It's official!

I already spammed my happiness on Twitter, but I also want to share it here, just because I can ;)

Today I went to the Dutch Chamber of Commerce, to register my company! So I'm now officially a pro-photographer, yay!

I'm so incredibly happy about this, because this has been a dream of mine for a few years now, and it finally became reality!

I'm off to celebrate now, will create a larger post soon!

© Sanne van de Berg Fotografie

Above image is part of my 52 weeks project I've been doing on my Dutch photoblog, thought I'd share this one with you guys today :)

Have a great day all!

NOTD - Stargazer 301

Like I mentioned in my previous NOTD-post, I went a little bit nuts with buying the Ultra Cover nail polishes from Stargazer.
The one I used today is no. 301, a pretty light blue colour.

 

This is three coats, with CG Fast Forward top coat on top.
I really like the sparklyness (is that a word? if not, it is now :P) of the polishes from this range :)
I bought this one, and the other SG polishes I own, at BeautyFocus, who sell them for €3,99
More NOTD's with these to come!

Tag: Stylish Blogger Award

The lovely Natascha of Beautytas tagged me with the Stylish Blogger Award, thanks sweetie! :)
The rules are as follows:
Thank and link the person who gave it to you, jot down 7 random facts about you, give the award to 15 other lucky bloggers and let them know about it.

The 7 random facts thing is going to be hard, lol, but I'll give it my best try:

1) I can't wait for the new HBO show Game of Thrones to air, and I'm reading all the books atm.
2) I have horribly soft nails, and nail hardeners never work for me. It sucks :(
3) I want a bracelet-tattoo around my wrist.
4) My and my boyfriend's birthdays are exactly one week apart, but he is two years older though.
5) My living room resembles this blog, colour-wise, it's black, white and red.
6) I take about 4000 photos a year.
7) I love wigs, and my boyfriend ordered a bright red one on Ebay yesterday. Can't wait for it to arrive!

Now, as for the tagging of 15 other bloggers, I'm going to cheat a bit :) Lots of people will probably already have received this award, so I'm going to tag everyone who hasn't yet!
Looking forward to reading your random facts :)

NOTD - Stargazer 307

As promised, a more beauty-oriented post today!
I guess most of you probably will have seen this polish on other blogs by now, but hey, I love it, and it is my blog after all, haha ;)

For today's NOTD I chose Stargazer's Ultra Cover 307, which is, according to others, a dupe for Orly's Space Cadet. I don't own the Orly polish myself, but I have seen comparison photo's and they really look the same.

The pink really shows in this shot

And the green shows better in this shot

I've found this polish rather hard to photograph, to be honest, and it has to be seen in real life to really get the appreciation it deserves.

This is three coats, with CG's Fast Forward topcoat on top.

I bought this at BeautyFocus, for €3,99, and I kinda went a bit nuts with buying polishes from the Ultra Cover range, so I have quite a few more to show you in the future xD

Isn't he gorgeous?

Just a tiny little post, with just this pic I'd like to share with you guys, of my beautiful albino boa.
Isn't he gorgeous?

I know I haven't been posting lately, I've been very busy. I promise a more beauty-oriented post later this week though! :)

15 Random Facts Tag!

I received this tag from the lovely CookingChinchillas, and I really like it, so here are the rules:
Mention 15 facts and tag 5 other bloggers. Sounds simple enough, so here goes:

1) While I love snakes, I'm absolutely terrified of spiders.
2) I'm a nerd, and quite proud of it to be honest.
3) I spend my entire day today with watching a show that's as old as I am (both made in 1984 ^^)
4) I have watched all three Lord of the Rings movies about 15 times without cast commentary, and about 5 times with.
5) While red is my favourite colour, I love green nailpolish most.
6) My cats are named after famous Romans; Julius Ceasar and Marcus Brutus.
7) One of my snakes, a Bloodred Corn Snake, is named Mary for obvious reasons (to me, atleast ^^)
8) I think corsets and hoop skirts are sexy clothes.
9) I have created an army of female Bloodelf characters in World of Warcraft.
10) One of my favourite writers is Marion Bradley.
11) I love watching movies/tv series and/or reading books about either Robin Hood or King Arthur.
12) Sometimes I secretly listen to pop music.
13) My camera is my precious.
14) My Christmas tree has black decorations in it.
15) My favourite fruit is raspberry.

