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Sunny day and flowers

 Something more I like about spring / summer

 Wonder if it's as good on the inside!

 Spending time at the thrift store and the library got me these

 Another pretty bike in the streets

 And receiving mail with good looking stamps

The one with King's Day (2015)

Last week, on monday, we celebrated King's Day in the Netherlands. The King's birthday is april 27th and is a national holiday. Each year a different city is hosting a party that's attended by the King and his family. Festivities throughout the whole country include flea markets and concerts. Most people dress up in orange (our national colour) and lots of us eat 'tompoucen'. Previous King's Day posts are here and here.

After skipping the flea market last year, I decided to go again this year, who knows what kind of treasuries where waiting to be discovered! I woke up pretty early (for a holiday), filled my pockets with small change, took my camera and wheeled off to the park. Treasuries? Not so much. Entertaining? Yes! 

Loved these big metal letters

The annual flea market is the perfect place to get rid of collections that were
coveted in the past, like these eggholders

 and these cars

 I even spotted some streetart!

 I ended up with a vintage childrens' bible (for the pretty and colourful illustrations) 

and an old enamel coffee cup, that might end up as a pencil holder, or a plant pot.

 

And I regretted not buying this puzzle with super cool drawings

 After the flea market I had lunch with granny and mom, who both like cheese as much as I do!

And after lunch I watched the festivities visited by the King and his family. Doesn't the Queen look gorgeous? Her cape is supposedly by Zara, I love the fact that she doesn't exclusively wear designer clothes.

 Fun in the park, don't we look just like the King and Queen?

The one with the soldier pushpin DIY

A whole bag of toy soldiers came home with me after a trip to the thrift store last year. For only 1 euro for a ginormous bag, I couldn't leave them there. What to do with them, was something to figure out later. During a recent cleaning adventure, they were rediscovered and some of them gotten turned into pushpins. 

What you'll need:

• toy soldiers
• spray paint
• pushpins
• fast drying glue

What you'll need to do:

Spray

After letting them dry, glue

Stick

Dry

Done!

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 I came across this gorgeous looking wall

Food for thought

As you might know, I'm such a sucker for beautiful doors and details

I went for pancakes with my friends L & Y, one of the walls of the 

pancake house was decorated with vintage baking tins and cookie cutters

Snatching up this extra large rosary at the thriftstore

My friend L treated the windows of our brick and mortar shop to

a pacman drawing

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Snatching up this vintage Cinderella card at the thriftshop (for 5 cents)

My initials on a shop window

Having a latte this afternoon, in the pitcher is the actual coffee, so you can decide 

for yourself how strong your hot beverage is

 Joining a cooking club. My favorite course was the dessert. Served with coconut icecream, we got pineapple baked in butter and honey, filled with cinnamon and rosemary.

More doors

 Treating myself to fresh flowers, tomorrow I'll try to squeeze in a new 

DIY project, involving vases.

Hope you're having a fabulous weekend, see you next week!

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Last saturday I visited Amsterdam with Mandy, 

we did some ooh-ing + aah-ing over expensive shoes

Must have been some party we came across

My latest thrift store finds

Receiving an awesome card, with equally awesome stamps

The latest addition to my household. Popsicles were made the same day,

more on that next week

Hope you'll be having a fabulous weekend!

The one with the old factory

Woke up way early yesterday and received a message from M, if I wanted to go thrift shopping. The washing machine was already doing it's thing, so with the mandatory sunday housekeeping being taken care of (I'm not a very ambitious housewife on sundays...), I thought I deserved a bit of fun. Each weekend there's a flea market in an old factory nearby. In the third photo you can see the church that also can be seen from my kitchen window. The factory stopped being a factory (it used to make wheat starch, for soups) two years ago and serves lots of purposes now. A 'mixture of commercial, creative and cultural tennants' (according to the website, only in Dutch), now inhabit the factory. 

The flea market was a bit of a let down. Items for sale were way overprized or in bad shape. The building itself made up for the thrifting disaster. Even though it was raining, I dodged most of the raindrops and managed to take some photos (I will definitely go back again if the sun decides to show it's face again)(hopefully some time soon!). 

 

We had coffee with apple crumble and on the way back to the car we accidentally ended up at an exhibition about archeology somewhere in the building. I love not making any special plans and seeing where the weekend takes me. How were your saturday and sunday? Do you like planning ahead? If you feel like sharing, I'd love to read about your weekend-adventures in the comments below!