Do it yourself crafts

Some crafts for this summer! Click on the titles for the tutorial.
all by marthastewart.com.

Seashell Lights

Shell Candles

Festive Drink Umbrellas

And babalisme's idea to refresh your ballerina flats! (You can find the pom poms tutorial here)

Zara June Collection 2010

The world-famous fashion store Zara introduced their June collection 2010. The campaign is all about the prairie look: loose tops, wide dresses and nude shades adorn this collection. Denim skirts and tunics are also in. The real prairie girls complete their outfit with a pair of clumps and a little scarf.

What do you think of the prairie look?

i love these

I really love these cute heart sachets even though they are not quite useful haha. Just keep them for decoration or to give as a present. Have a look at the how-to here!

Check out cheska annelliese's flickr. She has some beautiful photos!



Music: Ellie Goulding - The End

Hello you,
after this almost one year break, I wanted to share something with you so badly!

Here's a Martha Steward inspiring idea. I thought it was really cute (:
Heart Bookmark

I want to thank you guys for following my blog, you're over 44 followers at the moment and that really means a lot to me. I'm still thinking of picking up with this blog again, or starting a new one. Like, a new start, a new blog... but I feel more likely to continue with this one. I hope you didn't lost you enthusiasm for having a look now and then..?

If i decide to continue, I won't write about my daily/weekly habits or whatever. I'd prefer to show you the creative girl in me, with inspiring ideas about home and house, fashion, and a few crafty tutorials if you like (:

See you soon!

it reminds me of...

Guess what? I'm back with one, yep, one post. Didn't expect that, huh? :)
Life is too busy, I must admit. Honestly, blogging doesn't fit in my life. Maybe another day, when times have changed. I just want to recommend you A Cup Of Love and The Ink Across The Land.
Have a look at those blogs!

see you later, aligator

After going to Belgium, I've decided to take a break with my blog.

See you soon -Zoë

the last trouble

I still haven't decide: Deviantart or Flickr?
You must think ' what the hell does she worry about?'
I have to say that I think Deviantart is more for young people, like me, showing up their photographs and stuff. And I think Flickr has more adult users? Or am I wrong? The only thing I don't like is that in Deviantart photos are shown so small, or can you change that??



Thanks!
Oh yeah, tomorrow at 3 am I'm going to the airport so, probably you won't hear anything from me until the end of July! Have a nice time!

Flickr versus Deviantart

Goodmorning!

Today's issue: Flickr and Deviantart

I've been thinking about starting a Flickr or Deviantart page to display my photographs and to get feedback, and these two communities are the most popular ones as far as I know.
I want to show my photos to other people and I also want to be inspirated by other users. I don't know which one is the best for me. In my personal opinion, the quality of photos on Flickr is a lot better than Deviantart, and photos are shown in very small size on Deviantart, I think. On the other hand, I've read that you get more feedback on Deviantart...
I do not say that Deviantart is bad nor good, but I still don't know which one to take.

Have you got Deviantart or Flickr? If so, what are the pro's and contra's?
I would appreciate your opinions!

At least I want to say thank you to all of you, for following my blog over the past few months. I've got over 30 followers now and I'm really thankfull for that!
Keep following my blog guys!

puppy love

Hi guys!
I'm so happy the last few days, becauseeeee... we've got a puppy!
There was a woman passing by who cares for abandonated dogs, with the intention to give them a new, better home. She's now carrying 18 dogs, all left on the street or poisoned and dropped anywhere. So, she passed by and asked my parents if we weren't interested in a dog, and we were. We have thought about it for a long time, so we would definately take another dog. Later, she brought a dog which my parents liked on the pictures (she had some photos to show us) and we could try if there wouldn't any problem with our other dog, because he is a little agressive to other dogs (to other people he isn't ;) ) and so we did. In the beginning a little bit difficult but soon we saw it wouldn't be a problem anymore, and we took the puppy :D
He is sooooo lovely!

summer wishlist

Summerfeelings all over the place! Although, it doesn't make me as happy as I wished. I don't know why, but I really don't feel like I'm on holidays (well, I'm not on holidays, but school's out, so...). Maybe because I'm living in a country where the weather is beautiful most of the time. I'm sure my summerfeelings will come when I'll arrive in Ghent haha. I know, Belgium is such a rainy country, however the weather is pretty good there now! I'm going to my hometown for 2 weeks and I'm looking forward to it! There are only 10 days left and I'll be gone (:
I already know it will be a great time spending with my friends and -of course- a lot of shopping! It's been months since I've bought some new clothes, such a shame xD

I made a little summer wishlist from the H&M store, which is one of my favourites. I also love Zara and Bershka, which are a lot cheaper in Spain, because they are Spanish brands -also Mango- maybe the only thing I like about living here ;p

Aaaand, I decided to keep on blogging (:
Meanwhile I also made a brand new header, which looks a bit too small, now I can see it here^
I'm not totally happy with it. What do yóu think about it?

And one last question: Did you ever purchase from an online clothing shop (like asos.com or any other shop)? I was wondering how you experienced this because I'm always like looking on those sites without the intention to buy anything, buuut...

bigger than heaven

Hi guys! I have to say that I'm a bit bored with blogging and ehm, I was thinking to stop for a while, but I haven't decided yet. So, if you readers like my blog comment me and maybe that will make a difference ;)
I don't know, my inspiration is totally gone and, I often got other things to do.
But today I'll write you a little piece about Max Factor.

