Lazy Sunday

Average Sundays in my life are Lazy Sundays* If not I end up on cultural afternoons, teaparties, adventural outs or photoshoots* 

Today I ended up on a lazy sunday picnic with "pistolekes" totally Little Red* Riding Hood with my picnic basket. Sundays like these are perfect.. coping after a late saturday night and enjoying nature's beauty..

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An other cool sunday, is that one in this sunday shoot. Check it out, it makes lazy sundays look so COOL..

Let me know what is happening on your lazy sundays..!!

Lady Sunday Shoots - The Dace Hot Spring 2010 Campaign is a Calm Morning Affair (GALLERY)

Earth Month

Being Green has often been a political, cultural, religious or trend sensitive subject. I will never call myself a green person, but for what it's worth I do have some kind of green-attitude. The green-attitude that I mention here is a global issue. Cause it effects both you and me, our world, our planet, our home..

Ecology has been shown in a trendy or even fashionable way, and in a way to use our expenses wiser. To approach all sorts of people, for all kinds of motives. It is a trend, everyone wants to be green now, because it's trendy. But it's not just a trend, it is a real problem and I hope all these fashionable contributions won't just end once the trend is over. Eventually it's all about the same problem: Global Warming and the health of our Earth. As an average person I can only make small environmentall-friendly steps. But small steps can make a difference, if we do them all together.

We all choose our way or have our reasons to contribute to the environmental health. Perhaps with buying clothes in bio-cotton, becoming a vegetarian or include a vegetarian day in our weekly diet, reduce our water use, use solar paneling, buy an ecofriendly car or build an ecohouse. Check this site on how we can reduce or CO2 emissions. The best ways I believe are things we do/use in our daily life, not just donating money, but actually buying products which are better for our earth or contribute to charity projects.

For instance when it comes to beauty products, I've always liked brands with a good phylosophy. Brands which could be eco or organic brands, like Ren or Aveda. Aveda is a company that works with certified organic ingredients and is an official ecofriendly brand. Every year Aveda joins Earth Month to raise funds for grassroots organizations that protect biodiversity and address environmental issues around the world. The Earth Month campaign focuses on a specified environmental topic each year, helping to raise awareness around the issue, cultivate and educate supporters, and contribute funds to dedicated non-profit conservation organizations. This year they are helping through Aveda Earth Month to raise funds for global and local clean water projects. 

Aveda offers a Light the Way Candle made with certified organic French lavender, 100% of the proceeds go to support Global Greengrants Fund's (GGF) water-related projects. I've mentioned the awareness for clean water before in this blog. 1 in 7 lacks the access to clean water. So you can see I'm not just mentioning nonsense..

The other week I was reading this article in DM Magazine about the Earth Challenge Project°. Michel De Maegd a belgian journalist is crossing the world with his self-made ULM-plane and a 7headed team of Pilotes Sans Frontières supported by WWF and the belgian institute for Space-Astronomy; to capture and photograph the effects of the global warming on the Earth. Real images have shown the results are disastrous..!! As for instance, several islands in Australasia are being engulfed by cyclones. The ocean water is getting warmer and threatens for instance the great barrier reef. The images they have captured shows beautiful images on first sight, but when you look closer you can see the damage.

Unfortunately we still think it's not really our problem. Maybe we don't really see direct effects in our neighbourhood, probably because global warming has been an older problem even before they've mentioned it, and we don't know any better. If you look closer, you can see changes and there is no good in closing our eyes for these problems just to reassure ourselves. Look how we treat our own habitat, the only planet on which we could possibly live.. We belong to this world and have possessed and treated it with shame.. For the real truth is: the world does not belong to us, but it belongs to our children and do we want our children to end up in a world which we have destroyed?


"Today is Earth Day and should be a start for you to think about our habitat, environment and realise we only have one Earth. If we destroy this one, our children won't have an other one"


We can all help to reduce our effects and slow the process of global warming.

A Woman's Right To Shoes

Maybe I'm running behind on the trends, but sometimes you find trends from last season which can look great any year through..

My first acquaintance with these pair was in august VOGUE Spain edition.. 6 months later I saw them worn by 2 stylish girls in the sub in London.. Since then, they have tortured my mind!! I need I want.. Well, maybe we don't always need but what we want.. But I will love these pair as if they were new boyfriend* The original pair are from Isabel Marant, but you can find these lovely pair from Rosegold more affordable at Shop The Shoebox New York. 


Unfortunately or though fortunately for my wallet, I'm not someone who makes reckless buys, so they were out of stock before I decided to buy them.. But who knows they may end up in my closet some day*

I found Myself in Wonderland*

The other week I saw the new movie Alice in Wonderland. Unfortunately it disappointed me a bit, it didn't live up to the expectations. The story itself was not that special in this movie. The special effects, costumes made up for it, but my imagination was wild compared to the result of this movie. It could be due to the fact, we all know the Alice in Wonderland story and the marketing of the whole concept has overblown the movie. 


If you are fashionable in some way, I'm sure you've been influenced by the whole Alice in Wonderland hype. The fashion world has been engulfed by this movie. Colleen Atwood who design the costumes in the movie as done a fabulous job!! But also designers like Zac Posen and Donatella Versace have used the concept in their collection. 

In honour of the movie, several designers have created special "alice-dresses" for the showcases of the Parisian department store Printemps. Printemps even created an "Alice-tea-room"in collaboration with Ladurée and the London based department store Selfridges had it's own Alice corner. And also O.P.I. created a collection of nailpolishes which colors are based on the characters in the movie.


For I myself have been inspired by the whole wonderland concept ever since I knew the movie was coming. Perhaps a reason why I got disappointed, because I already made a whole image of expectations about how I saw the whole concept inside my imagination. My Creative Fantasy World is currently working on a wonderland concept. I've had a few photoshoot trials, but intend to develop the whole thing in something rather professional within the next weeks. I'm still looking for collaborators, make up artists, photography assistents and characters* So if you feel inspired, please let me know..