Goodmorning ~ i love you shades of blue!

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 Good morning everyone with ~>

 ~ i love you shades of blue, don't you?

this being the colour palette I'm working on and getting inspired these days,

thought it is a quite nice way to begin posting this week here...

~ how about you, what do you think?

~ how has your weekend been?

~ have you perhaps had a chance to read the first post up on my return in Germany a few days ago?

~ {favorite corners + a shining star for you}, should you wish to do so, with pretty lovely home decor suggestions among my ramblings ;)

...having recently returned from my trip to Athens in Greece,

where an encounter with the blue of the sea & the sky was a daily matter,

{much like this gorgeous view from our family friends Penthouse, 

in the same block of flats we used to live},

 the items above make me feel all the freshness & tranquility that life by the sea brings...

and as always, I'm delighted to be sharing nice things with you here ;)

ready to dive into the blue & spread your wings?

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...didn't it feel absolutely great?

Knowing that passing by this online place, a sense of calm, positivism and a creative mood, 

 is brought to you while getting inspired,

really gives my day a meaning that I had never thought before how important it would be!

It is....and I'm actually happy for that. Very :)

now...would I by any chance have mentioned that despite the current troubles in my original home country,

I feel very blessed & lucky to have been born there and having spent almost 33 years of my life,

in a home just next to the sea?

and got to live in such a {gorgeous room}?

Due to financial difficulties, my family might not be living anymore in {a comfortable 150 sm apartment}, just 200m from the sea {with 60sm of verandas all over and a huge, green garden!}, 

but the new small place which was bought two years ago {aka Apart 44},

 the new architectural design, renovation & decoration of which I fully undertook, 

 has been a project where tremendous amounts 

of effort and love were put into by my side.

I must admit, that downgrading after so many years is the hardest project I've ever had to deal with.

Not to mention the fact that I was personally involved, as it was my parents home I was working on. Not an easy task, I'm telling you...

Learning to live with less space & less money after half a life time is really a challenge with a capital C ~

Still my friends, I'm really determined to gain back all that has been lost...

and this time, I hope to be able to build for us {parents & my life companion}

a summer house, somewhere by the sea...perhaps on an Aegean island....

I'm convinced that by putting my knowledge and abilities into use,

I will be able to become affluent financially 

and offer us a standard of living I really stand for and support

...enough ramlbing and thank you so dearly for listening...in fact reading...

I feel so happy to have made this on line place,

 as it honestly serves as a spiritual & psychological sanctuary,

together with being an inspirational place for both you all & me.

Thank you once more!

Now, as the day is rather full with jobs and projects,

I'll be leaving you with a glimpse of a few last moments captured in Apart 44,

before I jumped on my flight to Frankfurt on previous Wednesday.

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I'll be back with a truly lovely & easy to make home project to share, while discussing a bit more ;)

...till then do hop on the links of the pictures above to read more of my thoughts

as they are shared on flickr ~

have a wonderful start in the new week + the loveliest of Mondays ahead!