Spam post :D Bat in my hat (mind)

Just made an order for this beauty!!!!

Happy happy happy!! Hope it will reach me till Christmas :P

This hair band would be perfect for the set :)

 It's a new creation by me. Just for the theme :D You can find it at my Etsy.

Day outfit: casual Lolita inspired

Hello hello. Today was may day off. How I love them. I can become a human again :D So, I had a meeting today and that gave me reason to leave my PJ at bed since I sometimes skip the part of getting dressed when I have day off in a week day. That's laziness that imprisones me in my PJ almost for all day. But this time it was different so I had to make myself look good. As influenced by Lolita fashion I'm now so is my outfit  a little bit Loli :)

 It's cold outside so no blouses. I choose a sweeter. It's not so very Lolita but lets call it casual Gothic Lolita, OK?;) Oh, I really need a good petticoat :( I want more puffiness!!!! The puffed skirt takes away the height. And that is good. Let's look optically smaller ;) It's a plus in Lolita (for me).

I think some curls would make a better look. But my hair is so week I'm afraid to use a anything hot. Next time I'll twist them while they are wet and leave them to dry :)

                                                   I snatched this dress at Second Hand shop.

. I'll upgrade it with laces for sure :) and show it on next post probably :) I also checked out the local fabric shop near me and have found some wonderful fabric with beautiful prints :D Can't wait to get them, not to mention they had a lot of beautiful laces to. I'm planing to make myself a nice Lolita skirt :) 

Muahahahaaa! 

Vampire Requiem: a gift for myself for being good this year :D

I was bitten by Lolita bug lately and I spend so much time watching outfits it hurts my eyes. Really. I even was told to buy the skirt I want and to stop moaning about how beautiful it is. The good thing is that I can have a replica and I will, cause the real stuff is way to expensive for me. 

And what I want is this Vampire Requiem corset skirt. And I want it in bloody red. I'm ordering it or else I'll dye from gazing at it. I'm  cheering like a child just after saying "Yes,you can have it." to myself. Wait, till I'll get it. Oh, Lolita bug, you'll kill me. 

I know this Lolita bug will withdraw sooner or latter as it always dose (and then will attack unexpectedly again O_O ) But this skirt is a piece that not only Lolitas can wear. Oh, that lovely red and elegant print... It will fit so good with my black stripped jacket.

What can I say, the older I get, the better my wardrobe becomes :D New clothes always makes a girl happy :)

So is there a dress, a skirt or any other piece you dream about but don't allow yourself to have it?

I just did. It feels good :)

Making a Lolita skirt

This all week I was reading a lot of Lolita blogs and all those skirts and dresses looked so beautiful I almost ordered one. But I'm saving money for new ball jointed doll so that will have to wait a little bit. It was my day off so I decided to clean my closet,  to sort summer outfits from winter and put them in a box. There was one unfinished skirt. I bought fabric for it almost two years ago and wanted to make a Victorian skirt from it. But I stuck on frills and left it to be. 

The body of the skirt was made to big and I was to lazy to remake it. 

Also I had this unfinished project. I wanted to reconstruct this laced skirt to a puffy Lolita skirt, but it was to short so I let it be thinking that I'll decide what to do later. And I'm glad I did. Because looking at those two skirt I had an perfect idea to combine them. And so I did...

I took the bottom laces from the black skirt and attached to the red one.

 There even was a lace over-left so I thought I'll make a nice cuffs from it. But when I put them on a skirt to make photo, I sow that they look perfect as little cute pockets.

 So pockets they become...

 I took second row of laces from the black skirt, ironed them and sew them on the red skirt leaving a gap between them.

 The back. I also made the waist smaller by plating it a little bit at the top.

 I didn't have any image of the skirt as I started. I just recalled the skirt I've seen and details I liked. So I kept sewing laces on till I was happy with the look.

 I decided to give more classic look to the skirt by pooling ribbon between the lace.

 I covered ends of the ribbon with cute bows.

 And added bows to the pockets as well.

Here's the final look.

I'm really glad how it turned out. A real Lolita skirt. At least I think it is ;) I just need to get a petticoat to make it look more puffy.

 There was some lace left so I made socks toppers by adding ribbons to the lace. Super fast and easy. I don't think a tutorial is needed :)

Well. I'm SUPER happy with it. I hope I'll wear it because somehow all things I make for myself ends up hanging in the wardrobe. I promised myself to wear it tomorrow for a walk if it will be sunny outside :)

The skirt goes perfect with my Victorian jacket. Can you see how long my legs look?? I was surprised myself :)  That's because the skirt holds on my waist and not on my hips it optically makes my legs look longer. 

Update: After days of lurking in Lolita blogs I resume that while the skirt might be called Lolita skirt it still need a bigger puff (so I need a petticoat), the socks need to be higher or there  are no need of any. And there is a good reason you don't see my hair. The hairdo is a must to (and I was plane Jane at that moment :D )

Demonia out of ideas???

I don't know what is these days with me and replicas :) They just keep popping before me.  Like these Demonia boots that reminded me( a lot!!!)  of NEW ROCK boots.

Demonia platform calf boots

New Rock ladies platform boots

The metal heel, over top lacing and buckles were always the New Rock stuff. Or am I wrong?? It's just not nice. And a little bit sad. To me it's the same as the brand admits that it is out of any new ideas.

The replicas of dark world fashion...

