Feeding my addictions

These babies are on their way to me! Second-hand though, because they weren't available in stores anymore. Still very excited for them to arrive! I will get them in black instead of this blue-ish colour. Can't wait to create outfits with them! Actually the shoes are by Van Haren, which sells a lot of great shoes for just little money. Great for students like me. I don't know if the quality of the shoes is very high, but I've never had problems with their shoes in the past. Besides I own a lot of shoes, so I won't wear the same ones every day. I hope these babies fit me perfectly, so I can wear them very often.

Marilyn and me

Just a Polyvore-set I created, because I was bored. I was inspired by the 50s and Marilyn Monroe (obsession?). Clothes and jewellery by Modcloth, lipstick by Illamasqua and eyeliner by Bobby Brown. [Click image to see a bigger version]

My week with Marilyn

I so want to see the movie 'My week with Marilyn' about a chapter of the life of Marilyn Monroe. I've just seen the trailer and it looks absolutely beautiful. I think Michelle Williams looks stunning as Marilyn! I don't know that much about Marilyn Monroe, but I really love her style. A while ago I also stumbled upon a book of Marilyn called 'Fragments'. It's full of letters and pages of her diaries as well as very rare photos of her. I totally loved the book, but can't remember why I haven't buyed it by then. Definitely going to order it very soon. Well, I just found out that the movie isn't been playing at a cinema near my town or my boys town. So, I have to download it and buy it when it comes out on dvd, I guess. Such a pitty. I'll leave you with some stills, so you (means I) can dream away. [pictures found on the www]

25 days: my hairstyle

I attempted to curl my hair with some foam curlers. It was the first time I did it all by myself and, as you can see, it didn't work out the way I wanted. Still a good job for the first time I think. Well, at the moment my hair is red. I really like it this way, but the colour doesn't seem to stick to my hair as it's supposed to be. I'm going to try some other brand hairdye and hopefully it will stay longer in my hair.
On an other note: it's been a while since you saw my face here on my blog. I think I did one post with a picture of myself in it a long time ago. I just don't like being in pictures, but maybe I'll do a picture of myself every once-and-a-while. If anyone has tips for curling your hair with foam curlers, that would be great! My curling iron hasn't arrived yet, so I want to get better at getting curls with foam curlers!

Sorry for the bad quality.
My DSLR is at my boys place
and there wasn't that great light in the hallway.
You get the idea though :P

All wrapped in pink and dotted with hearts

I was strolling around on the webshop of I love vintage and stumbled upon these great pin-up/50's style clothes by Collectif and Pinup Couture etc. Never knew they'd sell such brands, but I'm very happy to know it by now. Definitely going to order something in the near future! I selected my favourite clothes, mostly dresses, that they sell. For prices check their website. [All pictures via I Love Vintage] [Horrorpops - Dotted with hearts]

Bernie Dexter - Dixiefried

Bettie Page

Pinup Couture

Pinup Couture - Collectif

Pinup Couture

Magical inspiration

Just magical!

by Julia Davis

by Kaandamn

by m-a-e-e

by Wchild

Happy new year!

Happy new year to everyone! Hope you all had a very lovely new years eve etc. Mine was great and was about the whole day long. Because of my boy's birthday the 31st of December, we went to Naturalis (a natural history museum) with his grandfather. I had never been there before, but it is already one of my favourite museums of the Netherlands. Besides all the animals and stuff there was also an exhibition which featured something my boy had made (for a designer/biochemicus). I'm so proud of him! In the evening we went to family and celebrated new years eve there, which was very lovely. After watching the fireworks we went on to a party with some great bands, but we only got to see one unfortunately. We ended up having a drink with a few friends of us at their place. All in all a lovely and fun day! What have you been up to?
As I browsed through some blogs, I stumbled upon these new years resolutions. I never make them myself, just because of the fact I won't stick to them. Allthough I don't make resolutions, I thought it would be fun to create a list of things I really want to do this year. Here we go;

- Going to a lot more museums + getting a museumcard
- Spend more time with friends and family
- Start drawing and illustration again, more frequently
- Take more fieldtrips with my DSLR
- Make more cupcakes and pie's
- Save money
- Try buying less make-up, nailpolish and clothes
- Get to know more/everything about Darwin and his evolution theory
- Read more books
- Clean out my wardrobe and donate/sell/get rid off everything I don't wear
- Find a new part-time job in Leiden
- Complain less about silly things
- Getting a new pet

These make still a big list though, haha. Tomorrow I'll start with my wardrobe - as I'm going home today. I think I'll start with my shoe collection, as I don't wear a lot of them anymore because my style has changed a lot. Maybe I'll do a post about the things I'm selling here too. We'll see.

by Daelayna