Hi Dutch people!
April 18, 2011
Somebody told me I have a great deal of readers from the Netherlands! Could you guys say ´hi´? -just for the fun of it…
Somebody told me I have a great deal of readers from the Netherlands! Could you guys say ´hi´? -just for the fun of it…
April 18, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Sure! Hi!!!
April 18, 2011 at 6:37 pm
Yes I noticed that too, greetings from a dutchie :)
April 18, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Hallo,
uit Nederland de hartelijke groeten!
Hi, best wishes from the Neterlands.
April 18, 2011 at 6:53 pm
Netherlands of course. I hope my translation in the card was better than this:).
April 18, 2011 at 6:54 pm
Hi from Amsterdam!
April 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Hallo,
Yeah here another one from Den Haag.
Groetjes,
Els
April 18, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Hi from the Netherlands as well.
Your blog was named a while ago (about a year or so) in a small national news paper, maybe that’s why ;)
April 18, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Hi from The Hague! Love your pictures.
April 18, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Hello Brinja,
Every day I read your blog with much pleasure. I enjoy your little stories and beautiful pictures!
I was attended to your blog by a famous Dutch columnist called Aaf Brandt Corstius, who wrote a column about you in the Dutch paper ‘nrc.next’ a while ago.
I became very curious and had to take a look at your blog and now you have a new fan! ;-)
I’ll send you the link of the article, it’s in Dutch but maybe you can translate it in Danish!
Here it is, from March 23 last year: http://www.nrcnext.nl/columnisten/2010/03/23/ik-ben-inmiddels-behoorlijk-geinvolveerd-in-haar-leven/
I hope you like it!
Greetings from a Dutch reader
April 18, 2011 at 7:46 pm
Proud to say ‘hi’ from Deventer, The Netherlands :)
April 18, 2011 at 8:10 pm
Hi from Arnhem!
April 18, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Hi from Amsterdam!
April 18, 2011 at 8:34 pm
Hellooo from Utrecht, Netherlands!
April 18, 2011 at 8:36 pm
Hi from Utrecht!
April 18, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Hi Brinja!
I’m not Dutch but I do check your blog daily from the Netherlands… from the very very south, in Maastricht!
:-)
April 18, 2011 at 8:40 pm
By the way, I think I know where your Dutch readers come from.. (Anyway, this is how I know about you)
One of my favourite writers of a daily column in a national newspaper once wrote about you.
I included a link to the article, you can translate it in Google.
http://www.nrcnext.nl/columnisten/2010/03/23/ik-ben-inmiddels-behoorlijk-geinvolveerd-in-haar-leven/
:D
April 18, 2011 at 8:53 pm
Hi!
April 18, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Hi Brinja,
Nice blog you have! Everyday i take a peek.
Greetings from Nieuwegein, Netherlands
April 18, 2011 at 9:26 pm
Hi! I’m dutch too and I read the same column as Dieuwy. Since that day I look at your blog at least five times a week. I really love everything of it, especially the interior of your house (my boyfriend also loves it), all the things you make and of course your adorable daughter. And I like the clothes you wear!
Bye :-)
April 18, 2011 at 9:28 pm
And another ‘hi’ from the Netherlands :-)
April 18, 2011 at 9:33 pm
Hi from Groningen in the north of the Netherlands!
April 18, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Hi from Eindhoven, the Netherlands ;)
April 18, 2011 at 9:59 pm
Hi Brinja! Love your Blog :) I also got to know about your blog through the daily column Dieuwy mentioned. Greetings from Harderwijk! :D
April 18, 2011 at 9:59 pm
hi from amsterdam!
best wishes,
shara & daughter mia
April 18, 2011 at 10:48 pm
‘Hi’ from a Dutchie living in Switzerland :-)
April 18, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Hi! I am a Dutch reader living in Berlin and started following you after Aafs daily column as well.
April 18, 2011 at 11:00 pm
Hi from Leiden!
April 18, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Hellow, I really like this Blog, specially the-after-weekend-posts :)
A friend of mine tipped me about you’re blog.
Groeten uit Rotterdam
April 18, 2011 at 11:21 pm
Another Dutchie here…
Love Copenhagen and love your blog.
