Photo post 2

Today I wanted to quickly share this photo I took a few weeks ago, here in Holland, at the Waterleidingsduinen.

I personally really liked the spooky effect the combination of the trees, cloud and the sun gave to this shot, and have named it Eerie Days.
What do you guys think of it?

Lush

Most of you probably will have already read about a thousand articles about Lush, and, well, this is another one I guess ;)
Difference is I haven't written anything about their products before, because these were the first products I've ever bought at Lush. I was in The Hague last month, and because my phone died there (yes, the glass-breaking incident) I decided I needed to visit Lush to get myself a nice smelling present.
I bought these two lovelies:

Whoosh Shower Jelly and Up You Gets Emotibomb.

I absolutely love, love, love the shower jelly. It smells delicious, and to be honest, I think I might buy three more pots of it next time I visit Lush, just to have some spare ones, haha!

I wasn't too excited about the emotibomb though. It smelled great, but was gone too fast for me to really enjoy it. Maybe that's because we have a huge showerdrain, with a matching huge showerhead, so the amount of water that came crashing down on the poor little bomb was rather huge as well. Who knows :)

I did visit the store again yesterday, but forgot to buy the extra Whoosh, so that gives me an excuse to go to The Hague again soon ;) I did buy a solid shampoo bar, and Lemony Flutter yesterday. 

Finally, a small update about the promised brushroll giveaway: it will come, I've already bought some pretty lace and tiny satin roses to put on the brushroll, but haven't had time to create the roll itself. I've been too busy with my starting business, sorry! I will still make it though, so keep checking back :)

Tiny Sunday update

Good morning all!
As the title suggests, just a tiny update from me this Sunday.
Yesterday I got my iPhone fixed, so that's one problem out of the way, yay!
Julius is also feeling a lot better now, so I'm hoping I won't be having to go to the vet anymore this month (= more money for Christmas presents, yay!)

And (I think you will probably like this part the most, haha), because I've gotten such awesome replies to my handmade brush roll, I've decided I'm going to make another this week, which I'll be giving away here.
I'll probably start working on it tomorrow, and will have the giveaway online somewhere around next weekend. (As soon as I'm not swamped in work anymore, and able to first breathe freely, lol, and then have some time to make the brushroll :) I don't want to rush it, I want to make a pretteh!)

That's all for my tiny Sunday update, have a great Sunday everyone!

Handmade Brush Roll

Good morning all!
As promised, a happier blogpost today :)
As some of you might know, my mum-in-law gave me a whole lot of really dark blue cotton fabric a while ago, and while I'm planning on making that dress you ladies chose for me out of it, I knew I'd have more than enough fabric to make some more things.

I've always kept my brushes in a cup I got at Ikea, but I didn't like it much. They would always get dust on them, so I decided I needed a brush roll. On Youtube I found this tutorial vid, which I followed roughly. I did add my own little changes to the design, to really make it my roll :)
Anyways, here's a few pics of my new pretteh:

I'm so happy with it!
What do you guys think of my handmade brush roll? :)

Oh crappy days

Yes, that's the happy days theme turned crappy, and what a crappy day it's been today!

(image source)

I won't bother you with all the details though :) Let's just leave it at dead iPhone, emergency visit to the vet for a non-crapping cat, and various other things.

I had wanted to make some photos of the brush roll I made yesterday, but by now it's gotten dark, so I'll make them tomorrow, and will also make a blogpost about it tomorrow :)

I promise you guys a cheerful post tomorrow! Really! :)

NOTD - Stargazer 308

Hey everyone!
Today, after a week of silence (sorry about that!) a new NOTD post from me.

I decided to use Stargazer 308 today, and this is three coats. The photos are a bit crappy, that's because the weather absolutely sucks today and I didn't get good lighting. I didn't want to use flash, so this is what I ended up with.
Stargazer 308 has a pretty, near black, purple base, with tiny purple glitter in it.
Below is a cropped close-up shot of my ring finger, to show the glitter a bit better:

Gorgeous, isn't it?

I bought this polish at BeautyFocus, for €3,99. They're giving a 10% discount on all Stargazer this week though (untill the 21st of November), which makes them only €3,59! Pretty nice for 14 ml :)

First photography post!

In the comments on my previous post, some of you suggested I should post some of my photographs on this blog.
So here's my first photography oriented blogpost :)
I have three photo's I wish to share with you today. All of them were taken on festivals in 2009, the first at the Elf Fantasy Fair, the last two at Castlefest.

 

I don't know these people, I just asked them if I could take their photo, and like most people on these events, they loved to pose :)

Just a small warning, I forgot to resize them, so if you click them, they'll be rather huge xD

I love visiting these kind of festivals, where people really make an effort in creating awesome costumes, and most of the time, I do too. Problem is that I'm always also the one with the camera, so there aren't many shots of my costumes! I will try to find some older shots this week though :)