For my third trip to London in a year, I made hardly any plans. My goals were to get some decent sleep and to have fun: the weeks leading up to this Blogtacular weekend were packed with (too much) work and I was exhausted and ready to see something else than my screen. But the Read article…
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Welcome at{mine}!
While life is so busy here in France, I love a little distraction from layouting magazines, photoshoots and phonecalls. Even though I enjoy browsing Pinterest with all the picture-perfect homes and dreamy destinations, I like to keep it real and peek into REAL homes too. That's exactly what I love most about at{mine}. It's an Read article…
Jardins, jardin in Paris
You may think I go from one Garden Fair to another. And actually it's kind of true! With a lot of work and projects in between that keep me busy though ;). After Les Journées des Plants in Chantilly, I visited a completely different garden fair in Paris last week: Jardins, Jardin. It took place Read article…
Les Journées des Plantes in Chantilly
One of the biggest European plant fairs… on our doorstep! In one of the prettiest locations in my Oise region: le Château de Chantilly. I visited Les Journées des Plantes de Courson on a drairy Saturday and what I experienced was a big fair in the English garden of the castle with thousands of plants. Read article…
Urban Jungle Bloggers #19
Voilà, this is my personal plantgang! For the May edition of Urban Jungle Bloggers we are celebrating plant diversity by showing our collections of plants. It's almost impossible for me to show you my entire plant gang… well actually I did it a while ago and it litteraly took me an afternoon to gather them Read article…
A night in a straw bale house
Before heading to the biggest Plant Fair in Europe that took place on our doorstep this weekend (more on that soon!), we spent a night in a straw bale house. Without running water and with an outhouse, a sauna, a lovely Orangerie and a nice table d'hôtes. La Chaise Verte, the green chair, is the Read article…
Dutch color therapy
Have you ever seen the most colorful extravaganza in the Netherlands? Until a few weeks ago I only ever saw the tulip fields from a train or car but when I found out I had a meeting at 10 minutes from Lisse, I knew I had to see this from up close. When there's such Read article…
Restored Amsterdam
What do you do when you have 90 minutes in Amsterdam and you want to visit a really nice store? You visit Restored, on the Haarlemmerdijk. In a gorgeous old Fish and Fruit warehouse you'll find a beautifully curated collection of design products: from backpacks to ceramics and preserved flowers. What I love about the Read article…
La Vallée des Singes
After lots of island fun on l'Ile de Ré we drove through the French countryside to a valley that I have been wanting to visit for years: la Vallée des Singes, the Monkey Valley! I heard it is a place where monkeys live in near wild conditions. And actually that's pretty much it! We had Read article…
Urban Jungle Bloggers #18
This month's Urban Jungle Bloggers topic is a special one. It hits right to the core of what UJB is all about: sharing, caring, giving, joy and… plants! Offer a plant to a friend! If you know me offline you've probably at least once received one of my succulents babies. There's an entire family growing Read article…
