i moved & read romance books to distract myself 💕 

It's kind of unfair that practically everywhere you look in the Netherlands looks fresh out of a high-fantasy novel. That windmill is perfect.

No way, just yesterday i was thinking "damn, it's been a month since she posted anything." Perfect timing.

you're not dramatic for feeling sentimental about leaving a space that held your life for so many years !! i'd be crying my eyes out too dw

1 box of kitchen stuff 2 boxes of clothes 786 boxes of books

"what I really need is have people around me in my new home that already feel like home" OKAY well stop making me cry on a monday morning

I am constantly amazed by your vocabulary and the ability to express yourself and your feelings throughout the words you use while having in mind that English is not your native language! It’s absolutely mind blowing for me! I used to watch a lot of English-based people on RU-vid just to learn the language more but to be honest I often find the non-natives faaar more eloquent

Girl, coincidentally I moved last month from a home I lived in for 4 years. I spent the entire pandemic looking at the sky from that huge window, picking oranges straight from the tree, and my fiancee built us a vegetable garden that was full of herbs and spices and big veggies. One of my dogs gave birth to one of my youngest pupper at that house, and I was so comfortable there... but the landlord wanted to claim the house back for himself. We had 1 month to leave. We are not in a good place financially rn, bc lots of financial emergencies happened within the span of 3 months, so we had to move to a smaller house, further away from my job. I am still, as I type this, surrounded by some boxes, and I just recently finished making and installing all the kitchen cabinets. I can't drive near the old address bc I start crying. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night and look for my lights where they used to be in the old home - but they are not there. Moving can be an exciting process, but it IS emotionally tiring. It is completely valid to feel emotional about a place, it is completely normal to have to reorganize your life around the new place, and we can all understand why you haven't posted. We missed you, but we are all thankful that you want to share all those things with us and I'm specially glad to have found your channel a year ago. You have a beautiful home, and you are a sweet sweet person! Kudos from a brazilian fan

awe at first living on your own does feel kinda lonely. i cried too lol. but then it starts feeling so nice to feel so totally comfortable in every part of your place. it’s all yours to decorate and lounge around in! just your schedule and your company. it’ll get more comfortable, and honestly kinda sacred ♡

How incredible it is to have a place that holds so many pieces of who you are-a bed where you’ve spent countless nights reflecting on life, a chair where you’ve lost yourself in your favorite books, a kitchen where you’ve made tea on cold winter mornings, each moment shaping the person you’ve become. What a privilege to carry these memories with you, knowing they’ll always be a part of your story!

"Reading slump? Who is she? Packed her up in a box and lost her." 😂

Moving is traumatic whether it's for a plant or a human, whether you're happy to move or not. It's worse when you live alone and even more so when you don't know anyone in the new location's area. But it takes time to settle in. Look for the good parts to soothe your soul. All about love is an excellent book. ❤ I'm glad things arehave been getting better for you, Leonie!

Never feel sorry about “being dramatic”! I think it’s beautiful because it means you love the places and things around you dearly 🥰

leora + leonie in videos together = happiness ❤😊

crazy how we're both moving out of the same city at the same time omg watching you visit all the cafés and spots in leiden that i used to go to with my friends after uni to study or hangout is making ME sentimental especially because i never got to say goodbye like you do in this video before moving across the world ToT

Wow, in 2 days it'll be my first year of uni and honnestly it's nuce to see someone also going through a time of change !

I found your channel 3+ years ago.. glancing at that begonia poster(it's one of my fav plants ever) in your old room while you talk about books has been very comforting for me. And when you took it down even I kinda felt a little sad. But I'm also very happy that you moved to a gorgeous place, can't wait to see how well you'll decorate your new place

No need to be so hard on yourself, moving is always hectic and overwhelming! And you have every right to be emotional about leaving a place you loved 🌼 Plus, even if you had moved a bunch of times already, even if you were used to it, there's always something that will refuse to go according to plan and them bam! you have a brand new problem to solve, in half a day, on a probably less-than-optimal budget. The most important part is that you got it done! Congratulations, moving to a new place by yourself is such a beautiful thing 😊🌸 Have fun!! 🍀🥳

