vintage brandy bottle

New guy in da house.

A matador. Well, a glass matador.

A vintage (1950s) Brandy Bottle from Lammie Saturday Shop in Dordrecht.

Henk spotted the matador, when he went to Lammie last Saturday, while I was at work. It was a brandy bottle from Lammie's private collection, but she decided to sell this guy in the shop.

Now in our living room with a dried allium, instead of brandy inside. Cheers to the weekend anyway!

july garden

treasure hunting

Treasure hunting at Van Dijk & Ko, during our long weekend in Amsterdam.
The vintage bottle collection looks like a still life of one of the old Dutch masters.

double dahlia

While Lammie was making some bouquets with the flowers she picked from the garden, she found a double dahlia!
She couldn't use this one for a bouquet and gave the pretty flowers to me for my sweetheart. (merci, merci)

I've put it on his side of the bed (for he's a bit ill) in a vintage wine bottle from Spain! So damn pretty...

summer souvenirs

The best summer souvenirs are mostly the flea market finds. It feels good to bring home the wonderful roadtrip memories.

Those vintage finds are more valuable, because you know exactly where you found those treasures and what you did that day and where you had lunch, still after years...

The white iron patio chair, wine jug and some iron table football players we found on a small sunday market on the side of the road in Corçà, near Girona.

vintage bottle table lamp

Meanwhile on the canteen table in our kitchen:

Vintage bottle becomes table lamp stand. I took it from our jars collection on top of the kitchen cupboard. The lampshade comes from our attic.

Working on a new stool cover for a special birthday stool of my sweet friends daughter.

As you can see, Lammie also has left her name on our canteen table.

framed fritillaria