{LIMBURG is Getting a Large Piece of the Cake on Blogger}

This is a complete different subject as I did receive a 'Liebster Blog Award' recently from Nicole from Rêve en Blanc. Nicole is from the Dutch Province of Limburg, where I am born. And so are several of my Blogger friends. Nicole did pass the award on, to 4 more ladies from Limburg, including me. Look at this yummy cake picture, so you can see that we all are from the south of the Kingdom of The Netherlands.

This Blog Award I will not pass on but if there are more bloggers from the Province of Limburg; please make yourself known!

Now let me introduce those Limburgers to you, so you can pay them a visit:
Click on the RED as those are hyperlinks.

There is Chantal from Abacaxi & Hortelã (English) she lived in Brasil and now in France.

Lynda from Een klein stukje van mij (English + Dutch)

Nicole from Rêve en Blanc  (Dutch + German + Google Translate)

Patricia from All Seasons  (Dutch + Google Translate)

Sandy from Van zuid naar noord who lives in Norway (Dutch)

Saskia from Join my Joy (English)

Gustaviana from Gustaviaans-Gustaviana  (Dutch + Google Translate)

If you are visiting these different blogs, please do me a favor and also visit and join my friend Rose Marie from My Romantic Treasures (Spanish + English + Google Translate)

Rose Marie is very ill and often cannot even get to her PC because of her pain. She would really love to have more visitors and followers. Several of you did already so, after my request in an earlier blog: {Our Rose Suite with Angels + a REQUEST}. THANKS A MILLION for honoring that request. 

One more day for winning the high end 925/000 Silver Alphabet Angel from Giovanni Raspini Charms & Co from Italy.

To the right of my blog at the top you can click on the button and get straight to the blog for sign up.

 Click on the image to enlarge.

♥♥

{3 Days left for winning 925/000 Silver Alphabet Angel from Giovanni Raspini, Italy}

Don't forget to place a comment on my blog from January 3rd: 

Worldwide Giveaway: Giovanni Raspini 925/000 Silver Alphabet Angel

From the Giovanni Raspini Charms collection

More of these High End Alphabet Angels from Italy are available; have a look at: Spectrenoir Just scroll down to where they are.

Click on the button to the right of this blog to go straight to the action!

Good luck!

{My Favorite Boots}

For a consulting job in California, we did receive a TIP of $ 950.00 so I was going to splurge on something, while shopping in San Francisco; my favorite city. Numerous times we went there for our work and so I loved to shop at Neiman Marcus in San Francisco and I. Magnin (was there also at the fare-well-sale on October 23, 1993. LOVED their catalog as well. One of my all time favorite stores and it was sad to see them going out of business. But back to Neiman Marcus. After visiting the Chanel boutique, where they didn't have my size boots, I got them at Neiman's and had them shipped via UPS to Georgia, to save on the sales tax. What a royal feeling to possess these special boots! We both celebrated this acquisition at our favorite little restaurant on the 3rd floor of 116 Maiden Lane; AKIMBO. We've been there many times, also for some coffee with dessert while shopping at Union Square. But that too is no longer there. Nostalgia...

Still love these oh so soft and comfy boots. Actually I wore them yesterday when we went shopping in Atlanta. 

The weather was sunny and my boxy Escada rose sweater was enough for going outside. These pictures were taken a couple of days ago in our garden.

This Escada rose sweater is jacquard knit.

On the steps of our gazebo so husband Pieter could zoom in on the buttons of my boots.

Someone once joked about making those buttons into currency... But I hope they will stay on my boots for many more years!

So this is still a great memory of California in many ways.

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