Final picture

Today was the last day of Photoweek, the start of the minor (Visual Culture) I'm following. There was an exposition with all the end photo's we made. The pictures are at AMFI till next week. I think all the pictures are gorgeous! More pictures from the shoot and this week are coming up.


Some of the pictures. There were 40 in total (group of 40 students)


You can see my picture (second from left, first row)


Blurry close up


This is my picture! The theme for this shoot was 'anger'. She is mad because of something in the past. She wants to get over this anger and make peace with the past.

Today's look

That's not totally true. This is my outfit since 4 o'clock this afternoon. I received my Dahlia paysuit today! Ofcourse, I had to try it on immediately. I think it fits quite nice but I wouldn't mind a little more space at my bum haha.

I'm having an exhausting week. Studying at Amsterdam Fashion Institute is a lot more intensive than studying Interactive Media. I'm at school from 9 to 6 and in the evening I have a lot of homework. We had to do a photoshoot today (my first one!) and it was pretty hectic. We had to do it in the morning because we got our feedback in the afternoon (that also means no time for photoshop so the pictures had to be very nice!). Thanks a lot to my friend Linda who could come in such short notice. I think we made a nice shoot. It had to be innovative and my feedback was that I did it to literally. Have to learn a lot!

Pictures of the shoot are coming soon. (first photo are the clothes I used for the shoot) First my new playsuit. I wear it with my new, simple black flats.

Style icon

Since her bohostyle, I think Sienna Miller is one of the best dressed people in Hollywood. I definitly like her style at the moment, expeccially her flower dresses. I also lóve her Chloe Boots. If I had 500 euro's left (probably not going to happen the next few years) I would definitly buy those beauties!

Interrail 2009: Budapest

After the rain in Prague we did wanted some sunshine, but not THAT much. It was approxiametly 40 degrees (celcius). The government was giving free water so we didn't totally dehydrate. At the moment there was a huge Formule 1 race around Budapest so there were a lot of people visiting the city. Beside all that, Budapest was great. It is an amazing city and has a lot of beautiful buildings. I really want to go back someday, but in the spring because in the summer it is wayy too hot!


Taking a nap in the train to Budapest


Water, water, water! It seems calm but there were a bunch of tourist enjoying the free water.


Me at heroes square and our hostel (the courtyard)


The largest parlement house in Europe


At the subway, the moving staircases are really long!


Large indoor market where you can buy clothes and food


Budapest at night is gorgeous


Nice view of the city

Good intentions

Most people make their good intentions for the next year at new years, I make mine usually in the summervacation. Probably because I have a lot of free time to think about what I want to achieve next year! So here are my 10 good intentions for 2009/2010:



1. Graduate. This is my last year of college! When I'm done I can call myself "bachelor of communications and multimedia design", sounds pretty nice I think. I'm not sure what I want to do after graduation, maybe go to university.

2. Get more design skills. I wish I could make some nice designs with Illustrator and improve my drawing skills. I love to make nice things but at the moment, I don't like anything I make.

3. Keep this blog. Since I was thirteen I make websites (I know, I was a total geek) but I have seriously trouble to keep and update them. I always found ideas for another website so at a moment I had a thousand websites but there wasn't anything written in it!

4. Make a new portfolio. I had to make a portfolio website for my study but I didn't like it at all. So I'm thinking about another one for over a year now but I'm too lazy to do something about it! You can find my portfolio here: http://lisetvanderlaan.nl/ but there is nothing to see right now.

5. Improve my English. As English is not my first language (unfortunatly I'm stuck with an ugly dutch accent) I make a lot of mistakes, expecially writing. So please tell me when you see something because I love to speak and write English correctly!

6. Find a new place to live. I live at a containerhouse. A thousand containers are build into students houses and put all together. I have a thousand students as neighbours what sounds nice but in fact is horrible. There's always some party and you can hear everything your neighbours do. I want a normal place with normal walls and normal neighbours!

7. Some fashion intentions, buy less clothes! I have way too many pieces I only wore once and then put far, far away. I buy a lot of cheap clothes I don't really like that much. I want more quality and less quantity.

