The one with all the hats

The sunday after Christmas me and my friend R. decided it was time for a bit of a fieldtrip. It had snowed and the roads were very slippery, but that didn't stop us! First we had coffee and sandwiches at Credible (highly recommendable, you can have breakfast for dinner, woot-woot!) right across the road from the museum. After all the yummy food, we slid to the other side of the street, and started our visit with the exhibition we came for. One of the temporary exhibitions showcases a collection of hats, designed by Dutch designer Marianne Jongkind. I loved the different shapes, colours, materials and textures. Makes me wish I was more of a hat person, I would totally rock that merry go round one! In case you want to enjoy these hats, and want to pay the museum a visit, there is some need to hurry, it's up until the 11th of January.

Another exhibition showed how life was during WWII in my hometown Nijmegen. I didn't feel it was appropriate taking pictures at this part of the museum. There is a video made by the museum that gives an impression of what can be seen over here. The end of the exhibition was used to commemorate unidentified war victims. At a large table, you could take a sheet of paper and fold a boat, and add these to the other visitors' creations.

The one with a dance, a book and a lighthouse

This is what I've been listening to lately. Have you made any discoveries lately, musicwise? I would love to hear all about it if you did. Especially more upbeat and maybe summery, happy songs. Some might say the music I've been listening to right now might be a bit depressing or saddish. They sure do match the grey and cold weather we're having over here at the moment.

Causes - Teach me how to dance

Gavin James - the Book of love

Mister and Mississippi - Meet me at the lighthouse

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Happy New Year! Hope you all had a wonderful time, spent with your loved ones. New Years' eve mostly is not my cup of tea. The last day of the year always give me a bit of a feeling of melancholy and I always feel like I should have accomplished more in the year that has ended. But for some reason, the blues stayed away this year and I had a great evening/night this time around: good company, laughter, delicious food, playing games, and watching lots of pretty fireworks. Usually I don't really make a list of goals, but I did make a bit of a list of things this year that I would like to do more, or do less:

• more museum visits
• be more spontaneous
• eat more fruits and vegs
• eat less chocolate
• spend more time outdoors
• taking more walks and bikerides
• taking up Spanish lessons again
• seeing glasses as being more half full, than half empty
• try more new things, even if I think the chance of me failing at it are big
• read more books
• try out more new recipes (I'm in a bit of a culinary rut lately)

Do you make a list of goals? Would you like to share them in the comments below? I also snapped some pictures this week of things I liked.

Blue skies

Spontaneous brunch and a museum visit (more on that next week) with R.

What's a 'the one with the things I liked this week'-post without a good looking door?

Or a number?

I've been eyeing this necklace for a while, it was on sale now :-)

As was this scarf. Is there such a thing as too many scarves?

Getting creative

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 Getting some fresh fabrics at the market

 Seen on my bikeride to R + L

 Getting a haircut at Studio Mus

Windowshopping

 More windowshopping

 Pancakes for lunch

 Receiving a stack of super cute fabrics that my mom ordered from Duni's DaWanda shop, with Lindt(!) chocolate as a yummy bonus :-)

 Christmas mail with super cute stamps from my friend H.

Taking a Christmas cat nap, with a cat

Hope you had a wonderful Christmas! Cheers to what's left of the weekend. See you soon!

The one with the bangs

I did it! From last saturday on I am team-bangs. We need some getting used to each other, but I am sure we'll get along. Getting my picture taken is not my favourite thing, at all. But here's a bit of an idea what I look like now. The rest of my hair has gotten a bit of a make over too. It's around 15 centimeters shorter and it's cut into a bob. Not a short and not a long bob, a bit in between. Does that make it a semi-long-bob (or a s-lob)?

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More numbers found

Window shopping with R.

Trees at night

Post from the United States and the Philipines

Love these shades of blue

How has your week been? We've had quite the weather for this time of year, although we've been seeing loads and loads of rain (those clouds should be empty by now!). This weekend isn't full of plans, except for an appointment to get my hair cut. I'm still considering getting bangs. Are you a fan of bangs? What should I do?! To bang or not to bang. That's the question....

Hope you'll be having a wonderful weekend. Anything special planned for saturday and sunday? See you next week!

The one with all the icecream cones

During summer I came across lots of these king size icecreamcones. I started to photograph them, and forgot all about them, until last weekend, when I started an attempt at organising the photos on my laptop. We've had some cold days by now (but no snow so far), and with predictions for today that are quite warm (15°C, and according to the converter 59°F) for this time of year, I might snatch up an celebratory icecream (or two) after work. I hope these shots will put a smile upon your face.

 

With a side of fries 

 

The one with some music for your monday

For this monday I thought it might be fun to do another music-post. I love discovering new artists and songs, and these are the songs that I've been listening to most the last couple of days. Credit for the Austra song goes to Melissa from Hilltop Hausfrau. This isn't the first time she introduced me to some fine tunes. The video may be a bid odd, but you can't judge a book by its cover, or a song by its video, right? Have you find any treasures, music wise? I'd love to hear what you've been listening to in the comments below! 

 

James Bay - Hold back the River

Bastille vs Haim - Bite Down

 Ryn Weaver - OctoHate

Austra - Hurt me now

 Sam Smith - Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

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The week started of with something I didn't like: a trip to the dentist,

but I did spot this lovely fall scene on my way back to work

Lately I've been spotting all these awesome number signs on houses

City Hall at night

Receiving this surprise DaWanda DIY kit, from Eva

And look at the pretty box it came in

And receiving something else I liked a lot....

Hope you had a pretty good week too, cheers to the weekend!

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Super Flemish Super Heroes

Mean tweets #8

I bet you'd want to take a trip after watching this

Pretty desks

This pair is too cute not to share

Jamie Oliver playing pots and pans

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A big cliché, but I can't believe it's december already, feels like the year just started. Where did those first eleven months go? So far, my struggle with winter (I know, technically winter hasn't even begun) isn't that unmanageable this year. Normally, I get really bummed out by the cold and shorter days, but so far it's not that bad. We haven't had any snow at all and not much rain, let's hope it stays that way! I wouldn't mind a white Christmas, it's the slush-part that follows after the snow-part that go along with it that I dislike. In just a couple of weeks the shortest day will be behind us, and we will slowly be going towards my favourite season: spring. That time of year when you can leave scarf, gloves and hat at home again, without any bodyparts freezing off. Having the knowledge that you have a whole summer ahead! Going out for icecream, wearing ballet-flats, sipping on cold drinks, evenings of reading books out on the balcony, after dinner walks, and buying red fruits at the farmers markt. Oh my, I think I am getting ahead of things. Lets rewind, get back to december, and tackle winter first. Here are the things I liked this week. 

This beautiful balcony

 Saturday drinks, I love the pretty illustrations on the labels

What's a week without a new good looking door!

 Happy to see something green on a grey day

 Happy enveloppes make my mailbox very happy

 Something else making me happy, my new wintercoat, with many thanks to granny

How has your week been? Are you team winter, or team summer? I hope your weekend is fantastic so far, enjoy the rest of it! Cheers and hope to see you next week.