About

Hi! 

I’m Danae, a cheery introvert who has decided to settle for the thrills and spills of expat life in Brussels.

Bretodeau is my plunge into the world of words, blogging and nerve-racking exposure. It is a project about the small pleasures found in art, people, the everyday. It works as a virtual treasure box where I gather what I happen to come across, be it books, pictures, places, music, or ideas, which could add a little something to our quotidian life, and might make it a bit brighter and slightly more sweetened. 

The idea grew out of a longing for sunshine, the lure of writing and an urge to explore the beauty of creativity. It was also born out of a lifelong love for Amélie and the small memory box that creeps out of her bathroom tiles: an old rustic tin box filled with forgotten marbles, plastic toy bikers and faded postcards that made life suddenly tingle again with meaning and excitement. 

I believe in the power of the small and seemingly unimportant. We usually wait for the big and bulky moments to feel happy and whole, but it is rather in those little things that we may find the spark that gets us going. “There is nothing, Sir, too little for a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible", Samuel Johnson, the giant of English letters, wrote once. 

Hope it works. Fingers crossed.

Danae x