Rainbows and Fairytails

New year, new blog

2011-01-05T16:42:00.004+01:00

Hi lovely followers!

Some time ago I already wrote that I had doubts about this blog and that I wanted to start something new.

Well, I did.

So please come and follow me at:

http://vera-elisabeth.blogspot.com/

Oh, Christmas lights, keep shining on

2010-12-06T14:23:00.004+01:00

This morning I woke up in my boyfriends arms while this song was on the radio. Perfection.

I'm so so giddy it's finally December. It's my favourite season by far. LOVE it. The three, gift shopping, all the little lights, the music, the nice food and just to be with each other. To spend it this year with the bf makes it even better than normally.

Btw. Last week two music festivals (in Holland and Belgium) confirmed Coldplay for next years line-up. Can't wait!

Via La mode-rétro.

A thousand miles

2010-12-06T14:08:00.002+01:00

♥♥♥

Via Le Love.

Wise words

2010-11-29T21:28:00.003+01:00

A week ago I went with someone to the movies I actually didn't really knew. He's very kind to me, but to the guy who wanted to help us find our seats he was very rude. This poster reminds me of him. It's the truth.

Via Milk.

You hit me once, I hit you back

2010-11-25T16:39:00.003+01:00

Now the end of the year is getting closer the time has started to wrap the year into lists. A music website / radio station askes their readers / listeners to tell them their 5 favourite numbers of the past year. The five numbers above are my favourites. Which ones are yours?

The idea behind modern art

2010-11-21T12:36:00.002+01:00

Funny stuf.

Via 20x200: IT'S ART FOR EVERYONE.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt awesomeness

2010-11-18T11:46:00.001+01:00

Who knew? Besides the fact that guy can act, has humor and a pretty face he apparently also sings. And not bad at all! Altough I personally hate Lady Gaga (you can't convince me that's music) I think he nails it.

Via The Frisky.

Something worth living for

2010-11-16T15:54:00.004+01:00

Tonight I'm going with a friend to the night premiere of Harry Potter and the deathly hallows! I'm excited! I have read the book quite a while ago, so I don't remember everything which I actually like because then the movie can surprise me once again!

Tip of the iceberg

2010-11-12T15:21:00.003+01:00

I'm still not sure if the bad things are all over now or that this is just a single positive thing, but yesterday I won two tickets for the premiere of the documentary/thriller Catfish.

After I got the message I read some comments on Twitter and they were not all positive, so now I don't really know what to do. Have you already seen it? Please tell me, was it worth it?

Sometimes it's hard

2010-11-11T21:36:00.005+01:00

This week has been bad. Very bad. A lot of bad things happened, but the worst possible thing that could happen and did happen was me killing my baby.

I still can not believe this happened. I remember everything. Every move. The shock.

And like I wrote, this wasn't all. More bad things happened. School is not perfect. Friends are having relationship problems. An internship didn't work out.

It all came together this week and it feels like there's a thick dark cloud above my head. I have to figur out how I can change it into something positive. First and most importantly I really need to find a job. After my last internship I didn't had a job anymore and for all this time that wasn't a problem. I saved some money and I didn't bought crazy things. But now the finishline of those savings is in sight and after destroying my baby there's only a big black hole left.

Luckly it's almost weekend which means I'll see my boyfriend soon and I can change the bad thoughts for the happy ones!

Ps. I'm also sorry I don't post much anymore. The truth to be told, I'm a bit bored by it. For a couple of weeks now I participate in a course how to build websites. I'm learning a lot and love it so all my energy is over there and not here. I'll try to post more regurarly and maybe I'll change the settings of the blog someday. But for that I need time and I don't really know when that will be ;-)..

Cartoon via Stuff No One Told Me.

Dream clothes

2010-10-23T14:15:00.003+02:00

I actually already always liked Kelly Osbourne, but I think she's getting cooler by the day. These clothes she haves are amazing!

Via Elle.

I got no reason to forgive you

2010-10-10T12:04:00.001+02:00

Tonight I'm going with some friends and my BF to a concert of the English band Hurts. Looking forward to it!

Cute outfit

2010-10-08T12:09:00.000+02:00

Altough the whole look is way to summerish for the weather right now, I do really like this look. Cute look, cute girl.

"It's a BANJO!"

2010-10-06T12:38:00.003+02:00

Since my brother showed me a clip of Mumford and Sons in the beginning of February I was eager to see them play life. Unfortunately they didn't performed at any of the festivals I went to this year (which is quite amazing if you think about the amount of festivals they played at and the amount of festivals I visited. It wasn't meant to be I guess), but luckly I was able to get tickets to a concert of them.

The concert was one week ago and I still get very hyper when I think about it. The concert itself was already great, but I could never have dreamed it would be this amazing. After the first part of the concert was over and they came back on the stage to sing two more songs they told the audiance they wanted to do something special, because they had never played in such a big 'room'. They pointed to the back of the hall and said "See you later". After a view minutes some people started to scream somewhere in the hall, but we couldn't see anything. After a while the crowd split up and Mumford and Sons and the band Old Crow Medicine Show (I had never heard of them before, but after this concert I LOVE them! YouTube them!) walked straight at us. At first I screamd: "Aah, they are going to walk straight next to us!". But then when they stood infront of us they stopped and started to play the song Wagon Wheel. I couldn't believe my eyes and ears, but it was really happening. I made this video, so you can imagine how lucky I was!

Great, great evening! Mumford and Sons and Old Crow Medicine Show are for always in my heart. They can't ruin it anymore ;-)!.