8. Learn how to sew. It happends very often that i have a piece in mind but I can't find it in the stores. So I buy something that look similair but I don't like it that much as I had in mind (see intention 7). If I can make it by myself I have something I really like and something really exclusive!

9. Go from blonde to brunette. That's not that hard to do, but I'm a real chicken if it comes to my hair. I don't like it because I have very thin hair but I'm still trying to find the right cut for me!

10. Travel a lot! After the trip through Central Europe, I want to see so much more! Some places on my list are: Stockholm, Göteborg, Kopenhagen, Rome, Sarajevo, Mostar and Athens. My boyfriend and I are probably going to Stockholm this fall, really looking forward to it!


picture from uppercaseyyc

Today's look

Well, it is actually yesterdays look but I forgot to post it.

Got a new dress

Received my package from H&M last week! I sent back the jeans-legging because it didn't fit right and I didn't liked it so much. I doubted about the dress but I decided to keep it! And I'm very glad I made that decision, I probably would have regret it the minute after I send it back!

Style to inspire

I love the style of gossip girl Blair Waldorf! She always looks chiq and sophisticated.

Interrail 2009: Praha

Prague is definitely one of the most beautiful cities I've ever seen. Every building looks like a piece of art. We stayed four days in Prague because some friends were also staying in the city. Also a plus in Prague: it's very cheap!


My boyfriend and me, look at that view!




The view we had from our room


The cutest tea bar ever


When you just lost your shoe...




The famous Karlov Most

Asos order

Just bought this cute Dahlia playsuit. Hope it will fit!

Interrail 2009: Berlin

It was a hard selection but I managed to choose 600 photo's out of the 2609 photo's we made. Still way too much to show on this blog so I picked a few. Hope you like them!

Our first stop was Berlin! After seven hours in the train we were finally at the station. We couldn't find the subway and became a bit moody because we were walking around for almost 45 minutes with our backpacks on. But we found it! The hostel was a 20 minute ride with the S-bahn but beside that, a nice (and cheap! the cheapest we had in our vacaton) place to stay.


Brandenburger Tor


Holocaust monument and Checkpoint Charlie




Some music at Potzdammer Platz


Me, leaving the hostel




Yes, I am a real tourist


The BF and me

New autumn/winter collections

Yesterday I went shopping, hoping to catch some nice last sale items. Unfortunately almost everything was gone. The new collections were already in store, and it looked very nice! Especially the new collection from Zara I liked very much. Here are some pictures:


(all pictures are from nitrolicious.com)

I wanted to buy a lot but my wallet didn't aloud me... I did bought some nice rings.

I'm back!

I'm back from my trip through Europe! It was amazing, we've seen so much! My boyfriend brought his new camera and made +/- 2500 pictures! Haven't had the time to make a selection so pictures will come later.

I ordered some stuff frome H&M today. I love shopping but today I prefer being lazy and just buy clothes from behind my laptop. When I was browsing the H&M site I saw this Matthew Wiliamsson dress that I wanted! I need the black shoes for work because my old ones are almost death...

Does that fit?

You can only carry 20% of your weight in your backpack. That means I'm only aloud to bring 12 kilo of stuff! Trouble trouble...

Vintage finds @ Etsy

Lulufinder sells the cutest playsuits on etsy, take a look!

Some new stuff

Back from Lisbon

Hi there, I'm back!

Had an awesome time in Lisbon but had to go back (unfortunately) so yesterday me and my friend went to the airport and flew back to Amsterdam. Met some great people, made some new friends and bought a lot of stuff! There was a huge sale at H&M so bought a lot over there... too bad we haven't found some vintage stores.

Lisbon is a great city but there are so many stairs and hills! It is impossible to wear high heels because the sidewalk is full of little rocks.


Our hostel was in the next street

Portugens girl who wears the cutest outfit ever

On the left with my playsuit from Zara, right with my green H&M trend skirt and American Apparel shirt

The H&M fitting room, how cute does this wallpaper look?!

I went surfing with one of my friends

It was hard though. We rented the boards for one hour and I only stood up three times...

Last day, cloudy but still warm

Next week I'll leave again, this time to Eastern Europe, where I will be backpacking with my boyfriend for four weeks!