NEW IN | vans & personalised coke

Trainers: Vans | Random flower headband | Coke 

After hours of longboarding in new summery Vans (best shoe fot boarding I came across so far!) nothing tastes better than a personalised (!) can of frizz :)

NEW IN | not birkin

Vogue Italia & Birkin look-a-like from leather shop in Rome

Of course I went shopping in Rome - I mean, it's Italy! .. Although I would have loved to spend fifty years of rent in the countless Prada, Fendi, Céline, Hermes or and  Balenciaga boutiques at the Spanish Steps, I didn't. Instead I went with only one item: 

THE bag. 

I promised myself to invest in a high quality leather item this year, so I'm quite pleased I listened to 'me' for once x)

ps. I know the pics are dark, no idea what has gotten into my camera ..

LIFE | happy thoughts

I guess I've never had any trouble counting my blessings. I wrote my very first 'things that make me happy'-list in a new diary on my 7th birthday party and repeated the succes later on in many versions in letters, notebooks and social network profiles over the years. Although I am still pretty sure about what I want and about what makes my happiness along the way, it has been quite a while since I spent some time thinking about it. So here we go: today's small happy-list.

1. The new laptop sleeve my mom made me today. I bought a MacBook air about a month ago and it's so teeny tiny (such a relief!) that it made every sleeve look huuuge - until this one. So here it is, apple printed indeed - no pun intended! 

2. What's in it still fills me with pleasure almost every - awake - hour of the day as it is the best computer I've ever worked with, so happy-maker-number-2 is also in these pics.

Ph. by me & laptop sleeve by Mumaterial

3. Number three on the happy list is the blog I already talked you about. Ratatouille Bruxelloise is a blog on multiculturality in Brussels that a few fellow journalism students and I started about two weeks ago. The blog is updated every day and written in Dutch (but I'm sure the translate button will provide you non-Dutch-speakers a month worth of laughter ;))

4. Number four is this little neon-collection that's making me proud lately. I love how a neon accessory lights up even the dullest of outfits and lifts an already fashion forward look out of the mass instantly. 

Top & both necklaces: H&M (the flower necklace you've already seen here) | Bracelet: Zara (seen here)

Although I could make an endless list of material and non-material stuff that had me smiling over the years, I think that would all get a little too self centered - even for a personal style blog like this one x)
So I leave you with this top 4.

& now, tell me about the things that've made your days lately, I'm curious!

NEW IN | panda

Panda jumper | Asos  -  Leather skater skirt  | Mint&Berry  -  Snake necklace | Six

While studying for my exams, I couldn't help but regretting all the good sale-stuff I was missing out on. Every minute I stared at my books I thought about one thing only: shopping. So to stop the annoying voice in my head, I did the only thing one could do in such a situation. I opened my Asos wishlist and started selecting what I really really wanted / needed. Making outfits in my head (don't look at me like that, you know you do so as well!) I realised there was one thing missing, one that Asos couln't provide (at a reasonable price). A leather skater skirt. The missing piece ..

So I got it now, right here and I couldn't be happier! I already wore it out at one occasion, combined it with flat biker boots and I felt like a true punk princess (in a completely-not-geeky-not-nineties way) the entier evening.

But that might have been my imagination, running wild ahead .. It does that sometimes ..

On another note: more panda here.