sun. wine. Sicily. love.

I am ridiculously happy. This is a picture from the first day in Sicily, from left to right me - bottle of wine - Peter - Hilde. Enjoy the sun. 

MAY

beautiful places : one of the most beautiful rooms i have ever seen, museum Boijmans van Beuningen// palace of the Normans, Palermo, Sicily // museum of modern art, Palermo // museum of modern art, Palermo ( i find the curtain intriguing) 

These months include a lot of travelling and visiting museums. Very cultural. Very nice. I went to Sicily (that was fun, and so beautiful, it also looked a bit like Greece last year) in April, also to the Groninger Museum (as you may have seen in my last post), and in May I went to Brussels (and visited a nice museum there, there were pictures of a Dutch photographer about Brussels) and last week I went to Rotterdam, to the museum Boijmans van Beuningen which was really really nice. I  like abstract art more and more. I'm also going to make a theatre production with a friend of mine - we will perform next year, probably March - and we're visiting a lot of plays. I'm also - with a 13 other people - organizing a school trip to Tallinn and maybe Helsinki. Oh and we had the liberation festival last saturday, and I saw the Asteroids Galaxy Tour there! It was awesome. You see, lots of lovely things going on, so forgive me if I don't blog too often. I do post on my tumblr --> http://thecatenrose.tumblr.com/

BYE.

IRIS VAN HERPEN

above: highlights from the Iris van Herpen exhibition. 

I went to the north of the Netherlands this weekend with Kayra (http://thedaughterofgaia.blogspot.com/) to see two exhibitions: Azzedine Alaïa in the 21st Century and Iris van Herpen. And it was beautiful. Only the Alaïa-exhibition didn't have any information about the fashion we were seeing and the light was bad. And there were no shoes. Not at all. But apart from this, both exhibitions were gorgeous. look at kayra's blog for the azzedine alaïa part.

16

An ordinary outfitpost. And Friday was my birthday ! So many things to show you : I got parfum, a beautiful handbag from Prague, foldaway flats to rescue my feet after walking in heels for a long time, jewellery, booze (I turned 16 after all) with a semi-intelligent drinking game, lots of chocolate and 3 cakes.  Yes. 3 cakes. [and the ultimate disappointment. a break-up]. Still I am forgetting a lot of presents. 

Over all, I had a wonderful day surrounded by wonderful people and wonderful presents and delicious food. On these pictures I am wearing flares (H&M), socks (H&M), wedges (vintage), cashmere jumper (Gap), belt & jewellery (vintage), sunglasses (i am) coat (vintage).  

Love,

PRAGUE

awesome stranger with two cameras - some views scream to be captured with an analogue camera instead of the big-ass SLR...

It doesn't mean that I don't do anything if I don't blog - actually it means the opposite. too busy too blog, it happens.
I went to Prague (already two weeks ago) and made a lot of pictures. I finally tried shooting in RAW and found out that it is SO much better. Prague was beautiful, we had the most awesome apartment you can imagine, with a really nice view, the weather was great. One of the highlights was the museum of modern art, for which we had to travel to a place which wasn't even on our map, where nobody spoke English. It looked like an old Soviet-building from the outside, but from the inside, it was wonderful. Light.

But Prague wasn't all. I went to parties and I had my first commission (!!!). Oh and I bought Cambell-lookalikes. Love. I started writing again. I live in a cashmere jumper. And... I am (FINALLY) turning 16 on Friday, the 9th of March.

XX

photo's all by me

ICY (IM)PERFECTION

photographs by me

[in pictures, i like a little bit of imperfection. and minimalism inspires me. and if you like that too, this tumblr is really worth looking at --> http://minimaliste.tumblr.com/ ]

Not bad to live in the Netherlands these days. The whole country is focused on only one thing: ICE. Ice-skaters are the happiest people on earth now, the news tells you nothing else. Blue sky white snow , no trains but a lot of frozen canals , rivers, pools. And such beautiful sight. I borrowed stole a beautiful creamy alpaca-sweater from my father and while everyone is complaining about the cold, I feel perfectly warm. Today I thought: Oh today is nice and warm. I looked at the thermometer : -5 C. Call me crazy. [especially my brazilian boyfriend does, doesn't even dare to go outside .... ;-) ]

X

WALKING IN HEELS

-red kimono-like thing from Zara, vintage sheer maxi-skirt, tango shoes, vintage tee- pics made by ambre.

 So on Friday I walked through half of the city with those shoes on. Perfect. And really, have you ever tried shopping with high heels and a sheer maxi skirt? All those people staring at you ! Incredible.
Today, winter set finally in - there was a whole white world when I looked out of the window this morning. Luckily (miraculously) the trains were still riding and I went to Utrecht with two friends. And fell in love ...I now have new shoes and flare jeans. :-) x