Motivation, it's a complicated subject. Wheather you're trying to stay motivated for school, your job or your relationship: it can be a whole new challenge to find motivation in your surroundings and keep it where you need it.
Rotterdam is really big. And there are so many places which are popular, but also some places which only a few know. I really love to just walk around the city and come somewhere I've never been to.
Today I'm sharing six of my favourite places to go.
One of
my main passions in life is listening to new/unpopular music. A lot of people
listen to mainstream tracks, but at lot of people don’t dive in further than that. And then there is
me, a music fanatic. I have a lot of favourite mainstream artists, but that is
not what we are going to talk about today. Today it is all about the music underdogs.
YAY! Our first ever podcast is now live!!! We are so excited for you to hear it :)
In this post I will tell you what I would wear in summer, when I would have a dream closet.
I've been looking through Polyvore for cute clothes. My eye immediately fell on a really colorful Adidas crop-top. I think I would wear this with denim shorts or when it's a bit cold outside with boyfriend-jeans.
Lately I've been really into dresses. I literally wear jeans everyday, so that's actually kind of weird haha! I came across this black dress from Forever 21, It's a bit short, but I think it still looks cute. You can make this look really nice with heels/sandals or if you don't like heels/sandals, just black Vans or Black converse.
For the girls who just like normal shorts... Here we have a high-waisted denim shorts! I just LOVE denim. I have so many denim items in my own wardrobe. I found this one on Chicnova. You can wear this with any t-shirt you want, but my only tip is: wear sunglasses.
I just imagined myself wearing this, with a basic white t-shirt and round, black glasses.
On SheIn i found this really cute cardigan. Cardigans are just really multifunctional: if you are a bit sunburned, you can put that on, to cover your shoulders and back, but it won't feel really hot, because it's airy. I would wear this with just my bikini, for when I am walking to the swimming pool.
The last thing I saw, was a pair of sunglasses. I've been looking for sunglasses for a long time already. At the moment I have hippie sunglasses (those small round sunglasses), but I really want a new one. I think this one is really classy!
As you can see; my style is really weird haha! I'm really excited for the summer and I got even more excited after writing this post. Upcoming Friday Sally will post a blogpost and on Sunday our first podcast will go online!!!
It's a small post, but I hope you enjoyed reading this.
By Valerie
YES! Our blog is finally online. It took us so much time to create this! For our first post, we thought it'd be fun to tell you about the process of creating Coffee Chats. Be warned: the past weeks have been terribly messy.
The layout
Creating a layout for a blog is fun, but very stressful as well. We decided to finally choose a theme that we could use for a while, until we could create our own. We knew a minimalistic theme was what we were looking for all along, so we're pretty happy with the final result. Still, we can't wait to finally start on our very own template! We have classes to make our own templates, so we will have our own template soon.
The idea
So as you might've read on our About page, the idea started on a usual Monday morning. I (Valerie) started talking about how bad my blog was doing with Sally. I really like to write and take pictures. Sally also started a blog last year, but she deleted it because she didn't had enough time for it because of school. We said at the exact same time "maybe we should make a blog together''. Emma came up with the idea to make a fashion, beauty and lifestyle blog!
The name
The story behind the name of our blog is very funny actually. Every Monday after school and before sporting, we go somewhere to drink coffee with our friends. It actually became a tradition and it was always very fun. Emma, Sally and I were discussing the name of our blog and then Sally said: "something with coffee in it". And then she said: "Girls... COFFEE CHATS! Because we love coffee and we love to talk, so it actually makes sense". We all agreed with her and that's the story of how we got the name of our blog!
Social media
Making social media pages was actually really fun to do. We followed a few of our favorite YouTubers, bloggers and our friends on Instagram and we made a Twitter and Tumblr. We also made a Facebook-page, where some of our friends and family followed us. The most stressing thing about the social media pages were the logo and the theme. We literally had a discussion which theme we should use for just our Instagram. We all agreed on having a really light, but colorful theme. We don't want a messy theme, so we hope it will work out!
Photoshoot
Last week we also had a small photoshoot, but we didn't had a photographer, so Emma took pictures of us and Sally took pictures of Emma. The photoshoot was really fun, but we really need pictures of the three of us together! Hopefully we can make them this week. We already have some idea's on our minds for the upcoming photoshoot.
So that's it for our FIRST post! Upcoming week we will post our first podcast.
You can follow us on our Social Media pages on the right side of the website.
By: Valerie
It's finals season and exactly no one is excited about that. I personally don't have finals to go through (except for a portfolio that I'm behind with, yay procrastination!), but I can remember last year very clearly. Senior year, to me, meant a lot of stress. Let's make sure you don't have to go through that this year. Here are 7 tips from an internet junkie, to an internet junkie!