Welcome back!!!! We missed u❤❤❤

It’s totally normal to grieve before, during, and after you move- even when moving is a good thing! When it’s happened to me, I remind myself that although I’m no longer living in the places that made me who I am, those places are still with me in my memories and in who I am today. 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡

you and leora are so endearing, i hope y’all are happy friends forever :)

I'm also currently going through big life changes with an unexpected and horrible break up and feeling very lonely, so this video really did help to make me feel less alone. And as always your thoughts are so well put and clever and I really truly appreciate everything you put out❤️

you remind me of my senior year english teacher and i mean that in the most positive loving way. i loved her, i even went to her wedding the summer after graduating hs, she helped me a lot and we talked about books so i feel the same i used to feel with her when i watch your videos! what i want to say is that your content is just so comforting to me and i hope you love doing it because i love watching it💕 by the way, you’re home looks lovely! congrats on this new stage of your life 💕💕

I'm a keen solo explorer too! There's just something special about experiencing new places alone, I feel like it's easier to get immersed in their atmosphere this way

I also moved recently and I'm impressed by how you managed to transport all of your books. My book stash is significantly smaller than yours but the move made me get rid of half of it. Your apartment looks so cozy.

It's baffling to me how even in a video about struggling with moving and settling in a new place, you still have such a deep understanding of what's happening and end up making a very beautiful and poetic video about it. I hope now you're settled and cosy in that beautifully decorated new apartment, and I wish you all the best 🌼

You and leora sitting at your dining table working with the large windows behind you and the curtains swaying in the wind 💙💙 felt like the perfect picture for a lofi video 😅 I love it

13:44 I renovated my house and moved in 3.5 months ago and I still feel this way. its so overwhelming!! I just never feel like im done

The apartment is coming together so beautifully!

I also recently moved from one continent to another, and what you said about recognising love in other areas of life other than romantic love between two people really resonated with me a lot. My friends are really so dear to me, and saying good bye to them one by one over the course of two weeks (again - I had gone through this process before Covid already. It wasn't any easier the second time around), really made me appreciate these connections on a different level . Not to say I didnt feel appreciative of them before. But a move like this makes you feel it even more deeply. Your video felt like a warm hug in this situation of change. Thank you

Im not moving right now but im going through a sort of mental health turning point thats similarly cathartic, sentimental but overall a good change and today was the perfect day to see this video and remind me that amidst this exciting, emotionally exhausting time, i need to make sure to slow down, allow time for non-productivity and time with people I love. ❤ OH and to add All About Love to my TBR 🥰 thank you as always, Leonie~

This video was beautiful, somehow changed my perspective on life at this moment. Worth the wait 💖💖

change is difficult, it’s normal to feel emotional about it. ily leonie ♥️

I'm 20 and I completely moved probably like 10 times in my life and lived in even more places. For me moving is exciting, but always bittersweet. While I can't imagine how attached you were to your previous place, I can definitely understand the feeling. It's nice to see the acceptance and certain re-evaluation during your journey, almost healing. From a proffesional mover, there's always so much to gain and explore while moving to a new place! And I'm sure you'll use use every opportunity you have. Sending hugs💛

5:19 omgg why is this so cuteee 😭😭

I just moved to the Netherlands by myself and I had no idea how much I needed this video to help me deal with all the turbulent emotions that are coming with it, so thank you so much for this ❤ I relate so much with your view on feeling lonely. I love being alone and I always wanted to live by myself so it’s been confusing me how I’ve been feeling so lonely. The most daunting thing for me is knowing that I’m so far from my partner, my family, my friends and feeling super insecure, especially as an introvert, about making new friends. But I guess that applies to being in your twenties in general 😅 lovely to see you in your beautiful new home ❤

I think it's amazing to feel so much for a place that you live. I lived in an apartment for 12 years and moved in the past year and felt nothing for it. It felt more like a place I was stuck in after awhile because I had gotten sick. But before that I lived somewhere for a year and I still think about it and get a little sad because I loved it so much. It had so much character, made me feel safe and want to create.

