New Year´s resolutions

It´s the last day of the year, which means a new year is coming.
(Almost) everyone always makes New Year's resolutions, and so did I.

I'll tell you what my intentions are:

• I first of all want to keep my body in shape. To me it is important to be happy with your body.
• I want to save more money for my study.
• I want to make my mind up about the study I will follow after my finals. (which are in 2015.)
• Worry less. (May sound weird to you, but I feel like that is gonna be my motto for the next year. Would be good for me to worry a bit less sometimes.)
• And I want to blog more often! I nowadays wrote mostly one post in a month, and I will try to write a bit more. (I got ideas enough!) (I won't always succeed though, because school takes its time, but I'll try.)

I think this are reasonable intentions which I can go for in 2014. 

I also want to keep giving love to my dear friends and family. Be honest and loving.

In general 2013 was a fantastic year, all the amazing things I told about in this post, my great holidays in France and Italy and a mass of small, yet important, memories which complete the year.

Ups and downs, highs and lows, but that is life.

bye bye!

What are your New Year's resolutions and experiences of 2013?

See you next year!

xxx

Ps. I hear people firing their firework outside right now, I honestly don't understand why you would fire it now, they'd better save it for tonight! ;)

Christmas clothing

Christmas has passed, Santa is gone home and your wallet is probably empty.

But that is not what Christmas is about,

Love, that is what it is about. 

I made a delicious seven courses diner with my mom and we enjoyed it with the family. I had a really good time, hope you had one as well!

But Christmas is as well about the way you dress, right?

I want to show you what my Christmas outfit looked like.

I chose a classic but modern outfit. The print of the dress is typical for the winter, the chic dress combined with the dotted thighs create an elegant, yet not too chic, look. I decided to wear gold accessorizes instead of silver. I matched my outfit with red nails, with a gold detail, and red lips. I chose the classic look by picking eye-liner and making a bold line.

 

red nails, red lips

my necklace is a gold dalmatian, isn't it cute?

Dress - Atmosphere | Dotted thighs - Atmosphere | Heels - Hot Item | Lipstick - Hema nr. 5 

See you soon!

xxx

Recipe: Mugcake!

Hello there,

You must have heard about this really simple but very delicious recipe before, but it is such a great thing that I will tell you about it as well!
It's an ideal recipe if you want to bake something but do not have the time to bake a whole pie, if you want something more special than a cookie, or if you don't want to share it with your family. ;)
The Mugcake!
This recipe of the mugcake will not turn into a brownie, it's not a sticky one but it's very light, though filling.

Okay, let's start by collecting all the necessary ingredients:

You use a teaspoon, tablespoon, fork and a mug. (Preferably a huge one.)
- 3 Tbls. (tablespoon) flour
- 2 Tsp. (teaspoon) baking powder
- 5 Tbls. sugar
- 2 Tbls. cocoa
- 1 egg
- 3 Tbls. milk
- 3,5 Tbls. liquid butter (You can easily melt the butter in the microwave.)
- 4 blocks of pure chocolate, chopped into patches.


1: First you blend the flour, baking powder, sugar and cocoa in the mug. I used a fork to stir because that went easier than with a spoon.
2: Now you have to add the egg and blend it until there are no more pieces and loose powder left.
3: Add the milk and liquid butter and stir again, you can stop stirring if it looks like a smooth, solid batter.
4: Mingle the chocolate patches through the batter.
5: The mugcake is ready to bake, place it in the microwave for 3 minutes on the highest. (This was 900 Watt for my microwave.)

Before you fall upon your cake you have to test if it's done: stick a cocktail pick into the cake, if it comes out clean it's done, if not then you need to bake it a bit longer in the microwave.

My mugcake had more chocolate patches on the bottom and they were still melted, so it tasted even more delicious!

Before I forget to warn you:
- It is possible that your mugcake floods, (mine flood extremely) that is no problem and the cake will still be very delicious. You only have to make sure you clean the microwave after baking. ;)
- The mugcake is very filling! it's not a little snack so I advice you to not bake it directly before/after a meal or before you sport. But when you bake it at the right moment, it will be sooo yummy!


Bon Appétit!

Motivating sentences

I want to share a piece of my life with you,
It's about motivations and philosophies I live by.

I read a lot of quotes and motivations on sites such as Tumblr and WeHeartIt, (you could as well get your motivations there).

Here are some which really fit my lifestyle:

I am convinced that dreams keep life going, a dream is that what we all need as reason to live for. No matter how "impossible" your dream is.
What brings me to the next one:

Keep your beautiful head up and keep going because you can do it! It is possible!

There are some moments when I really believe in: "The less you care, the happier you'll be".
But this is a risky one, because you must definitely not stop caring/care less at all points. If you care less about your friends could that escalate quickly into a really sticky situation where your friends are disappointed in you. (And that won't make you happier, I guess.)
But sometimes caring a little bit less about things, such as school or a small argument with your family, can be great. (And that will make you feel happier.)

My advice for you is to look up We Heart It and search some quotes or other motivating sentences, I like them very much because I can relate to them, especially those which I wouldn't have said myself.
Like this one:

Yes, it's damn true.