Sziget, part 3 (final)

2010-09-22T11:53:00.000+02:00

F. is digging GWAR.

GWAR. What can I say? I have never ever seen something before. Wouldn't have missed it for the world. BIZAR!

A. protects herself against the heat and has at the same time a men magnet in her hands. How handy.

The Hives. Really great performance.

Madness. Party time!

More Madness.

Entrance of the island.

So, so kisseble.

The Black Box Revelation from Belgium.

Sziget has everything.

Faithless.

Faithless. Wonderful evening.

Crowd.

Main stage.

Mika.

Mika. Just as lovely as always.

F. and J. got hurt badly when I left them for a few hours. I've learned my lesson.

L. , A. and I got interviewed for Hungarian tv. Some day we will be famous ;-)!

Shoe moment.

S. and A. did some karaoke. Tina Turner. Rollin'! How cool?!

Kasabian.

More Kasabian.

Last day, last concert, last time partying our asses of.

I was so SO tired, but I'm so glad I did not went home, but stayed. Maybe the best moment of Sziget this year!

Kees van Hondt was the guy who made this all possible. He's a Dutch dj who plays weird music. Everyone brings the funniest things with them. So much fun. I think it's a Dutch thing. If you're not Dutch you'll probably won't understand.

Boy meets Girl

2010-09-16T12:01:00.001+02:00

Two of my favourite actors on one great cover. What's not to like?

Via The Debonaire.

Budapest, part 2

2010-09-15T11:43:00.001+02:00

The barrow and the bridge.

A tram.

Lion statue infront of the bridge.

Old man making music.

View at the parlement.

Another statue.

A pretty church.

When the sun comes down.

L. asked me to marry her.

The parlement.

Dancing the night away.

Fun times.

Beautiful Budapest.

Orange skies.

Having the time of our lives.

J. and I with hats we don't remember how we got them.

J. and L. on the escelator. We cleary had fun.

9 months

2010-09-14T12:27:00.001+02:00

The cutest pregnancy movie. I love it when people are so creative to make something so special.

Via Highchair Critics.

Autumn inspiration

2010-09-12T11:43:00.001+02:00

I love this pants. Love.

Via STOP IT RIGHT NOW.

I guess I'm in love with you

2010-09-10T12:29:00.000+02:00

This is a movie that's high on my to watch list.

I'm a softie for all things from France. I blame it on the sexy sound of their language.

Via Petticoats and High Heels.

Siofok, part 1

2010-09-08T17:00:00.057+02:00

Our destination.

Happy hour.

Spending the nights with fun and music.

Lights.

Lake Ballaton.

Love making feet pictures.

And then all of a sudden hell comes lose.

Chilling on my bed with a great book (Her name was Sarah. Read it!)

Playing some table soccer.

Finally eating in a 'real' diner. Food sucked, but I had my diner moment (missed it in NY).

Room with a view.

Me reading the book again. The weather wasn't that great unfortunately.

J. reading Harry Potter.

Lake Ballaton once again.

I hanglide on a dorito

2010-09-03T17:37:00.003+02:00

I'm so so sorry I haven't posted anything in such a long time.

Excuses?

Enjoying all the free time, enjoying summer and enjoying other great stuff that's comsuming my time. Also school started again from this week and I'm thinking about changing this blog. In a few weeks I will attend a website building course and I'm really looking forward to that.

But I will try to pick things up where I left it and post pictures of my great summer asap! Stay tuned ;-).

Via All this happiness.

Summer Love

2010-08-10T22:22:00.000+02:00

30 days of grateful - 'summer' from hailey bartholomew on Vimeo.

Via Marvelous Kiddo.

Swim, relax, drink cocktails and most of all, PARTY!

2010-08-03T11:29:00.005+02:00

I'm running around in the house like crazy, because tomorrow I'm leaving with my best buddies to Hungry for two weeks and I still need to do a lot of things! You don't want to see my 2-do list ;-)!

First stop is Siofok, a small village near the Ballaton lake. I hope the weather will be nice, because the only thing I want to do is go to the pool and relax.

After a couple of days we leave with destination Budapest. There we'll go the the Sziget festival. Looking forward to that!

Muse, Kasabian, The Gorrilaz, Mika, The Hives and lots more! Not that bad if you ask me :-)!

Our love was lost, but now it's found

2010-08-02T14:44:00.003+02:00

This morning I went with my dad to the gym and there I saw this clip. I never watch clips, but when I'm sporting my ass off it's nice to have something to look at. Offcourse I already knew I love The Temper Trap, but this clip was new for me and I like it!

So here's some nice music to make your monday a bit brighter :-)!

Hot town, summer in the city..

2010-07-30T17:28:00.007+02:00

I stole this entire post of this great blog, but I love it just too much!

This captures the summer in it's whole greatness!

Going strong

2010-07-29T22:57:00.001+02:00

Captures summer in a perfect way.

(Also the months after, but let's not think about that ;-)..)

Summer lovin'

2010-07-25T21:44:00.003+02:00

Hi guys!

I'm so sorry for the lack of posting, but the simple excuse is that I'm enjoying summer to it's fullest.

Last week my internship was finished and now I don't have any obligations. I don't have a job and I have to say, I'm loving it! Since I'm 14 I always worked a lot in the summer, so when I knew that after my internship it would all be finished I decided to keep it like that for a few weeks. After I'm back from my vacation I will search for something new, but for now I'm sucking up all the free time I'm now enjoying. Weeks with completely no plans. It's the best. Wake up at half past 9. Enjoy breakfast. Watch some tv. Go to the beach. Buy a new camera. Play with it (it's my new love). Sit in the garden. Drink wine. Eat fruits. Read books. See my friends. THE BEST!

Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow

2010-07-12T10:10:00.003+02:00

Crazy weekend.

Something happened I still can not believe. This has nothing to do with the final yesterday evening (altough I'm ofcourse so proud of our boys).

Sometimes it's a mad world.

Photo by renéesturme/blog.

New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of

2010-07-09T11:49:00.003+02:00

Today it's exactly one year ago that J. and I went to NY. I actually can't believe it's already been a year. Time flies so quick!

So today my mind sometimes goes back in time and I remember all the great things we saw, did and happened to us.

The photo above is I think the best experience we had in the Big Apple (how tacky to call it like that ;-)..).. When I look at this picture I remember everything so vibrant. The shop where I bought two slices of pizza and some orange juice. The beautiful weather. The amazingly high buildings where still at 11 in the evening you could see people work or gym. And specially the girls who sad infront of us. They were very.. interesthing. It was like we were in a episode of Gossip Girl. They were so font of themselves and loved to hear themselves talk. And the things they said! J. and I were just observing them and sometimes we looked at each other and we knew we were thinking the exact same. I really liked it. This is how we, European people, know America for. Luckly this was the exception (ok, together with two guys who didn't knew each other but out of the blue started to talk to each other about guns at the Statue of Liberty), but it was fun to whitness.

Aah, sweet memories. They all come back.

To infinity and beyond!

2010-06-30T11:50:00.000+02:00

Yesterday I went with my mom to Toy Story 3. Loved it! This must be the week of the cute, funny and sweet movies!

Get this party started on a Saturday night

2010-06-29T14:19:00.005+02:00

I don't know how people take such nice pictures of their food. Last friday we tried, but failed big time, because all the food looked horrible! I don't know what happened, but I won't share them with you.

Here a pic of me and F. This saturday we are going for one day to the Rock Werchter festival. It is going to be so much fun! Hopefully the weather is nice. Yesterday the weatherman predicted it will be very hot this saturday, but today the forecast predicts rain and lightning and thunderstorms! That's not what I orderd!! Well, we will see ;-). Can't do anything about it and today it's just tuesday, so a lot can still happen (fingers crossed).

Bananas

2010-06-27T10:34:00.010+02:00

Such a cute movie! In the words of friend F.: "I have never seen such a weird movie."

If you haven't see it, go watch it now!

Take a look at the world and make a change

2010-06-26T11:23:00.006+02:00

Just read this post about the one year anniversery of MJ's death. Think it is written perfectly. Just wanted to share it with you guys..

Have a nice weekend! The sun if finally shining over here. Unfortunately I have to work on college stuff for one last weekend.. But tonight I'm finally going to see The Fantastic Mister Fox, so no need to feel sorry for me ;-)!!

You will suck the life out of me

2010-06-25T14:36:00.003+02:00

Last saturday I went with J. to the concert of Muse. So amazing! One of my favourite bands of all time! And lucky me is also going to see them at Sziget festival. Jeeh! Last week they also announced that Mika will perform at Sziget, so dubble Jeeh ;-)!

Btw, I can not believe a year has gone so fast already. I can remember writing this post like it was yesterday. Accactly one year ago I went out to dinner in a fancy restaurany with some of my girls. Tonight we are going to do the same. This time we are going to restaurant Le Relais in Amsterdam. Can't wait! Last year was amazing. Loved it so much! It was so much fun to see all my friends alle dressed up. We felt so awkward. Not comfortable at all with all those up tied people surrounding us. One of the courses was an oyster. I had never eaten one before and hope I won't ever have to eat one for the rest of my life ;-). I HATED it! Almost threw up haha. Now it sounds like a horrible evening, but I think it's a great anecdote and now I know what an oyster tastes like (BAD!) ;-)..

Unfortunately we forgot to bring a camera then, but tonight one of my friends will bring one so we can make fun pictures :-).

It's also accactly one year ago that MJ passed away! We were in the car driving back from the restaurant when we heard the news that there were rumours MJ could be dead. So surreal. When I got home I woke my dad up and told hem the news. It's not like we were fan of the guy and his music (except from the my friend F. ofcourse), but ofcourse he was an icon and the news really hit us. A couple weeks later I went with my friend J. to NY and people were still walking in MJ t-shirts. It was a strange atmosphere. Sigh, time really flies..

Greedy Girl

2010-06-22T12:20:00.000+02:00

This looks very, very interesthing, don't you think?

This also makes me a very, very greedy girl ;-)! Think I need to spoil myself.

Via The Digitalistas.

It's SUMMER!

2010-06-21T15:32:00.004+02:00

Whieeehaa!

(Yes this scream came out of my little toe :-). Now let's hope that the sun will actually shine too! Because for now we had the most typical Dutch weather, which means rain and wind :-(..)

Maybe it's got nothing to do with me

2010-06-21T12:28:00.005+02:00

"A Life In The Day" from John Mayer on Vimeo.

You like him, or you don't (I'm somewhere in the middle), but I think this movie looks really nice! So perfectly shot. Real nice..

Via odd magazine.

Stuff no one told me

2010-06-18T16:10:00.004+02:00

Funny and absolutely true! And it looks cute too!

Via Stuff No One Told Me.

The buzzing hum

2010-06-17T12:20:00.000+02:00

Sorry for the lack of updates! Only 4 weeks to go and then it's finally time to enjoy the summer! For now the only things I do is working at my internship (like always), going to the gym (since last monday, and Ohw MY!, do I have a sore body! I think that's a sign it was time to get into action ;-)!) and watching the World Championship. Holland played last monday and altough it wasn't great, we won, so go us ;-)!!

