31012015

Can we please take a minute an appreciate this!! These dresses from the Valentino Pre-Fall 2015 collection are the best thing ever! I want to marry in the one in the middle. (Or the one on the left, or both, it's my day so both) I mean before I saw it I didn't want to marry at all. But the dress changed my mind, so amazing do I think it is.

Ok that's all, my life is pretty boring so haha.

16012015

Meet the most expensive part of my Berlin trip, the Dr. Martens Flora Boots aka my new favorite pair of shoes! I've wanted a pair of boots like these for ever, but every (cheaper) pair I tried where to slim for my feet. When I saw these for the first time I immediately fell in love and I just had to have them. I've always been obsessed with Dr. Martens! The shoes are just my style and the quality is just amazing. One of my friends now wears a pair of Dr. Martens her mom wore when her mom was her age and the shoes still look great! I even got life long insurance with these boots. So when I somehow manage to break them, they will sent me a new pair of boots!1!! What more could you want in a boot! 

( I also bought a book named 'Design as Art' by Bruno Munari. So that I can start with my 'learn more about the world' goal for 2015) 

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I didn't take many pictures during our trip in Berlin. Mainly because I was to busy partying and drinking beers. Next to that we did a bit of shopping the first day and a little bit of sightseeing the last evening. I don't really care about that, since I've been to Berlin three times in the last three years. So I know what the Brandenburger Tor looks like and we ate a lot of German food so that counts as sightseeing as well! Enjoy the few shot's I can show you haha.

 
 
 

06012015

To keep in the festive new year atmosphere for a little longer, how awesome are these flowerworks by Sarah Illenberger I saw on AnotherMagazine.com!! To bright up this depressing month a little bit.

04122015

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Maybe a bit to late, but that is kind of my style anyway so. My excuse this time is that I've been spending the last few days of 2014 and the first few days of 2015 in Berlin! I had an incredible time! Hang out with the best people, drank a lot of beer and saw places I had never been before. A wonderful start for a new year.

Like everyone else I don't really believe in new years resolutions but I still kind of make them and call them new year goals. I guess they are pretty standerd but I am going to share them with you anyway.

1. Take care of myself

A quite logic one, yet a difficult one for me. This means of course eat more fruit and vegetables and exercise more. But more importantly fixing my personal problems like my concentration problem and stop freaking out about almost everything. Be more chill, that would be nice.

2. Work hard and earn some credit for it

Working hard is something I always do, but this year it's time to earn some money for my hard work. Berlin was an expensive trip and it it time I start saving for my next school.

3. Learn more about the world 

Travel more, read more, watch more documentaries, listen to other people, visit talks, etc. 2015 is the year that I turn 21, so it's time to learn more about live. 

That's about it, 3 goals and a billion ways to do them. I am excited about 2015, let's make the best of it!

12102014

My last weekend off is almost over. Next week the Dutch Design Week starts in Eindhoven. During the DDW you will find me at studio rENs, where I did my internship the past 6 months. So please come visite us if you're going to the DDW! 

Anyway I spend my last weekend off before the DDW storm doing absolutely nothing. I watched the movie 'The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' with my boyfriend and I absolutely loved it! 

Also I am obsessed with this band called 'Years & Years'. The lead singer is called Olly Alexander and you might know him from the last season of Skins, or the movie God Help the Girl. (haven't seen this one myself is it any good?) I must admit I have a little crush, he is just so odd and kind of awkward but also kind of sexy. Anyway their music is so good! (check that out down below.)

So that's what has been keeping me busy the last 48 hours and tomorrow I will only eat, breath and dream (about) the Dutch Design Week! Talk to you soon.

06102014

On the second day of our Antwerp Adventure we visit two museums, first up was the FOMU.

My favorite expo was the one called "The Enclave" by Richard Mosse. I had seen it before on tumblr and fell in love with it immediately.

Richard Mosse documents armed rebel groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo using a type of infrared film that was originally developed by the military to detect camouflage. This now discontinued film registers infrared light and is characterised by its unusual colour palette of vivid pink and teal blue. Which kind of gives the photo's a magical feeling, even though the whole situation is horrible.

