First snow this year

Remember when I told you about the turntable I would get for Sinterklaas, last week? Well, that isn't going to happen, unfortunately. You see, me and my dad tested the turntable, but turned out I didn't have the right radio to connect to the turntable, so there would be barely any sound coming from the turntable. And in order to hear anything from the LP that was on the turntable, I would have to buy way too expensive speakers. I decided that wasn't worth my money, so my dad brought back the turntable, last Monday. Sad times... I've wanted to have a turntable for SO long and now that I finally had it, turns out it doesn't work. You can imagine I wasn't too happy last weekend. But now I am kind of over it.... Maybe later on in my life, when I live on my own I can afford decent speakers and a nice turntable. In the mean time I can already start collecting LPs (:

So it has snowed in the Netherlands this week! I believe it was last tuesday, december 4th when there was an tiny bit of snow but, it melted immediately. But yesterdy night, on Sinterklaas evening it snowed! And really hard! It was so warm and cozy to sit inside, unwrapping presents and when you look out of the window snow flakes are falling down.
Tomorrow they say it's gonna be really bad weather, so maybe I can stay home tomorrow when there has fallen enough snow haha. Let's hope so.

Tomorrow we'll celebrate Sinterklaas with the four of us at my friend's house. I'm really looking forward to it! Right now I'm working on my poem for Jessica. I hope she likes it, because I'm putting a lot of effort into it. My surprise is already done and ready to go, and my poem is almost finished!

And as always, 1 day after Sinterklaas radio stations start playing christmas songs already. I mean, I love christmas songs, but Sinterklaas isn't even out of the country yet >.<  Me and my mom already got all of the christmas decorations from the attic, and we'll probably start decorating the house this weekend, hooray for christmas decorations and snow!

That's todays blog post already. Not very long, but I'm very busy with my poem and lots of other stuff. And today I went home sick so I wanna go to bed early today. See you guys saturday! Tomorrow, after celebrating Sinterklaas we'll have a sleepover and watch some good movies and such. Saturday I'll blog about the presents I got.

Days til Christmas: 19

Surprise!

Yesterday I went shopping for presents, and it took me all day to find something that Jessica (my friend, I'm supposed to buy her presents and make a surprise for her) might like. But I finally found a book that I think is really nice and funny, so hopefully she likes it too. And you can never go wrong with chocolate, eh? (:

Yesterday right after I came back from present shopping I started on my surprise for her. I bought the book 'Taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding' (translated it should be something like 'Language is like really my thing'). I hope she likes it. For surprise I didn't know what to make for her, but decided to make a kind of old fashioned camera. A bit 80's camera, you could say. I know it's more my style than hers but yeah... I'll show you how I made it! You could see this as a mini-DIY. All you need is a rectangular box, black and white paint/black and grey paper, a round tray for the lense, a bit of orange paper (optional) and a black marker.

So let's get started! To make a camera, I would need a good rectangular box, and fortunately I can take as many boxes as I want with me from my work, since they would throw them away anyway. So I found the perfect box, now I could start sketching on it to make it look as similar to the original camera as possible. Under in the picture, you can see the camera I used as an example. It's an Optima 200. I also had bought white and black paint since painting look better than covering the box in black and grey paper.

So yesterday night I spent my entire evening painting the box, letting it dry, and painting over it again. I used the black paint and a mixture of the white and black paint to make the perfect grey color. Finally I was satisfied with it, now I only had to make the lense, and after the paint had dried, draw the sensor e.d. on it. So for the lense I used a round plastic tray. I painted the inside of it grey, so that it would look like a real lense, and the outside black.

 Here you can see how I made the lense, and I simply attached it to the camera with some superglue. Now for the finishing touch cutting circles out of orange paper, and glueing it on the top and the frond of the camera to make it complete, and TADA! Here is my finished surprise for Jessica! It looks quite like the original camera, doesn't it?
This whole thing took me about 4/5 hours I think. So that's acceptable, don't you think? Please excuse the picture, the lightning was horrible so this was the best I could make of it.