Picture via Happenstance.

Pinkpop, day 3 (final)

2010-06-16T11:34:00.000+02:00

The Maccabees.

Kate Nash. Quite the dissapointment. I really liked the song 'Foundations', so I was looking forward in seeing her, but I thought the concert was not good. She sang off key and screamed most of the time. Also her lipstick was all over her face. I felt bad for her if I would stand in her shoes. I would not like it to have a clown face when a couple thousand people are watching me..

Skunk Anansie. I don't like her, but A. wanted to see her and after a while I have to say it wasn't that bad. I actually knew some songs and she smiled all the time, so I think it was contagious.

One last pic of me and A. Still rocking the 'poncho'...

And there he was again. My secret lover. Ok, now I sound like a freak. I'm sorry ;-)..

A. and I wanted to have a good spot for Mika so we went a hour earlier to the stage. It was just in time, because after we came there it got very crowded.

I really like this picture. Those pink hats are a every year thing. A lot of people buy them. They are pink, because of the name of the festival.. PINKpop :-)

Another fun picture.

And after a while Mika even took his shirt off! Happy times ;-)

And last, but not least. Pink. Loved her. I love her songs and think she is fierce!

At the end of the concert she came back on the stage and got into these ropes and flew over the crouwd! So cool! I knew she did that in her shows, but I didn't expect her doing this at festivals. But well, no mountain is big enough for Pink as you can see ;-)!

Loved the festival! Already looking forward to Rock Werchter in a couple of weeks and ofcourse Sziget in August :-)!

Pinkpop, day 2

2010-06-12T11:59:00.001+02:00

A. walking to the festival.

C'mon en Kypski. Great show. Real fun. They are also going to perform at Sziget this year :-)

Me acting silly :-)

Mando Diao. I thought this show wasn't that great.

A. and I partying our poncho's off ;-)!

The show of Green Day. Also a high light! I didn't expected much of it and thought that 2 hours would be a very long time, but from the moment the concert started I loved it! The singer is really energetic and funny. Every song was fun and it wasn't a moment dull. At the end there was a lot of firework and twice we thought it was over, but then they came back on the podium again and played more songs. So great! It was a lovely night..

Pinkpop, day 1

2010-06-08T13:00:00.009+02:00

The singer of The Temper Trap. They were so cool and nice at the meet and greet :-). I was already looking forward to this gig, but now I actually shaked their hands I'm a fan for sure ;-)!

On this hill al lot of people watched the festival for free. Quite cool if you live in that area and you can just chill and enjoy the music like this. On the other hand, if you live nearby you would buy an actual ticket right?

Me and A. . I'm wearing my Kasabian tee :-)

The Gossip. She was so nice! We couldn't see her well unfortunately, because it was so crowded in the tent, but we did hear her loud and clearly. She was great! And after every song she thanked the audience in Dutch with the sweetest girly peep voice.

Rammstein! Ohw my! I thought this was one of the coolest gigs I've ever seen!

It was amazing! Rammstein was already THE band I was thrilled about before the festival and the gig itself was even better than I hoped for. It's not like I'm always listening to their music or so (I'm not a scary chick ;-)..), but I do like to hear it once in a while. I think their songs are high larious.

The performance was also high larious. They made a sketch of themselves. Before the concert started and everyone was waiting for them their was a huge black curtain infront of the podium. Then their was a loud bang and the curtain dropped. Everyone expected to see the band, but instead of the band their was a new curtain. This time it was the German flag. So funny! The relationship between the Dutch and the Germans is still a bit tence (Just a little bit! But you can't deny it's not), so cheering for the German flag was a bit weird but oh so funny, because it feels a bit wrong haha. Then that curtain also dropped and the concert started. The lead singer had a butcher apron on and a little light in his mouth. Wrong, so wrong. I know! That's why I loved it! And like this the show went on and on and on.

The keyboard player of Rammstein.

He had a big role in the show. Funny guy. At first I thought he was so scary looking (all in leather), but after a while he changed into a glitter suit and made the weirdest movements. FUN!

Cute!

2010-06-07T12:14:00.000+02:00

I want one, I want one, I want one!

Via Tralalère!

We could rule the world

2010-06-06T11:33:00.000+02:00

So, i have to confess. I'm al little bit in love..

I've seen Mika now twice in real life and I think he's adorable!

Now i just stumbled across this clip and altough I can't hear the music (I'm at my internship right now), it cought my eye. And I have to say that those glasses look stunning on him! Makes him even more sexy ;-)!

Let's colour

2010-06-05T12:07:00.001+02:00

This makes my happy!

“Let’s Colour is a worldwide initiative to transform grey spaces with colourful paint.

This 2 minute global film was shot by multi-award winning director Adam Berg over four weeks in Brazil, France, London and India. Every location is real and they remain transformed by a palette consisting of 120 different colours. The people in the film are not actors, they are real people who rolled up their sleeves to transform their community with colour.”

Via Tralalère!

Aiden is back!

2010-06-04T15:59:00.001+02:00

Tonight I'm finally going to the cinema to see Sex and the City 2 with seven of my friends! It's going to be a real girls night out! Jeeh!

I know we're cool

2010-06-04T11:30:00.000+02:00

After watching this clip I even more wish it was already summer. Not that the sun doesn't shine here. It actually finally does. Only I can't enjoy it because I'm indoor like all the time :-(. Well, only 6 weeks to go and then it's finally time to do absolutely nothing!

Eyecandy

2010-06-03T12:19:00.001+02:00

Intergalactic Gokula from The Facehunter Show on Vimeo.

