CHARLIE IN THE UNIVERSE

hey sweethearts <3

this is my last blogpost on Happy and Veg. 

Don't worry! I'll never stop blogging, in any case not yet.

I made a new blog! It's called charlieintheuniverse.com.

It feels really weird to kinda start again, on a blank page, all my options are open. I love it.

I'm gonna explain why I'm doing this.

fall in love, maybe

HAPPY NEW YEAR SWEET BABES!!! May your 2017 be filled with love and glitter ♡

Things I want to do in 2017.
Okay. So these are not resolutions because those don't work anyways. This is just a list for myself of things to remind myself of, ways I can get better at being me.
A few things to keep in mind to make 2017 tremendous (adj - very great in amount or level, or extremely good).

so apparently my mom has two birthdays (plus outfit)

Fourty-five years ago, the world became a little prettier. A beautiful baby came onto this earth and immediately shone from love. The Universe smiled at how beautiful this new little star was. Now she has achieved so much. She has a loving family, veganized all of them (endlessly grateful for that), and she makes me happy every day. My angel on earth. A goddess. The person I share so much with and who is the person I love the most in the whole universe. 

sixteen winters, already

Okay. In fact, this is my seventeenth winter if you calculate it right. But I got sixteen on Wednesday so I didn't want you to think I'm seventeen, lol.

Magical pictures from a magical afternoon ❤

Around two months ago, my family and I went to a bare-feet-walking-path for the birthday of both my sisters and my grandmother. It was really really fun and afterwards we went to a nature reserve with a lake and sand (it looked like a beach but it wasn't actually, there was no sea lol lol).

The forest fairy that should learn how to fly // outfit

Location: Forest.
Time: This afternoon.
Attendees: Mom, Mel, Sair, Rosie and me (Charlie).
Activities: Walking. Taking pics. Hugging trees. And much more.

on top of a mountain // outfit

And there we were.
On top of the mountain, on top of the tower, with a breathtaking view in front of us.

high on life ☼

yo guys what's up?

little life update

Hey guys,

I just felt like writing my current thoughts and life situation down.

AMARANTH - BERLIN ★

Throwback to Berlin and our amazing vegan experiences there <3

My two favorite places are The Bowl and Amaranth. I already wrote a post about The Bowl, so now it's time for a whole lot of Amaranth-pics that can give you some serious food- and adventure cravings. Here we go!

7 BACK TO SCHOOL OUTFITS

Hi guys!

Has your school started again? Mine starts tomorrow!!! *screams*

I'm going to show you some ideas for back to school outifts. I know I'm kind of late with this but yeah, I tried to think about school as less as possible haha.

My most important tip for back to school is: BE YOURSELF. You are more than enough. You don't have to be like everybody else. If you feel good, and love yourself in your clothes, than don't care bout anyone's opinion. They don't have to wear it.

Oh well, here we go.

Vegan Summer Fest 2K16 w/ my baes ❤

Hey!

Saturday, my best friend aka sister Miky (@natural_zoe on IG) came over to my house. She stayed until this morning and now she is on her way back home, to Italy. I can't wait to see her again asap! We have done so much fun stuff! Trampoline, petting ponies & bunnies, banana-meditating at midnight, saving the world, taking blogpics, and more :D Moral of the story: don't be afraid of meeting people through instagram :)

On Sunday, we went to the Vegan Summer Fest, with my parents, brothers, sisters, bestie and our friends (aka family) Sylvie, Jolan and Léa. We had a lot of amazing food, sold tombola-tickets for BE Vegan, tried on lipstick, bought new vegan clothes (blogpost is coming!), talked to kind people, laughed a lot, and had tons of fun <3 Thank you BE Vegan for organizing this amazing event :)

I feel like I have found true friends. No, more than that, Family. I think it's because in the past year, I evolved a lot, I started to love myself more. To be more grateful and happy in general. I think that that positive energy has attracted the right people for me. And I'm so incredibly grateful for that!! ❤

"Your vibe attracts your tribe."

There's not much more to say, so now just enjoy the pics!
xxx
Char

Ps: Our amazing new tops with "Young, Wild & Vegan", "Eat, sleep, save animals, repeat", "In my dreams, all animals were free" and "VGN PWR" are from Bazaar de Luxe. The founder and her family are so sweet and kind, and the clothing line is super cool and so so worth it! You should definitely support them <3

Ps2: Clif Bars are bæ! They are searching some vending points in Belgium, so if you are interested or know somebody that could be, just contact them.

The Bowl - Berlin ♡

California bowl :)

 The Bowl is my new favorite place, ever.
The adress is Warshauer Strasse 33, Berlin.
You really need to check it out!
Kind people, amazing interior, even more amazing food :D

Sunset at the lake // first night

The day we arrived at our holiday home, we first unpacked a bit, and than we went to the lake close by. There was a phenomenal sunset, so spectacular and beautiful <3

I also swam, it was so refreshing and pure.
I felt nothing but pure happiness and bliss.

That night I realized that you don't need to go to Thailand or Australia or somewhere far away to feel great. In your own country or in a place more near by, you can find so many beautiful new places to explore. But most of all you have to find happiness inside yourself. And that's a real journey.

So open your eyes and be grateful <3
Enjoy the pics :)

Lots of love,
Charlotte

GERMANY ♡

Hey guys!

so yesterday, I came back from 2 weeks of holidays in Germany with my family.

It was so amazing!

We went to Berlin 3 times, and I tell you, I'm really more a nature- than a city girl but if I had to live in a city it'd be Berlin. I really love(d) it there. <3

2 YEARS VEGAN! :D

Hello sunshines!

