Remaking your clothes: Goth DIY

The autumn finally came as well as the need to change some items in my wardrobe. I need new trousers, new tops, shirts and so on. I don't like spending big amount of money on clothes unless it's a specific piece like this skirt I really want :)

I don't know where all buckles and hardcore items went from my wardrobe. There never was much of them to begin with. But now all I have are laced skirts, tops and velvet jackets :D I have only a one pair of wearable pats and they are black denim trousers... I need to add back some industrial or at least something more edgy. Or else I'm gonna turn in to big pile of frills. Not that it's bad, but it's just that I don't want it at the moment. I like my style to be versatile. From romantic to edgy. In order not to store to much clothes I do a trade with myself. If a new item comes, an old one has to go...

First of all I need to get (or to make) myself a pair of trousers. I have a pair I don't' wear at all and they are particular new. I'll try to sell them or trade them into something more me.

                                                            So somethings like this. 

They look quite comfortable

It's always hard for me to pick trousers. I hate when the waist is to low and every time you sit you reveal your underwear. I don't like when it's to tight and you can feel every stitch on you legs. But too wide pant looks so so.  There is no such problems with skirt :D They are rather all comfortable or too short to feel comfortable :D My best outfit during winter was warm leggings and  knee length skirt. It was even warmer then wearing pants and we have quite cold winters. And plus your boots are not covered how it usually happens while wearing pants ;)

And for the top I thing I'll have something like this

I love tops with open shoulder and the straps makes it comfortable to wear. I never threw out all kinds of belts and straps from old clothes, because I can use them on new ones. 

For example, you can take a simple black long sleeve shirt. Cut the neckline (2), add the straps (3) on shoulders or even on the chest if there are no applications already. Or you can go further, cut the sleeves and add lace, fishnet or straps between them (4).

For more romantic look use wide ribbon on shoulders and decorate the cut with the lace of your choice;) It will take a hour or less, but you'll have something unique and totally yours;) So never throw out an old stuff with still good straps or buckles on it. cut them out and save ;)

And zippers... Black zippers are a super fast way to gothisise your stuff.

Like here. Just add zippers on a stripped (or not) blouse and voila :)

You can always combine two old pieces to make a new one. For example take a top of  an old piece with beautiful sleeves whos bottom got ripped ore something and a striped bottom of another piece who's neckline maybe is not looking good anymore. Just sew them together on the chest line... 

...and add buckles for heaver look ;)

I had a whole box of cut out goodies, but throw them out while moving out to have less things to take with me. But I always search for an interesting details in second hand shops. I remember once buying pants only for the buckles since the pants were in a bad condition but had absolutely perfect straps with buckles on them :) So good luck. i hope it was helpful. Tell me if you want more ideas on remaking your clothes ;)

Day outfit: going to work

Lots of time has passed since my last post about outfit. But I managed to take some photos before going to work :D

Almost no make up.

This is my usual outfit for going to work. I change into uniform later with is a simple black dress with (grrrrr) golden buttons. This skirt is super comfortable and designed very well. I wear it so often then I must already search for a replacement before it's not to late. The scarf was privatized from my boyfriend and a skull hand is a pin holding the jacket instead of the buttons. I usually wear a black/grey felt flower in my hair but this time I could not find it anywhere... It's a simple accessory but its complete the whole thing ;)

DIY: Gothic frame hooks

So, in one post I have mentioned I bought framed hooks similar to these.

The pictures were not very impressive but I had an idea to change them to fit my taste. So I ripped off the pics, painted all frames in black acrylic paints and with a smallest paint brush I could find I draw a new pic.

And here is the result.

They hang in our kitchen,as you see.

You can have many different variation with these such as

I like this last the most. I'm thinking about making more of them. You can glue your or your friends pictures, paint the frames, glue beads to it or decorative flowers. Glue details like bats, skulls, cameos. Glue something into the frame like tiny cup, parasol or any pendant you don't wear any more. You can put a mirror in, or a love letter. There are many options:)

It's just a tiny details for now. I still want my bloody bath with bloody mat and curtains. A mirror with candel holders in the vestibule and other stuff. But since it's only a second month for us living here we have only posters and my handmade bats.

 As you can see I am a fan of pillows :D Photo taken while preparing for a BJD fan meet :) new clothes end etc. My little boy will be neo East military man or something like that. Lots of black and some red :D

I just learned that Bullet for my Valentine is quite a nice band. All my life for unknown reason I was confusing them for My chemical romance :((( Only when I saw this poster that is now  hanging on our wall, I realized my mistake :/

We got the place absolutely empty, so the first thing on our list was furniture. Now that we got it, we'll do more decorations.

Gothic jewelry: Celestial Maiden

Ah, I forgot to post my new creation here. It's a beautiful and made choker I named "Celestial maiden".

At my Etsy shop

Why such a name? Because I felt like one wile trying it on :D The choker is decorated with beautiful black laces. I could not decide should they go up or down. That's why I just sew all the other details in the way it would be possible to wear it both ways. :D 

The little heart is actually an onyx. I love onyx. I heard it'a a stone of witches and sorcerers. 

Ah, it would be nice to have a girl to model my jewelry. I wonder if I could find one where I live... So, Lithuanian Goth girls if you want to play a model for me, just contact me;)

Deadlycherries@gmail.com 

Alchemy Gothic Sacred Heart

I finally had a chance to get another beauty made by Alchemy Gothic. I bought it second handed, but it's still in a perfect condition so you wouldn't guess it's not directly from the store :) I wrote to the seller the same minute I sow it. I had no doubts that I want it. No, not want it. I desire it :D And so now I'm an owner of a Sacred heart :)

Isn't it a beauty. I just love it. It's more gorgeous in reality ;)

 The red color is actually bright as blood :) My camera was probably jealous and stole the redness :D The roses carves are really detailed. The piece itself is simple but so elegant and has that enchantment that all Alchemy Gothic creations do. It has black ribbons that gives the soft look and is more suitable for this pendant then a chain.