CC Sheffield - How many times? from The Facehunter Show on Vimeo.

Nothing special, just some eyecandy :-)

Back to business

2010-06-02T13:31:00.002+02:00

On monday we came back from the festival and it was fantastic! We saw some amazing performances and had a lot of fun! We also had a meet and greet with The Temper Trap! So, so amazingly cool! I'll soon post more pictures, but now I have to go back to work ;-)!

Pinkpop

2010-05-28T12:03:00.000+02:00

I'm off! Three days of music and fun! Excited!

The beautiful world of Photoshop

2010-05-27T11:57:00.000+02:00

Same shoot. Same woman. Totally different outcome.

Altough I can imagine Madonna won't like it that these pictures will be out there, I do like them! This is NORMAL. The woman is like 50! What did you expect?

Via Bryanboy.

Almost summerish

2010-05-26T11:29:00.000+02:00

This weekend was perfect! Altough on saturday it wasn't as warm as they predicted (I wore a summer dress, was far away from home and it was only 13 degrees! Bloody COLD!), the sunday and monday (we were free because of pentecost) were perfection. I saw some family, went out to dinner, did some bbq and for the rest I stayed in the sunny garden with a nice mag my parents brought me from The States.

Digging the festival feeling

2010-05-25T10:39:00.012+02:00

On Friday I am going with my friend A. to Pinkpop Festival in Landgraaf. I've never been there before, so I'm so excited!

Write the future

2010-05-22T12:19:00.001+02:00

Ok, something completely different.

Like I told you before I'm a soccer girl. In a few weeks from now, the World Championship soccer will start in South Africa and now, slowely but steady, the first commercials are starting to appear online. This one from Nike I think is genius. Anything can happen. You can be a world hero, or you can eat white beans for the rest of your life (Eeks!)..

Via Door de benen.

Who you gonna call?

2010-05-21T12:19:00.002+02:00

I just found this movie and I have to say, I love it! No doubt it's funny, but I also love the fact that you can really feel the atmosphere from the library. Last year, J. and I ofcourse also went to the library. That was more easely said than done, because everytime we stood in front of the building it was closed or it would close in like 5 minutes. In the end we made it and I thought it was beautiful! This movie brings all the sweet memories back.

On the same blog as where I found this movie, there was also a post about the 2010 Bryant Park movies schedule. Another lovely memory. Maybe even the best one!

Crazy Dutch people

2010-05-19T12:09:00.001+02:00

I just saw a post at the blog A Cup Of Jo about my country and I think it's high larious. And the comments are even funnier. Apparently they think we Dutch people are one crazy nation. Yes we do (when it's possible) everything on our bikes and yes we don't wear helmets. Ohw my! Apparently that sounds just crazy in other people ears, but I have never ever felt in danger by not wearing a helmet. It's just so completely normal over here. I don't even think about it.

This is one of the comments I really liked.

"That's great...also, in the winter, I believe they commute by ice-skates as well. I'd love to visit!"

Too funny! I'm real sorry to disappoint her, but no, that's not true. We like ice-skating when the winter is real cold, but I have never went somewhere on my ice-skates. It's only for fun ;-)! But it's nice to notice that some people actually think that we are one weird nation. I think we are all actually quite alike (except from the biking ;-)..)

Capuchine

2010-05-18T13:55:00.005+02:00

The Tumblr Tralalère is about the cutest French girl. I know her after I saw this movie more than a year ago. Too cute! A few weeks ago she went to NY (lucky girl) and she got recognized by a few people. How crazy is that?! Strange blog world we are living in ;-)..

Ps. I'm a busy busy bee! Sorry the blog is a bit down lately! After the internship it will all change! (Or not ;-), because when my internship is fineshed it's summer time and God knows I'm going to spend that time in best possible way: going to the beach and sit in the sun!) Unfortunately the end is not in sight yet.. But, today there's nobody at my department so I've got plenty of time to spend some quality time researching cute blog posts ;-)!

A little bit of love

2010-05-11T16:56:00.007+02:00

Giro d'Italia

2010-05-09T15:14:00.004+02:00

Great photo skills :-P. This one is actually the best one I made, so you can probably imagine how the rest looked like..

Yesterday I went with my brother to the opening of the Giro d'Italia. I actually had to work on some stuff for school, but after waking up at 12:00 (!!) I already knew it wouldn't be a very productive day ;-). And ofcourse it's very special that the Giro is so close by now! I like cycling. In Holland we do it all the time, but not like this ofcourse ;-). In July the Tour de France is also starting in Holland, but then In Rotterdam. That's a bit further away, but still quite interesthing to go to. We'll see..

Those crazy hazy days

2010-05-07T16:40:00.003+02:00

This week is great! Yesterday evening I went with J. to a concert of She and Him. I actually know the band only for like three weeks now, but I'm in love with them and the concert was perfect! I've got a little girl crush on Zooey, but I also think Mister Ward has the coolest voice. I would loved to hear him sing more solos. It was a fantastic evening.

And the fun is not over yet! Tonight I'm also going with J. and A. and F. to a concert. This time it's going to be Mika. Completely different kind of music. I think it's going to be a little party! Looking forward to it! Only 10 minutes of internship for today left!

Queensday

2010-04-30T11:58:00.000+02:00

Me, S. and J. last year at Queensday in Amsterdam.

Today it's Queensday! J. and I are first going to a flea market in our own village and then we are going to the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Queensday is fun! It's a national holiday where we celebrate the birthday of our queen (altough it's actually not really her birthday today). A lot of people wear orange, everywhere there's music and everyone is happy :-)!