April 19, 2011 at 12:20 am
Same story for me, it was Aaf Brandt Corstius gushing about your blog that got me here. (Today by the way, though she wrote about you over a year ago).
Greetings from Leiden, or DOEI!
April 19, 2011 at 1:23 am
Hi… from Paris, France ! I’m not much from Netherlands but couldn’t resist to say “hi” ! :-)
April 19, 2011 at 6:21 am
hello Brinja,
Yes the netherlands Groningen, the north
I love your Blog
April 19, 2011 at 6:32 am
Hallo, dag Brinja ! In Belgium, we have 3 official languages : Dutch, French and German !
April 19, 2011 at 8:38 am
Hallo en groetjes uit Maastricht, Nederland.
April 19, 2011 at 8:47 am
Hi Brinja,
another Dutch reader here! Two of my sisters read your blog as well as far as I know, so I’m waiting for them to add to your list of Dutchies. ;)
Greetings from Utrecht!
April 19, 2011 at 9:28 am
Hi!
From the Netherlands, I check your website frequently, because it’s so inspiring (and besides that, just some cosy mothersstuff, my babyboy is just as old as your girl…). Are you already shipping your products to the Netherlands?
April 19, 2011 at 9:43 am
Hi! From Amsterdam!
Charlotte
April 19, 2011 at 9:51 am
Greetings from Maastricht!
April 19, 2011 at 9:52 am
Hi, I also follow you thanks to Aaf. My former favorite blog camembertmetpindakaas.nl (beautiful pictures too) stopped, so I was glad to catch a new one. Like it!
April 19, 2011 at 10:27 am
Dag!
Groet uit Groningen.
April 19, 2011 at 10:38 am
Hi!
Since all of my fellow Dutchies said hi already i tought i’d give it a go as well! Hi from Den Bosch!
Juultje
April 19, 2011 at 10:38 am
Hi!!
April 19, 2011 at 10:51 am
Hoi Brinja! Groeten uit Oost-Nederland :-).
(greetings from the eastern part of The Netherlands (also thanks to Aaf :-))
April 19, 2011 at 11:10 am
Wow Brinja. Jeg er bare fra Bryggen, men også stor fan af din blog – og butik:-)
Jeg er meget imponeret over så mange hollandske fans. Godt gået!
April 19, 2011 at 11:16 am
Hi from Maastricht :-)
(I spotted three readers from Maastricht! Nice!)
April 19, 2011 at 11:39 am
Hi from Deventer!!
April 19, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Hoi from Amsterdam! Love your pics!
April 19, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Hi from Almere :-)
April 19, 2011 at 2:00 pm
This is what Aaf wrote, or close to it anyway:
Do you recall that in 2008 everybody had a weblog? It was ridiculously timeconsuming of course, and that’s why there are so many weblogs running dry, and abrubtly ending in musings on fruit-drinks or a picture of a comic trafic sign from Poland … not to be continued.
Twitter seems so much more convenient, because all you have to do, is to write cryptic messages as ‘@brinjah yeah, and what about that umbrella!’, and with that you’ll participate in an important global movement.
However clumsy the remaining weblogs may seem nowadays, I still like to follow a few of them.
Right now I’m completely addicted to Brinja’s Blog, a woman from Kopenhagen who I don’t know personally. I do not recall how I ended up on het blog, but in the meantime I have become fairly involved in her daily life.
Brinja is about my age, but that is where comparisons end. Brinja has her own shop, for which she makes clothing and hair ribbons. At home she works on a perfect model of her appartment, furniture and all. And she has a boyfriend called Anders, a baby under way – for whom she knits socks & sweaters – and a bunch of friends with whom she often goes out to eat lovely dishes. (Her most recent post is titled“Smorrebrod)
So, I’m deadly jealous of Brinja. Her own shop. Working on a miniversion of her own home. And Smorrebrod. That is, in a nutshell, my ideal life.
It’s not good for me to check out her site, because I’ll see her sitting on the couch with cosy socks, knitting a babycap. Especially the pottering around is bugging me. You see, I think I have the pottering–gen in me, that’s why I’ve been in a knitting-class for years now- but actually, I have not yet completed a single sweater.
