As you will understand, this green and white floral skirt is too good to use only once. The first time I featured it was great with the white boots and the neon green cashmere jumper. Now temperatures have risen from 12º C to 29º C which is crazy. I needed different footwear and a lighter top.
You have seen this styling with my green balloon skirt when I also wore this white cropped blouse/jacket. Funnily, I am hesitant about such a cropped jacket with a full skirt as it totally hides my waist. But apparently it is modern and the hesitation on my side might be the consequence of old rules in my head.
Marjolein is on holiday and so is Loes, which meant I had to rely on other friends.
Marita said she would gladly take my blog photos and we went to the Haarlemmerhout, the oldest park in the Netherlands (read more about it on Wikipedia). After the usual coffee session at Theehuis Haarlemmerhout, we headed out.
Below: Theehuis Haarlemmerhout (restaurant) is behind me. Lovely terrace with shade from parasols and trees. For some reason the light made my hair look yellow and I couldn’t get it right.
Below: The view from the restaurant.
Below: A little further down. The fences are at a slant to keep the deer within the park. There have been deer in the park since 1828. In another post, I photographed one (scroll down to see it).
There is also art in the park which you can see in a previous post with my orange pleather trousers.
Below: Marita, lovely as ever.
Below: We met a few dogs which I couldn’t resist photographing (well…Marita did that).
Below: Doggie number two.
Below: Just across the water is a little children’s playground and a kids city farm with various animals.
Below: Or you can just enjoy a walk through the green.
Below: We decided to cross a road to another area where there would be different light and more shade. Those cream/white shoes are new and soft as a baby’s bottom. The brand is Vivaia; never heard of them before. They make shoes from recycled and eco-friendly produced materials, like recycled plastic bottles. Lovely for my feet, finally, no blisters.
Below: And I went into a hysterical laugh. This is so me.
Below: Here is the silver bag again, which I introduced last week.
Below: A close-up with the blue glass earrings by Lara Design. The necklace is a present from Ron, a few years back from the jeweller I told you about two weeks ago. The pendant is a fancy wax seal stamp which you can have engraved with your own design. That costs a pretty penny, so it is still blank. I wouldn’t use it to wax seal anything. The blue bracelet is a present from Marjolein.
Below: We discovered a very old mirror in a nook and I tried to photograph Marita and me. Didn’t quite work out. Let’s call it artistic interpretation. 😂
What happened in my life this week
Because of the gorgeous weather we decided to have a family day at the beach. The beach of IJmuiden is never crowded as the photos below will show. Only they have limited parking space, so you need to be early (half past 9) which is good as the morning sun isn’t so bad. By 1 o’clock we are all on our way back home.
Below: See how empty and large this beach is? Zoë (3 1/2 years) and Evy (1 1/2 years) love to come to the beach. Most children do, of course. Ron ‘hid’ a ‘treasure’ in the sand and made a map where to find it. Mummy had to read that out loud as Zoë cannot read yet.
You are allowed to bring your dog to the beach here, all year round. We decided not to as it would be too much hassle with minding two little children as well. Their mum and dad were with us but chose not to be in the photo haha.
Below: I decided to show my 72-year old body for some reality. It is not a close-up and I didn’t choose the photos that made me look at myself in horror.
I know that you are thinking “I am sure it is not that bad” and I am also thinking of the blog reader who made me aware I shouldn’t talk myself down on weight as it might hurt other women. But this is really about my posture.
Below: I decided to be brave and post the horrible posture photos. Hunched like the hunchback of the Notre-Dame, sticking my belly out as if I was proud of it. I really need to do something about my posture. So, here is the real me, the truth, my dear readers.
I already tried to stand and walk straight at least 25 times and failed as I cannot think of it all day.
Anybody with a solution?
Below: Little garden idea of Ron. He took a bottle rack (to let cleaned bottles drip dry) and hung buckets with lobelias on it. I asked him to spray-paint the buckets blue as they were bright white. It won’t be long and the lobelias will hide the white rim at the top.
Below: An outfit I wore this week. Ron doesn’t like these earrings as the colour reminds him of ‘old-ladies-underwear’ haha. Sorry Ron, I love them. Link to two previous posts with these trousers, one with another green linen shirt and one with a black shirt; both good outfits with nice accessories.
On Friday I went to an outlet sale of expensive shoes, together with two Instagram friends, Janna and Gerti. Shoes and friends, a very good combination.
It was hot, hectic and crazy. All these shoes and boots, all these women grabbing them off the shelf…you had to guard your own shoes, otherwise somebody might take them and try them on.
Below: Gerti to my left, bought the brown sandals she was trying on here and I bought 4 pairs, the white ones you see, the cream ones, the blue ones and a pair of flat black shoes. OK, I splurged, but the prices were so good and the girls stimulated me to buy something entirely different. The blue and black ones are the safe ones, but the white and cream ones are definitely out of my comfort zone. And that is good as I have a terrible frumpy taste in shoes, even my mother said that to me once.
Janna had more self-control and only bought one pair.
If you want to modernise your style, especially with skirts and dresses, go wild with your shoes. We sat next to another instagrammer who was everything I loved to be, stylewise. Turned out she is a stylist. That figures. Her website is The Curated Self. She was trying on the white ‘sock’ type shoes and I said to her: “If you don’t want them, please let me try them on.” And she passed them on to me. Yay.
Below: With our treasures, completely pooped haha. Gerti on the left and Janna on the right. Gerti’s Instagram account is gertivanlier and Janna’s instagram account is Timelessstyle.nl.
Afterwards Janna had to go home as she had a dinner date. Gerti and I went to a nice restaurant and chatted for more than an hour. We had never met in real life. It was good to get to know one another.
Greetje
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