Okay cool.

Welkom op mijn blog! Ik was mezelf de laatste tijd steeds meer aan het ontwikkelen en wilde al die informatie ergens tentoonstellen. Een soort museum van mezelf. Dus kijk gerust rond en laat me weten wat je vindt.

[jacintico]

Shoutout to this baby

Idk why but somehow her 'story' makes me sad. And at first I thought you know it's just one dog and if she can give us knowledge that sounds worth it I guess? Because she could be part of something bigger?

But then I found out that even the guy who send her out in space said he regretted it for the rest of his life and that none of the knowledge we gained was worth sending her out there all on her own.

And yeah that just reminds me that sometimes knowledge just isn't worth it.

[daxnorman]

[picathuuu]

Sorry

Voor de schaamte

Sorry

Voor de onrust

Ik houd van je dat moet je weten

Heb alleen moeite om van mezelf

te houden

Dat kan ik soms vergeten

Sorry

Ik weet dat is niet genoeg

Houden van jou is misschien wel goed

Jij bent mooi

Jij bent lief en ik weet

Dat ben ik ook

Maar ik kan het soms niet zien

Gelukkig zie jij het wel

Je kan me soms een beetje helpen

[jacintico]

Train to Berlin 23-07

[jacintico]

[holydirt-deactivated20191230]

Golden letter

[jacintico]

My journey to a minimalist wardrobe - episode 2.1 DEFINE

Welcome back to the second part of this episode! I am just picking things up right where I left them, so here we go.

What are my 3 favorite outfits for each of my top 3 activities?

If you are wondering how I decided what my favorite outfits were, I just went to my Instagram page and looked at what I wear most often. So let's start with my first activity:

Friends, family and other loved ones.

When I meet up with friends, my boyfriend or family I prefer to wear skirts or dresses. They automatically look like I'm making an effort without being uncomfortable. I prefer tight skirts because A-line doesn't sooth me well.

Making and writing music.

When I go out to my band members to work on some new material it's always very important for me to look good. I feel like I sing better when I am confident about the way I look. Singing can make me insecure as it is so I definitely need my outfit to give me a confidence boost whenever I look in a mirror. I always feel very pretty in some high waisted jeans (either skinny or mom) and just a cute top. Preferably something that isn't too saggy but not too revealing as well.

Working for and going to school.

For school I really like to keep things simple and comfortable. So my go-to would be a regular skinny jean with either a cool printed baggy shirt or just a knit.

Now that we have that all sorted, let's move on!

Which 5 colors do you want to have in your closet?

At first I was all 'wait what 5??? I have like 20 colors in my closet now and have never given any thought about this at all'. So yeah this was quite a challenge. How did I manage to do it? Pinterest. I made a board with all these color pallets and just picked the ones I liked. The 5 colors should contain 3 neutral colors and 2 accent tones.

Using something like this scheme and combining that with other pallets I've seen really made things a lot easier.

So my neutral colors will be:

Black

White

Blue

And my accent tones will be:

Red

Green

And I know green can contain a wide variety of colors but I like having many colors in my closet and I figured why limit if it's something that brings me joy?

So this wraps up episode two! I am looking forward to seeing you in episode 3 where we will finally be diving in to my closet.

[sj0]

you have been visited by the seven magic dragon balls your biggest wish will be granted but only if you reblog

[hersheyhipster]

Couldn’t risk it.

[justjengie]

didn’t realize they change colors. now I know o gotta wish.

[pinayputa]

THIS SHIT IS REAL I GOT THE JOB I WAS NUTS ABOUT BC I REBLOGGED THIS YESTERDAY maybe it’s a coinkidink but it okay just take the necessary steps to achieve what you’re wishing for and YOU CAN DO IT

[lone-cnc]

Dragon Balls are always a reblog for me

[donnietrell]

Just cause I love dragon ball

[jacintico]

My journey to a minimalist wardrobe - episode two DEFINE

Welcome back to the second episode of my journey to a minimalist wardrobe! As defined in episode one we will be starting of with step one of our five step plan. 

The main question in this episode will be:

What do I want my style to be like?

