This awesome little dude is 4 years old today! I can’t believe we no longer have a toddler but a boy who’s going to school (soon). Today we’re celebrating just the three of us.
P.S. look at the shadows on the ground, this is what you get when you grow up with 2 iPhone addicted parents.
A while ago I discovered an awesome children’s clothing brand: Mini & Maximus. I’ve been following them on Instagram as well. And I absolutely love their style! They say that they are inspired by children who smudge food all over their face, draw all over our walls. Kids help them see the world around them in new way. I really like how playful and at the same time how cool their clothes are. 
And they also have some really awesome prints, that also look really good in your living room!
Posted in Dress You Up, Mini Madness
Tagged brand, childrens clothing, clothes, kids, mini & maximus
We had the best of luck celebrating Mini’s third birthday. All week the weather was rainy and cloudy, except for sunday when suddenly the sky was blue and the sun was shining! Coincidentally, my workweek had been as ominous as the weather this past week, so our sunshine filled birthday was a breath of fresh air in many respects. We wasted no time and took the party outside to the playground near our house. An awesome decision though I say so myself! The pictures are mostly pre-party, since during I had way to much fun and forgot all about photographing.
My sister baked these amazing rainbow cakes that I found here on pinterest. They look pretty chemical (and they probably are) but they also were quite delicious! We also made a ton of other goodies, but nothing stayed on the table long enough to take a descent picture! (I guess that means we did a good job 
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Mini got this amazing suitcase as a present and decided to go on vacation right there and then. You can just see him wandering about near the tree.
Posted in About The Girl, Mini Madness
This Sunday it’s Mini’s 3rd birthday!
And because he is visually absent here most of the time. I thought I’d shine a light on his room instead. Of course like everything else in our house, it’s still nog completely finished. Which is also the reason I haven’t shown his room here yet. But the Why-Don’t-You-Stop-Whining-About-Small-Things-Part of my brain gave my No-But-Everything-Has-To-Be-Done-And-Perfect-Part of my brain a kick in the butt and posted it anyway.
Posted in Mini Madness, Our House
Tagged bed room, children's room, room, vintage, wallpaper
Things got rearranged around the house. I switched some stuff around and I made room for Johnny Cash. He was supposed to get a space in our ‘office’ but we still haven’t gotten to fixing up that room yet. So I felt sorry for him sitting alone in the attic all these months Johnny was my gift to the Boyfriend a couple of years ago. It a little bit special as well, because it is a photo of his last show in the Netherlands. So Boyfriend is glad to have him in a prominent place again!
This week I also made our pouffe a new cover made from an old woolen blanket. And Mini reorganized the sofa pillows while I tried to take some photographs of it. I also made Mini a table tent with left-over fabric.
And I got Mini these cool monster socks from H&M. They don’t really fit with this post, but they are just so damn cute!
Posted in About The Girl, Mini Madness, Our House
Tagged house, johnny cash, pouffe, table tent
One of the few rooms in our house that is 90% done is Mini’s room. And his room has a very cool wallpaper by fashion designer J.C. de Castelbajac, mostly because I couldn’t really part with this wallpaper just yet. Mini used to have the same wallpaper in his previous room.
And though I still love it, I come across so many cool wallpapers that I sometimes wish I had ten more walls left! Here’s a selection of awesome wallpaper I found at Minimoderns, doesn’t it make you wanna re-paper your house too? 
1. Fayre’s Fair – Mustard 2. Whitby – Lido 3. Pet Sounds – Harvest Orange 4. Festival – Stone 5. C-60 – Snow 6. Hold Tight – Mustard 7. Our Adventure Is About To Begin – Sky Blue 8. Six of One – Smoothie Pink
Posted in Interior Therapy, Mini Madness
Tagged home, minimoderns, wall paper, wallpaper
On my last museum visit, I went to the museum shop as well (looking at art books is almost as much fun as the actual museum ). I found this great little book called Iron Me On by Mike Perry.
He’s a graphic designer and has made all these fun little drawings and letters that are actually decals. And you can cut them out and arrange them any way you like, and then just iron them on. A very easy way to spruce up otherwise dull items (like some boy clothing) so I got it.
And Whamm! here’s the result so far. (the whamm in the picture sure ads a little something extra, don’t you think?)
Posted in I heart D.I.Y., Mini Madness
Tagged D.I.Y., Iron Me On, kids, Mike Perry, Mini
To make up for our crappy summer the weather gods finally decided to send some sun our way. And after spending the last 10 days or so indoors (working/sick/studying/sick/). Today, I was free, healthy and all my deadlines were met. So I finally got the chance to spend some time outdoors! Funny how a little bit of sunshine and can make you so happy!
Also, now I finally had the chance to take some pictures around the house of the teeny tiny steps of progress we’re making here.
I found this amazing school poster of Russia in our attic when we moved in. It was a little torn and broken. But I really wanted to fix it up. And since we have this weird little nook with a boarded up doorway, I thought I just use it instead of hide it. Now Mini has a little ‘school’ nook. And I’m sure he’ll be an expert in Russian geography in no time!
Last week got kind of crazy! There was work, and then on wednesday, I had my first two lectures of this semester (just 4 more months of lectures :-p) and then I basically worked the rest of the week. Including a whole day of filming @ a local hospital on a saturday. 6 days of work isn’t much fun! I missed spending time with Mini and the Boyfriend a lot. And being so busy, this little blog here, got neglected a bit… Hopefully this week will be better! A little bright spot though, we did manage to wall paper Mini’s room last week. I didn’t find the time (or light) to take a proper photo, so for now a Lomo taken with my iPhone. 
Before I post some pictures of Mini’s new and completely finished bed. I wanted to reminisce about the past and show some pictures of Mini’s baby bed. Taking down and replacing his bed was a big moment, his baby days are definitely over and the replacing of the bed kind of marks the point where he is really becoming a little boy (though he continues to call himself ‘baby’) 
If you happen to love the wallpaper as much as I do, it’s by fashion designer JC De Castelbajac. He did a wallpaper line called Popier Peint, you can find a lot more of his wallpaper here. The interpretation of Hokusai’s Great Wave with bunnies is by Kozydan.
1x art history bachelor 2x visual culture student 1x art school drop-out 1x fashionista 1x geekette 1x design lover 1x lazy 1x ambitious
= 100% culture freak