Brinja has. And more. Very pregnant, whith a shop to run, she recently decorated storage boxes with vintage wallpaper. I wish I would do that in my scarce spare time. But I squander it by 1. Googling for an apartment 2. running on a treadmill in the gym – ah well walking, and 3. exhaustingly checking out the weblogs of Danish women.
In that time Brinja has completed an Alvar Aalto chair for her minihome.
Still I go and look her up. Every day. That’s where I get my shot of jealousy. We have known it for ages: Internet brings out the worst in people. Fortunately Brinja herself, is blissfully unaware of this.
April 19, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Hi from Hilversum, the Netherlands! I read your blog with extra interest because we livedjust around the corner of your shop for half a year, in 2010. We miss KBH, and your blog is like an antidote!
April 19, 2011 at 3:45 pm
Hi from Utrecht! x
April 19, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Liefs uit Amsterdam, x
April 19, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Hej Brinja
Solstrålehilsener fra Amsterdam!
April 19, 2011 at 5:27 pm
Hi!
But from Spain! :)
April 19, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Hoi Brinja,
Your blog makes me smile!
Liefs uit Waalwijk
April 19, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Hi from Denmark as well, but I am very Dutch :)
April 19, 2011 at 7:36 pm
Hallo Brinja, groetjes uit de Achterhoek!
April 19, 2011 at 7:52 pm
Hi Brinja! Fun experiment to say hi to the dutch…. Wondering how much respons you’ll have…!
Groetjes uit Zeeland, south-west:-)
April 19, 2011 at 8:38 pm
Hi, Den Haag people! My daughter is there, so part of my heart is, too. I hope to visit soon! Happy Dutch-America Friendship Day today!
April 19, 2011 at 8:42 pm
Hi from Amsterdam!
April 19, 2011 at 8:52 pm
Hi from Groningen !
April 19, 2011 at 10:12 pm
Hi from Maastricht!
April 19, 2011 at 10:30 pm
Hello from Amsterdam!! I’ll come by one day when visiting Kopenhagen! Love your blog xx
April 19, 2011 at 11:04 pm
Hi from Gouda!
I also read your blog because of the column by Aaf Brandt Corstius. :) x
April 19, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Hej Brinja! Jeg tror det er fordi en pige, som skriver for et stort avis her i Holland, skrev at din website var hendes favorite site… Det er alligevel sådan at jeg har fundet dig :-)
April 19, 2011 at 11:30 pm
Another hi, from Rotterdam. I swing a little but only hooked on you ; )!
April 19, 2011 at 11:30 pm
hi!
April 20, 2011 at 8:08 am
Hi from Leiden and thanks to Aaf for mentioning your blog!
April 20, 2011 at 9:16 am
Hi from Nijmegen, love to follow your daily life ;)
April 20, 2011 at 11:18 am
Hoi Brinja! Hollandse groeten.x
April 20, 2011 at 1:08 pm
hi!
I’m a Dutch girl living in Stockholm. For a couple of weeks ago I spend a weekend in Kopenhagen. I noticed that the design was quite like the Dutch one. All the colors, dots, flowers etc were very simular to Dutch taste. And of course all the (decorated) bikes! So that may be why you have so many Dutch followers.
groetjes!
April 20, 2011 at 3:55 pm
Hi,from Haarlem. I folow your blog since last week when I red about it in a colum from Aaf Brandt Cortius in the newwpaper ‘de Volkskrant’ Nice blog!
April 20, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Hej fra Amsterdam! Elsker din blog. :)
April 20, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Again “Hi!” from an extremely happy reader! Love the necklace!
April 20, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Hoi! Hier ook een Nederlandse meelezer:) Groetjes!
April 20, 2011 at 7:05 pm
A very sincere ‘hi!’ from Den Bosch!
(I didn’t find you through the column others write about, just arrived here linking from one beautiful blog to another.)
April 20, 2011 at 9:04 pm
Hi! Another one ;)
April 20, 2011 at 9:51 pm
Hello from Amsterdam!!!