To answer this question I first need to get an idea of what my average week looks like. So following our workbook (download here) we will be answering 3 questions.

Which three activities do I spend most time on?

This took me quite a while. Mostly because it seems hard to divide my life into three categories. I can easily say a lot of my time goes to friends, family and my boyfriend. But are those the 3 categories? I also spend a lot of time on school, making music, writing posts and I wanted to make sure I incorporated those activities into my categories aswel. Also I figured that clothing wise I wear the same outfits whether I see my friends or my boyfriend but I do prefer wearing different things when I go to school. So long story short I came up with these three:

Friends, family and other loved ones. Making and writing music Working for and going to school

What does an average week look like and how much time is spent on each category?

This was an easier question to answer. I just grabbed my agenda and started dividing everything I had planned into the 3 categories. This gave me some idea about the ratio of all categories. So I divided each day in half and then wrote down the categories in the blocks and it ended up looking something like this:

So putting it all together gives me the following: 8/14th of a week goes to my friends and other loved ones, 3/14th of a week goes to music and 3/14th of a week goes to school. Ending up with something like this:

And since this episode is already pretty long as it is, I will finish this step in another episode. 

Looking forward to it!

[flaunter-deactivated20180530]

[jacintico]

Dus is alles raar en dus is niks raar.

[jacintico]

My journey to a minimalist wardrobe - episode one THE APPROACH

I decided to change things up and share my process out here on the world wide web! Earlier this week I came across this 'minimalist wardrobe workbook' (which you can download here) and I decided to work through that book and combine it with the knowledge I already have about minimalising and reorganizing your wardrobe (i.e. Kon Mari Method and some other stuff I read on Pinterest). In this episode I won't actually be touching my wardrobe just yet, I will only be creating a plan on how to get started with all this.

So before we dive in, let's see our #why-power (credits to Pick-Up Limes for that one) by starting of with describing what my wardrobe situation is right now.

Part one - my wardrobe as it is

I have a closet with 6 very big drawers of which 5 are filled with clothing. And I want to start of by saying that 5 drawers of clothing seem fine to me. I don't really want to bring it down to 3 drawers or anything. So you might think 'but Jacintha why are you even going on this journey then?'. Well to answer that, the problem isn't really the amount of clothing it's the clothing on it's own. About half of what I own I almost never wear because it's cheap, or doesn't fit well at all. However if I throw out all those pieces there will be almost nothing left so I want to replace them with an item that I know I will love and wear often on many different occasions. And I know my wardrobe will probably never be finished since there are always things I feel like I need or whatever but right now I just feel very dissatisfied looking at all my clothes because the items that I actually adore just get smothered by all my bad decision making.

So no more of that!

Now that we have our why-power it's time to move on to the next part.

Part two - the five step plan

Before we get this going we need a plan and so using the workbook as an inspiration I came up with mine:

Define. First I need to figure out what I want my style to be like, edgy or cute etc. My clothes should represent the kind of person I am, and thanks to my fashion Pinterest board I won’t have to figure this out from scratch. I can just look at the things I saved and combine that with the clothes I already have and adore to define my style.

Declutter. The next step is to dive in my closet and divide everything into a keep and donate pile. Using my ideal style and thinking of whether or not an item fits within that image I should be able to decide on which pile an item should go.

Architect. Now that I’ve got my building blocks I should be able to create several outfits with the clothing that’s left. By creating about 3 outfits for several occasions I can see how well my clothes work together. If there is an item on the keep pile that I couldn’t very well integrate into an entire outfit I should throw that item on the donate pile as well. 

Arrange. Now that I’ve got my outfits it’s time to put it all back together in my closet. Using certain Kon Mari rules and other techniques I have found online I need to come up with a way of putting it all back together so that my clothes will feel comfortable and I will be able to see each item at a glance.

Complement. What is missing? What items do I need to finish all my outfits? When buying these items what should I look for and how do I make sure not to buy something that I won’t wear? I should make a list with about 10 items I still miss and then also a list of rules so that when I go shopping I won’t buy the wrong thing.

Now that we have our approach I look forward to seeing you back in episode two where we will be starting with step one of our five step plan!

