vintage finds | greetings from belgium

north sea could be costa nixa
no extravagant holiday plans this summer, i'm afraid. we have a standing joke round here, if we don't go elsewhere, we say we go to costa nixa (nixa standing for cost free or nowhere), or else costa back yard (which luckily we have, by now). we've had SUCH splendid spring weather that maybe we will have an off summer. i dunno. it would actually suit me fine, since it would most certainly trigger another string of renovation projects, which are calling...☻


vanessa bell's bedroom in charleston farmhouse
lucky bird to wake up next to the garden, each morning!
when i go thrifting, and i stumble upon pictures from days past, from places all over the world, i always feel a little eerie or sad, for these lone pictures did belong to someone, once upon a time. may, by showing random snaps over the next months, thrifted from shoe boxes to moldy photo albums, from torn handbags to dark corners in cobwebby attic trunks, find a way to your heart too.

the kick-off to this new greetings from label forms an exception to its own rule already, what else? what you find below are mementoes from closer to home, pages from a little booklet i made for a purpose which then faded. vintage accelerated, if you like. it does sum up parts of a life. our life.


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18 comments :

  1. Costa del Nixa-heh!
    Lovely and atmospheric booklet Woolfe x

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  2. Beautiful pictures. Your booklet was so cleverly done. :)

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  3. a little book all about you...how lov-er-ly x

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  4. lovely, Nadine - the photos, and the 31 things about you.

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  5. this booklet is so you , beautiful,funny,reflecting and has that 'Nadine cool', xx

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  6. this post is the best !!!!!
    to see it again and again because I love it!
    greetings from Spain to you!

    elena

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  7. This has been a wonderful post to wander through ... and I just know I shall meander again and again.

    Your writing and your reflections are like poetry .. and I don't mean that to sound as cliched as it probably does ... a visit here is a like a visit to the ocean - refreshing and inspiring.
    xx

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  8. I agree with Renilde and Tracy... 'Nadine cool' should be trademarked. Your posts really are wonderful reads. Very different, and I guess the only way to put it is very Nadine. The photos are beautiful and wonder-filled. :)

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  9. What a lovely post.....I'm speechless and you know that takes a lot!

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  10. What a cool and special booklet. Very creative. I enjoyed your post very much.

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  11. Beautiful, interesting, misty pics!

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  12. I am going to Costa Nixa too, but oh Kers, I want to come to Belgium..I think it would suit me!♥

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  13. wow you worked a long time on this post, Kers...I love it!

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  14. What a treat this post is. Visual candy, thanks!

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  15. love your photo journal, very artistically done. Costa Nixa is good, haha..


    love~mongs
    mythriftycloset.blogspot.com

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  16. Oh Nadine that is a lovely story book♥
    I visited Brussels in about 1974, bought lace in a shop near the Mannekin, and walked around in the Atomium. Lovely memories.♥♥
    thank you for sharing a little bit of YOU.

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