April 21, 2011 at 7:50 pm
Gouda, omg, I love gouda. To live in Gouda and eat gouda would be a dream.
April 21, 2011 at 11:12 pm
Hello from Utrecht!
Been following your blog since the column of Aaf (also mentioned in the comments on this page). Yours is the only blog I read.
Simply adore your blog, shop, house etc. So creative and full of color!
April 22, 2011 at 3:40 am
hello i am of dutch descent ,hee
your blog really brightened my world.
April 22, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Pjèr: Thanks so much for the translation -how very sweet of you! It was so fun for me to read.
April 22, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Esther: HI :) Yep I ship to the Netherlands as well. Have a great day. B
April 22, 2011 at 7:44 pm
Hi from sunny the Hague
April 22, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Hi Brinja, hello from Utrecht, it’s lovely to visit your ‘visual life’ every now and then… I discoverd your blog via a column in the dutch newspaper, it’s written by Aff Brandt Cortius. Well, I guess you know this already.
Have a happy Easter, I hope to visit your shop one day! xxx Maud
April 23, 2011 at 6:47 am
Hallo, Groetjes uit het zonnige Brabant!
April 25, 2011 at 11:53 am
Hi from Amsterdam! Love your blog and would love to visit your shop one day!
April 25, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Hoi Brinja,
I visit your blog very often and I like the way you live your life. Love your creativity!
Groetjes,
Ingrid (Amsterdam)
April 25, 2011 at 9:52 pm
And a late ´hi´ from another Dutch reader.
I have been a lurker for ages and now is the time to come out of the closet. ;)
April 25, 2011 at 10:35 pm
hallo!!!
April 26, 2011 at 10:10 am
hi everyone i would like to know if there is a special place when those special people ;-) (holland) go out in københavn…or maybe a kind of association … thank you
April 27, 2011 at 7:45 am
Hi
April 27, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Hi from Delft! :)
April 27, 2011 at 9:47 pm
Hi from Gouda!
April 28, 2011 at 3:04 pm
Hi from groningen! Luv ur blog!
April 28, 2011 at 10:17 pm
Hej Brinja,
A bit late, but again from Groningen: HI! Can’t wait to see you and you’re shop in real life in october. So nice to have a small eye on the wonderful Scandinavian way of living every day.
Grtz!
Beatrijs
May 1, 2011 at 8:39 pm
Hi Brinja,
I love your pictures, stories and lifestyle.
It’s like reading a small magazin.
xx Mo
The Netherlands
May 4, 2011 at 9:42 am
You’re welcome. See it as a favour returned.
I so enjoy your blog, camera-work & the effort you put into it all.
May 5, 2011 at 5:35 pm
Hallo! Love your blog. Greetings from Den Haag!
May 6, 2011 at 10:56 pm
HI! And….
Yeah! I’m number 100 whahaha!
I looooooooooove your blog and I when I ever come visit copenhagen, I’ll be sure to stop by your shop!
Greetings from Gramsbergen (the very east of holland!)
May 8, 2011 at 10:06 pm
Sure! Hi!
May 8, 2011 at 10:19 pm
Hoi! vanuit Utrecht!
May 10, 2011 at 10:35 pm
Hi, from Bilthoven
May 15, 2011 at 1:37 pm
Hi, from Enschede! I love your blog!
May 28, 2011 at 8:18 pm
Hi!
I lost my bookmark to your blog a while ago, had forgotten your name (never heard the name Brinja before). Just searched for Aaf’s column, so now I’m back. I really enjoy your photo’s.
June 2, 2011 at 10:01 am
Hej! It seems an article in some newspaper lead to this interest. I have been in copenhagen and other parts of Denmark. Funny that Denmark from all perspectives is so similar to us (even the bloody weather), I’d say much more than any other country including Belgium, but there are no real historical corrections. But then again The Netherlands seems like a loose part of Scandinavia anyway..
Even Danish is an easy read (well, with some effort)…Strange.
Anyways: hej again from Middelburg, NL of course
June 2, 2011 at 5:02 pm
Thanks for the inspiration!
December 8, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Groetjes uit Amerongen!