Last weekend I went to Disneyland Paris with work! I was lucky enough to work at a theme park myself so our trip was to Disney :) I saw a lot of women wearing a Minnie Mouse headband and made it my goal to photograph as many Minnie’s as possible. I found many, but didn’t always want to point a big DSLR in their faces or sometimes it went so fast the picture was out of focus. But here are a few Minnies :)
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Sigma 30mm f1.4
Tags: Disney, Minnie Mouse, portraits
Whenever I feel I don’t know what to do, I most likely go to the forest and take my camera with me. Yesterday was one of those days. I guess because I have been so busy for the last few weeks, I just didn’t know what to do with myself on that day! So I did what I like best: wandering around in the forest till my bones ache. I don’t know why exactly, but I really love the forest. It’s calm, peaceful, the birds singing! It just makes me happy again. And it’s getting warmer, spring is definitely coming! So I took a few random pictures, here they are ;D
P.S. excuse the lame title, I hate titles with all my heart.
:)
Camera: Canon EOS 7D
Lens: Sigma 30mm f1.4
Tags: forest, pictures, selfportraits, spring
Yup, I’m still here etc. etc. I know I hardly post here anyway, but the last 2 weeks have been CRAZY! I had to paint the new house (which was WAY WAY more work than I thought), had to move over, go to Ikea etc. etc. You know the drill! Even though I live in my new place for a week now, I still have to set a few things in it’s place (and I’m REALLY going to do that today this time). So, it has it’s ups and downs and I worked really, really hard. So hard that I just got really sick this weekend. I haven’t been that ill since I was a little kid, I swear, it was horrible :( I never get ill!
Anyway, I have internet since yesterday (yay, finally! ;)) and when everything is at it’s place and tidy I’ll take some more pictures and post them. But till now you’ll have to do with these ;)
(yes one of those cliché letters that I love so dearly <3 And an old picture of my mother, when she was a kid :) We found it in my grandma's attic last year and I just immediately claimed it ;))
Tags: my house
Finally I have some good news to tell: I’ve got my own apartment. FINALLY. After living in a house with students for 6,5 horrible years, I’m getting a place of my own, thank the Seven! It will still take a month before I get the keys, what I hate.. but it’s also a good thing, because now I can take my time and think about what I want and where and aaaaall that stuff! I still don’t know yet! The internet is overwhelming with all those amazing sites like Tumblr, Pinterest, heck even the Ikea website! I think I have enough ideas for a gigantic house with at least 10 rooms.. a pity my apartment is tiny and only has 2 small rooms (and a small kitchen and a small bathroom). So many awesome things to do!!
I always have an ‘inspiration-notebook’ with me, all the time. Mine right now is full with stuff for the apartment. I scrabble down all my thousand of ideas in my little notebook, always handy to take notes ;)
& Ikea-website = heaven <3 Most of my furniture is thrifted/second-hand though! I've painted everything white because that goes with everything and I just really like white furniture. Plus, my apartment is SMALL so light colours will make it less.. crowded??
Some stuff I want to buy at Ikea (besides the wallpaper, but I’m also going to buy that wallpaper :D)
Here are a few pictures I found at a website I forgot (I KNOW I KNOW, horrible! But it was a dutch version of pinterest and they didn’t credit any of these pictures anyway. I know, I always hate people who don’t credit them, but I just had to share a few of these!
Tags: furniture, inspiration, interior, moving
I have also impulsively decided to start a 365 days project! Well, more a 366 days project because 2012 happens to be a leap year ;) And I liked starting on the first day of the year, like some sort of diary for 2012 :) You can follow the project here on my Flickr account!
I have also used a Joby Gorillapod for this picture! I got mine a week ago and I have to get used to it.. but I’m slowly starting to love it! What it is? Uhm well here’s mine in action:
I have a heavy camera so I have the SLR Zoom version! Anyway, more on that later ;)
Merry Christmas everyone :D Somewhere on the internet I found a tutorial to make your own snowflakes, and I was immediately inspired to make some sort of christmas card :) It was so much fun to do! I felt like a 5-year old cutting all those snowflakes and it was such a surprise every time to see how it turned out. Anyway, to be honest I’m not really into Christmas, at all. I don’t really care about it, but I do like Christmas lights & obviously snowflakes. And the tacky accessories! I always use them for my photography. And Christmas chocolate mmmmm… But that’s about it, really. We celebrate 2 days here in the Netherlands, I have to work the second and on the first I’m just going to eat with my family. Usual Christmas stuff ;)
I didn’t want to throw the snowflakes away so I used them to decorate my room a bit :)
Can’t believe we had so much snow last year, and now it seems like autumn has just began! I finally bought snowboots (they were all sold out the last years) and now it doesn’t snow! Sigh..
Tags: christmas, snow, snowflakes
Today I had a bad hair day… I guess a lot of people have those, but I never really experienced those when I had short hair. (As in, real short hair, a pixie!) Well, I had my ‘hair that sticks straight up’ bed hair, but I just had to put my head under the tap and voila, done! I always hated that though, so I’m glad I don’t have that problem anymore! But now my hair is a bit longer, but not long enough to put in a ponytail yet, it can be a bit annoying. My biggest problem is it being either wavy in REALLY annoying way (sometimes it looks like I have wings on my head instead of hair ugh) or it’s really really flat and lifeless.
