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Last saturday I visited Amsterdam with Mandy, 

we did some ooh-ing + aah-ing over expensive shoes

Must have been some party we came across

My latest thrift store finds

Receiving an awesome card, with equally awesome stamps

The latest addition to my household. Popsicles were made the same day,

more on that next week

Hope you'll be having a fabulous weekend!

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Ordinary people in a giant food world

From Rio to the Royal Ballet

How to make felt piggy banks

Doesn't this pasta look delicious?

I've been playing Robyn's rendition of Try sleeping with a broken heart non stop

An apartment that is definitely my cup of tea

If you like to multi-task, this might be the video for you!

Do you think there's a chance Miranda Kerr wants to swap closets?

Fancy!

The one in Leeuwarden

In june I visited my friend R. in Leeuwarden, in the north of the Netherlands. It 's a 2,5 hour trainride, and I arrived at the end of the day. After sitting still for so long, it was nice to take a little walk before dinner. Ofcourse, my favourite parts were the old, mismatched houses and gorgeous doors. Oh, and the colourful flowers adorning the bridges crossing the canals. 

 

 

Look at this happy looking yellow house! I'd love to know if it's this cheery on the inside too.

R. noticed some interested looking collections, like Spanish dancers and Snow White and her seven friends. These were in the same street, so we wondered if it was required to have a collection of some sorts, if you wanted to live here.

 Passing some hidden gardens

We also spotted some awesome street art. Walking makes hungry, so we had some tasty pizza and drinks after our walk. 

 

The one with the things I liked this week (74)

How has your week been? Mine was pretty ok. I still get surprised by some of the amazing architecture in my home city that I discover on after work or weekend walks. This week I started watching 'the Following', which is pretty scary. It's like Criminal Minds, the kind of show I know I shouldn't be watching. Alone. At night.

The sun created some pretty awesome shadows, so I really needed to take a selfie. Shadow selfies are the kind of selfies I feel comfortable taking.

We're still in the race towards becoming (I can't help but reading this in Tyra Banks' voice) World Champion. I'll be keeping my fingers crossed tomorrow!

This awesome gift was given to me by my friends R+L+J. It's a shoe AND it's chocolate! Does it get any better than that?

Other than that, I treated myself to concert tickets for Dutch singer Dotan. I went thrift shopping yesterday and found the photo frames I have been eyeing for a while now. Only those were new and 5 times the price. And these are even prettier. Once they're cleaned up a bit, I might show them over here. I think they deserve to be seen :-)

My friend Mandy sent me a text message yesterday, if I wanted to go to Amsterdam this saturday. She won a workshop/photoshoot, that lasts all day. We also get to take pictures ourselves. It lasts pretty much all day (it involves food too!). I'm pretty anxious, because I hate having my pictures taken, but sometimes it's a good thing getting out of that comfort zone. And saying 'yes' to more things was one of my resolutions at the beginning of the year.

What are your plans? Anything special planned, or will you go with the flow and see where the weekend takes you? Whatever it is you'll be doing, have fun!

The one with the trainride

A little while ago I travelled from Leeuwarden to Utrecht by train with my friend R. It's about a two hour travel, and to pass time I snapped some shots. These are taken from inside the train with my mobile phone, so the quality is not all that. The landscape looks pretty awesome though, I sometimes forget that we live in a beautiful country! 

When trains ride according to their schedule, and it's not rush hour, travelling by train is one of my favourite means of transportation. Not having to watch the road, listening to some music, reading a book, and being able to do some people watching is one of the things I like most about it. Do you travel by train often? Or do you prefer to go places by car?

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Awesome streetart, the meaning of the words is 'more love' 

And some more newly discovered street art

Celebrating granny's 91st birthday

One of the things I love about summer: cherries

Another match won at the World Cup

Dinner with Mandy

New craft supplies, to make bracelets

Do you have anything special planned for the weekend? Hope you'll have a good one!

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If blue is your favourite colour, you might want to consider living here

This video is borrowed from Pam's blog

Will there be a new Banksy documentary?

What if empty coke bottles were never thrown away? 

Now that's a whole lot of Hello Kitty's! 

How about some World Cup photo's? 

Did you know professor Snape recently joined Instagram? 

How awesome is this (temporary) cat lady tattoo? 

The next thing made in my kitchen, might be this lemon tart 

The one with the washi tape card DIY

A couple of sundays ago I wanted to make something easy, without needing lots of supplies and without making a big mess. I thought it might be fun to make some postcards.

What you'll need:

• Paper the size of a postcard, I used kraftpaper
• washi tape, in different colours
• a black fineliner
• scissors
• a ruler (this one's an old souvenir granny got me from Germany over 20 years ago)

Start by sticking washitape to your paper, don't worry if you tape the paper to your workspace. This might even work in your advantage when you start the drawing part of this DIY :-)

Make stripes above and underneath the tape, using your ruler

Make diagonal stripes, or any other pattern that floats your boat. I didn't use my ruler for this part.

Peel your card of the table and cut off the washi tape.

Make rounded edges using a roll of tape, pen, and scissors

And that's all! Have you been creating something lately? Please feel free to share a link in the comments below, I love seeing what you've been up to! More how-to's can be found over here.