I am trying to avoid using my new jeans in every new blog post, but you might have to excuse me. These days I am dressed in jeans most of the time.
I combined the baggy jeans with an eyelet blouse from my wardrobe and silver boots. (Link to original post with these jeans.) After I saw the photos, I didn’t like the outfit anymore. Just as I didn’t like the combination of these jeans with a new pale green shirt, which I had on Saturday two weeks ago, when I was out with the Shopping Saturday girls in Utrecht. Annoying, so we didn’t photograph the outfit that day.
Because I had to return the shoes I bought that Saturday, Ron offered to go with me to Utrecht and take outfit photos for the blog. Ever so nice of him.
Subsequently this post is split in two. First you will see the photos Ron took of my outfit and some sight- seeing photos and after that, my day with the Shopping Saturday girls. A lengthy post.
First part of this post with the outfit photos
Below: The first photo Ron took.
Below: We walked on and discovered this courtyard garden.
Below: It had amazing columns and doors and ornamentation.
Below: I tried to nudge my hair back into the shape I like. Windy day. See the smart heel of these EIJK boots? So comfortable.
Below: Here is why I don’t like the outfit. There is too much emphasis on my non-existing waist. This styling makes me broad (quite an achievement with my figure) and it makes me too straight up and down. The belt might have something to do with that. I will have to style better. I know I can but I am having a slight “problem” with the boots I want to use.
Below: Photo from the side. Not too shabby. I am looking at a fountain that isn’t working.
Below: This fountain. I was intrigued by the little reading figure in the middle.
Below: Close-up collage of the reading figure.
Below: There was sunshine and the temperature was great so Ron and I had lunch out on a terrace. Very unexpectedly in the middle of October.
Below: Passing just one of the old streets. Utrecht can definitely be on your list to visit.
Below: The Dom tower, the five years renovation is completed. Read more about this iconic church. Apparently, it needs a big renovation every 50 years. It is on UNESCO World Heritage Site. Built in 1254 as a Catholic church, it changed to Protestant in 1580.
Below: Passageway from the Dom to the centre of the city.
Below: Beautiful, secluded garden/courtyard behind this gate.
Second part of this post with the Shopping Saturday shenanigans
Below: Here they are, Anke and Sabine. Of course we started with cappuccino and cake. My life fulfilment LOL.
Below: Walking to the centre from Utrecht station where we met, we passed some market stalls where Anke found this hat. When you pull the strings the ears on the hat pop up. Anke has two little girls and she bought them one each. They loved it.
Below: Sabine wore a designer coat which I love and Anke wore the stylish blazer coat she bought in Amsterdam on another Shopping Saturday expedition. Her trousers are from kpa.haarlem. I am not the only one who frequents that shop LOL.
Below: We went shopping to honour our name. Anke contemplated this bright pink cardigan but decided she would go for the jumper (sweater) in the same colour. I would do too as this is sooo my colour, but the jumper has a wide boatneck. Although that is very much my style and I have many jumpers with a boatneck, I am trying to avoid them now as I am getting a very cold upper back in winter.
Below: Sabine was smitten with these boots. I thought they were gorgeous on her but she said they were rather tight with trouser legs inside of them. And that was the look she was after.
Below: Anke with a cosy jumper. I think she bought it or was planning on buying it. Not sure.
Below: A denim shirt with frills. Totally up Sabine’s street, but it stayed in the shop.
Below: Anke tried this denim jacket and we all thought it looked great.
Below: Sabine in another denim shirt, a darker one.
I didn’t try anything and I don’t think Anke or Sabine bought anything. Well, Anke bought socks and I bought another bra with briefs.
We did try a couple of more shops but nothing was good enough. We are spoiled of course.
Below: In the shop where I bought my silver skirt last year, Anke really liked this bag. She said she doesn’t really have a proper bag. To me, the “bag lady”, that is unimaginable.
Below: Sabine’s cute bag which she bought literally decades ago.
Below: Terrace down at the canal.
Below: Utrecht makes you think of Venice.
We walked through Utrecht, from shop to shop, had lunch, had coffee and chatted and chatted. All in all, a beautiful day.
What happened in my life this week
Ron and I met my brother and SIL to bury mum’s ashes near the place where she spent many happy years in the south of the country. The weather forecast was terrible, but mum took care of that from above. We had no rain, only sunshine. After saying goodbye to mum for good we all went for a coffee and reminisced. My brother and SIL went on to a place they rented for a week and Ron and I drove on to Antwerp for the night.
We had a great place to stay, went out to dinner and the next day we did some sight-seeing and shopping in Antwerp. Lovely break. You will see photos of it next week.
Not much else to report about this week, but the post is already quite long, so you’ll probably don’t mind.
Below: Just one more entertainment item, a video of Watson, relentlessly digging for mice. He never catches one. The person you hear laughing is our dog sitter Willy. Watson is crazy about her.
Greetje
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