Hm, that wasn't as easy as I'd thought it was! Was fun though :)
Anyways, here are the 5 bloggers I tag:
Ultimategothguide
Beautytas
Morgaine
Jasmine
Evil Angel

Have a nice evening ladies! :)

Merry Christmas everybody!

As the title already says, I want to wish you all a very merry Christmas! Enjoy the company of your loved ones, the food, and the presents ofcourse! :)

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 :)

Some personal stuff

Hey all!
This is going to be just a small, quick post.
As some of you might know, I'm in the process of starting my own business as a professional photographer. This is a lot of work, and to be honest, it's quite a stressful period for me.
I've been working around 50 to 60 hours a week lately, and I'm afraid I've neglected my blog because of this.
Fact is that all this stress isn't healthy, and I've already noticed that from some migraine attacks the last few days.
I have therefore decided to take things slowly with this blog, because if I'm honest with myself, my career in photography is far more important than Morrigan's is. I will continue to post articles on this blog, but probably not as often anymore. I won't quit entirely though! Just taking it down a notch.
I hope you guys will understand and respect my decision on this :)

My first Eyeko Ambassador sale!

Last week I received an e-mail from Eyeko, stating that I just had my first Ambassador sale, meaning that someone bought products in their webshop, using my Ambassador Code at checkout.
Because of this, they sent me this ultra-cute package, containing some business cards I can write my Code on, a postcard, and one of their new limited edition London Lips lip glosses in the colour Shoreditch.

The gloss is a really pretty pink colour, I swatched it on my hand for you:

It does smell a bit like bubblegum, but not that much that it irritates me. The packaging is, like with most Eyeko products, super cute. It has little buses, phonebooths, and the Big Ben on it. Which reminds me, I really need to visit London again sometime ;) During my first visit I fell in love with Camden Town, and I really need to go shop there again!

I would like to thank Eyeko for my Ambassador gift pack, and the person who used my code for using it!

Review - Catrice Multi Colour Compact Powder

This is one of the new products from Catrice that will hit the stores in November. It's available in two versions: one for light skin, and one for darker skin. The one for light skin is the one I've tested, and it's called Rose Beige.

Here are some product shots Catrice provided of both colours:

NOTD - Catrice Run Forest Run!

Hey everybody!
Seeing how I told you yesterday that my absolute favourite of the three new Catrice polishes is Run Forest Run, I guess it's not much of a surprise I chose this lovely green colour as my NOTD today :)

I'm a sucker for green nail polish, so when I saw this colour, my first thought was: 'Ooh, pretty!'. When I then heard what the name was, I loved it even more.
This is two coats, and I'm sorry about the lighting, it's extremely crappy weather in Holland today.
Applying is like most Catrice polishes, no problems with it whatsoever.

Some other little thing I wanted to tell you guys about is the fact that eleven years ago today, my boyfriend and I got together. So it's a special day today for us :) Why celebrate at eleven, and not at ten, one might ask. Well, I guess I'm just weird like that ^^

Have a great weekend ladies!

Catrice Preview

Today, me and a bunch of fellow beautybloggers went to the Catrice Preview in Amsterdam, to see what Catrice has in store for us with their new product looks. We got to see, and try, some pretty cool new products!
I had a blast! It was so much fun to finally see some faces behind the blogs :) And everyone was so sweet!

NOTD - Catrice Wine-Tastic with Nfu-Oh 51

Hey everybody!
Just a quick post today, with some shots of today's NOTD, which I did with Catrice's Wine-Tastic, and Nfu Oh #51 layered on top:

I absolutely love Nfu Oh 51! It's so gorgeous, and combined with the dark, almost black Wine-Tastic, this makes a perfect Autumn mani, in my opinion!
Here's a close-up shot of my ring finger:

 

Gorgeous, isn't it?

I bought Nfu Oh 51 at NailXL, which can be found here :) I bought my oh-so-awesome holo there too, #61.