My Kingsday Stall & 5 Tips for Wardrobe Decluttering

Happy belated Kingsday! For the non-Dutchies amongst you, Kingsday is a crazy Dutch national holiday where everyone wears orange, sells their things on the street and parties in celebration of the King's birthday.

Rather than entering the topic of whether I think celebrating monarchy is weird (to say the least), I wanted to share an (unusually maximalist) snapshot of my Kingsday pop-up stall!

our improvised Kingsday stall

This was my first year selling things on Kingsday (yes, I'm slowly becoming Dutch...) and it was really fun! Everyone is out on the street and you sit in the sun and drink wine and chat to people and next thing you know six hours have gone by and hey, you've even made some pocket money -with the additional benefit of decluttering your wardrobe.

I thought it was so cool how my old, unwanted clothes found new, (hopefully loving) owners. If that's not the perfect way to do a spring clean, then I don't know what is.

Spring in Paris

Yeah right, don't I wish! Well actually, spring has been pretty good in Amsterdam this year: The days are suddenly filled with sunshine and last way past dinnertime, the trees have started to bloom and markings are beginning to appear all over the sidewalks, which can only mean that Kingsday is just around the corner! 

wearing h&m top, &other stories skirt

Dressing in this weather can be a bit tricky -you might want to wear your shorts when you look out your sunny window, but obviously you'd freeze in a second if the sun hid behind a cloud. On the other hand, I hate being wrapped up in dark, heavy and depressing winter clothes when the sun is out, so finding myself in this situation the other day, I turned to Parisian chic for a little inspiration. I think this was probably also a case of my Instagram feed resurfacing from my subconscious, because these pictures from @lizachloe's Instagram (at least she really was in Paris!) definitely inspired me...

Summer Box

Do you like the #flatlay I've got going on?

weekday swimsuit, h&m shorts (old), shoes bought in mallorca, ray ban sunglasses and avene sunscreen (as always)

Angie's soup

My friend Angie is kind of a nutrition freak -I always have to ask her for clarifications at least once per sentence once she's started to explain something food-related, which is how our conversations usually go since she's determined to educate me to be healthy through my food choices. She recently had the chance to impart a few lessons since she came to visit... And I got to see how she puts them into practice with some delicious and super-healthy dishes, like this fragrant red lentil soup that I've been making on repeat ever since.

my roommate and I are book lovers so I always have naturally occurring props...