Joan skirt

Hi lovers! Today's outfit reminded me of Joan Holloway from Mad Men (hence the title). Only the skirt though, I don't really see Joan wiggling around in a floral T-shirt and polka dot sandals.  When I wear this skirt, I instantly feel sexy! Seriously, some girls may think übershort mini skirts are sexy, but to me, hiding some parts of your body of revealing everything is way more sexy. I don't know if it's because I'm studying Arabic and Islamic culture, but I think it's interesting how muslim women 'hide' their body and beauty and 'save' it for the eyes of their husbands. Of course I'll never walk around wearing a hijab or burka but I like the idea behind it. Anyway, here's my outfit!

Today I cooked a delicious meal, it's called  spicy Moroccan stewed fish couscous, you can find the recipe here if you're interested. It was very good, if I may say so myself! It's from Jamie Oliver AGAIN, Lord knows how much I love his recipes. And his delicious British accent <3

There was a lot of wind today, but also SUN! And HEATH! Does this mean summer is finally coming? I hope so! I love the upcoming A/W trends, but I still want to go outside bare-legged rather than covering up...





Showing those curves! Kidding, I'm not really curvy, but that skirt surely is figure-hugging and flattering. Now, back to the sun!

Wearing:

Skirt: H&M

Top: don't remember, cut out the label because it itched :D

shoes: Stradivarius

Have a nice (& hopefully sunny) weekend! 

Siel xo

Knee socks

Shame on me for not blogging for a week! I'm officially a bad blogger. I told myself every day 'today I will blog' but every day something else happened so I kept postponing! Anyway, today's outfit is a little bit crazy. A few days ago, my hair was so greasy you could bake fries in it, but I was too lazy to wash it and decided to try out the turban look! My mum and sister told me I looked like the cleaning lady, but I kinda like how it turned out. I need to perfect it still a bit, but I think it's a great way to disguise your greasy hair, haha. So, today I'm staying home to be lazy AGAIN so I put on something comfortable but I quite liked my outfit. I added the scarf-turban for a splash of colour!

Of course I don't walk around the house wearing high heeled boots and my bag, but I imagined wearing those when I would have to leave the house.

I bought these overknee socks a few weeks ago and I love them. When I first wore them, my parents started to comment on them, saying I looked like a schoolgirl or even Black Peter! And when I became annoyed because of them disapproving of my sock-outfit, they said that if you wear such 'weird' outfits, you have to bear with the comments and reactions of people. This made me wonder: Do we need other people's approval? Should you not wear something because other people may not like it? It's what you wear, and if you like to wear it, DO! My parents said "If you don't wear normal clothes like normal people, you get reactions, you asked for it by wearing this outfit." So what, now everybody should wear jeans and T-shirt every day because that's "normal"? Is that what they want, that everybody wears the same, becomes a wallflower and that there is no more creativity? I hope not! I'll just go on wearing my kneesockes, turban, "grandma skirts" and other "abnormal" clothes, as long as I am happy with it. What do you think?

Top, shorts, bag: H&M
Socks, boots: New Look
Cardigan: Vero Moda
Scarf: thrifted

Whoop!

Share your opinions! Do you sometimes don't wear an outfit or piece because you're afraid of other people's (negative) reactions?


Siel xo

Randomness

Hi folks! I intended to take pictures for Project Blogway today, but it rained almost all day so that'll have to wait. (Hope I'm still in the running, btw. I need some votes! Like Project Blogway on facebook and like my photo! Thanks!) Instead, I have some random photos I took with my new Blackberry (my baby, as I call it), hope you like it!

I did something crazy with my hair, inspired by Amber's 'Gigantic Messy Bun Head' tutorial. Kinda liked the result though! Don't mind my crazy face :)

(Yes, you can see how I took my picture in the mirror, whoops)

OnSaturday I wen to a sort of street feast in Kortrijk, not far from where I live. There were Brazilian samba dancers and salsa music and OMG the weather was hot and sunny!

Nailpolish & dress I was wearing.

I love white wine. After three or four glasses, I switch to funny mode, suddenly everything seems utterly hilarious, SUCH FUN

(Note: I wasn't drunk. That glass fell off the table just by itself, I swear. Ahem)

Waiting for the train, wearing flats!!! ( = unicum in my life) Result: 4 blisters. I guess I'm back to wearing heels all the time?

My mum bought me this little poster for my room. If I ever buy a car, I want this one.

I went to Antwerp yesterday and the Forever 21 store is almost opening! Can't wait.