[jacintico]

Ik kan het eigenlijk niet geloven, maar then again alles wat ik doe met hem kan ik eigenlijk niet geloven.

-we gaan weg, samen, voor even-

[jacintico]

What's the easiest way to become a nice person?

It's really quite simple, change your way of thinking:

Think of the world no longer as the world being everything on the outside and you being everything on the inside. When your hand stops, that doesn't mean you stop. Imagine the air you're walking in and the chair you're sitting on as a part of you. And not as a kind of 'thought experiment' but in a way that the chair being a part of you and you being a part of that chair actually makes sense. Because then again, why shouldn't it?

Isn't it my brain that forms all these images and smells and sounds I'm experiencing. I have no idea what that chair looks like in the real world, I only know what it looks like in my own head. My own world. So everything I see is essentially a part of me and I am a part of it.

If the whole concept of you not seeing the actual world but only the way your brain interpreters it is new to you, then this might be a bit much but maybe thinking of it like this will help: I once read an article about a certain type of bee that was almost going extinct because they couldn't distinguish a beer bottle from a female bee. Evolution had taught them to look for something brown and shiny to mate with. So for us a beer bottle looks nowhere near a female bee (it's way bigger, different shape, etc.) However because that bee doesn't see the actual bottle only the brown and shiny aspects of it, it is unable to see a difference. Now what does this tell us? Evolution is able to alter the way we see our world in order to enhance our survival skills. So we can distinguish a beer bottle from a bee but who knows what evolution has thaught us and what things our mind leaves out or adds in.

Coming back to the real question however. How does all this help me to become a nice person. Once you realise that everyone you interact with is a part of you and you are a part of everyone it gives a very different feel to it. It's no longer I and you. It's we, or better yet, it's us.

Try and remember that next time you see a shady character or heck even when you just go grocery shopping.

But for now,

Enjoy your day.

[jacintico]

Why opposites attract

This time I’m not going to start from the beginning. I’ll just start with the conclusion and then work my way back to how I came to this realisation.

Drawing made by my friend Tine Visser

So... Why do opposites attract?

Because they are very much the same thing.

And I know at first that doesn’t make sense at all, but hopefully once you’ve finished reading this you’ll see what I mean. And understand why every opposite is actually not an opposite at all, we just give them that kind of correlation. 

Okay so now back to about a month ago, when my boyfriend first told me this idea of opposites not actually being opposite at all. I didn’t quite understood what he meant at first but then one week later I was reading ‘de Jacht op het verloren slaap’ (A wild sheep chase) by Haruki Murakami and he talked about how we can look at ourselves as 

a leaf blowing in the wind and everything that crosses our path is just a mere coincidence

everything that happens to us, happens for a reason. And from the beginning of time it was already decided that these things were going to happen to us. 

But whether you believe in the ‘leaf’ theory or the ‘karma’ theory doesn’t actually make a difference. Because all we have is now, stuck between ‘everything’ behind us and ‘nothing’ in front of us. 

And that was the first time my boyfriend’s comment made sense to me. 

Then I tried to explain all this to a dear friend of mine but I wasn’t quite sure how to explain it to her because I hadn’t fully grasped the idea myself. And so obviously she thought I was just talking nonsense. And it wasn’t until earlier today when I thought of a metaphor that would finally give me some clarity into how opposites work.

So this is my last attempt at trying to make this all look very logical:

‘Imagine a hill. Any hill. And then imagine someone standing at the bottom and someone else standing at the top. The person at the bottom will say that this hill is going upward, and the person at the top will say that this hill is going downward. Those are two opposites but no matter how you describe the hill, it still just remains the same thing. Opposites are all a matter of perspective but it doesn’t actually change anything about the world itself. In the world we live in, opposites don’t exist.’

Enjoy your day!

[fetchingreads]

instead of, you know, actually reading, I’ve been searching for even more books to read. ya feel?

[wingardium-levigoaway-deactivat]

I feel.

[read-and-be-merry]

We all feel.

[alunit]

“Do you think the universe fights for souls to be together? Some things are too strange and strong to be coincidences.”

— Emery Allen