Categorie: Geen categorie

GIVEAWAY: Vintagestore


Ik ben altijd al grote fan geweest van alles wat vintage is en door Pinterest is dat er niet echt beter op geworden. Uren en uren kan ik rond surfen op zoek naar de mooiste interieurs met leuke spullen. In al die jaren ben ik ook altijd Vintagestore blijven volgen, een must voor iedereen wie verliefd is op alles vintage, dus ook voor leuke keukenspulletjes.

Hierboven enkele van mijn favoriete spulletjes uit de webshop op een rij.

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Ik ben dan ook heel blij te mogen aankondigen dat we in samenwerking met Vintagestore een GIVEAWAY houden ter waarde van 50 euro!

Hoe kan je winnen?

– fan zijn/worden van Vintagestore op Facebook of Pinterest
– fan zijn/worden van Melissa Milis op Instagram of Pinterest
– hieronder een comment achter laten met daarin de melding waar je fan (geworden) bent

we kondigen de winnaar aan op maandag 17 maart 2014

Heel veel succes!

Liefs,
Melissa

READ // Februari 2014


Nog net op de valreep een boekenlijst voor februari (god, wat vliegen de maanden om!). Deze maand een allegaartje van boeken die ik aan het lezen ben, graag wil lezen en dus op mijn verlanglijstje staan of er gewoon te gek uitzien en ik moet hebben 🙂

1. Water & Salt – your healers from Within
Water en zout als ‘geneesmiddel’ voor allerlei kwaaltjes, of over hoe we veel te weinig natuurlijk water consumeren of toch net teveel? Een interessant boek voor iedereen die huis, tuin en keukenweetjes graag gecombineerd ziet met (alternatieve, natuurlijke) geneeskunde.

2. Morocco
Een reisgids over Marokko zal ons van pas komen want in Mei hebben we een destination wedding op het menu staan (yay! :-)) – we blijven nog een paar dagen ‘plakken’ en hopen nog wat van het land te zien op die vrije dagen.

3. A Place Called Home
In maart starten we eindelijk met onze bouw (dat had ik je al verteld) en dus tij om ook weer die inspiratieboeken boven te halen. Kan niet wachten om te gaan inrichten.

4. Food From Plenty
Als er maar eten is… toch? 🙂

5. De Dip
Toegegeven, een zaak runnen is niet altijd rozengeur en maneschijn, ook al zijn we goed in het verbergen van al die dipjes (op welk vlak dan ook) door enkel moois te tonen via facebook, twitter en pinterest. Dit boekje lijkt mij dus goed om eens te lezen.

6. Leve De Vrijheid
In dezelfde categorie (be happy, feel happy) is dit book er ook eentje. Over waarom we allemaal niet in hetzelfde rijtje moeten lopen en best ook eens gek mogen doen. Blijkt uiteindelijk allemaal nog niet zo gek als het lijkt.

Liefs en veel leesplezier,

Melissa

DO // walks around Blauberg


Around christmas and new years we used our free time to take some walks and learn more about the beautiful nature we have around us here in Blauberg. I love this place where I grow up more and more and I’m secretly happy to be living here now and building our new home in the future. I can’t wait to go for a walk with our future kids. This is a beautiful place if you learn to look around.

Love,
Melissa

A lot of readers asked where I got my coat, it’s from Only and you can get it here!

TRAVEL: Eindhoven (NL)


A few weeks ago, Jan and I decided to take a weekend off and go to Eindhoven. We booked a really cute apartment (via airbnb: thanks Fernand!) and off we went. It was so great to just hang out for 2 days and don’t think about all the stress factors in our life at that moment. I think we should do this more often. Here are a few images from our trip! Enjoy.

We started our first evening at restaurant Smalle Haven. A perfect place to relax with your loved one. The menu is small but so good! If you like tapas/real food and vintage design, please go here! (for the ladies -I have to admit- going here because a true look-alike of Ryan Gosling works here is just a very pleasant bonus ;-))

After a good night of sleep (hallelujah for the best bed I ever slept in) we went for a little shopping trip at the heart of Eindhoven city. I discovered the vintage shop Doortje and had some bagels for lunch (they have gluten-free ones EVERYWHERE in Eindhoven, so you’ll understand I started to feel in love with this place already)

Next stop was Piet Hein Eek, a lovely place outside the city center. We met up with Danique and Bart. (who’s wedding I’ll be shooting this year *excited look on my face*)

After our wedding-meeting-talk-thingie we visited the painting competition at Piet Hein Eek and met up with Hanke (a wedding photographer as well!) and went for a drink. Lovely time spent with lovely people, I LIKE!

We did some late night bicycling, some late night shopping and got ready for an evening at the light festival glow.

But because of the heavy rain that evening we started off at ‘De Burger’ – a lovely place with the best burgers you can think off (gluten free again! Yes – learn from this place @The Burgerij Antwerpen!)