Jealousy

2010-04-28T11:43:00.001+02:00

J. and me last year infront of the Carrie Bradshaw house. Sweet memories :-)

This morning my parents got on the plane to my beloved NY. I'm sooo jealous! Damn! I would kill to taste a nice Magnolia cupcake again! Walk the streets, sit on the cute benches and just smell everything. But for poor me it's not going to happen..

Ofcourse I know I may not complain! And I trouly hope my parents have just such a blast as J. and I did!

But now it's almost a year ago that I've been there, the feeling that I need to go back is getting bigger and bigger. And reading all those lovely blogs of people who actually LIVE there are not helping me ;-)!

But I can ofcourse profit of this situation, gnagna ;-). I gave my parents a 'little' list of things I don't mind if they bring that home for me!

Father and daughter

2010-04-26T15:52:00.006+02:00

Sorry for the few updates lately. I'm a busy bee. Like you know I'm now doing a fulltime internship. It's not completely what I hoped for in the beginning. It's not completely awful, but I also don't go with a happy feeling to work every day. I don't really get along with the people who already work there and my tasks are also different than I thought. It's a pity, but I can't do anything about that now. I still have 12 weeks to go.

Luckly a lot of nice days are on the way. This friday it's Queens Day. That's the day everyone in The Netherlands becomes nuts. It's great! And the benefit is that we don't have to go to work, Jeeh! After that a concert of Mika, Pinkpop festival, a concert of Muse and a day of Rock Werchter will be on the way, so I'll survive!

For now a beautiful movie I saw a couple months ago wich made a real impression on me :-). It's a Dutch animation that actually won an Oscar. Dutch pride!

Je t'aime Paris

2010-04-21T12:24:00.000+02:00

Miss Dior Chérie from Supralude on Vimeo.

An other just as pretty commercial for Miss Dior Chery :-).

Via Fashion Outlaw.

And if the people stare then the people stare

2010-04-20T11:13:00.004+02:00

I love bandshirts. They are the perfect souvenir of a great evening (when bought after a concert).

A few weeks ago a store in my city closed and therefor they sold their last stuff with a great discount. I found a tee of Wolfmother. The tee is so bad (think black, design less tee with picture of fairylike horse) that I actually think it's really funny. I didn't knew if I actually liked Wolfmother, but I knew they are going to be at the Pinkpop festival and I'll be there to. The t-shirt itself only costed me 3 euros, so for that kind of money you can never have a bad buy. Last weekend I thought it would be a good idea to begin with some 'homework' for the festivalseason and started listening to Wolfmother and to my surprise it's a real good band! So the t-shirt is defenitely going to be a piece of my Pinkpop wardrobe ;-)..

The tee above is ofcourse beyond great to be true. Unfortunately it costs 60 bucks, wich I think is a bit too much for a t-shirt.

Via Design is mine.

Birdy birdy in the sky

2010-04-16T12:22:00.003+02:00

This morning when I watched out of the kitchenwindow this is what I saw (first photo). Since yesterday the airport in Holland is closed, because of an active volcano in Iceland. Really crazy. Because of the volcano there's a huge cloud in the sky that's passing North-West Europe. I made the second picture at the train station this morning. The photo's are made with my phone, so that's why the quality isn't that great..

You can't stop the beat

2010-04-14T11:49:00.000+02:00

Tonight I'm going with my friends A., F. and J. to the musical Hairspray! We bought the tickets ages ago, so now the evening is finally here I am really excited! It's also nice to do fun things in the evening or in the weekend, now I'm working fulltime at my internship!

Fashion photography

2010-04-12T11:46:00.000+02:00

Just some pictures I think are really interesting.

Via Jak & Jill Blog.

Bank dance

2010-04-11T12:03:00.000+02:00

I know I'm overdosing you with this 500 days of summer flick, but I can't help myself. I just wanted to share this one with you :-)

Pretty paintings

2010-04-10T11:30:00.000+02:00

Today I went trough some old links I once saved and I came across the blog of Danny Roberts. I actually saved a link to a t-shirt with one of his artworks (which I still LOVE!), but this time I scrolled through his blog and I found out that I like a whole lot more of him. I actually like it that much that I'm considering to buy one. I really like the third and fourth painting. I think they are just beautiful!

My favorite notes

2010-04-09T11:50:00.001+02:00

An absolute must have! I love to make all kind of lists and this is THE notebook for people like me ;-). This is the girly version, but there are also versions for boys, women and men. In the books there are lists about things like what your favorite food is, what you want to become when your old ;-), where you would like to travel to and good advices you once got. Love it!

Via Linda.

M'ama non m'ama

2010-04-08T11:46:00.000+02:00

I think Tilda Swinton is an amazing woman. I first saw her in the movie The beach (great movie btw. Also a real classic. Love Leonardo! Love Thailand :-)) and there she already made a big impression on me. After that I saw her in several movies and ofcourse she was the muse of Victor and Rolf.

Now she is doing an advertisement campaign for a Italian jewelry brand (Pomellato) and I think the intro on their website is really pretty.

She's kinda like a chameleon. Every time she looks completely different from the time before. But one thing is for sure, she always looks great.

It's funny to notice that on the website where I found the news about her and Pomellato all the reactions were about the fact that she looks so thin in the picture and the commercial. I didn't noticed that at all. My opinion doesn't change. I still think she looks great. Yes she looks thin, but she's always been like that and it fits her image. She's edgy. I don't think she's a role model for young girls and I don't think she has a eating disorder. She's a chameleon.

