09/20/21
I loved the feel of the home we stayed in during our time in the more northern area of The Netherlands 🖤
Here, it’s somewhat described as ‘landelijke stijl’, roughly translated to ‘country style’. If I could replicate it to a degree with a little bit of my color love thrown in, I think I’d be pretty pleased with the result 🤪
It’s like, a classy boho/vintage with old charm thrown in, a blending of old and new, and so many textures…
New velvet, well loved leather, a sheepskin throw atop a wooden chair.
Little details all coming together to make for a home that’s not only comfortable, but also interesting.
Our hosts were also very nice, which I think in no small part lent to the homey atmosphere 😉👌🏻
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Many of you may know them via their businesses,
They do plants.
Like, lots of plants.
We’ve even seen their products in Wilson’s Lifestyle Centre in Saskatoon!
Which is actually a very Dutch like store, many products even say outright ‘from the Netherlands’.
But, back to the story at hand…
As they have their own business, Monday morning came with work, which Mike was able to tag along for.
I happily stayed back and enjoyed some downtime, sitting and writing, while Lake slept 👌🏻
By the time they returned it was near lunchtime and all the family returned to the house for it. Which was nice because then we got in more time to hang out even though it was a work day.
Afterwords, we packed up and headed out to visit the cousins at their perspective work places as well as the store front.
Exploring those areas, we learned about the costs and time it takes to start new plants, how they securely pack the plants for shipping out and so on.
It’s interesting stuff, but as a non plant enthusiast/life giver, it all seems stressful to me in the fact that you can just let your profit literally die 😂
Supper was being made for us at some friends whom we previously always visited when we went to South Africa!
They moved back to her home, her being from Holland, so now we got to see them here and each of us had a new babe as well.
How things change 🤪
I had to walk outside with Lake for a while to get him down for a nap, but after that, we had a nice dinner and visit together. Catching up, discussing houses, work, babes and all the highlighted areas adult life encompasses, before we headed away from the Groningen area, and back to Doesburg.
* I ask that you do your best to ignore any spelling mistakes, as on my iPad the set up is different, and I can’t find an easy way to do a spelling / grammar check. Thank you for your understanding 
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