While searching on Ebay for some Halloween items, I came upon something, that looked like Alchemy Gothic  but the price was so low it was obvious it was replicas. Some of them were looking almost the same and it would be hard to tel if it's a replica. I know that every Alchemy Gothic jewelry has a graving that shows that it's an authentic item. But that is something only the wearer knows. So how about you? Would you by these 10 dollars replicas? I should say that some of them looked really attractive in both price and look.

The real thing.

Replica

Well, you can see that the ornament on this replica is not so delicate.

Real thing

Replica

It's hard to see the difference...

Real thing

Replica.

The replica of this item looks even better...

Real thing

Replica

Again. The detail of replica somehow are not so detailed :D

Real thing

And a replica even your trendy cousin would wear :)

More earrings???

The real thing

Replica

Cute skulls. Even too cute...like bunnies.

Guess which one of these crosses of passion is the real one??

Well??

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It's the second photo. As I understand, the real item should have 3 little red crystals and a red crystal heart. The replicas usually have just the red heart and the other 3 crystals are black ore any other color. And the original have more particular details. And the price. The replica cost about 5,99 dollars. Hard to resist...

Well usually you can find replicas of more simple pieces that are not so hard to copy and to make make. The more complicated and delicate jewelry is hard to reproduce. 

Only thing I found was this piece.

And it's replica. 

It seems like some one just took a mold and recasted the whole thing. The original one has spring driven wing design that moves and I don't think this ones do that.

So, what do you think about it? Would you buy one or not?

;)

P.S. Photos of Alchemy Gothic are taken from the sites that sells Alchemy Gothic jewelry.

Coffee in style

I do really am  fond of coffee cozies. I love the cuteness they have and when I create ones I try to make it like a little out fit for your coffee. Drinking coffee is more a ritual to me. I didn't liked coffee till I was 21. I still remember my first espresso with mom. Mom seemed to enjoy her espresso, so I asked  to order me one too  ( I was 16 I guess) but I didn't manage to drink it even with tones of sugar. Then when I was a student one of my roommates made me a coffee with a real milk. When I say real, I mean the real thing - the fat non treated milk right from the cow and not the one you by at your local shop. It was delicious. From that moment I fell in love with Latte coffee. Also their is good memories combined with this taste. The summer camp and a bunch of coffee maniacs boiling water for they coffee before using the main pot for breakfast tea. Cheering, poring the water into the cups and with relaxing "Ahh..." enjoying their morning coffee :) The morning in Italy at hotel in Desenzano Del Garda, where we stayed after two hard and hot days of long hitchhiking.  The shower was good but the sight of a morning coffee on the breakfast table was magical. The taste was heavenly!  

It's fun to have your own coffee cozy. I like to make them as gifts for my friends according to their personalities:)

Here's some new ones I made for sale. Maybe you'll recognize yourself in them or your friends.

Autumn glide

Victorian Seashore

So, got milk for my coffee?? ;)

A new member in a family

I always was more of a cat person, but since my dad loves dogs there always were dogs that we kept. I didn't really liked them. I don't like to pet dogs or play with them. I don't like the smell they have or how obsessive they are with human beings. It's just dogs are not for me. But cats... I love them. I even pursued my mom to finally have a cat. But I don't live at my parent place so I don't see moms cat very often. Since I and my soul mate share the same love for cats we both knew that we want a cat, but we were not sure if we'll be able to look after it. While we were thinking the photos of kitties started to appear on  friend Facebook walls.  I guess it was kitten brood season. I always wanted a black cat because I find them the most gorgeous and also because black fur would not be so visible on our clothes :)

So, when I sow this photo I just called my boyfriend and told him we are going to see kittens next weekend.  

I said I'm not sure if we'll take one. He loughed at me and said that we won't be able to resist when we'll see them. And he was right. 

Oh, just look at them. A big swarm of furry love :)

The little ones with they mom.

Now we have a six an a half week old girl kitty we named Nymphadora. we call ne Nymph for now :) 

She is the cutest thing ever. I hope her eyes will be green and big as her mothers because the mother is very pretty. She got used to us very fast. I cant wait when she'll be a grown up cat. The kitties are super cute but the big cats are so graceful and elegant. It's so relaxing to watch her playing. We just looove her :) 

Burgundy hair

Time to time there is a period when I slightly loose myself. I get to lazy to dress up, to tired to dye my hair, and to do my make up. Then I go out and every shop window is just making me more irritating :D I'd love to have an invisibility cloak at time like that. I don't want to be gazed at, but I don't want to look common too.

You know how I call this period??

Yes, winter is coming. 

I DO NOT LOVE winter. It's not that I hate it. It's just that I hate the freezing cheeks, nose, hands, the red skin, the flu, the cold mornings when your bed is so worm and nice but still you must get up early because you have a work to do. I envy bears sometimes, I to would like to cuddle cozy in my bed and sleep till the spring comes. We have quite cold winter and I already heard rumors that this one is gone be more colder and even longer.(in Lithuania) Nooo!
The best thing for me to get out from this laziness is to change my appearance. So I usually dye or cut my hair. I want my hair to be long so I avoid cutting, I know I must cut them at least every three moths, but I can't. Instead of that I do cutting once in a year when a madness of "must change the appearance" corrupts me". I did the same last year - I cut my hair drastically. And it was during the last of autumn. So I promised myself that there will be no drastic cutting this year. So I just dyed them instead.

I wanted a darker color so I chose red wine color. I'm tired of the orange but I'm not ready to give up on becoming blond one day just to see how it look. So the black was out of question. Thought it was tempting to color my hair black and then color it red again to get the two color effect that I had 2 years before. At least my hair has reached the length they had before i declared war to the dry black ends :D

I wonder which bangs look better on me?..