Boots, shoes, supplies and shopping
Jun. 16th, 2014 05:28 pmThis afternoon I went shopping with Eisirt for shoes. It's only six more weeks to Drachenfest and since I've got special soles for my shoes, I doubt my medieval shoes will work for much longer (I also can't wear any kind of heels anymore, so if there's anyone in size 42 that wants to raid my closet, drop me a line!). As a back-up plan, I wanted to have "kisten" - Dutch army shoes - and those need a while to get used to. It's been several years since I had a pair of these last, so we had to find an army surplus dump store to get them.
Tilburg had one, and soon enough a size 42 was tried on and bought. For € 89,- I was a pair of boots richer.
But the shopping haul continued. We also visited the Ecco store in Tilburg, who were just starting their sale. We looked at DVDs in the Saturn store and browsed the Xenos as well. On our way back to Eindhoven, we stopped at Ikea for some much-needed Samla boxes for storing fabrics (I'm bound to get around to sorting through
dolphirl's donations soon) and larp costumes.
Here's the loot:

Geheel op zijn Lennyaans: foto's van de buit!
I realise Lenny often has a lot more clothes and frilly things to photograph, but I shop a little more sensibly and make a lot of mundanewear for myself. This was sensible shopping!
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*) When you read what it says in big letters on the box, it nearly sounds like it holds the car instead of the phone. I guess it would need to be bigger for that.
Tilburg had one, and soon enough a size 42 was tried on and bought. For € 89,- I was a pair of boots richer.
But the shopping haul continued. We also visited the Ecco store in Tilburg, who were just starting their sale. We looked at DVDs in the Saturn store and browsed the Xenos as well. On our way back to Eindhoven, we stopped at Ikea for some much-needed Samla boxes for storing fabrics (I'm bound to get around to sorting through
Here's the loot:

Geheel op zijn Lennyaans: foto's van de buit!
- Four Samla storage boxes, with lids and clasps (not in picture);
- A smaller IKEA 365+ frying pan for when I'm just cooking a burger for my old lonesome (not in picture);
- My new army boots;
- My new Ecco shoes for only € 99,- (my latest pair of Ecco's lasted 18 months and I'm not ready to declare them 'broken' yet even though the soles are breaking apart. I might be able to get to 2 years with them, come the autumn rains...);
- A lemonade pitcher for smoothies or iced water;
- Two isolation cups in a can form;
- A bug zapper;
- Two ladles for my wok;
- Some chocolate-making supplies: a melting spoon and spatula, and two chocolate molds;
- A holder for my phone* that sticks to my windshield for when I use it to navigate;
- The Extended boxset of LOTR;
- 20 Audio CDs to be burned (not in picture);
- The Generation Kill miniseries and Love Actually on DVD.
I realise Lenny often has a lot more clothes and frilly things to photograph, but I shop a little more sensibly and make a lot of mundanewear for myself. This was sensible shopping!
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*) When you read what it says in big letters on the box, it nearly sounds like it holds the car instead of the phone. I guess it would need to be bigger for that.