Goodbye 2011!

2011 will be remembered as the year...


I started my blog!

I fell madly in love...<3

I started to watch Mad Men...

I went on holiday to Andalusia, Spain with my family...

I started buying and wearing vintage clothing...

I passed my first year at university studying Arabic language and culture...

I ate sushi for the very first time (my life will never be the same)

I got my driver's license! (and started to dream about pretty cars...)

I had great times with my friends...

I decided to wear red lipstick all day long :D

I bought a secondhand DSLR camera!

I met some other bloggers for the first time...

I wen to Paris with my boyfriend...

I learned to drink coffee...

I got a haircut... (I bet you're tired already of this photo :D)

... And I met some amazing people through blogging!


Thank you all for reading my little blog, I love everyone of you! I hope your year was as good as mine, and cheers to 2012!


Much love,
Siel xo

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Christmas dress

Wow, is that the most original blog title ever or what? Bet you have no idea what this post is about! Ahem.
I spent Christmas day studying for my upcoming exams in January and having dinner at my grandparents'. The best part of the evening was when we skyped with our cousin who is studying in Vancouver, Canada for a year! I'm so jealous :( Although there's a tiny chance I can go on Erasmus next year, for Arabic students it's very difficult to find a European university with the same level as we have here in Leuven. I heard that the University in Venice is quite good, but now we can only wait and hope the application gets approved. Fingers crossed...  Anyway, back to Christmas now! I wore a new dress (of course), one that I saw in store and loved it, but this smart ass decided to wait till her size was sold out and she had to beg her mum, boyfriend and sister to check in other stores around the country if they had my size there. Luckily my mum found one :)

Yes, this is my new haircut and I love it!!! I got so many compliments already, I'm so happy that I finally did it and chopped off about 10cm and got a fringe. 

Shoe Save of this weekend! I wear these shoes a lot, but they're starting to wear out and pinch my little toe :( So I'm on the search for the perfect pair of black pumps, and without doubt it'll take years to find the perfect replacement shoes: black, not too high but with a decent heel, stylish yet comfortable. So hard to find, I tell ya.


Now my episode of Mad Men is waiting for me (seriously, studying = hello series addiction!), I know it's already past 10.30 (bedtime for students, haha)  but I just spent two hours trying out all the functions of my camera that I haven't had time to explore yet. I read this tutorial and suddenly I understood all the technical stuff about ISO, aperture, shutter speed and all that jazz. Believe me, my pictures are going to be legen... wait for it... DARY! (Totally addicted to How I Met Your Mother too :D)


Goodnight! xo

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas everyone! I spent Christmas eve with my family, which means I got lots of wonderful presents, ate way too much and laughed all night :) Enjoy your holidays! xx

HAIR!

Yes, I'm still alive! Drowning in school work though, all those presentations are killing me! Anyway, I'm getting a haircut on Wednesday!!!! Yes finally after I talked and whined about my hair for such a long time, and this is how I want it to look like (although my hair never looks that good in real life...):

Retro but not too much, sweet but still quite sexy, that's what I'm going for :D This is French actress Françoise Dorleac, btw :) 


I'm going to a fancy hairdresser instead of my usual one, so I hope it will turn out better than I expected! For some reason getting a haircut is always a little bit disappointing, let's hope I'll love it this time. 


See you soon! 
Siel xx

Dressember! (Not really)

You see, the purpose of Dressember is to wear a dress every day in December. That's why in this post I'm wearing pants. Because I'm cool like that.
(Actually I've been wearing dresses and skirts through December, like a good girl! These photos are from November 30 :p)

My friend took about 20 pics like this before noticing that I'm not really in the middle of it. Score!

Acting crazy, as usual :D Anyway, back to ME (I'm so self-centered):

That's better. Haha, kidding! I loved my friend's shirt (he made it himself!):

I actually went shopping with him today: the mission was to find my Christmas dress I tried on a few days ago but my size was gone :( But they said that they would re-stock it, I hope so!! It was green and Joan Holloway-ish ö So we ended up going to Zara, where he bought a some red curduroy trousers, a pair of shoes and a scarf. So never call ME a shopaholic again! :D

Best thing about these shoes (apart from the fact that they're pretty & comfortable): They are being sold for 49.95 euros in Zara atm, but I bought them in Paris for 25,95! GO ME

Next time I'll put on a dress, I promise!


Wearing:
Sweater, boots: Zara
Shirt, coat: H&M
Jeans: No idea, bought it when I was 14 or something :D


Love,
Siel xo

Autumn leaves

A few days ago I dragged two of my friends along to take my pictures. My friend Stef begged me for an appearance on my blog, haha :D I'm sorry for the lame title of this post, I spent 20 minutes thinking of a title and this was the best I've come up with! 
Also, my boyfriend has the great habit of taking about 45 pictures of me falling down or pulling a goofy face and 3 where I look decent. Thanks love!

Aaaaaand that's it for the decent part! I also tried to do a 'jumping photo', but that didn't work very well:

Splendid! By this time, people who were walking by were giving me very strange looks, I tell ya. Hey, never seen someone having her outfit pictures taken?

And this is my friend's best pose. I kid you not :D He's awesome, you can't spend 5 minutes with him without bursting out laughing! Also, nice 'throwing leaves-photo', no? Had to re-do this one about 37 times or something.

No comment :D
So now I found my photographers! Although they're two of the people I can act totally crazy with, it makes me feel slightly uncomfortable posing for them and having my picture taken! Is that weird? Maybe it was just the old people passing by and giving me strange looks, dunno :) But I'm still getting used to this outfit-taking thing. 


I'm wearing:
Skirt: Zara
Top, headband, socks: H&M
Cardigan, shoes: New Look


Enjoy the rest of your evening! Mine will be filled with homework (must.stop.postponing.), jazz music and cuddling with the bf :) xo