Lately I’ve been this close to chopping it all off, but I still haven’t! :D Today was one of those days, but instead I decided to braid it and take pictures of it and dedicate a blog update about it ;)
My hair right now. I’ve been growing it for 10 months and it’s been a total pain in the ass due to previous bleaching. Platinum hair is awesome, you guys, but so so damaging. Specially if you have fine hair like me!
That awesome granny sweater is from Wibra by the way. (For the Dutchies: yes I do buy clothes there and am not embarrassed, at all :D <3 Wibra.. and de Zeeman ;))
One of my favourite hairproducts is ‘Dirty’ by Lush. They call it a ‘hair cream’, it’s more like a shaper, I guess. It smells really nice (according to my co-worker it smells like Droomvlucht, but apparently ‘Dirty’ is a part of a line for men! I don’t think of fairies when I think of men, honestly haha) but it’s quite sticky. However, it gives me a lot of volume without drying my hair out like crazy :)
And coconut oil! <3 I looove it, it's the best thing ever for my hair :D You can also use it for cooking and I use it in my soap recipes. Multifunctional!
Braids at either side of my head. Can’t wait till I can make a crownbraid.. ONE DAY!
More braid! It starts very thin and ends up thicker.. the problem is still the short layers. I can’t really make a thick braid yet because it would never hold! I used the Dutch braiding technique by the way. Which is the reverse version of French braiding. I find Dutch braiding is easier and it holds better when you have short layers!
And just for fun.. my hair last year! What a difference. I still love platinum hair and I always will, I guess. It just took me 3 times before I realized that it was absolutely destroying my hair :( Some people’s hair is stronger than others! My hair just doesn’t take bleach that well… Anyway, 10 months ago, when I started my ‘hair-growing-out’ journey, I also made hair journal. So I could keep track of EVERYTHING, like the products I liked, how my hair reacts to things, how hard it grows, etc. I know, that sounds a bit obsessive, but I tend to get obsessed with things quite fast. For example, I just finished A Dance With Dragons and thus the A Song Of Ice And Fire series.. I felt SAD the next day. Sad because I finished some books! Sigh.. I’m now re-watching the tv-show Game Of Thrones though and plan on rereading book 1 & 2 before season 2 starts in April ;) I guess I’ll have to entertain myself for a bit!
Anyway, about that hairjournal, you can read about it here (I seriously typed hair, incidentally!): http://myboringhair.tumblr.com Yes it is called my boring hair because I do have a bit of self-knowledge ;)
Tags: hair
Somehow I find updating this blog the biggest chore ever. Why, you ask? I have no idea! All the pictures have long been edited, I just need to upload them, come up with a tiny bit of text (let’s be honest, who is actually ‘reading’ my blog here? I think it’s safe to say that most visitors come for the pictures! And rightly so, I hardly have anything interesting to say anyway ;)) Even coming up with a proper title is a task that seems unreachable…
So I have piles of pictures that I want to show you, but I hardly ever do.. I’m basically too lazy! Which is weird, because I like typing enormous amounts of boring text (a.k.a. rants) on the internet. Everywhere, except on my blog ;) I guess that is a good thing though!
Anyway, on to the pictures. They were taken this Sunday, when the fog was really, really thick all over the country. On Monday as well, traffic jams everywhere! So.. time to take pictures! :) I all edit them differently so yeah, don’t hate me etc. Might be a part two!
(this picture is too red but I am too lazy to re-edit it.. again)
I was afraid I had ruined my new shoes! But turns out I haven’t, yay :D
Whenever I’m taking pictures (shooting just sounds so weird, like it’s a photoshoot, which is stupid) I always think about the clothes I wear. Most of the times that means thinking about which coat I will wear ;) I coincidentally put on this orange shirt and realized I was wearing the exact same colours of that place! So I just took this picture to well.. remember it :P Thought that was funny!
Went for a more spooky feeling with this picture :)
Pfewww finally done with this post! Now I’m going to read some more.. This book (George R.R. Martin’s A Dance With Dragons) is seriously EVEN BIGGER THAN MY HEAD. And I can assure that my head is big ;) Crazy! Love it though, ever since I started to watch the tv-show Game Of Thrones this summer, I’m absolutely hooked on the books. Heck, it might even be an obsession. Can not wait till I have finished it and browse the internet looking for theories and all that stuff ;)
Now I have to slay that beast of 1000 pages…
Tags: autumn, books, forest, game of thrones, nature, pictures, selfportraits
Sometimes I wonder how I am able to take so many pictures in such a short amount of time. I’ve been looking through some Antwerp pictures again (was bored so wanted to make a new blog post, enough material found, I can assure you ;)). I think there might be a third post coming up soon! Anyway, I’ll just let most of the pictures speak for themselves :)
I saw this EVERYWHERE: paintings, cards, necklaces.. everything with lace!
Mockamore, amazing coffee <3
Posting the cards! (If you’ll look closely, you can see my card on top of that pile :D)
Mmmm mint tea <3
Fluffy bunnies :D They were too fast for my camera :(
Shot with:
Olympus Pen E-P1 & Panasonic 20mm f.17
Tags: antwerp, Olympus Pen E-P1, pictures
