Day 172 - Creative hotspot: Sunday Market Amsterdam, shopping for art, fashion and design!

Shop till you drop and get inspired...
This is what he Sunday Market in Amsterdam is about.

The market is inspired on markets such as Camden, Portobello and Spitalfield in London.
Markets where shopping and creativity come together, where designers and students present their creations and where you can meet, eat and have a drink.

The Sunday Market in Amsterdam is held every first sunday of the month,
from 12 - 6 PM at the Westergasfabriek.

The place to be if you like shopping for art, fashion and design.

Day 134 - Design I like: cute birdhouse (seen in Maastricht)

Last Sunday I was in Maastricht, a large city in the south of the Netherlands.

Maastricht is Dutch, but the atmosphere is definitely Parisian. It has luxury stores, lively shopping streets and a Burgundian lifestyle.

Of course I went to 'Wyck', a quarter with trendy boutiques and restaurants, art galleries and interior design shops.

In the Rechtstraat I discovered a boutique that sells this wooden birdhouse: a cafe for birds!
Cute, isn't it?

Birdhouse 'Cafe' - Photo: © 2VORM

Day 17 - Not just a shopping bag

Shopping bags are often not more than a plastic or paper bag with a logo on it.
Quite boring... 

But some store do a lot better than that! 

They offer creative and attractive bags.
Here are some of them.

Creative shopping bags