Such a heavenly way to die

2010-04-07T11:45:00.003+02:00

Last weekend I finally, finally, finally saw 500 days of summer! Loved it! So nice made and original! Loved the actors, the clothing and especially the music!

After I saw the movie I asked my dad about if he knew The Smiths. Well yes he did. Apparently he listened to it a lot when he was like my age. He still had some cd's and now I'm also a fan. The lyrics are so great!

When I was watching the movie, I noticed this song and I did not knew from who it was, so I took my baby junior and found out it was The Temper Trap. I LOVE this song. It has everything in it. And just as I am writing this post I remembered that I will see them twice this year! YEEH!

Let them eat cake

2010-04-06T11:32:00.000+02:00

Love, love, love these pictures of Kirsten! She looks great!

Via Mick!

Waiter, there's a bird in my tea

2010-04-05T12:03:00.001+02:00

How cool is this?

Via Toxel.

Miss Dior Chery

2010-04-04T11:33:00.003+02:00

This commercial makes a lot of feelings lose. Like "OMG, I have to go to Paris, NOW!" and "Sigh, why can't it now be that sunny?"..

Via Linda.

Turin - Milan, day 2 - 3 (final)

2010-04-03T11:33:00.003+02:00

A tiny, beautiful church. We were the only persons in the church (except for one old men who cleaned the floor) and that was really special. It's nice to sit quitely in a church and to be all alone with your thoughts.

View from the church over Turin.

The national film museum housed in a very high, but beautiful building (the Mole Antonelliana). My mom and I did'n went into the museum, because we didn't had time and we also thought we would'n know any of the Italian films, but it looked great! We did go in the elevator to the top of the building to have a very nice view.

A part of the view. The elevator was made from glass btw. My mom loved it, but I thought it was scary as hell! I love 'scary' rides in ausement parks, but I hate depths. If I stand on a high building, it's no problem, but you should not put me in a ferris wheel or a elevator from glass ;-).

In the evening I went to my dad (he was in a bar with my brother and some friends) and together we went to the match Juventus-Ajax. Ajax lost the game unfortunately, but it was still a great night :-).

Some of the supporters of Ajax brought a fire torch with them.

The next day we went back to Milan. Because we had some time left before we had to go to the airport, we went for a quick hour to the center of Milan to eat a last ice cream. When we left the subway, we walked over this stairs. I wrote about such a stairs a couple months ago, so I loved to see it in real and to notice that it really worked!

The last ice cream. Maybe the best part of Italy ;-)..

All kinds of different flavours.

A last shot before we went into the subway again..

Fifi Lapin... The worlds most stylish bunny

2010-04-02T12:35:00.005+02:00

I had seen this bunny over the internet, but I had never seen 'her' blog and now I did. It's too cute!

Via Girlscene.

Awesome Music Movies

2010-04-01T15:12:00.007+02:00

My brother tweeted this link and after reading through the article I noticed some movies I haven't thought about for a while, but which I really like :-). Ferris Bueller's Day Off is off course a real classic.

When I was in New York last year, J. and I did the Sex and the City tour and the guid told us that the serie changed in the beginning, because Sarah Jessica Parker thought only one person could talk directly into the camera. Guess who she ment ;-)?

Milan - Turin, day 2, part 1

2010-03-30T11:40:00.022+02:00

The beautiful train station in the morning sun in Milan.

Bikes.

It's almost spring! You can see it, can't you? ;-)

A part of the floor in the train station.

Really impressing to be inside the station.

Sweets!

A statue in Turin.

More sweets!

Amazing hair colour

2010-03-25T17:03:00.003+01:00

This haircolour is amazing!

Via Sea of shoes.

Headgear

2010-03-24T15:33:00.006+01:00

Whou, these illustrations are incredible! Almost like a fairytale.

Via KRIS ATOMIC.

Milan, day 1, part 2

2010-03-21T12:14:00.001+01:00

I don't really know what kind of building this is, but I do know it was beautiful...

The day after we were in Milan the fashion week started. There were a lot of nice dressed people in the city, but I don't know if that's just normal or not. I did get inspired a lot. Unfortunately I was so 'scared' for the cold because of the last months in The Netherlands that I was dressed very warm, but not that fashionable. So when I came back home the first thing I did was dressing up pretty :-)..

A picture of Madonna in the window of a Dolce & Gabbana store. We did a lot of window shopping..

Just a random street..

Another random street.. Very Italian stylish with the mopeds.

Cute cheese cake :-)

The Duomo Sante Maria Nascente in full frontal. Ohw so nice!

In the evening we went to the San Siro stadium, because the soccermatch Internazionale - Chelsea was happening there. We did not had tickets, but we thought it would be nice to just walk around the stadium. When we got there, there were a lot of men who wanted to sell tickets to us for a big price. We didn't wanted to pay such a price, but after a while the match started and they still got their tickets, so at last they sold us three tickets for only 40 euro, which is very, very cheap for a Champions League match.

Then, when we had the tickets we still had to get inside the stadium and that wasn't so easy as we thought, because they didn't wanted to let people in who bought a ticket at the black market. After a while my dad smooth talked to a guy and then we we did got in.

And it was so much fun! Those Italian people are really funny to sit in between. They are so enthousiastic! I didn't care at all about the match and who would win, but when I sad between them I just did like I wanted Internazionale to win. The match ended in a win for Inter, so the atmosphere was great :-)!

The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no...

2010-03-20T15:35:00.003+01:00

Oe, I just found these pictures. Don't you think they look fantastic?! So excited!

Via A Solar Flair.

Update: It was so, so great! I really don't get it why some people are not that enthusiastic as I am!