We also went for sushi! Can't get enough of those yummie sushi & sashimi rolls. I didn't like those green beans (on the right), they just tasted like... stupid beans? Don't know what the fuss is about.

Glad my boyfriend liked them.

Some of my shoes. I like having them exposed in my room, so I can look at them from time to time. And stroke them. Ahem.

Thinking of making this (Chicken korma). It looks yummie but you need a lot of spices that I don't have! It's from Jamie Oliver's 'Ministry of Food' book, I love it. I may have a little celebrity crush on Jamie ö

Last photo: Nothing special, just reading the newspaper... :D

Do you like this kind of posts? Next time I'll show you some more outfits, I've been feeling kinda inspirational these days! 


Siel xo

Hello Sailor!

Today I grabbed the opportunity to take outfit pictures outside, as we're having a few days of nice weather. I'm wearing my new favourite skirt, my sister and parents say it's a grandma skirt but I don't care. I'm the one who's wearing it so I should like it! The fabric is so soft, I want to stroke it all day. 

I'm using my parents' camera these days, the pictures are definitely better than with my own old camera, but I do want a good DSLR myself! I'll be working for two weeks in September so I already know what I will spend my money on...
I call this my sailor outfit, everything blue and stripey screams sailor to me! 

Top, skirt: H&M
Cardigan: Zara
Shoes: Stradivarius

This outfit is also Shoe Save # I-have-no-idea (must sort that out, I totally lost count of saved/unsaved shoes), my polka dot sandals I bought on holiday in Seville, and my first pair of wedges EVER:

I have to admit I don't remember my toe nails not being painted red. I have an awkward relationship with my feet (i.e. I hate them) and bright red toe nails make them look less ugly! Or so I say to myself. 
Oh, and meet my new lover:

I bought my boyfriend's Blackberry, because it doesn't work with his sim card and he has a lot of problems with it. Can't say I feel sorry for him, haha! I'm already quite addicted to my baby (the phone, I mean, not my boyfriend. Although he's quite addictive too!).
Thanks, darling!

<3

Siel xo

Project Blogway: Cruella!

Hello darlings! This week’s challenge for Project Blogway was ‘inspired by a childhood movie or fairytale’. Manon didn’t want us to create a costume (damn, I love dressing up!) but ‘inspired by’. It immediately reminded me of my costume I wore last year when we celebrated our last 100 days in high school:

My friend was Tinkerbell, I was Cruella De Vil :) And we were both crazy that day.
(I blurred her face for privacy reasons)

On the ‘100 days’ all last year students dress up and our theme was Disney. We had an awesome day, with lots of fun, games and partying! Every class had to do a little show, and we dressed up as animals from the movie Madagascar. Don’t you love my costume?

Anyway, back to the challenge: I had no choice but being inspired by Cruella, haha. Want to see?

The reason I choose this coat is because when I wore it to school for the first time, my friend (The Tinkerbell one :p) said “It looks like Cruella De Vil’s coat”. She’s so funny.

We’re having the worst summer in years here, but the one day I put on my winter coat, the sun decides to come out and get me all sweaty, THANKS SUN!

Don't mind the weird thing I am doing with my hand, it looks like I have disformed fingers or what?

I don’t know about you guys, but me painting my nails always ends up in nailpolish on my nails AND in the area 2 cm around them. I spend more time cleaning up the defaults than actually painting! I'm such a noob.

Do you like my Cruella inspired outfit? I think the ressemblance is striking, haha! Should have worn my Cruella wig though...

Siel xo

PS: We have to collect votes now for Project Blogway, please vote for me! Just 'like' my picture on the facebook group. Thanks!

Edit: My thoughts go out to the people who were at Pukkelpop festival yesterday, a sudden storm killed 5 people and many are injured. I almost had to cry when I watched videos of the incident, it's really awful. Respect to the organisation and especially to all the people on twitter who set up a huge action to help people get home, contact their family, get a place to sleep etc. It' feels good to see how we support each other in times of need <3

Inspiration!

Hello lovers! I've been busy with lots of things, so not much time to blog. But I already have tons of ideas for future post: outfits, Project Blogway challenges etc. that I hope to show you soon. For tonight I'm leaving you with some inspirational photos, hope you enjoy it!

Valentine

Tick Tock Vintage

Both taken from my tumblr

The Stylish Heart

Gary Pepper Vintage

Flashes Of Style

Source: Polienne

Yours Truly

Alexa Chung

Topshop A/W 11

Elaine from Clothed Much

Annebeth from The Styling Dutchman

Who is your inspiration?


Siel xo