Home Decor | Bedroom Inspo

Home Decor
New school year, new place to live in and more responsibilities. I'm back in Amsterdam and these coming weeks I'll be relocating to my new place for the next three years or so. It's a studio on campus, but unfurnished and therefore I have to purchase everything myself so that's where this post comes in. I've been looking at inspiration from all over social media and so far I have an idea of what I'd like my place to look like... I want it to look relatively similar to the above collage. I would like for the bedroom to be black and white with a hint of green (I currently have some plants that I've been slowly buying). Just wanted to give you all a lil' glimpse into my mind.

How about you, are you in the process of renovating or anything like that? Let me know below. x

AMSTEL

Amsterdam
Good morning from Iceland, last week I was all in my feelings, missed my parents and was just overall homesick so I booked a one-way ticket and here I am. A  day after arriving I fell ill, I caught some sort of fever or perhaps it's the difference in weather... anyway, it's been long since I last posted so I decided to use this free time.

Opening a New Chapter

Amsterdam
Happy new week and I hope your weekend was good. Mine was spent exploring and getting lost in my new neighbourhood - but I always make it home safe so no worries. Last week I made my big move and relocated to The Netherlands, particularly Amsterdam. Last year [in this post] I mentioned how I had been trying to move abroad for University but things did not work out as planned because I ended up not scoring high enough on my TOEFL Test.

This year I started preparing earlier than before, I got my TOEFL results in beginning of April after applying to three Universities in Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Utrecht. To my surprise I was accepted to all three and was left with having to make one of the hardest decisions ever and something I know will highly impact my life; hopefully for the better. As you now obviously know, I decided upon Amsterdam because it is the place where I have always wanted to study and now here I am.

Clicking the 'complete purchase' button for my one-way ticket was frightening seeing as I have always bought round-trip flight tickets. Packing was a nightmare and I had been preparing everything two weeks prior to flying out only to somehow end up doing everything the very night before my morning flight. I crammed my entire life for the coming few years into two suitcases, I have no idea how that happened but I managed. In this post I brushed on the fact that I want to live on less materialistic things and so far, so good. And soon I will be sharing with you glimpses of how I have organised everything.

I have now been here for a little more than a week, my father joined me here for a couple of days to help me settle and we had a great time. As of now, everything is almost sorted out but getting Internet was by far the most problematic, it's as if the odds were working against me. I stayed here four whole days without being able to communicate with my family whenever I desired and my only option was to take a 10 minute walk to the campus... Eventually I managed to get it up and running and I am back to abusing my Netflix account.

Friday the 19th and the 26th the Erasmus Student Network board at my Uni held welcome drinks for all International and Exchange students, aside from that myself and other students have met a couple of times in-between for drinks and exploring the nightlife in the city and to be honest it has been quite hectic and my body needs refuelling, so for now I plan on letting myself sleep till noon and overall enjoying the little free time I have got remaining till my programme commences.

Till next time.x

Dining at Argentína Steikhús

H/M
Happy Sunday! Last Friday mum took me to a restaurant called Argentína Steikhús seeing as I'd just completed my last shift at work for the summer and also it had been long since the two of us went out for dinner. It was my first time eating there and I had such a great experience, I'll definitely be going back for their white chocolate mousse dessert. We were there for almost 4 hours just chatting and indulging in scrumptious dishes.

Sneak Peek

Lifestyle
Happy Friday everybody! I'm here to share with you a few snipets from my bedroom, specifically my wardrobe and how I store some of my items such as shoes and jewellery. I will be showing you in a more in-depth post later one as I'm currently searching for my camera charger, it seems there's a ghost in this house because I feel as though each time I desperately need something, it mysteriously vanishes from my eyes. Anyway, once I get hold of it, I shall make sure to share with you more photos, but these photos will have to do for now.
Also I'm working on clearing out my wardrobe so the pictures you'll see later will be after the whole 'cleanse'.

Esther. x

Home Decor | Minimal living

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Home Decor lust list #1

In exactly 20 days I shall be relocating to another city for my University studies, my flight and apartment are all sorted. I have recently discovered myself going a bit crazy with my home decor pins on Pinterest, I thought why not give you insight into how I plan on decorating my tiny apartment - when it all comes together I will definitely share with you more pictures. My current situation has come to feel very cluttered (both mind and surrounding), so when I move I plan on trying a more minimal way of living thus the title of this post. I really love that sofa and lamp, would not mind having them in my place - plus there will most definitely be a lot of greens too.