So glad you're back!!! Your new apartment looks amazing and cozy and still so you!! Missed you!!!

So pleased that your new apartment looks like a real adult space. Your other place was lovely but had ‘student’ written all over it. This is a lovely place. You have decorated it so well.

Moving is always hard! I had an unwanted/forced move some years ago that was honestly kind of traumatic. Your new place looks SO nice though, congratulations on starting this new chapter of your life!!

Nooo, it's really important! It's definitely totally normal to have lots of E M O T I O N S about moving, and you did a great job putting them into words - that's the book-reading paying off right there! - which will help you put them into perspective and keep going. It's a really good skill to have, so thank you for showing it in action! I admit, I grew up in the same house for toooo long so when it was time to pack up, I was IMPATIENT to get outta there XD Even then, it was still VERY stressful to check and re-check that I'd remembered everything! And on moving day we forgot a few things - mostly boring stuff like lampshades, but also a wall calendar we'd written SO MUCH STUFF on!! Thankfully, a friend was able to grab it from the place before it was actually sold, and mailed it to us ,XD That really taught me to always check the walls twice!

i’m leaving for college in 4 days, so this video was perfect timing. the feeling of leaving the place that has formed you is so one the i relate to, especially since that place is my childhood home for me. ❤

crazy how leonie has the incredible ability of looking exactly like the girl of my dreams

I've been checking both your channels these days just to make sure that my notifications haven't been failing me and that you really haven't uploaded any video dhjddfh anyways, just like with all your previous ones, I finished this video and thought to myself "God... I love her videos", you just make everything feel so nice and cozy. Also I'm really happy for you, I hope you're feeling a lot better at your new apartment 💜

Ooh! Intertextuality! May you be blessed in your new place! ❤

The drawing of you and your friend is Gorgeous!!!

I can’t believe I’ll say this to a RU-vidr but I really missed you :(

Oh I’ve been wondering where you were and if you are OK. Relieved to see you all moved in and things look great! What a fabulous apartment

Yayyyyy you're back!!! I missed your lovely videos so much ☕️😊📚 I'm currently looking for my first place to call my own home, and your video is giving me such hope💕💕💕

One of the best videos from you especially the words you expressed. I feel like moving on is essential, though you leave behind your pieces which is mandatory itself to look back and be grateful for what you had. You being sentimental makes it more precious as you know how to value those emotions. Keep smiling. Keep shinning. 🌻

2:44 that part was too relatable 😭

When you did that voice over speaking about love while you were at the festival I got so emotional! It was just so pure and beautiful. ❤

The moving angst is so relatable! I just made a huge move 3 months ago and before the move I was a wreck but once I got to my new city and I settled in, I’ve been so happy. I hope you’re loving your new city and dwelling 😊

Ah, Leonie, I just want to give you a big hug! ❤ This video was so relatable I got emotional, too! And it was stunning to see how quickly you made the new appartment your own. Even before you had put up the gallery wall and just lit some lamps in the corner of the room, placed some nice cushions on the floor and a plant nearby, I immediately thought "This is so Leonie!" 🥰 I wish you lots of happy moments and memories in your new home, with friends, love and laughter. 🥰 May this new home witness your next stage of life and always be a safe haven and a cosy nest for you! ❤❤❤

I moved in the beginning of the year as well and I felt like a creep, trying to convince everyone to just come and visited me. 😂 So I feel you! Just having the people you love (friends and family) in your new space helps so much!

so glad you are doing well, leonie!! moving can be so scary especially alone and spending time with loved ones is a great way to counteract some of that loneliness. I’m going to be moving my own here in less than a year so watching your moving vlogs has been an amazing way for me to feel more prepared and hopeful for the move. always love your vids❤❤

FINALLY LEONIE POSTEDDD

Os novos cenários estão lindos com essas cores de parede, espero que essa casa nova te traga muita alegria e conforto!! 🤎🤎✨

This video captures everything I love about your channel. Books and life and vibes and cosiness. Thanks for making such lovely fuzzy and thoughtful videos!

