Happy Holidays!

Dear Bloggers,

I just want to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a creative and spectacular 2012! I hope you'll stay tuned at my blog and that 2012 might be just as great as 2011! I would like to thank everyone for visiting Design by LISA this year. It's great to have your support and that my blog is read by girls all over the world! Have a lovely week everyone! May all your dreams come true..


Love Lisa



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The Killers and Christmas

My one and only favorite band: The Killers have a new single, a Christmas single! "The Cowboy Christmas Ball" is their fifth Christmas single, so you could say that they have something with this holiday. They've posted the song last week on Youtube and it already got viewed by over 100.000 people! I couldn't wait to see the clip which is (what we're used to) extremely funny! Do you remember the first one, came out in 2006? "Great Big Sled" continued by "Don't Shoot Me Santa!" (2007) and in 2008: "Joseph, Better You Than Me". Two years later (2010) was there "Boots" and now we have The Cowboy Christmas Ball! Well, I know for sure that I will listen all Christmas long to these wonderful songs. Never seen the clips or heard of the songs? Here you go! Enjoy ;-)


Love Lisa

Have a great weekend!

So, what are your plans for this (rainy) weekend? I have nothing to do for today (anyone ideas??) But, this Sunday do I have something on the planning. We go to Utrecht again (we totally love that city) and in the afternoon, we're going to cafe Lust where Rupert Blackman will perform with his band! That's something my mom and I are really looking forward to (because we both seen him live before!)

And then Monday: "Sinterklaas!" A Dutch holiday with also an old man with a white beard (when I was little I believed he and Santa Claus were brothers) Luckely, I don't believe in Sinterklaas anymore, but it's always so nice to see those happy children dressed up like "Zwarte Piet" and Sinterklaas himself! At home, we don't celebrate this holiday anymore (only Christmas) but.. I don't know, it might be a day full of surprises!

This busy week is continuing! Yesterday I ran off to the Melkweg in Amsterdam, to buy four tickets for The Boxer Rebellion on Wednesday December 7. I'm so thrilled to see this band live! They were guests Friday morning at my all time favorite radio show Giel! And then I realised I haven't bought tickets yet!

On Friday December 9, I have a reunion with my old classmates from High School (2004-2006) and the last time I've seen my friends was about two years ago! We're having dinner at a fancy place at the Koemarkt in Purmerend and we're eating tapas! I can't wait to see everyone again! I'm so curious how they're doing these days..

But yesterday was also a very good day! After the regular lessons: English, Dutch and Marketing do we have every Friday: Art & Design (a new school subject) Last week we went painting and this week we're going out to the city! As you might have heard, Amsterdam is a beautiful inspirational city where you can make lots of nice pictures. We went to several art galleries and ended the day at the Leidseplein with hot chocolate! Here I have some photos of that day.

Well, that is enough information for now. I hope you all have a great weekend with nice plans and hopefully better weather than here in my country ;)


Love Lisa

Sunny Weekend

Hi everyone!

What are your plans for this nice weekend? Today I'm going to my (back)family in Bussum. We have a sort of reunion every year with a barbecue. I love that! It's always nice to see everyone again and see how there doing. Tomorrow plays Waylon and band in Vondelpark Amsterdam. I've been to a lot concerts in the Vondelpark this year. For me there's nothing better than on a Sunday afternoon going out in the park to a free concert. O gosh, I just looked on the calender and see that the vacation has only 2 weeks left! That means, hard working at Ikea and relaxing when I have a day off. Altough going to school again and see my friends is not so bad for me. And I'm very excited to begin at my internship at Sanoma. Anyway, I'm looking really forward to this year. My last year! What's gonna bring it for me? I let you know, of course ;) But that's future talk. For now, just relax and enjoying your holiday, ok? :)

Love Lisa