Another expo I really liked was called "The Magazine Work"by Walker Evans. It's about the work of Walker Evens that was publicized in magazines. Really inspiring how well these series fit together.

I highly recommend you visit the FOMU when you're in Antwerp!

Next up was the MOMU. I had heard so much about it so I was pretty curious about it, and I must say they didn't disappoint me. The collection looked incredible. I can't show you my favorite part because it was some kind of digital movie that highlighted some pieces in a incredibly beautiful way. So if you want to see that you need to make a trip to Antwerp.

Every year, MoMu gives the ‘MoMu award’ to a MA student of the fashion department of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp. The winner get's to show their work in the MOMU gallery for four months. The winner of this year was Madeleine Coisne with her collection "Centers". (If you want to know more about it click here) What I loved most about this was, the proces from inspiration to a picture or drawing to a finished product.

Sorry for the overload on pictures and information, but I just get so excited about museums. 

Still got some more stuff to show you from Antwerp, but my internship started again and everything is very hectic atm. So I can't promise you that it will be online by friday. Have a nice week!

03102014

I always forget how wonderful it is to visit other places. Over the next few post I will tell you a bit about my trip to Antwerp last weekend. It was the best and I definitely think I should do city trip like this more often. If only I had my driving license, that would make everything so much easier.

28092014

I had an amazing weekend in Antwerp! Will show you everything very soon. To make the wait easier for you, here is one of my favorite songs from one of my favorite artist atm: MØ. Have a great week, mine starts at 11:30 at the bijenkorf. And then on wednesday my internship continues, pretty excited about that although this (mini) holiday
was the best and I hate that it is already over!

22092014

Last Friday I went to Unseen, a photo fair in Amsterdam, with my boyfriend. It was the third edition and I have been there once before. Last year with my friend and her boyfriend.
Just like last year I saw some amazing things. But I thought the entree price was rather expensive.
And for me as poor student that's big disadvantage. Anyway I had a fun day and here are some of the pictures I took! Have a great week.

20092014

As I told you my boyfriend and I were busy planning a trip to London. But then we thought 'And what about Berlin, that could be fun as well.' Eventually we planned a trip to Antwerp! (Surprise!)

We'll leave next weekend on Saturday morning, do some shopping (I get to pick something for my birthday) and on Sunday we will visit the MOMU (fashion museum) and the FOMU (picture museum), and travel back home that evening. So I am really excited about that!

I have been to Antwerp once before. My friend had to take some pictures of the train station (so did I see a few here) and after that, we went shopping in the high street of Antwerp. This time we want to see some other places as well. 

So if you have any tips please let me know! 

15092014

Hej there, I am that girl that was super proud of the fact that she published something twice a week for a short period of time, and then disappeared for a month, again. I am so sorry, I just didn't feel like posting anything and when I felt like it again. I just didn't know what to write about. I still don't really know, but it was my birthday yesterday so I thought I should share that with you. 

I had a fun birthday. It is my sister's birthday next week so we celebrated both our birthdays on Saturday. After that a close friend of mine, my boyfriend and I went to the city to celebrate further. That was really fun, I saw some friends I haven't seen in a very long time, and all the people I have been hanging out lately were there as well. I had a wonderful time! I got a new beautiful MAC lipstick from my little sister and extra working space for my Macbook pro and a new raincoat from my parents! (I am wearing both in the picture) 

In the time that I was absent, my three weeks off have begun. Last week was the first one so two more to go. The plan for up coming week is work (I work at the Bijenkorf in Eindhoven, tomorrow you will find me at the shoe's department), the opening of a pop-up shop in Geleen, Unseen and a party on Saturday. So that's all nice as well. Life is looking brighter for me again, and I am ready to share it with you again. Even though (or mainly because) you're still invisible. Have a great week!

