The same orange belt and orange bag as last week, but this week as accessories to a pair of light blue checked trousers with a yellow striped shirt. How about that? Pattern mixing! Something I am not very good at and therefore hardly ever do.
The start of this outfit were the trousers. They are a bit at the back of my wardrobe as I often do not know what to wear with them. Plus, they need a higher heeled shoe or boot which is not as comfortable as flat shoes. Then I remembered the trousers with my perforated suede EIJK boots. And these EIJK boots are very comfortable.
If you like to see more outfits with these trousers, click through to this post with the EIJK boots, this post with red high heels, or to this original post with a zig-zag jumper which was the best outfit but tricky because the jumper is warmer than the trousers.
The yellow striped shirt (from kpa.haarlem) was hanging in my wardrobe to be worn once again before washing. It clicked in my brain. The orange accessories are a sort of a given these days. The belt is by Weekend Max Mara and I also have this one in red; craving for another one in cream. Alas, I have spent my budget for the next 6 weeks.
Below: When I initially styled this outfit, I went for a small yellow belt. I like that too but got stuck on choosing a bag to wear with this. Yellow or blue was too obvious, so I decided for orange and swapped the belt.
Below: Sylvia of 40PlusStyle who took the photos for this post. She lives in Portugal now and pops over to the Netherlands once in a while. Out of the blue she called me to see whether I was free to have a cup of coffee with her. And I was.
Below: We met in the city centre and immediately took the sitting down photo. The blue bracelet is a present from my friend Marjolein.
Below: And these are my new Lara Design earrings from Marcella’s Delft Blue collection. Little beauties. The necklace is from And Other Stories.
Below: After coffee we roamed the streets of Haarlem.
Below: An unexpected mural tucked away in an alley. Art by PDEG located at Noorder Schoolsteeg.
Below: There are so many cute streets.
Below: I am glad the city council has the sense to preserve the old buildings and houses.
Below: I tried to find out why this poster was hanging at the beginning of one of the small streets but couldn’t find anything about it. Was it a passage for cows to go to the slaughter? Honestly, I am so close to becoming a vegetarian. The things we do to animals is horrific.
Note: a reader found out what the poster represented.
“On the outer wall of a corner property on Smedestraat and Morinnesteeg, the writing on the wall stated that this cow is on its way to the Toneelschuur theatre where he acts in a play called “Het Begeren Onder de Olmen / The Desire Under the Elms” by E. O’Neill. This building previously housed the Haarlem Theatre. The photo panel was dated 1992.” (Credits to the blog “I becoming Dutch“.
Below: Green door. Perfect.
As I have said before, the bag isn’t this bright orange, it is far more subdued but I cannot get the colour right.
Below: In this photo the colour is a bit more as in real life.
Below: Another photo of Sylvia because I had said: “I also want a photo of you with your jacket on”. Caps look so good on her.
Below: We passed the gate of an almshouse court from 1769. It is a beautifully preserved almshouse court, but it wasn’t open for public on the day we were there.
Below: We saw charming houses.
Below: Knowing you like seeing them, I took photos, of course.
Below: One of the facing bricks from the house above.
Below: Oh, a cat. I am always a sucker for cats.
Below: Sylvia and I did go into a couple of shops on her way back to the station. We both bought a dark red jumper which I will show you in another post.
I was getting decent again in this photo. Good shot of my back. I like the shirt collar up.
Below: Perfect example of a stepped gable.
Below: This ornament over a deep red door is so charming.
Below: I think I took rather a good photo of this statue with knights on horses.
It was an unexpected and lovely afternoon with Sylvia.
What happened in my life this week
The week started with a get-together of the BVA girls (well, girls…😂). Four of the six members were present. Jilske went on holiday quite unexpectedly and Claudia was too busy with work and moving house. Nevertheless, we had a good time with the four of us.
Below: Marijke.
Below: Marianna.
Below: Marianne.
Below: And me, wearing another outfit with my white cowboy boots. Link to original post with this pastel green shirt. (I remember Kitty and I having a big discussion about this post. I thought the colours were far too muted. They were fabulous photos but I felt like death warmed up.)
Our neighbours came for dinner and Ron decided to make it a Spanish tapas evening. We went to Amsterdam to get the food and Ron offered to do a photo shoot for the blog while we were there. Yay. You will see the result in due course.
I had also gotten a new photo assignment: ‘Colour my world’. Anything to do with colour. The market in Amsterdam was a terrific place to start. I got so many good photos (I think).
Below: A selection of my assignment photos. So hard to choose; I had 19 photos that first day… The tulips are plastic, by the way. Tulip season is over.
I returned to my Atlas Zone Therapist on Wednesday for a check-up. Due to my fall, he gave me a small after-treatment. I am fine now. And because the therapist lives very near a friend of mine, I visited her. Below: Jeanne and me. We know each other since secondary school.
Like most weeks, we saw our granddaughters. Little Evy is doing well and is crawling now.
Zoë (below) is adorable and very sweet (like all children she also tests her parent’s patience from time-to-time haha). Being a bonus mother, I never thought I would experience this kind of happiness.
My arm is improving every day but I had to go to the hairdresser again as I can still not lift my arm that high and certainly not with a heavy hairdryer in my hand. Given the fact that budget is low, this is not helping. My face is nearly normal again, only a little bit of black/blue at the bottom of my cheek and it doesn’t really hurt.
Saw Marcella (below) who was helping a friend in a gift shop.
And that is it for this week.
PS My English editor is on holiday, so, if you see mistakes in the English language, that’s the reason.
Greetje
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