So today I woke up with the weirdest feeling. I felt like I wanted to clean my room. Yeah I know, I am in shock too! This does not happen to me very often. I always tell my mother that the room must look like someone lives in it, otherwise it’s just a room from a lifestyle magazine. I think I took my own words a little bit too seriously sometimes, well, most of the times actually.

I started cleaning, had a lot. I mean, a LOT of breaks. But I have to say I am proud of what became the result of my hard work. During my cleaning, I saw some stuff I totally forgot I had, or had lost for weeks. Now, with everything done, I look again at my room and figured what a lovely room I actually have. I find it important that you make your room your own. I mean, everybody buys stuff at Ikea or other likewise stores, I do as well. But I like it when you have some unique stuff in it. I love LOVE to shop stuff at flea markets.  The stuff in my room of which I am most proud of are the ones I bought on those markets.  I would love to show them to you.

These little paintings I got for my birthday. They were a present from my grandma. Her mother bought them at the time, which means they are from around 1900. I love old stuff, and these paintings are just lovely.

So this is a litlle piano, you can wind it up and music comes out of it. I got it when my other grandma died, so it has a lot of meaning to me. Behind the little piano you can see some little paintings. The one in the middle I got myself at a flea market. Beside the painting is a little photograph. The person, on the one you can see, is my great grandfather. On the photo you can't see is my great grandmother. These picturers were taken for their engagement. So it's pretty old as well.

I absolutaly adore this lamp. I bought it a while a go on a flea market in Belgium. The little flowers you see on are baby pink. It has a very sweet and romantic touch on it. Behind the lamp you can see a photograph of Audrey Hepburn. I got this one for my birthday from my best friends. I love audrey, I think she is a very inspiring person.

I know you can't really see what it is, but I love this photo, so I used it anyway. These are books I bought at a local store. The one, who looks like a very dusty book, is from the year 1894. I had to have it!

This is a French fashion magazine from the year 1912.  As you can see, it's filled with fashion from that time. I absolutely adore it. I bought it in belgium as well. You have to be very carefull with it, because it's all paper (something my dad didn't really understood)



This is the last photo. I could have gone on and on, but somewhere you have to stop. This is my dressingtable. It is filled with old and new stuff. The pictures you see are black and white, one photo is the wedding of my grandparents and the other one is my grandfather. These pictures give an extra old vibe to the dressing table. The babyshoes are my own. I think they are very adorable, even if I say so myself. The gloves and the purse were from my great grandma and so I can go on and on.

So, these were some of my "unique"stuff from my room. And in case you didn't notice I love to take pictures in black and white.

Love,
Me

HAPPY NEW YEAR

So apparently it’s been a while since I wrote something on this blog. Well new year, new chances, new writings on this blog. I totally forgot I had this, otherwise I probably wrote something earlier. I haven’t written anything here throughout the year of 2011. So let me be so kind to fill you up with what I have been doing.

First, I have finished High School in 2010, got my diploma and went away as fast as I could. I rolled right in to college, or as where I live HBO. I am becoming a teacher of children from the age of four till twelve. I didn’t know if this was the right education for me, but then again I didn’t know what else to do. So after all the freaking out and stressing out how I in heavens name I could make it through the first year, I figured that I actually quite love it. The children are of course adorable, and we had a lot of fun throughout the year. I achieved a major goal for me that year as well. In the Netherlands you have to get some kind of diploma in your first year of the HBO. That is your ticket to a higher level of education. A lot of people don’t get that one in their first year, if the even get to the end of the first year. On that moment I decided that I am going to finish that education. Which I do know sometimes regret. The second year turned out to be very different.

So here I am, almost half way through this education, already (sometimes) regretting my decision. It makes me think of what I really want to do. This I already know my whole life. I just never ever took the chance, because I figured it will never work anyway. Since I was a child I dreamed of being a singer (which makes me one of many. Besides singing, I love to act. I never went to a drama school, because I always thought I was never good enough anyway. Last year I had drama lessons on my school. Apparently I did something good, because my teacher said I had to go to a drama school. This made me think again, maybe I am good enough.

So now I am finally getting to the message of this whole story. This year I am willing to take chances, even if they are small ones. I am going to do something with my dream and no one is holding me back. Don’t expect something major because I will be taking baby steps. I am going to start with some singing lessons or maybe some lessons in drama, who knows.
My message to you is: please don’t let your dreams fade. Do something with them! We have a whole new year in front of us, with a lot of new chances, new beginnings, and a lot of time to make your dreams come true.
Have a happy new year and may your dreams come true!

Love,
Me

Some words

If there is emptiness

You know I'll do my best

To fill you up with all the love

That I can show someone

I promise you will never walk alone