04082014

So last week I told you that I felt a little bit down lately. But that I wanted to change that and start all over again with a positive attitude. Well that went terribly wrong! And not because of me. But a lot of shitty things happend last week. I don't really want to talk about it. And that is also the reason why I didn't post anything last friday. I just wasn't in the mood, I am still not to be honest. I really hope this week is going to be 1000 times better. Because I am so tired of feeling down and totally ready for nice things to happen. I will try to post something on friday, but if I have nothing nice/fun/awesome to tell you I'll maybe skip again. I hope you can forgive me though! And I wish you again a lovely week. In the mean time you can check out my instagram for updates and the images above are form my tumblr.

28072014

I have been a little bit down lately. That's not weird since I am probably also a little bit over worked. But what can I say, that is just who I am. You could say that I am kind of a work-a-holic. Ever since I went to the art academy I seem to think that I don't need vacation. I am one of the very few people in this world that doesn't need a vacation. Guess what, that is not true. I am just like everybody else! I just have a hard time admitting that. So I decided to stay in bed for two days, and I kind of loved that so much that I took the rest of the week off. I have been chilling with my boyfriend before he is leaving for three weeks. We did a little shopping, I pierced my ears for the third time, watched some movies (the amazing spiderman 1+2, didn't like them to be honest), played some games, eat a lot of ice cream. And it was wonderful. But that's all over now. He's leaving in a couple days and I just finished another day at my internship. Life goes on, and that's ok. I feel a little bit better. And it is only 2,5 weeks until Pukkelpop. So better days are a head of me. 

I just have to keep myself a little bit distracted by doing more productive and fun things. Instead of waiting for something to happen. Have a nice and productive week!

25072014

Whoop there it is, my work in a museum. To be completely honest with you (that's just wat I do on this blog) I wasn't 100% happy with it. More 30% happy with it, but that's ok. Because that means that I still have a lot to learn and that I am not easily pleased with my own work. They just had to be bigger and I am still not sure about the typography. But what can I say, it was a fun experience. I had a nice evening at the opening. Met some nice people, saw nice work of others. Next time I will just make the posters bigger. Because sometimes BIGGER IS BETTER.

21072014

So right now as I am writing this my parents and sister are in New York for two and a half week. And my boyfriend is leaving in a couple days for three weeks traveling through Europe. And I am left all alone in Eindhoven stuck at my internship. From the beginning I knew it was going to be difficult to work the entire summer holiday, but now I am actually starting to regret it. 

So to keep my mind of the fact that I feel really lonely right know, I start searching for something to look forward to. (after this really depressing phase of this year) The first upcoming fun thing is Pukkelpop 2014! Really looking forward to that (I went there two years ago as well)

But after that nothing. Absolutely nothing accept three weeks off in september. But with nothing planned that also sounds very boring. So I started looking for train tickets to Copenhagen, but that shit is extreeeemly expensive. So after that I thought Berlin, but my boyfriend is already going to Berlin during his trip through Europe. And he has never been to London before, so I guess we're going to London. As you might remember (or not) I went there last summer and the summer before that. So I am a little less excited about London. Don't get me wrong I loooove being there and getting there is sooo cheap. But it is not that new anymore. But like I said it is cheap to get there and well I do everything for le boyfriend (if he asks nicely of course). 

I know how to get in London, but if you have ANY tips about staying please say so. The hostel I stayed at last year was ok for a shopping trip with a friend. But I actually want to stay a little longer with my boyfriend. So tips are more than welkom!

18072014

As soon as I heard about the ELLE Festival I wanted to go. But after I found out that I had to pay for a ticket I kind of forgot about it. Luckily for me the studio I am interning at, showed one of their carpets at the ELLE Festival (see first image) and they got two free tickets left. So yay for me and my mom. I had a great day even though it took us about 4 hours to only get to Amsterdam. 

We went to the ELLE Palvioen and the graduation expo of academie artemis for styling. Even though the ELLE Palvioen wasn't very big, everything looked beautiful! And the graduation expo was really busy, but also really beautiful. Especially my mom was really exited about the expo. I had a fun day in Amsterdam, but I don't know if I will visit the ELLE Festival again. We'll see next year. Until then let's enjoy the pictures I took. (My 50mm lens and I are starting to get the best friends ever!)