Do you live alone or with friends? Let me know below because I'd really love to know how you've decorated or how you would do it if you were to live alone?

Esther. x

TODAY

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Today I started my day off with a much needed facial cleanse courtesy of my lovely mother. My appointment was at 11 am and being the time management freak that I am, I was going to get there on time but then I got stuck in traffic... I was a bit disappointed for arriving 3 minutes late. The lady was nice though and told me that it was all cool. I'm a firm believer in getting to my appointments/meetings on time, like if we have to meet at a certain time, I expect you to be there and not arriving 30 minutes or even an hour late - I would have rather stayed at home then instead of you wasting my time.

After my facial, I met up with mum for lunch and later on I met a friend downtown, we got ourselves some lunch and refreshments and then walked to a well-known attraction in the city centre (it's highly popular when the weather's good hence us going there). We had a chat at Austurvöllur while enjoying our food and the great weather. Later on we decided to change locations and went to Klambratún - where the kjarvalsstaðir Art Gallery is located, it's a massive park and there it was even better. Bigger and greener surroundings with no noise from already drunk people from nearby restaurants/bars.

What did your day consist of?

Esther. x

May & June in photos

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Saturday selfie, used the Naked 3 palette + Tivoli in Copenhagen

At the beginning of June I went to Copenhagen to visit friends and also to attend Distortion; which is a 4 day festival held in the streets of CPH. They literally close certain streets for all vehicular traffic and they are many stages all over with all different types of music. All you had to do was bring your own alcohol and enjoy the different genres of music and the crowd was insane so make sure to bring comfortable shoes because you'll have people stomping on you!

July Goals

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Outfit details - here

"The big questions is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure." 
- Joseph Campbell

As I'm writing this post I'm on cloud 9... literally! I just took quite big steps towards making my dreams become a reality, I actually come to find that I've been lacking in the -positivity- department so what I did was I purchased a book by Jen Sincero called You are a Badass: How to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life. It's a great book that's impacting my life in ways I couldn't think a book could. I'll be sharing more later, hopefully when I've completed reading the book.
Anyway, today I'll be sharing with you all some of my goals to accomplish for this month so here it goes.


In July I want to:

- Complete reading You are a Badass by Jen Sincero

- Continue being social

- Re-organise and declutter my wardrobe

- Get rid of the resting bitch face & smile often

- Spend a weekend at a summer house

- Finish knitting my 2 jumpers for winter

- Start practising yoga again

- Get into the habit of eating breakfast every morning (this is a nightmare of mine, no matter how much I try, I can never seem to have enough time in the mornings)

Those are some of the things I plan on accomplishing this month, I'll be touching up more on my plans about the next coming months as I've got some VERY exciting news I cannot wait to share with you all - I decided to share it later as I don't want to jinx anything.

Till next time. x

June Goals

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Outfit details - here.

Hello my beautiful ladies, today I'm sharing with you my goals for the month of June. Although a week and a half has already flown by, I still decided to go ahead and share with you all. It's also a nice change from the usual outfit/beauty posts. Plus some of the goals are those I didn't accomplish in May.

In June I want to:
  1. Organise and sort out my wardrobe
  2. Read 2 books (I'm currently reading Gone Girl)
  3. Minimize my nights out + alcohol consumption
  4. Visit my friends more often
  5. Slowly start working out again
  6. Maintain my face (cleansing) routine
  7. Go on road trips, Iceland is a country with beautiful nature and I need to utilise it
  8. Be more creative with the blog showcasing different content

I would love to know what some of your goals for this month are! Let me know below because I love reading posts like these.

Beginning of birthday month

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There's no better way of starting a new month than with my favourite thing to do in the entire world, INDULGING IN GOOD FOOD. Today I want to share little snippets of what I've been up to lately and also which restaurants I've been trying out. As you might have picked up from the title, it's my birthday month and I'm so excited. I'm always excited as I count down the days and when the day finally arrives I just lay on the couch like a potato doing absolutely nothing!