Still raining we decided to do the light festival GLOW anyway (but we have to admit, we did go home only after seeing the half of it- shame on us :))

The next day was leaving day already. We packed our suitcases and had another few hours to see some of the lovely things Eindhoven has to offer. It took a little longer to do the things we wanted because we somehow locked ourself out.. #bummer!

We really liked the area of Strijp S and decided to go their for our last day. It’s a lovely creative, quiet place with lovely restaurants, shops and graffiti all over the walls 🙂

We went for a coffee and cake (woops) and 1 hour later we already went for lunch… a day full of eating and drinking, perfect no? 🙂

We had lunch at Radio Royaal, a very very very beautiful restaurant with a swing in the middle (who doesn’t want to swing, admit it) I loved the atmosphere of this place but did think the food/menu could have been maybe more extensive.

And so our weekend ended. I have to admit – I left a little of my heart in Eindhoven and hope to get back soon!

Love, Melissa

PS. all these pictures have been taken with my cellphone. Because it’s just a quick and relaxing weekend away with my husband, I think cell phones are the best, they are quick, real and not a hassle.

How to tell the world you are tired.


2013 is almost over and in a way I’m glad. It feels like I can start all over with a new blank canvas in 2014, although we all know this isn’t really true (every day can be a new start if you want to), I guess I need to believe it myself. 2013 hasn’t been the best year for me. Sure, we got married, but for the other aspects of my life, it has been so stressful and emotional. I’m not getting into details (just yet) but to say 2013 has been great would be a big lie.

To get out of the tired, emotional and stressful days I turned into reading books and so a new passion began. I started looking into clean eating and healing yourself and your body with food (since a lot of the problems and emotions I had started out with food related stuff this seemed logical to me). I have been on a roller coaster since. I learned a lot of things and changed my diet drastically.

It all begun with reading this blog by Jess; the wellness warrior. For all who don’t know her story: Jess, still a young girl in here twenties, has been living with cancer for a while now and started out ‘cleaning’ and ‘healing’ her body with food (and things like yoga, etc). I started reading her blog and felt so incredibly inspired it made my heart melt.

So – not knowing food could be ‘medicine’ – i decided to dedicate more of my time into reading and started buying books that could help me on this journey. I took ‘the voedselzandloper’, ‘broodbuik’ and a lot of other food-related books with me on our honeymoon and started my learning process. It almost feels stupid to say at this point now because it seems so logical but at that moment it was all so eye-opening to me. Learning about food being good and bad to your body, the influence the industry has on our food, the way we get ‘poisoned’ in this century. It almost made me feel sick only thinking about it. I decided it was time to invest more of energy into feeding my body all the ‘right’ things and trying to love it as much as possible for the next months and years to come. I only have one after all.

So I started out eating more fruit (I don’t think I ever did that before, shame on me) and cut out all the artificial sugars, milk and grains. After a while I started to feel better and I did loose a lot of weight. People began to ask me things and some said it was the most stupid thing to do, other laughed and again other listened and changed things themselves. I learned that eating the way I eat now isn’t so ‘easy’ when I’m on the go. Going to a restaurant or shooting weddings with all the lovely but ‘evil’ food sometimes can be hard. Staying at home, making things myself was my new solution. I expanded my knowledge of veggies and fruits, started to use things like buckwheat, quinoa and introduced more fish to our menu.

With a husband who doesn’t like veggies it has been a adventure but we are getting there. Cutting out sugar, I must say has been the best thing – the first weeks or even months, were terrible. I got angry with every sweet cookie Jan was eating but after a while I felt better and didn’t even crave one and now I can just go to the supermarket and look at the the isle with cookies and not care anymore. When I eat one, i even feel sick of the overload of sweetness it gives me and I don’t think I could ever eat a whole package again. Together with knowing it is something my body doesn’t need, it feels very very good.

I hope to share my adventure of eating a “cleaner” (I hate using clean because our food isn’t clean anymore anyways, but let’s just think it is ‘better’) way on the blog in the future. Hope you’re following along!

All my love,
Melissa

PS. If you are interested in the way foods changes your body in the good or bad way, please visit these inspiring blogs: Foodmatters, Julie’s Lifestyle or download the “Whole Pantry App” on you Iphone/Android for some good recipes – Enjoy.

PSS. I thought a LONG time about writing this post (I’ve been eating like this for almost a year at this point) and I don’t want to say this is THE way of looking at food or trying to convince you to go along on my journey and eat this way. I just wanted to find a way to express the things I’ve learned and felt (with my own body) and hopefully inspire a few of you. Food isn’t the ‘medicine’ to all the problems but it can be a good starting point to change your life(style) and hopefully prevent sickness in the future.

Have a great evening folks and speak soon X