I love eBay and here's a round about reason of explaining why because I'm feeling rather chatty (or you can say long winded) today. Okay, so I hit the farmers' market in our square today and grabbed all these flowers for 5- Euros (about $7 USD) and a most beautiful loaf of bio bread for the apple preserves that my cousin handmade for us yesterday, fresh from the tree in her garden. And so, I went home to arrange the flowers and to present this bread to my husband to enjoy the apple preserves with -- and what arrived as I was busy preparing lunch?

A box from the Netherlands, from Danielle who recently put a lot of her vintage German vases on eBay. Well this is the vase I won and I absolutely love it. To. Die. For. Right? Thankfully no one had to die for it though so all is well there... Want to see? Sure you do...

I plan to put wooden spoons and kitchen utensils inside of it and place it next to my stove. Won't it be a nice addition to the kitchen? I think so... Although the intended purpose is most likely for flowers or to display with nothing at all inside, but I see this vase and think of rustic wooden spoons... perhaps Turkish ones?

And this is the next delivery I'm expecting from Danielle, as she just stocked these crocheted pouffes in her shop, Le Souk, and it will go just perfectly in my bedroom. I've been having a nice time setting up house, as you can tell.

But back to the vase... I cannot stop looking at it, I love it so! I'm delighted that Miss Danielle put her things on eBay, I'm such a fan of her style and that site but even more when I win things that I really, really want. Have you scored any good finds lately? Tell me about them, I love knowing what you find that makes you giddy and long winded, too. :)

Now I think I'll go have some of the apple preserves again - this post made me hungry. I'll warm them up this time and put some on a scoop of vanilla ice cream and then add some cinnamon, walnuts and nutmeg on top. Oh yes, that will make my evening really sweet I think. It's after 9pm here, so I'm logging off for the night, I have some projects to work on around the house, so I'll meet you back here tomorrow!

P.S. I picked up a CD today that I've been playing over and over again all afternoon, it's by Berry and it's called Mademoiselle. You can sample some of it here online. It's French and just wonderful.

(images: holly becker for decor8, with the exception of the last image taken by danielle de lange.)