Details and mindfulness

This weekend was really a relaxing weekend, with a workshop of Mindfulness, high tea, a lot of sleep, Sunday breakfast with warm bread and cooked egg of my sweet boyfriend. And last but not least.. We booked our flight to Marrakesh! I'm sooooo excited to go! In September it's much cheaper to fly, and also the hotels are much cheaper. Think of €250 for 10 days for 2 persons! Of course not the best, but a swimming pole and breakfast included! 

And the mindfulness workshop was again a good lesson to be in here and now, and do some more informal activities for in daily life. It's makes you more conscious about what you do at that moment and don't just do what your dairy/agenda says and think about what to eat, cook, doing the dishes, laundry, contact a friend or whatever. This sort of therapy is inspired by Buddhism (totally inspired already!) and says pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. If you are triggered, read this otherwise Wikipedia can inform you.

I'm very happy that my weekend ended like that, because now it's time to work myself totally out, what I mean? I really need to study, exams are coming soon, too soon, although I started in February. 

For now, I made a -black/white with some grey and blue- collage with all funny or just sweet details. Hope you like it. Next plan: tie dye my jeans! Just a part of the legs underneath, or like the one of Zara I posted here. Then I have to buy lots and lots of more bleach, hihi.

Ombre hair and Susanne

Still (yes, about a year) thinking about taking this ombre hair. My hair is very long, straight and black, so I don't know if dyed dark blonde hair is nice. Maybe just more like lighter brown hair on the ends. 

These last days a friend of my childhood, Susanne, came here in Leuven. One of the best days I ever had here. We looked for activities for me to do here, so unexpectedly I signed up for an international student club called Pangaea. It was only 4 euro and I got a big red mug for free coffee. And I decided to do a Thai cooking workshop and have a free make-up advice with try-out! So for  these couple of weeks I will be fine :-).

Interior and closets

Here in my small apartment I don't have any space to have my clothes hanging on a rack, but when I have a bigger room, I would like really want to have one. You can sort your clothes, it's more organised and hanging your clothes is much better than just have it fold in the closet. You can actually see what clothes you have! Right? Maybe it will get easier to decide what to wear every morning..
Here a few ideas how other bloggers organise there closets. And for more interior inspirations, go to my tab inspiration!

DIY: Bleached denim and how to wear?

A couple of days ago I bought these bleach (2 liter) for only 70 eurocents at the cheap Aldi store. Not only to clean my bathroom, but also to bleach jeans! I never tried it before, so I used an old denim vest to try it out. For this 'do it yourself' I googled some and finally used these websites, one from A Pair And A Spare, she bleached her sleeves (cool for a next bleach session!). And I used the blog of Afterdrk. The DIY is so easy. Here some attentions:
- Just be aware about how much you want to bleach it, set an alarm or something, because after an hour it will be quite white..
- The bleach will withdraw upwards a bit, so if you want an ombre effect, be careful!
- If you just  want to have the tie dye like the Isabel Marant version, use the DIY of Afterdrk.
- Please use gloves

After your finished, you have to wear it! But how? Here some inspiration for you! Are you going to try it out?

Today I was at the Coffee Cup in Leuven, had a great Latte Macchiato and this chocolate bounty cake. There was only rain rain rain, please let it be Spring!

Style of: Miroslava Duma

As a dedication for this beautiful woman, a collage of Miroslava Duma. She dares to wear colour, mix different garments till her own style. In a way it's a bit funky and she shows me that every unlike piece is wearable. Her style is never dull, always a bit different from the rest, totally distinctive! Really love it and a real inspiration.

By the way, I finally ordered the glasses!! And I decided to go for the brown tortoise texture with pink side arms! It's from Derek Cardigan and it will be a total surprise what I will get in my postbox.. Click here to see the glasses.

Very French Gangsters

Do you know the brand 'Very French Gangsters'? It is a brand for glasses, see kids. This is there new collection. But these pictures are sooo adorable!! I spontaneous want kids too! 

Glasses Lensway

Yes, I did won glasses of Lensway.nl! But of course every prize has another side. Because my eyes are very bad, so to sharpen the glasses means, paying an extra 59euro. That's a pity, but I still consider which glasses I will take! These are my fav's, especially the one with pink and the transparent one!

Rihanna's hair history

Totally liking the new album of Rihanna, but I found out, aside from all the drama and music history she has, she also has a whole hair history. She is digging it all! It doesn't matter if it's red, blond, black, short, curly, straight or long, it fits her. At the bottom, on the right, that was her 'Music of the Sun'-period and where it all started for her! With an age of 24, she is doing it very well. 

ZARA April collection 2012

April means new clothes from ZARA. Really like the specific accents it has and the overwhelming white it has. My favs? Always the biggest photo, the one with the dyed jeans it is. If I have time I will dye a white shirt or bleach a short part of the sleeves of my denim blouse.  

Victoria Beckham SS 12

At first I thought; noooo, not a fashion line of Victoria Beckham. Can you remove her from my side, please? Totally not interested. But after reading the page in the Dutch ELLE she surprised me, obviously! Maybe a bit late, I don't mind. She describes her new Spring/Summer collection 2012 as chic, but also edgy. It's for woman with confidence and that she can show her own style in her clothes and not the other way around. I like that idea, and even more the feminine line with a touch of fun and humour in it. 
I also say pictures of her Autumn/Winter collection 2012, but we have to wait for that one! 
Two things I want to say before I end this blog; Her style is an addition to fashion, a new fresh inspiration source, but... it still is very very expensive! So it's an expensive taste she has there, hihi.

Details

See the colours, find the details and live it.

Weekend Brussels

Feeling quite home here in this studio or 'kot', while I'm not very often at my own place! Just to busy? Not exactly, I prefer to study in the liberary.
This weekend I went to a really great event in Brussels, it called Museum Night Fever with really sweet Italian people! The concept is good, because everyone can go to 24 museums from 7 PM to 1 AM. Afterwards there were afterparties at two big clubs. We made it to three museums and no afterparty. The best thing is that at every museum they had a performance, or a guided tour by students in different languages, or a game you could play with other visitors. At the palace of Brussels in a room with a lot of mirrors, there was a photographer that made pictures from us and we made pictures of him. And at the museum with the dinosaruss there was chamber music with dancing couples and people in ropes, moving on the music. Meanwhile I was playing with bones, looking at a big big T-rex, drinking my beer, and eating my muffin (I was starving at half past 12..). So I can say, it was a great experience! I made a collage with the best pictures of that evening.
The next day I was at the flea market and couldn't resist to buy a lovely secondhand pair of Timberlands in my size! I think the boots where from the son of the seller, so I was very happy that it was only 15 euro! I also bought comics from Jerome (of Willy and Wanda) for my dad's birthday and the same sort of sunglasses I lost in Thailand. Couldn't be better buys.

I also made some collages from the sweetes pastelcolours, mint clothing and beanies (fond of it, wearing the one of my boyfriend if I have the possibility!!) You can see them at tab 'Inspiration'!