STUDIO NIGHTS AND MANGO MORNING

love, julieanor 

DUTCH DESIGN WEEK - EINHOVEN,HOLLAND

is there a better way to start your uni experience and to get to know your class mates then to visit a foreign city, a super cool exhibition, and have a great time? i do not think so. but it sure was blooming awesome. the dutch design week is known world wide and regarded to as the biggest (and best) design event of the year. basically to whole city becomes a giant interactive exhibition with options to participate in workshops or listen to nice gigs in fancy bars.  the few days worked wonders on your group energy which means we got to know each other and got a sense for each others personalities..i've never liked so many people in one group. i just feel so understood and inspired within them.

ahhh i'm so beyond happy to be studying my passion and constantly learning about things that truely move me. i obviously took a exsessive amount of pictures so here are just very few of them. but they show of the cool and inspiring vibes of the dutch design week 2015.i'll be back next year for sure!

 

charlie cunningham sounded like melted butter with honey..soo smooth and good! such a talented guy who took his time to have a beer and a chat with us. give him a listen on spotify if you feel like it!

take care,

juli xxxx

DO YOU STILL LIVE AT HOME?

maybe i should put as a little disclaimer "attention!attention!it's 2am. i am sitting on my bed in the pitch black night. i tend to over dramatize a lot. i might cringe and delete this post when i reread it in the morning light. but for now, i am too curious to see where this ramble will take me."

as of today, i officially started my first semester as a uni student. with that being all new and exiting, people like to ask a sugar load of questions.. but one of them stuck with me longer then the others..and that's the typical "soo..when you start uni will you still live at home?"

especially in the past couple of weeks i've confronted myself with the feeling of "home". what it is to me and where i can find it. i see "home" as a mixture of love and shelter and it's up there with the very basic cravings like food and water. kinfolk published a beautiful article on that topic. you can read a bit more about that here --> https://www.kinfolk.com/a-sense-of-belonging/

to come back to my original question "do you still live at home?" i truly hope that i will always be able to answer this question with a yes! where else should i be? and no i don't mean by that that i'll never move out of the current house that i am living in. maybe i even mean that sometimes i'll have to remove myself from the situation and move from that place in order to still feel a sense of belonging and home.

because home is a beautiful emotion and connection to your surroundings and loved ones around you and neither walls nor a address. 

i am sure that your relationship to "home" and your interpretation of it is something extremely personal and that it says a lot about your needs and the person that you are.

by chatting to friends, family, strangers and little kids you can get so many different perceptions of their image of home. that's definitely one of my favourite topics to talk about with people. especially while travelling because you can get a clearer view of what you're actually missing when homesickness kicks in.

sometimes home will be the back of a camper, a hammock, a friends couch , between someones arms or leaning against a shoulder. but as of now i don't need it to be a fixed place. i want to be able to take home with me in my heart and mind and splatter it all over the world.

i know a lot of people who find it very comforting and important to have a actual house/walls/normal/home. but after willingly dropping that already a few times in my life i am starting to search for the core of homesickness and it's not a place so far.

this is definitely all over the place..but maybe i'll smile someday when i look back on this post, swinging in a hammock in the norwegian  mountains feeling perfectly at home.

here are a few pictures of my current place i like to refer as home and a few projects that make it feel that way.

when was the last time you felt homesick?

xxx