Reading these sentences/quotes can make me feel better, give really good advice or make me conscious of my luck, what I sometimes forget to be thankful for. (For example luck in health and wealth.)

If you want to read these sentences you can as well check my collection 'quotes', click HERE to go there.
You probably get to know me a little better by reading it, haha!

I hope this made you conscious of the amount of motivating and inspiring things in life. :)

See you soon!

Just the two of you

~

Just the two of you,

chatting about all that does actually not matter

talking and laughing

telling your story and listening to hers,

other people are around,

but no-one disturbs you 

it's just the two of you

like you're in the middle of nowhere,

without anything else on your minds

just relaxing and chattering,

and all that matters is you and her,

her attention doesn't fade

yours does neither

you could possibly keep talking forever

and enjoy the calmness of you two.

The not caring of what you look like at that very moment

or who walks by

just you 

that is when you know you are with a real friend

someone who cares about you, 

no matter how stupid you are,

it's a friendship that will last

you just know that

And that is one of those moments that truly matter.

~

Dress from Milan

I told you before about this dress I bought in Milan, now I've taken pictures of the beauty so you can see my dress yourself!
She (I prefer to call the dress a woman) is mint colored and is longer at the back than at the front, the back touches the back of my knees.
The waist is accentuated by the brown cincture with studs on it, the cincture is very elastic and adhered to the dress.
The dress feels very soft and flutters when I move, I am in love with her!

See you soon!

Baking Time!

Mmmm, are you just as fond of delicious cakes, pies, and chocolates as I am?
I like baking and making these little pleasures yourself makes you joy them even more!
This weekend Daphne and I made a cupcake-pie !
We started making the pie, after buying the ingredients, the pie went in the oven, and we could wait.
Our pie was going to have a 'second floor' and a cupcake on top of it, so we made some extra dough. We noticed that we had made little too much dough, because instead of one cupcake, we made eight. ;)

The day after, we could start decorating the cake, now it was cooled down.
We cut the pie in two pieces and spread jam between them. The 'second floor' cake and the cupcakes had some cacao in the dough, so they we're more like chocolate cake. :)
We rolled the fondant and placed it on the cake, it's hard to get that look really smooth because it breaks easily when you have to cover a big area.

Here you see the making off.

We decorated the pie with flowers, butterflies, and of course cupcakes made of fondant!
For the cupcake on top of the pie we made a topper, with sugar and butter.
Altogether you get this, in my opinion beautiful, cake!
And it tasted delicious!

See you soon!

Picnicing avec mon ami

Both taking food with you, carrying a wooden basket, including a checked carpet, and ... a camera.
My friend Miriam and me went out for a picnic in the woods,
We ate a delicious egg with Greek cheese on a sandwich and some fruits while we we're chatting about our holidays: what juicy things had happened to our marvelous lives. ;)

You can't go out with a friend to a beautiful place without taking a camera, so we did neither.
We took some pictures in the woods, among the trees.
Running though the forest path, being tied down in the thorn bush, taking pictures, and most important of all; having a good time.

WHOA! TREES WITH ARMS!

What am I wearing? - Skinny Jeans from Only. - top: red shirt, bought by The New Yorker. - Jeans waistcoat, I really don't know where I got it from anymore, I've had this cloth for so long already!
Shoes: Vans.


See you soon!

Italy

I have been on holiday to Italy!

Verbania and Cannobio.

We, my parents, my boyfriend, his parents and I, were there for two weeks, at the lake called 'Lago Maggoire'.

It was such a beautiful place! I totally love those Italian villages, with their small lanes and platforms and, oh it's just so lovely!

The weather was great too! The first week was hot, the second was just good weather, only sometimes it rained or there was (really loud) thunderstorm. Yep, that's also Italy.

The first week we had an apartment in Fondotoce, a small village nearby Verbania. Our apartment was in the middle of nowhere. 

Well, okay, not really in the middle of nowhere, but it was quiet and surrounded by trees, and palm-trees. I like palm-trees! You won't see them very soon in the Netherlands. ;)

On Wednesday 31 July we went to MILAN! 

What a beautiful city! 

So much handsome, Italian, businessmen over there, and all of the women are dressed so fashionable! Very much women wore beautiful dresses! 

I also bought a dress in Milan! in the 'JDC urban store', it's a beautiful dress, it's mint colored and a very nice cloth. I am really happy with my purchase!

The second week we were at Maccagno, nearby Luino. This apartment was at an opposite place as our previous, it was in the village center, and we shared the house with multiple families. The beach of the lake was very close, the beach wasn't an amazing beach; instead of sand was it full of little rocks.. Kind of like a rough massage for your feet... 

We also visited three small islands! These islands are called; Isola Madre, Isola Pescina and Isola Bella. These islands are full of beautiful gardens! We had wonderful weather, so we could take really good photographs. Every island had a palace, all really huge and very beautiful! The palace on Isola Madre had a lot rooms which were filled with marionettes, made a long time ago, of course. The people seemed to love the creepy part of theater, because a lot of the marionettes had angry or creepy faces, or they were devils or monsters... They did really creep me out!

