Hello and a very happy 2019. I can’t believe a whole year has passed. So what happend to me? I opened The Yvestown Tea Room & Shop in 2018 and it caught me whole. I’ve spent the past year each and every day inside the shop and I’ve not been able to do much else. I haven’t touched my garden, I haven’t tried new recipes, I haven’t touched my camera,…
This is a much overdue blogpost, I almost don’t know how to use the WordPress interface anymore! Oh my word, I can’t believe it’s been so long and I feel really awful about it. I feel awful about so many things in general as I never knew this new shop and tearoom were going to take up so much of my time. Not that it’s crazy busy but it’s a…
And all of a sudden it’s almost September and I have been totally neglecting this space. It’s just so different my new life as shop and tea room owner. It keeps me on my toes and incredibly busy. Also the sweltering heath has slowed me down immensely, boy we can’t complain about not having had a hot summer. In the meantime I managed to make something out of two items…
The weekend of The Royal Wedding also marked the first day of The Charleston Festival. So up I went to England with my besties, Daan, Donata and Eline. Donata and I share a love for The Bloomsbury Group but Donata never got to set foot in Monk’s House, the home of Virginia Woolf, or walked a down or cliff before in her life. I booked the attic of this gorgeous…
On Sunday we celebrate (in most parts of the world) our mums. My mum never really cares much for mother’s day as to her knowledge; “it’s always mother’s day” and she is obviously and as always right. There isn’t a day that I’m not thinking about my mum and when I forget to call her, she will call me instead. I know that she’s always there for me, that she…
I wanted to create a random spring look for the windows in the shop. So nothing with bunnies or eggs but something flowery instead. I went on the look out for fake flowers but that’s just not my thing. I rather spend the extra time carefully filling the mini bottles with water and real flowers such as tulips, craspedia, ranunculus and pussy willow. The 3D effect through the windows is…
The perks of owning a tea room are the high and afternoon teas for me. Boy how I love preparing them, how I love laying tables with napkins and tea cups and flowers tucked in napkins and anything else to do with napkins and tea cups. We serve high and afternoon teas as from 2 people and you really need to make a reservation as I need to get my…