about taste and inspiration: May 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

About green

The green from my garden.

Thinking about this garden too (found via here). Wouldn't that be great to realize!

Friday, May 22, 2009

About a new list

I'll try this again

31 things I like to do before I turn 31

1. Make pictures in a photobooth
2. Try a dish in a restaurant wich I haven't tasted before
3. Have a pillowfight
4. Colour my nails
5. Teach Sjors some english words
6. Organise all photo’s. Make photobooks! Via blurp
7. Write a creative text. A story or a poem
8. Do guerilla art
9. Drink a caiprihna
10. Run, without hesitation, into the cold water of the sea
11. Organise a party for someone else
12. Visit a museum where I've never been before
13. Purchase the perfect summerdress
14. Make a selfportrait everyday, for a whole year
15. Do something that makes me feel very proud of myself
16. Go old fashioned rope skipping
17. Make a new skirt
18. Design 3 prints
19. Collect all funny statements/sentences from the boys
20. Dance in the rain
21. Learn Driek how to ride a bicycle
22. Get muscular pains from laughing
23. Surprise someone
24. Explore the familiar
25. Make new friends
26. Plan for a miracle
27. Read a dutch classic novel
28. Try not to complain for 21 days!
29. Enter a competition
30. Fill a book with special things, ideas/pictures/words- start an Angelique project
31. Take a subscription at the library

About Merci

This looks like a place worth visiting Paris for.

(If you need a reason at all)

It is like a secondhand bookstore, flowershop, thriftstore, artgallery and fashion magazine in one!

Monday, May 18, 2009

About the list

Last year I made a list. Now I am 30 and I didn't made it to do all.

1. Make a rithmic, smooth, really incredible slideshow [started, but never finished]
2. Buy myself a digital camera [unfortunatly, didn't buy one yet]
3. Design and organise a wedding [the wedding was cancelled. Ouch, bad vibes]
4. Visit at least 2 musea or exhibitions [How come I didn't achieve this?]
5. Learn 3 new recipes [I went wild on some soup recipes!]

6. Organize a dinnerparty [Had an easter brunch for my family.]

7. Drink a Caipirhna
8. Write a handwritten love letter to my husband and post it from abroad [Done]

9. Plant tulips in october [Done]

10. Make myself a beautiful skirt [Done]
11. Learn how to knit [Made an appointment with my primaryschool craftteacher! I am going to learn how to knit, yeah!]

12. Make a gratitude journal [Done]

13. Plan a guerrilla art project
14. Plan a adventurous day out with the kids with zero euro budget [Done]

15. Design a copple of prints [Done but not worthy to show here!]

16. Clean and organise the house radical, throw away all the stuff i didn't use over the past year

17. Write a childrens book with Virginie, or at least define the concept [We discussed it, does that count?]
18. Read 3 books [Done]
19. Go shopping in a city I never visited before
20. Hang art and pictures in the house [done]
21. Make 20 new collages and/or moodboards
22. Call or mail the person I unfortunatly lost contact with [Done! Cynthia I (we) soon will see you again!]

23. Write a buisnessplan of the kids culture club idea [Still in my head]
24. Design a wie-is-de-mol-game and organize it for a group of people [Done]

25. Get a massage [Done, sorry no pictures available]

26. Visit the theater 3 times [Done! and had fun!]

27. Spend a weekend alone with my husband [Yes! Fabulous.]

28. Surprise somebody [Done]

29. Do something, which I normally wouldn't or maybe even don't dare to do [Euh...well...]
30. Go for a walk with friends [Done, but only once. The intention was to go on a regular base.]