1. You probably already know about my love towards food and posting pretty pictures of it on instagram, but besides eating, I also enjoy cooking very much. I have quite a collection of cook books and magazines, I read online blogs as well. You can find this recipe here.
2. Feeling myself with my current hairdo, apparently I'm now joined the senior squad.
3. Italian Crêpes for lunch.
4. My friend J's birthday dinner at KOL accompanied by a glass of Pinot Noir.

Oh and you can probably tell that I've got myself some frames for my face. I'm absolutely in love with them, they are not prescription glasses, I just love the feel of them plus they have some gold detailing on them. Got them at a flea market and you'll be seeing them much more often on here.

Insta-Krush #13

Insta-Krush

What I wore to mum's graduation - outfit here.

Oh how great it feels to be back blogging even though I'm not sure as to how much of it I'll do the coming weeks seeing as my memory card (filled with lots of content for the blog) decided to suddenly stop co-operating with me. What a bummer! Anyway I just booked myself an impromptu trip in about two weeks from now and because of that I will stay positive. I'll tell you more about that later. As of right now, I have no way of importing my photos from camera to computer so 
I hope these Instagram snaps will suffice for the absence.

D.I.Y | Revamping an old table

D.I.Y
I bought this table about a year ago from a second hand store (I love going to such stores), whether it's for clothes or interior decor; especially when I've got something up my sleeve that I'd like to try out. It's always a good place to go because if it doesn't turn out as planned, then you needn't worry about having spent too much money on something useless. Below is a lil' project I did, I re-vamped this KR. 1.000 table from black to white, I kept the marble part just as it was at first.

Insta-Krush // #12

Insta-Krush

Last October I spent a few days in Berlin, I was helping my dad get settled as he moved there for a couple of months. As you can see from the title, these are some favourites of mine from Instagram - you can find me @stylekrush. 
Selfie at the Berlin TV tower
Jacket & Jeans - Zara // Shirt - JÖR // Scarf & Bag - H&M // Converse sneakers
Kurfürstendamm shopping street // Wine at Bikini Berlin overlooking the Tiergarten  
Brandenburg Gate

Overall I had a really great time and it was my first time visiting Berlin, I'd bee to Cologne before and there we rented a car and drove to Amsterdam. Berlin's a great city with a lot of history, it felt like an accomplishment and also surreal to actually see the Berlin Wall after only reading about it in History classes. I went on a day tour of the highly anticipated tourist attractions with a hop-on hop-off bus which was very convenient. 
I'm planning on going again soon for  a short visit, but I'm still thinking of where else to go from there seeing as I'll be in mainland Europe and I want to visit more countries; not just Scandinavia.

Have you been to Berlin and if so, what did you like most about the city?

Esther. x

10 Things About Me

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Throwback to last summer in Malmö.

Hello everybody - hope you've all had an eventful week and are looking forward to the weekend, unfortunately for me I'll be busy with work this weekend so nothing much will be happening over here. Today I felt like sharing a few things about myself to interact with all of you and hopefully some of you can relate to some of these things, so here we go.

The Months to come

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Throwing it all the way back to Christmas 2014 with this picture, I miss the blue hair.
Well it's that time of the year again where we reminisce the past year and set goals for the coming year, it's anything from a healthier diet to simply changing your hairstyle or colour. For me it's all about taking baby steps, I rarely set unrealistic goals for myself and I refuse to do so. Usually I don't even set any goals for myself as I prefer my life to be spontaneous as to having to plan things ahead of time. 2016 is when things are about to change because I'm here today to share with you all a few points of the things I'd like to work on/achieve and work towards in the new year.

  • Pray more and go to church more often
  • Make time for yoga a few times a week
  • Be consistent with my healthier lifestyle
  • Drink more water
  • Travel more (still have to go the ring about the country)
  • Minimize my spending habits
  • Produce more content for the blog
  • Take risks
  • Focus of my future and stop fearing failure
  • Save up as much as possible
  • If all allows, more abroad for my studies
  • Try-out different restaurants / coffee houses´
  • Spend less time on social media (this I'm actually already quite good at because I can easily zone out and go days without checking up on Twitter, Instagram etc.
  • Become a better version of myself

Those were my more realistic goals for the new year. What little goals have you set for yourself for the year ahead?