Landmark Notes - Munich city guide

Just around the corner where we are living in Munich you can find the "White Rabbit's Room", a sweet and beautiful coffee shop where i found Landmark Notes a cityguide and notebook all in one.

This is the kind of city guide everyone always wanted to have. Full with wonderful tips, magic places that you normally as tourist don't even get the chance to know about (unless you know some locals) and with plenty of space to write your own notes.
While flipping through this guide you will find the places where young artists, designers and artisan craft workers present their work, nice little cafes, small interior and book shops, special vending machines and good food markets.

Another good thing in this guide is that isn't only written in German but also in English and you have enough space to keep some collectables from your trip such as cards, maps and other small papers. They really thought about everything while putting this guide together! Love it!
Take a look inside and if you want to experience something new in Munich this is definitely the guide to bring with you!

Have a great day!

Home leave - Asia meets Europe

Yesterday I flew to Europe to spend a nice holiday with family and friends.
In total I will be here 7 weeks and I will be visiting 7 countries. Germany, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Holland, Belgium and Portugal. Am I meeting you somewhere?

The thing about being a German-Portuguese couple, who was living before we moved to Japan in The Netherlands and in Belgium makes us already having to visit 4 countries, during our home leave.
My husband and I love Scandinavia, where we will be attending in Lund the wedding of our lovely friends Karin & Christian. And to get to Lund we have to fly to Copenhagen. Once there we couldn't miss the chance to visit this beautiful and inspiring city one more time, right?



Further I'm looking forward to see Vienna for the first time, to enjoy Lisbon and the Algarve as much as I can.
My holiday will end up in Antwerp, where i will be seeing Alicia Keys live on concert. This is definitely the cherry on top of my cake! Nice things to look forward to!

Images via Pinterest 

I guess being in Japan made me realize how lucky we are in Europe. Where every country is so close to each other with so many possibilities to visit them all.
If you want to see what we are doing here, follow my adventures @lendalia on Instagram.

Have a great day!

White cottage in Scandinavian Style

Isn't this 43m ² Dutch summer cottage in scandinavian style a beauty?
Now the days are getting longer and warming up, spending a long weekend or the summer holidays here, would just be perfect.

White, wood and shades of gray are the predominant colors in this house.
The light colors make it so bright and everything is particularly well thought and so functional that you almost forget that this cottage isn't that big. Love it!
Enjoy and have a great day!

Images via Planete Deco.

Happy Monday!

Dream, create, inspire! Work is not a job!
After these great workisnotajob manifesto let me wish you a great week!

Analogue Life - I

Last weekend I met Ian Orglas(Canadian) and Mitsue Iwakoshi (Japanese), the owners of Analogue Life in their lovely shop in Nagoya. I felt in love with their beautiful crafts right away when I first saw them featured on an interior design blog. I've been thinking about visiting the shop for a while and having to buy a wedding gift was the perfect "excuse" to finally do so.

Analogue Life is situated in Mizuho Ward, in a residential area in Nagoya and a definitely must see to everyone who lives in or visits Nagoya - and for those who like traditional Japanese products that are artisan handmade, handcrafted or produced by small studios and local manufacturers.

Analogue Life is a delight for the eyes and for the soul. As soon as you walk in you feel an imense flow of peace, giving it by the serenity of the airy space in a contemporary Japanese atmosphere.
The simplicity, the beauty and calmte that Analogue Life transmits make you feel at home right away. The idea of being able to turn your passion into work in such an environment, feels like heaven to me.
Perhaps also due to the contemporary look with Showa period architectural elements present in the building and the Japanese garden view which you are able to look at from the bright window.

Then you look around and you see even more beauty exposed on every single product.

The whole time I spent here I was wafting from one corner to an another. Once in a while I stopped and faced the window which looks into the Japanese garden, just to be able to assimilate every single detail and to enjoy that moment as much as I could.

I was delighted and so curious about the shop, the idea behind it, the concept, the webshop, the artisans and their products that I asked Mitsue if I could interview her.
And as open and friendly as Mitsue is, I could do it right away. And I did it!
You can read the interview here on the blog next week.

Ian & Mitsue

Fotos by Lendalia

Analogue Life Nagoya Shop is open Tuesday to Saturday 12-7pm.
Curious and want to go there? See how to get there Here.

Have a great weekend and if you happen to be in the neigbourhood visit it.
You gonna love it!

Happy Wednesday

Some yummy matcha tea to light up your Wednesday! Enjoy!

via Pinterest



Floating flower vase

This year I experienced for the first time the cherry blossom season in Japan. I can tell you it's beautiful and if you would ask me which time of the year you should visit Japan, I would definitely say Springtime.
Seeing all this beautiful cherry blossoms within a few days blooming, blowing away and even later seeing them laying on the ground made me think about all beautiful flowers you put in a vase and how lovely they look at that moment and how quickly they fade again.

That's why when I saw this beautiful flower vase, designed by Norihiko Terayama I felt right away deeply in love with it.
Floating water (2008) is a flower vase that is designed to equally appreciate beauty in the plant’s imminent death, as well as in its life, says the designer.

Don't you agree with me and think that this concept is brilliant? Two vases in one. One for the blooming flowers and the other one for the falling petals and leaves? You can even put some water in the low vase and already let some flowers floating. I love it!

Enjoy this beautiful Spring weekend, wherever you are!

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