sentimentality over The Home gets me every time.......there was a mouse-shaped paint clump on the ceiling over the bed in my last apartment that i would stare up at every time i was having a panic attack or a depression dissociative episode, and i hated that apartment so much, but i cried when i moved because that little plaster clump was so important to me. i still tear up a little when i think about it

So the little piece on love with the beautiful videos of Castlefest and friendship and the two little birds and the sheer happiness beaming off all of it, might be one of my favourite minutes of content of all time

This is a fantastic video. I just want to say thank you for making it. I just started uni and a lot of things are changing, my friends are moving away i’m meeting new people and it’s kinda scary. This video really helped me. And even though it’s not exactly the same as moving apartments, I just felt really connected to the words you were saying. So thank you, and don’t mind me if i shed a little tear:’)

I was thinking about you today only and here a video popped up. I'm so happy to see this video and so happy for your new start ❤

Oh wow your new space is so beautiful! As others have said, you are so valid for being sentimental about your old space. Hope you feel settled into your new place soon! :-)

Moving is one hell of an event. Animals, Plants and Humans are all traumatised in a slight way when we have to move places that we've grown accustomed to and perhaps have even loved. I moved in July and I cried for three days. Not dramatic at all, just a healthy way of coping with emotions! That said, I've missed your videos and I am looking very much forward to sit and watch this with a nice cup of tea and a little snack. Your videos are always so cosy to me! Also Leiden and Delft are amongst the prettiest cities in the Netherlands in my opinion (although I also really liked Kampen and Groningen to live in)

I firstly want to congratulate you wholeheartedly on your moving. I would like to add that you are the idol of a nerdy bookworm teenager with your aesthetics and pleasant personality combined. Lots of love❤

7:19 This part accompanied by the Stardew Valley music makes me want to live in your city. What a lovely atmosphere.

I love the vibe and atmosphere of your videos. This was a particularly comforting vlog.

Leonie! I'm due to move house myself in a couple of months and this vlog captured EVERYTHING I'm feeling at the moment. It was very comforting and validating, thank you so much xxx

You're not dramatic at allll, this video made me so emotional! What you said about community and love for friends really touched me. 🥰🥰

Loneliness can be hard but it really is so important to feel happy with your own mind and space. Glad you are enjoying your new home ❤

Just this weekend I started All About Love, now I'm excited to continue and keep reading.

Just wanted to say that I appreciate you for being so vulnerable in this video- I’ve been going through some similar feelings with starting college just three weeks ago

Welcome back, Leonie! 🙂

Crying at the bird outside your window bc of loneliness…after 3 hours…has got to be the MOST relatable thing I’ve ever heard. A similar thing happened to me when I moved 7.5 hours away from the city I grew up in during the 2020 lockdown. I looked out the window of my brand new apartment and saw a squirrel had made its way onto my balcony. I named him Leonard and cried when he ran away☠️

love this video, such a good representation of change 🥹

Great video! I was hoping your move went well. So take care and enjoy new changes and opportunities!

So excited for a new video Leonie ✨️💗 I always love hearing your thoughts on books 📚

I am currently between two very difficult moves, I feel you!! Best of everything for the next steps of your adventure! 🥰

I love that you're loving Funny Story!!! I adored the book as well 😭💜

It’s okay to feel all of those things! Last month my husband bought me the Victorian home of my absolute dreams in our town. And even though I knew that I wanted to be here and that I was excited, I was still really emotional packing up the old house. I kept thinking about all of the sweet memories we had bringing home babies to that house, first crawls, first steps, etc. It’s unnerving to see your life packed up. But it’s going to be great! Give yourself time to get settled. Congratulations!

looking forward to watching this video while sipping on my tea

The thing about being able to be alone and not hanging out with people just to escape loneliness really resonates with me. Because I like being alone, and I remember someone (one of my colleagues, I believe) that was surprised when he told me they were all going to a cafe this evening and was asking if I wanted to join them, and I said no. He then thought I had other plans for the evening, but I really hadn't, I just wanted to spend a calm evening on my own, reading. And I said "well, I don't often go to this kind of party, but at least when I do, you will know I really wanted to".

