life in a Pink House deden me blozen. Ik volg haar blog nauwgezet en vind hem inspirerend, eerlijk en herkenbaar. Door haar eerste comment op mijn blog besliste ik mijn posts ook te vertalen voor buitenlandse lezers. 

Sometimes kind words can make you smile for days! I got a blogger award! Thank you so much! Coedith's lovely words at Life in a Pink House made me blush. I read her blog consistently and find it inspiring, honest en recognisable. Her first comment on my blog resulted in me translating it in English.

Een award krijgen is leuk, maar hem doorgeven vind ik nog plezanter! Ik geef de award door aan Saskia van Sas Kookt! We zijn ongeveer in dezelfde periode een blog begonnen denk ik en zij is mijn meest trouwe lezeres en commentaargever! Ik lees haar blog graag omdat haar posts iets fris en liefs hebben. Ze schrijft vol liefde over haar gerechtjes en ze inspireert me als ik weer niet weet wat te maken voor het avondeten!
Sophie van SophieSweetVintage krijgt er ook eentje. Haar posts staan barstensvol super mooie vintage kledij en vintage inspiratie items. Haar kleine ontdekkingen zijn altijd de moeite waard en haar schrijven straalt een positieve energie uit.

Getting an award is fun, but I enjoy giving one away even more! I pass on the award to Saskia at Sas Kookt! We started our blogs at about the same time and she has been my most loyal reader en commenter. I love reading her blog because her posts are pure and sweet. She writes passionate about food en she inspires me to cook her recipes when I don't know what to make for diner!
Sophie at SophieSweetVintage also gets one. Her posts are packed with excellent vintage clothes and vintage inspiration items. Her little finds are always worth it and her writing is filled with positive energy.

The lady chooses

Welkom op mijn inspiratie-blog!

Als je van mode, vintage, juwelen, rock'n roll, kunst, old school tattoos, oude films, make-up, boeken...(ik kan nog héél veel opsommen hier)...houdt, dan ben je aan het juiste adres!

Wie is the lady chooses?

Ik ben:

een"natuurlijk-komt-dat-allemaal-aan-van-over-de-hele-wereld"-webshopper.

Ik ben:

geïnspireerd door leuke dingen die ik tegenkom, ik ga voor de details en voor de retrofeel. Alles wat vintage jaren '40-'50-'60 is, veroorzaakt een helder "ping"-geluid in mijn hoofd, gevolgd door een "must have" commando, in een stevige, lichtjes robotachtige, maar vooral dwingende Terminatorstem.

Ik ben: een tattoolief

(VAN DALE; lief het; o 1 dat wat tattoolief is: ~ en leed delen voor- en tegenspoed 2 tattoogeliefde: mijn ~(je): geliefde van een succesvol tattoeërder, die -uit liefde voor het vak, voor haar man en voor de kunst ervan- zich af en toe net iets meer verdiept in de tattoowereld dan dat ze zou gedaan hebben, mocht haar man kapitein van een piratenschip zijn)

Ik ben:

mama van twee aspirant-prinsesjes, die roze de enige aanvaardbare kleur vinden voor nu ja...alles! 

Ik ben:

naast al het bovenstaande, iemand die graag creatief is en die veel te lange zinnen schrijft én die meestal ook nog te vinden is op haar werk in een mediabedrijf.

Waarom the lady chooses?

De naam is geïnspireerd op een oude reclame uit de jaren '50. Omdat een dame altijd de keuze heeft! En wat is er leuker dan te kiezen voor de mooie spulletjes? In je haar, op je lippen, in de keuken, kortom overal...dat maakt het leven des te prettig, niet? In de toekomst mag je hier allerhande tips verwachten, reviews, recepten en ook gewoon vermakelijk leesvoer. Laat je inspireren...you'll want your friends to know!