So, I saw the advertisement in a flyer of Kruidvat, a drugstore you can find in Belgium, and it said: Max Factor mascaras --> 1+1 for free! I was just looking for a new mascara, as mine isn't that good (cheap label) and dried out a bit. After days of reading reviews, watching mascara review/results on youtube and a lot of thinking (yes, I know it's kinda silly what I'm doing xD) I concluded there were 3 mascaras that got good reviews. There were 2 Max Factor's and 1 Maybelline, but I definately wasn't sure about which one I would buy. As I saw the advertisement, I thought: ''why not?'' and asked my best friend, who lives in Belgium though, to get the Max Factor False Lash Effect and the Masterpiece. In case there wouldn't be any Masterpiece left, I suggested her 2 other mascaras she could get. Normally, the FLE costs about 16 or 17 euros, what's quite expensive in my opinion, but this one got such good reviews that I really want to try it! Let's hope they'll work (:

Also, I made a few pictures in my new garden:


see you soon

new house on the countryside in Spain

Hello there (;

It's been a week and a few days since we moved in, and I thought it would be nice to post some photos of our new house. We're now living in Camarles, a tiny village just next to L'Ampolla, where we've lived for 9 months, while I was blogging. The house is situated on the countryside, at about 7 kilometers from the main road. To get here, you have to pass a lot of small tracks, driving next to hundreds of olive trees, fincas and beautiful nature.
Our swimming pool is of 12 meter length and I've already swom a lot!
Sometimes life can be sooooo lovely....

the back of our house, view from the garden

views from the bathroom

swimming pool. walls have to be painted and floor has to be finished

back in blogtown

Hi guys,
We moved into our new house last week so it was kinda mess and even internet wasn't working yet, so I wasn't able to blog. Time for a new, big, post! This week, I promise (:

x

Hi guys,
I haven't had the time to write on my blog because I had a lot of exams this week. This weekend is also very very busy but I'll leave you with a little piece, okay (:

My friend Gladys (you should all visit her blog!) wrote a post about Wildfox Couture, an amazingly cool clothes brand. Have a look at their website and enjoy yourselves with the inspiring photographs! Go to -Collections- and then choose Summer 2009/Spring 2009/etc.
You will find loads of photos which you can just printscreen by the way, haha (;
Thay's what I did to put them in my notebook later.

Hi guys!

Today the weather was very good, like it is most of the days. I went in our swimming pool for the first time but it was still a bit cold. 23 degrees is not very pleasant to swim in but... okay. I think 25 degrees would be perfect! And I want to swim every day at least a few lengths because it's good for my physical condition.

Imagine you had one like this!

The clock is ticking and we're almost moving to our new house! I still haven't packed those boxes with my stuff, I'm a bit lazy at the weekends and in the week I haven't got any time normally.
I made a little list of things I need for my new room, such as a big standing lamp, a desk or just a table perhaps, and some decoration, but not too much. I can always make some by myself (like you know I'm fond of DIY crafties so...)!
Maybe I'll post some more this week, but I can't promise anything.

Have a nice week!

precious pearls, not diamonds

Friday is one of my favourite days of the week; I suppose I'm not the only one with this opinion.
I uploaded a few new photographs to my computer and enjoyed myself with some photo retouching programs (:

click for bigger size

a precious candlelight holder with pink and purple-shade pearls. I love it

Sometimes I'm really surprises about the performances of my Sony Cybershot, it's such a good thing. However, I still want to get a Nikon ánd a Polaroid (:

selfpictures

polaroids fun

hi guys!
It's Wednesday again; that means just two days of school left this week ;)
I discovered something really cool this weekend. It's a programme that converts you pictures -whatever you want- into a real, oldfashioned polaroid! It's so amazing, really! When you open the program, there appears a polaroid machine on your desktop; you have to drag your photo to the machine and you will hear a clicking sound. There is you polaroid photo, appearing on your desktop too, but still in a brown colour, like in a dark room! Little by little your photo will appear in it's full colours, but you have to wait for a while. Then it will automatically be saved to your computer. You can download the free software here.

Here are some examples of mine

bright eyes

hellow;

I promised you to post a picture of my new shoes so here there are

I hope you had a beautiful Sunday!
Me and my family were quite busy, because the truck with all our furniture from Belgium came today! Thursday 4th of April we're definately moving into our new house. I still have to pack boxes with all my stuff that I kept here, where we're living now. But I'll do that another weekend I think.
Have a good start of the week! x

spring grass is greener than you think

Hi guys!
Ah, what a boring day. I can't say I like school but I can't say I dislike it neither. I feel a bit, you know, put on a 'waiting list'. Our cours is almost finished -well, end of June, but that's not so long isn't it- and after summer I'll get started with Batxillerat (5th and 6th year of secondary school) and I'm quite interested in how it would be. But people have to wait, and so do I.

This afternoon we went to Tarragona, quite a big city at about 60 kilometers from our village, to go shopping for my brother and my father. I bought a sporty pair of 3/4 trousers in black, and -guess what- a hoola-hoop! When I saw it in the shop I remembered that good old times when I was young, and hoola-hooping all the time. Why not pick it up again? It's fun, you know ;)
I also found a cool pair of shoes, similar to Victoria's, do you know them? I already have a pair of real Victoria's, in green. But these were 'fake' if I may say that, but what's wrong with that xD
Tomorrow I'll post a picture of them, because I haven't had any time tonight.

Flashing Lights

Hi guys, how are you today?
I'm fine.

addicted to the Glam remix of Just Dance by Lady Gaga

(click!)