Leonie, this video was so perfect for where I’m at rn. I’ve been at college for two and a half weeks and adjusting has been a very slow process. My comforts are the Lord and my time with Him every morning, being in my cozy room, and watching my favorite yourubers. ☺️ I need to be more intentional about making friends, but I’m also ok to not rush to try to make friendships happen. I’m learning to be ok in this in between season. All that to say, thank you for sharing your relatable experiences! May you be blessed in your new home!

Missed you tons, welcome back!! ❤❤ Congrats on the new home.

We missed you so much ❤❤❤

I wish that this new home becomes your cozy little nest to hold all the moments that await you 🥰

Thank you so much for sharing this journey with us. This video was absolutely magical and healing 🫂❤️

Wishing you the best on the new house. 💕 It's great to have you back, but take you time settling in. 🥰 And this was such an inspiring video. 🌱🫶

I completely understand what you said about being emotional over change even when you know it's positive! taking a big step and allowing yourself to grow forces you out of your comfort zone even if it's something you choose to do, and it can be totally overwhelming and dredge up lots of emotions! I hope you take time to breathe and feel your feelings and that you give yourself lots of patience and grace during this process, it's a big one

I’m obsessed with the way this video turned out!!!!

Glad to hear the loneliness let up after a couple weeks in the new place. My thought when you were discussing that was that maybe you would benefit from a pet? A little creature to keep you company but not require conversation (if your living space allows pets). Or if adopting is too much commitment, maybe try fostering? Just a thought.

This is my favorite video of yours! Reminded me of the times I moved, and I really connect with everything you and the author said about love. I like to say that "nothing is ever about you". If you feel like you are the focus, the center of a struggle, then you probably need to pay more attention to others. That being said, it's not always that easy, sometimes we need a bit of drama right? 😅 But at least let's be conscious that we are chosing drama. Anyway, I'm happy that you're well, still living close enough to your friends, and in a beautiful place and city! I've moved a lot, and my best tip is that if you really wish to make yourself at home, you'll feel at home anywhere. Seeing how you're already walking through the city and inviting friends over, you're doing great!

Moving is sentimental and hard work. Don't worry about not posting for a month. I also like doing things by myself. It's fun. I enjoyed Funny Story by Emily Henry. Glad you invited your friends.

I moved from my student dorm (which I've lived in for four years now) to a new city this weekend and I can relate so much to the feeling of loneliness in the beginning. This video was exactly what I needed right now, so thank you so much

I really started to get emotional at this part of the video 24:25 , it's so beautiful and comforting to see how love is all around and in all of us ❤ thank you for this video leonie

I though I was the only one who didn't like abby Jimenez's books I feel validated 😭❤

Congratulations on your moving! Adjusting to a novel place can be hard at first, but then it will go on how it should be. It is okay to go throughout a shocking state. I am currently adjusting to my shared apartment with 4 girls. What is more, I moved abroad to study in English, which is not my native language. I am going to study here for 3 years, and I want to make the most of it by improving my language knowledge and having fun in my 20s. I have already found bookshops and libraries, so there's nothing to lose. Go to explore the world inside books and outside in reality.

Love that you still make it feel like a home without all of your furniture. I always just keep everything in boxes until I get everything I need and it takes forever to feel like home

So excited❣️

I always love the comments you make in your videos, be it about books or not. But in this one you especially hit something in me that resonated with what I've been feeling during the summer. I had quite a powerful breakdown about loneliness and seeing things in a very negative way, and it was just the climax of a few months of feeling not so good, and many fears coming to life etc. But I felt like I had hit the bottom and could only go up from this point. And now, a few weeks later, I'm much more at peace with myself, I found a renewed will and energy to do things and enjoy life, alone or with my people. So your video is like a condensed version of what I went through in the past month, and maybe if I ever feel that way again (which is bound to happen again at some point in my life, I'm starting to know myself a bit 🙃) I'll come here and watch it again. Anyway, I think I will try to find Bell Hooks's book, I want to know more about what she has to say on the subject, you sell it so well!