I had a lot of fun making this and the only thing left for me to do is make a poem for Jessica. I am afraid that will cost some time, but hey, it's fun to do! Luckily I have until friday to make it, so I'll manage. I hope you liked this post! Maybe I'll do another DIY thingy in the future. Now this is done, the only thing left to do for Sinterklaas is wrapping ALL of my other presents I bought for my grandparents, parents, brothers and sisters and my best friend Nathalie. We give eachother each year some presents for Sinterklaas/Christmas. Just for fun. Even though she picked out her presents herself, it's still fun to do (:

Days left til Sinterklaas: 3

Days left til Christmas: 23

Music of the Moment

Today I wanna share with you some of my favorite songs. Songs I've been listening to lately and songs I can always listen to and never get bored of. I love old school music, and a little alternative music. But mostly old school. Especially the 80's music, so I hope you can appreciate my taste in music and maybe you like some of the songs too.

John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)

Not a very well known song, but it's actually really good. John Parr didn't write this song but just sung it for the film's soundtrack. But still very catchy and I think it's awesome.

 

Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love

One of my favorite songs ever. It's just so catchy and cute, and of course it is sung by one of my favorite musicians ever!

Fun - Some Nights

This music video is SO awesome! Just the whole civil war feeling and the soldiers and the music, amazing!

Imagine Dragons - It's Time

This song is actually one of the soundtracks of the movie The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I haven't seen the movie yet but I'm very excited to go and see it!

 

Ed Sheeran - Give Me Love

I am a HUGE fan of Ed, and I could probably dedicate an entire blogpost talking about him, but I won't. So this is one of my favorite songs by him. It's also a very cute music video. You should definetely check Ed out! He is amazing. When you go on youtube search for 'You Need Me, I Don't Need You', 'Lego House' and 'A Team' (you probably know them already) but then search for 'captured in the live room'. It sounds incredibe!

 

Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas

And last but not least, my favorite christmas song ever! This is the original Band Aid (1984), which I really love. In this clip you see a lot of artists I listen to and who I think are amazing. Fun fact: Paul McCartney also sung in this song, but he sent in a voice clip which was edited in the song, so that's why he's not in the video. Same goes for some other artists.

Last Saturday, November 24th it was exactly 28 years ago since they recorded this song. I was planning on giving a shout out to the video last Saturday but I completely forgot haha.


Alright. This blogpost wasn't long at all, but I was gone all day, because of school and work, but hopefully you liked it. Tomorrow I'm gonna buy presents and make my 'surprise' for Jessica, whose name I drew for Sinterklaas.

Days left till Sinterklaas: 5
Days left till Christmas: 25

New haircut and Thrift Stores

Well hello there! Maybe you noticed, but since today I have a profile picture on my blog. It's not very big, actually it's very tiny, but this was the only decent picture I could find, haha. It's not very recent also, this picture was taken in the plane, by a stewardess, at January 4th 2012. When this was taken we were about to fly home to The Netherlands, after me and my family had spent a week in China. Maybe I'll blog about China and my experiences there sometime.
Yesterday I promised to show you a picture of my new sweaters, but the lightning was terrible today, so I just used two pictures I found online:

So these are my new sweaters! Don't you love them? They look quite 80's, don't they? I already wore the brown one today to school, and it is super comfy.

Also today I got a new haicut! It's pretty much the same as it used to be, but I REALLY needed to get my hair cut, since the last time I cut my hair is almost 7 months ago. I know, terrible. But I am very pleased with it. It's a bit shorter and my 'bangs' (I don't have bangs, but lets just say the front part of my hair) is about 2 inches shorter so it curls more and I am very happy with it!

Since it's almost sinterklaas I figured it was about time to go out and buy presents. We did 'drawing names' with our group of friends (me and 3 other lovely girls) and the girls whose name is drew didn't really know what she wanted (oh man I really hope she doesn't read this haha) so I just went to a thrift store to see what I could find. She really loves vintage stuff (so do I, but she is more 40's) and I thought maybe the would have a vintage radio or something in that atmosphere. But unfortunately I couldn't find anything for her, but I did find some amazing books there! I bought three books and some dvds and some christmas decorations for myself. So I am very happy with my purchases (:

That was today's blogpost! I hope I'll be able to post as much as posible, preferably daily, so we'll see how that goes! I am thinking of doing some tags in the near future. Thank you so much for reading!

Days left till Sinterklaas: 8
Days left till Christmas: 28