donderdag 24 december 2009

Merry Christmas to you!



I wish you all a merry little Christmas and I present you with the closest to a Christmas card I've come this year (see above). Have lovely days filled with delicious food, shiny Christmas decorations, cozy knitted reindeer jumpers, warm glüwein (or hot chocolate), and loads of family!

dinsdag 22 december 2009

primark here I come!


Tomorrow I'm going on a shopping trip (oh, how decadent that sounds) to the only Primark and New Look in our tiny and unfashionable country, which are both in Rotterdam. The city itself does not really hold any interest to me - it has been bombed in World War Two and, as a result, only has shiny new buildings, which I'm not quite interested in; I like old cities! However, New Look's website is full of gorgeous clothes and Primark is, apparently, like a cheaper (and cooler, for its exclusivity - in Holland, at least) H&M. So I'm really excited!
The picture doesn't have anything whatsoever to do with this post, but I'm just really missing my Gossip Girl DVD box right now!

donderdag 17 december 2009

snow, snow, snow!



It's absurd: only yesterday I was whining in the comments on this girl's blog about how jealous I was of the snowy Scandanavian Decembers, and today: poof! It's snowing! It's so funny how we're so not used to snow in the Netherlands that the news has fifty percent weather-related news, the trains have stopped running, the morning traffic stood still and I'm standing at my window with my camera every other hour to record today's miracle. I think it's quite cute how you can see the slowly building snow cover.

christmas shopping!

Here are my ideal Christmas Day and Boxing Day outfits - if money were not an issue (in other words: in a world where I would buy a - gorgeous - 400 dollar ring).



dinsdag 15 december 2009

what..? Jeans?!

I went shopping with my best guy friend (I reckon people might read that as 'gay friend', but I mean my best male friend; he's not my best gay friend. Wow, complicated!) last week - and of course, shopping for someone else always ends up in shopping for me a bit, too. So when I passed by the only store in town that dares call itself vintage but mostly sells nineties-junk, I was pleasantly surprised when I found these shoes. I suppose they're actually men's shoes or something, and they're a whole size too big, but I actually quite like that because that allowes me to wear thick wool socks in them.

And, also, the most shocking news since the fall of the Berlin wall: I bought jeans. Two pairs of them, actually.  That'll be a first in, hm, five years? But they were on sale - very much on sale: they used to be 50 and 60 euros, but they were in a pile which said two pairs for €20,- and so I couldn't resist. The first pair is dark blue and straight-legged, very Sartorialist-y, and they make me look taller than I am. The second pair is bleached grey and very, very skinny; I could barely close the top button when I first tried it on, but that's what a good skinny jeans is supposed to be like, or so I've heard! I've already tried to match them up with some of my clothes:



Okay - enough with the pictures of myself standing in front of the white-and-blue-curtain. I'll be sure to post something new next time!

these violent delights have violent ends


The ideal medicine for an influenza-riddled mind? Watching New Moon on line. God, hopeless much?
(I do feel kind of guilty for watching an illegal, recorded-in-cinema but nonetheless good version. But hey, I did already pay for my cinema ticket, and I'm going to buy the DVD as well)