Category: Lifestyle
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Spring has sprung tag
This tag has been floating around for a while and I thought it looked fun to do. Here are my answers to the questions. Oh and a pretty picture I shot last week while on the train to Amsterdam! Spring in Holland = fields of flowers. What are some spring trends you’re looking forward to…
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Week in pictures #1
Since I’ve been home, one of the questions I get asked the most by people is: so what do you do all day? This inspired me to do my very first Week in Pictures. Tons of bloggers do these, but I find my life not interesting enough to be doing these on a regular basis.…
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Tips to combat hayfever
It’s the season to… sneeze, sniffle and cough. Spring has arrived and with that most plants have also decided to try and reproduce. To most people that means spending lots of time outside, enjoying those first rays of sunlight. To me and many others, it means hiding indoors with all doors and windows closed because…
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Personal update (#3)
It’s March! Third month of the year, means third personal update of the year. Time to let you into my life a bit and boy what a month it’s been! I had an unwanted unexpected visitor, went to three concerts and saw some friends and family. I have also started to get a grip on…
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Instagram pictures #2
Time to get a bit more personal again. This time I have another 15 pictures, which have previously been featured on my Instagram account @indiequeen84. Plenty of views again, some selfies and some random bits and bobs. There is no chronological to this, just like last time. It’s just random shots that I took in…
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DIY: Little book of inspiration
In my February favorites, I listed a standard looking notebook. However, that standard looking notebook is anything but. It started it’s life as such, but I turned it into my own, personal, little book of inspiration. I got the idea after making a moodboard in December. I enjoyed doing that so much, that I was…
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Personal update #2
So I thought I’d use this space to not only keep track of my fave beauty products, but also to write a bit about myself from time to time. As you may know, I decided to call in sick from work in January. I have been home ever since. This is what I wrote in…
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Book of friendships tag
Remember those little booklets you had as a kid, to have your friends write down the things they liked etc.? Well there’s a tag going around that’s very similar to those friendship books. I saw this tag on Karin’s blog and thought I’d do it too. If you would like to do it too, you…
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Instagram photos #1
One type of blog post I have started noticing many bloggers investing their time in are their life in pictures. Whether it’s a plog, a weekly update or a more seasonal approach: a peek into someone’s life is apparently something that people like to see. I am very careful about what I post about myself…
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Personal update #1
I thought I’d do a quick personal update, because right now, life is anything but dandy. As a matter of fact, I called in sick from work for the time being so I can deal with life. If you’ve read my blog in the past few months, you’ll know that I had a very stressful…
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213 of 2013
So last year, I decided to look back on the year that was, by summing up 212 facts. I’ve decided to do the same thing this year. But since it’s a year later, I changed the number to 213. Let’s look back at 2013! 2013 was the year I graduated for my Research Master’s in…
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Merry Christmas!
A quick post to wish you all a Merry Christmas. May your day be filled with joy, happiness and lots of food. 🙂 Later today (around noon CET) you will find an actual content post and for the next few days, until January 1st, you will find a post on here every day, glancing back…
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For sale (project Room Change)
For Dutch see below/ Nederlandse versie zie hieronder. As you may know I am in the process of changing around my living space. The first step in this process was to clean up and make space. That’s what I’ve been doing for the past two months and now it’s time to get rid of things.…
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Little fashionable me
Picture time! But not just any pictures, oh no, today I’m sharing some pictures of some of my most iconic looks from childhood and my teenage years. You can see plenty of pictures of me on this blog, but none have taken you back this far. So join me as I reminisce while looking at…
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Little Reasons to Smile tag
This tag has been going round and I can’t remember where I found this, but I thought it would be fun to do. My little reasons to smile are: What is your little reason to smile?
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Ask me anything
I just realized I have never done anything like this before: have you, my readers, ask me questions. It just never occurred to me to do one. Just the other night I was fiddling around with my blog a little bit when I saw that over 300 (!!) people are following my blog. Say whut?!…
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Make Up by numbers tag
My friend Karin from meerbeauty.nl posted a tag not too long ago where she had counted every make up item she had. I haven’t counted the amount of make up I have ever since I started storing it in the 3 drawer set it’s been sitting in since 2010. I wasn’t surprised by these numbers,…
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How to live your life on 100 sq ft
If there is one person who knows all about living your life in a small space, it would be me. For the past 11 years (yikes!) I’ve occupied a space no bigger than 100 sq ft or roughly 30 sq m. Just recently, I found out that for the next couple of years to come,…
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My no added sugar quest
A major sweet tooth. That’s what I have. I could eat anything sweet any time of day. And that is a problem, especially since I have not been able to hit the gym as much as I’d like due to my current work situation. I already wanted to start this no added sugar ‘detox’ a…
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When life gives you lemons…
… you make lemonade. The past few weeks have been tough. Work is crazy busy and I spend all my time prepping and teaching classes with no time to do anything else. After 3 weeks I was so strung out that I had to call in sick. I was so tired, got headaches all the…
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Colors of the rainbow tag
I was feeling stuck on blog ideas, and then saw this tag popping back up and thought: hey, why not do this one! This way I can say a bit about myself, and show a few of my favorite items too. What I’ve done is put one make up or clothing item (or something completely…
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I graduated!!!
Finally! After three years of hard work I graduated for my research Master in Communication and Information Sciences. Signing my degree Yesterday afternoon, at 4 PM, I had the last presentation for my studies ever. Well ever… I’m not sure about that yet, because you never know what the future has in store, but for…
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Personal: getting back on track
The first week of teaching has finished and as you read this I’m gearing up for another one. After weeks, no months, of not being in front of a classroom, the first weeks of a school year are always the toughest. Add to that that I’m committing again to making better and healthier food choices,…
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My wheat free diet (update)
Instead of a What I Eat post I’ve decided to just write a post on how my wheat free diet is coming along. It’s been a little over 6 months since I figured I might have wheat intolerance. Through a lot of trial and error during that time I am now fairly sure my body…
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Where have I been?
The longest time I’ve been MIA on this space was no more than a consecutive week or so. A month never occurred in the almost 3 years of this blog’s existence. Until a few days ago. Life simply caught up with me and I had been so busy that something had to go so I…
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Home & kitchen ware shoplog
Let’s return to this space with something I do best: post a shoplog. This time it’s a bit of a different one though. Today I’ll be showing you some things I bought yesterday to spice up my home and kitchen! I am usually not one who’s big on home decor and kitchen stuff. I have…
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My average day
My average day is never average. As a teacher every day is quite different and with the job I’m working now, my schedule also changes daily. I go from days filled with meetings or classes, or both, grading, prepping classes, more grading, giving feedback and wiping away tears on occasion too. I already described my…
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Work out motivation
A little while ago I wrote a blog post about my fitness and health routine where I detailed what I eat and what type of work outs I do. Now one thing I see people struggle with most isn’t the fact that they know that they should work out or eat healthy. No, what seems…
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My perfect imperfections
The perfect imperfections tag has been going round for quite a while, but I still think it’s fun to do it. Which parts of myself am I happy with? What parts of myself would I’d rather see differently? I will give you three for each question and write a bit about how I try to…
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50 random facts about me
Tag time! I thought it would be fun to tell you 50 random facts about myself. These come in no particular order (that’s why they’re random ;-)). I spill my food and drinks all the time I started biting my nails when I was 8 and stopped out of the blue when I was 24.…