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.

☻ greetings from belgium