Today, it's exactly two years ago that we (my mom, brothers, sisters and I) turned vegan!
I'm so so happy about it, it's the best choice we've ever made in our lives. For the future of Mother
Earth, for the animals, for our bodies, for hungry people and for so much more.
I am so grateful! To celebrate it, we ate filled speculoos and it was heavenly. The recipe appeared on my blog earlier, click here. It is still in Dutch but you can translate it with the translate-button on the right side of the blog.

In these two years, a lot of wonderful things happened.

I made the most AMAZING vegan friends that I can imagine (Michela <3, Francisca <3, Gabriela, Lilly, Jennifer, Hsuan, I-Wen, Robin, and soooooo many more. I LOVE YOU ALL WITH MY WHOLE HEART!)
I went to the first vegan summer fest of Belgium
I went to Vegfest in The Netherlands
I went to a vegan christmas market
I joined a facebook-group named Vegan Teens of Belgium and met SO many LOVELY people,
I went to a meet-up with some guys and girls of this group and they were all so kind
I went to the winter meet-up of BE Vegan
I went to VeggieWorld
My dad and grandparents on my mother's side are almost 100% vegan now :)
I became best friends with my siblings <3
I started running
I started working out regulary (every day!)
I lost almost all my acne
I became an optimist
I started a blog
& I deleted it after a few weeks :P
I started another one (this one :D)
I started a youtube channel (click here)
I fell in love with all kind of animals, not only dogs and bunnies
We cut out refined sugar and oil and processed foods out of our meals (at home)
I got a lot of new hobbies, including cooking, baking, (food-)photography, eating, meeting like-minded people, ...
I began to appreciate new tastes like weird vegetables and legumes and things like that :)
I started writing a book
I got SO MUCH more self-confidence
I lost body-fat and gained muscles & happiness
I started appreciating my mind, my body, myself
And now I even LOVE myself <3
I (almost) veganized some people
I started an instagram account about veganism, selflove and that kind of stuff (click here)
I went to so many vegan restaurants, love that so much <3
I baked a looot (I never baked or cooked that much before)
I started appreciating nature and all the little things
I became stronger, mentally and physically
AND SOOOO MUCH MORE!

But best of all:

I saved 3.039.647 liters of water, 13.213 kg of grain, 2.044 Sq.m of forest, 6.643 kg of CO2, and 730 animallives <3 This is what makes me the most enthusiast about this whole lifestyle :) (NO, veganism is NOT a diet)

As you guys probably know, yesterday was EarthDay. This picture (from Vegan Street) says exactly what I want to say:


Maybe, if you follow me on youtube, you have noticed that I don't post a video every week anymore. It's because it takes so much time to edit one vid. Two weeks ago, It took me a whole Saturday to edit only one video. I just also have other hobbies! I like to go running, I work out every day, I want to chat and skype with my vegan friends, I wanna cook and be creative and much more and not only sit for the computer (see this article and you'll understand). But I already recorded a new video, so you can expect that one soon.

Anyways, I am so happy with our vegan-anniversary and now I'll shut down the computer and go have fun with my lovely vegan family!

Love you all guys! <3
xxx Charlotte

My first Youtube video!!

Hi sunshines! <3

so yesterday I uploaded my first video on Youtube ever.

As it is my first video and you may not know me yet, I first presented myself a bit and after that I told my vegan story. How and why I became a vegan and thanks to who.

I have over two weeks of holidays now (oh yeah by the way my exam results were good :D) so I have a lot of time to make video's and to edit them.

Today, I already filmed the second video, for next week. It is about our basic workout. I made it with my sister Sarah. I also started editing it a bit but I will continue doing that tomorrow.

I'm so excited about this all! I only had positive reactions until now :)

I wish you a wonderful day :)
And don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel by clicking here, and to watch my first video by clicking here.

xxx Charlotte <3

VeggieWorld Utrecht

Hi guys!

VeggieWorld (organized by Viva Las Vegas) yesterday was truly amazing! <3
I've met so many lovely and kind people, ate so many yummy things, learned so much from the lectures and really got inspired.

Vegan Meet-Ups :)

Like-minded mensen ontmoeten is zo fijn! <3

Op 14 februari hadden we een meet-up gepland met allemaal superleuke en lieve mensen van de facebook-groep Vegan Teens Of Belgium. Als je ook een veganistische tiener bent (of geïnteresseerd) die in Belgie woont, ben je van harte welkom. Er zitten alleen maar lieve mensen in de groep die altijd wel voor je klaarstaan en altijd willen helpen. Wij hebben Eva, Hanne, Elise, Dorien, Anne-Marie, Katrijn, Ethan en Jokke ontmoet. Stuk voor stuk schatten.
We hadden afgesproken in het vegan restaurant Komkommertijd in Gent, waar je 16 euro betaalt en dan mag je nemen hoeveel je wilt. Ik bedoel, een vegan buffet a volonté, dat is gewoon de hemel op aarde. Serieus. Ga naar Komkommertijd (de taart was echt niet normaal lekker).

Op 21 februari was er een Winter Meet-Up, georganiseerd door BE Vegan.

Het was echt zooo gezellig en mega lekker ^_^

Morgen gaan we naar de Veggieworld beurs in Utrecht. We gaan naar lezingen luisteren, naar kookdemo's kijken, vegan make-up kopen, lekkere hapjes eten, socializen met leuke mensen en nog veel meer!

Ik heb er superveel zin in! 

Kom jij ook?

Liefs,

Charlotte ❤️

Moonfood - K3 - Greenway

Hey!

Op woensdag zijn we naar Moonfood gegaan, een veganistisch restaurant in hartje Brussel.

Het is er heel gezellig ingericht en het eten is er ook nog eens heel erg jammie!

De tiramisu-taart was nog een beetje bevroren en viel daarom een beetje uit elkaar, maar was daarom niet minder lekker :)