I'm late, I'm late. For a very important date. No time to say "Hello." Goodbye. I'm late, I'm late, I'm late.

2010-03-20T11:36:00.001+01:00

After waiting for 9 months I'm finally going to see Alice in wonderland tonight with buddy J.! We're going to one of the nicest cinemas in Holland. We're going to see it in 3D ofcourse, but we're also going to see it in the IMAX room. I've never seen a movie like that, so that makes the excitement even bigger :-)!

Again, the girly nails mean so much more than you know

2010-03-19T11:40:00.004+01:00

A movie devoted to nailpolish. Only Chanel can do that.

Two weeks ago I got mint green nailpolish from my friends for my birthday. I wanted that nailpolish for more than a year, but couldn't find it in the stores, so I'm really happy I've got such nice friends who surved around the internet for me to make me a happy girl with pretty nails :-)!

Via The Digitalistas.

Cute parisien

2010-03-18T16:18:00.004+01:00

Great, great look. I love absolutely everything about her. Those socks are just great! They make her entire look even better, if that's possible..

Ohw how I love the Sartorialist! With Christmas I got from my lovely mom his book and it's great! I get so inspired when I have a look in it :-)..

Via Playing Grown Up.

Milan, day 1, part 1

2010-03-16T16:22:00.000+01:00

A lot of soccer scarfs. On the bottem left you see a scarf with the name Sneijder on it. That's a great Dutch soccerplayer who plays now for Internazionale, so it was really nice to see they are proud of him.

The floor in the Duomo Santa Maria Nascente.

Ohw I love this church. It's so amazing and beautifull!

On the roof of the church.

View over Milan.

A statue..

A Italian collegue of mine advised me to go to a bakery called Luini and get a panzerotti. It was absolutely worth it! When we came there, there was a line to get into the shop with only Italian (and some Japanese) people. It's hard to explain what a panzarotti it. It's kind off a fried roll filled with mozzarella and tomatoes, so so nice!

In the middle of the Galleria Vittoria Emanuele II.

OMG, the icecreams in Italy are so the best! This one was with straciatella, melon and yogurt.

Last call

2010-03-10T11:01:00.002+01:00

Haha! This is fascinating! I think it would be great to participate in this challange!

Via Swordfish Media.

Cute illustration

2010-03-08T10:02:00.003+01:00

Just some cute illustrations :-)

I hope to have on wednesday the time to put some pics of Milan on the blog. Right now I'm just incredibly busy.. Internship, birthday and all kind of other stuff ;-)..

Via Green wedding shoes.

When she was 22 her future looked bright

2010-03-05T10:43:00.001+01:00

It's my birthday today!!

Stuck in your head

2010-03-02T13:38:00.002+01:00

Everytime I hear this song I feel instandly better. It's so nice and mellow..

Yesterday I started at my new internship! It´s nice. Busy but nice.

Btw. Precious was a great movie! Heartbreaking..

Live is Precious

2010-02-28T12:24:00.000+01:00

Tonight I'm going with my mom to this movie and I'm really excited! I wanted to see this movie for a really long time so I hope it will meet up to my expectations! I'll let you know ;-)!

A moment like this

2010-02-27T18:13:00.003+01:00

I'm back! In the next coming days I'll show you some pictures, but for now I want to share this cute cross-country road trip proposal story. So sweet!

Via A Cup Of Jo.

Off again

2010-02-23T12:13:00.002+01:00

Today I will leave for a couple of days to Milan and Turin :-). On thursday Ajax (yeah, yeah.. me = soccergirl) needs to play against Juventus, so that's the reason I'm going there. And because I'm already going there, it was a good excuse to go some extra days ;-)

I'm really looking forward to it. These are my last free days before I start my internship for the next 5 months! So I really need to enjoy every moment (starting with some nice pizza and ice cream ;-)..)!

Those silly French

2010-02-22T17:08:00.004+01:00

Now we're already in a French spirit, here's a cute trailer of a French movie, without any subtitles I'm afraid. I barely speak French (I can ask someone to speak slowely or in Englich, the most important ;-)), but I can still see that this movie is a must see (whith subtitles ofcourse ;-)!) The movie is based on a children book from the 60's. I didn't knew it, but the movie looks adorable (that's also French :-P!)..

Via Lark About.

We'll always have Paris

2010-02-21T19:25:00.000+01:00

Elephant - "Lisa" from Tracemaker on Vimeo.

Cute song, cute clip. Love the style.. Also love the French. Paris will always be my favourite city. In the past I went every year with my mom for a short week to Paris, but we haven't done that for a few years now, so it would be a nice idea for this year. I prefer Paris in the fall. I love the colours of the leaves and the city that is getting ready for winter with all the little lights.. Yes.. I'm a fan *sigh*..

Via Petticoats and high heels.

The balls of the Queen

2010-02-20T11:35:00.003+01:00

Last week it was carnival and altough I don't live in the part of Holland that really celebrates it, we still did. We didn't wore funny clothes, but if there's an excuse for a party, we will take it ;-).. It was nice. Not great. But making fun pictures makes up for a lot. That night Holland also won the first (and for now last) golden medal with ice skating at the Olympic Games, so we were in a good mood :-)

Btw. Look at F.'s greater than great watch! J. and I got it for her in New York last year for her birthday that she celebrated only a few weeks ago.. F. is the biggest MJ fan in Holland, so we knew this gift would be the best ;-)!

Must be love, love, love

2010-02-19T12:28:00.004+01:00

Whou, I adore these necklaces.. Really pretty!

Via Camp Comfort.