In one of the rooms in the palace on Isola Bella had Napoleon slept. Too bad that we couldn't jump on the bed he slept in, because it looked like a really nice, soft, and most of all: BIG bed! 

I've had a holiday to remember!

See you soon!

Me, Isola pescina, a rose from Isola Bella, and a view from Isola Bella.

Flowers from the gardens we've visited.

Things I have done...

I realized that I don't have to write about things that just happened, I can also tell you about things I did a few months ago.

So that is what I'm going to do now.

At my birthday, which was 1 February, I turned 16 and my parents gave me a photo-shoot,

I liked this really much and the photo's are really beautiful, at least that's what I think about it. ;)

I had a really short school-day,  so we could start with the photo-shoot early.

First of all a make-up artist put a lot more make-up on my face as what I usually add, I had to bring my own clothes and the photographer told me that we could do three photo-shoot sessions.

The first one naturally, then one with my hair curled and other clothes, and for the third one I wore my gala dress and they made my make-up darker.

I liked this photo-shoot really much, I won't forget it easily because it made such an impression.

Photo from the third session.

There is this dutch band, called Handsome Poets, and they have really good music, the lead singer smiles so much, it's amazing. And I have been to a concert of them! The 9th of May in the Paradiso at Amsterdam. That isn't a big hall, so we felt very connected with the band.

Handsome poets with a gospel choir.

I have also been to this dutch festival Pinkpop! It was three days in June and it was AMAZING.

So much good artist, good weather, we were with a group of nice people I didn't know really well before we went, but we had a good time together.

I'll mention some of the artists who performed at Pinkpop; Ben Howard, Passenger, Tom Odell, The Script, The Killers, Ellie Goulding, Thirty seconds to Mars, Fun., Will and the People, Handsome Poets... Not jealous yet?

Well the band who were the last act will make you jealous: GREEN DAY !

We even got a photo with Handsome Poets and their signatures :D

Sun, people and music. The full three days in one photo.

The main stage by night (Green Day performing)

We're the Pinkpop girls!

I have also been to an amusement park with my friend, we went to Walibi.

There are a lot roller coasters and attractions in which you make a looping, so this amusement park isn't boring for teenagers. We had lovely weather and we went into 23 attractions! 

We had both never been there before, but we liked it very much!

This were the coolest things I recently did.

Hope you enjoyed reading!

See you soon!

Sun, sea, sand

I just got back from my holiday in France.
I went with a friend for 10 days to Argelès-sur-Mer, we went with a group dutch people and camped on a camping just 200 meters from the Mediterranean Sea.
But first we had to get there, and we went by bus.
Yes, that took us 18 hours...
But we got to know all the new people, and they were all really nice.
the first day we made two friends, we did everything together for the rest of the week, just us, the group of four girls.
We walked to the city Argelès one day, after, I think, 1,5 hour walking (it shouldn't have taken so long, but we walked the wrong way ;) ) we arrived in a really cute typical French village.
Small lanes, cute restaurants and sweet colored houses with those adorable platforms with flowers.
We had to take breaks to relax and to spray sun protection because we of course didn't want to get sunburned.
Walking to the Supermarché also took us half an hour, this time we did not walk the wrong way.
So as compromise we needed to lay on the beach,and aahh that was so goood.
Sunbathing, swimming, talking, sleeping, (yes, on the beach) and you can see it, because we all tanned!
The travel organisation organised some parties, these were good too!
We went night-swimming one time,
People said that the sea felt less cold as by daylight, but when I ran into the sea I swear it felt WAY colder as by daylight... So it was a short jump into the sea for me, but really cool to do.
I had a wonderful week, here are some pictures:

the Mediterranean Sea

This are the cute houses,  with platforms and colors.

I ran into this beauty while we were looking through the touristic shops. She is gorgeous, isn't she?

See you soon! 

Hello...?

Well, this is me saying hello in my first blog-post.
This blog and figuring out how it works is all really exciting to me, because I'm totally new here.

I wanted to make a blog for a while, but I didn't allow myself because: 

• School was busy (so I didn't have much free time).
• I would be distracted all the time because I want to find out how this works.

And yeah, that wouldn't be good for my school grades.

But they say: 

"The longer you wait for something, the more you will appreciate it when you get it. Because anything worth having is always worth the wait." 

So, here I am.

My name is Linde, I am now sixteen years living on this earth, in The Netherlands.

I play field-hockey and I'm a dancer. 

my valentine rose

The name of this blog is me in two words, 

I adore strawberries (and I like the word "strawberries", it sounds cute, right?) and their taste, Mmmm delicious! 

And I adore studs, they look so stunning on clothes, they make your outfit look tough, you can combine them with everything, they look always good and they show that you are strong!

Studs and strawberries are kinda opposites from each other, but that is just what I like!

My style is also diverse, it has cute, classy outfits, but I like oversized, comfy as well, edgy and street-style do I like too. And you definitely can call classy and edgy opposites.

I think this was a fine "hello".

See you soon!