 How do I look? Oh, I love it. It makes me want for more of Alchemy beauties :) It's an addiction :D 

Don't mind the kitty ears. As my bf said " you wear them so I could not be angry on you for anything". And I said "Nya" :D

P.S.  My hair have almost grown back as it was before I cut them :D

Reality vs expectation

You know, when you go out and you dress up to look all fancy :D? You look at the mirror and think "Oh, I look quite good" and sometimes even "Oh, I look fantastic!!!".But then you go out, have a photo taken and what you see is absolutely not the gorgeous person that was in a mirror before you left...

I have quite some of them :D

It's a nice photo and my friend looks really beautiful, but.. what the F.. I'm doing with that pose O_O

I find myself looking like ...hm.. I just don't  like it. I liked my self in a mirror mush more.

The make up looked so nice but suddenly in the photo I look like wearing non :( ... P.S. The skull pendant  the girl on the right is wearing was my gift for here. You see, it was her birthday party :) 

BUT....

There exist such photos in which you look better then you think you was looking.

Like this one. I thought my fridge were to short and my hair to red. But, damn. I like myself  here. It was a meeting of youth of our town who study and live in Vilnius now (capital of Lithuania). So I tried to look not to edgy but dark enough to be myself.  Bingo :D

Me at the pub with coworkers. I tried to look as simple as I could. I only chose to wear my Alchemy Gothic necklace. But I think I still look good :D 

Me in the center. Give me a puffy skirt and here you have a Gothic Lolita :D I love how... hmm dignified I look :D It was a poetry book presentation. I dressed just dark enough, but I had no mood for heaver stuff. I even was wearing a black denim pants. I'm not a fan of trousers. I have only black denim trouser - the main trousers, red zebra trousers I don't were, but they look so nice I can't sell it. And  black trousers made to look more alternative by adding buckles on them. I love skirts, since I love hosiery and  long boots. Baaah... Must resist not to go back to black hair color....

New brooch BAT GLIDE

For all bat lovers, here's my new brooch :)

 This lovely brooch is from my new brooch collection "Relic". It's made from blood red fabric and is decorated with black lace, leather bats and beautiful beads. It's abour 10 x10 cm size. 
You can wear it on a jacket , shirt or even on your bag. All my brooches are one of a kind since it's imposible to make a 

replica that would look exactly alike. Every purchase from Deadly Cherries comes nicely packed and loaded with love ;)

Thanks for watching. Check my Etsy for more :)

Dark Gothic brooches "Relics"

Long no seen. I'm happy to final have something to post about. I have a new colection of brooches and photos of my new flat. How ever the photos were taked when we had olmost no furniture and the my camera webt out of charge just when I was prepering to take photos of the flat with furniture (since we allready have it). So I'll leave it for the next post and here are my new creations :)

  Hanged by love...

This one is my favorite. I love how delicate it came out :)

 Forever Lolita

Sweet and dark at the same moment. A little bit stubborn but still adorable.

 Broken heart can be fixed

And be even more beautiful then before

 Sealed away

Waiting to be released, to be free again as our inner desires we don't want to recognize.

Thanks for watching :) I hope  you enjoyed it :)

All of them now on my Etsy shop.

Cute stuff: Ice molds and other

So, I've moved recently with my boyfriend. It's a two room flat with a small kitchen and bathroom. The bathroom is small, but at least the bath is big :D I don't have many stuff. My most precious ones are my bjd Haru and my sewing machine. And a laptop. And that's all. Everything else are clothes and little stuff I can't get rid off, cause they are gifts with memories and so on. But I really hate to have many things. Usually because I don't stay long in one place. And I hate packing stuff. I really do. It took a 1 hour to pack my belonging from the old flat and still it was a bother.

But it's not what I want to talk. I hate packing stuff, but I love having lots of cute stuff at home that would present me, would be unique funny and so on :D So I started to look for cute items to have at home at Ebay. And first thing I ordered were these ice molds. They were to cheap and to cute not to order :D

I like how it sinks :D My darling likes to drink whiskey, so he can sink some icebergs in it :D And for me there will be a vampire teeth :D

The mold even have a coffin shape. How cool is that :D

I also want to order the brain molds and guitar molds :)

Great for the parties on this hot summer :D

Other things on my "Must have list:

A camera lens cup/mug

I like this photo :D

I just happen to have a friend with a professional photo camera. Muahahaa!

A keyboard shaped cups

For sweet, salads, nuts or ice creams :D The best part is that they still look cool while not in use ;)

The blood bath mat... 

...but it's way too expensive. I'll just have to make one :) But I like the idea ;)

I also both hooks with little frames on them ...just like these.

They will be painted over with something more "us" :D 

I know it's not completely our apartment, but we are staying there for at least a year and I want it to be a place I long to come back :) We got it without furniture and bought only the ones we needed: a bed, a sofa for the living room, wardrobe, cupboard and a kitchen table. We need a chest with drawers and that's all. Well, I need it more, sine I'm planing to make it a living place for my ball jointed doll. The point is that there are no old stinky furniture :D  I'll post some photos of the apartment later ;)

The Item I failed to get. :(

I saw it in the morning and at the evening it was sold. I'm never hesitating to buy it again. I see one. I buy... :/

We really  wanted this broken heart... If I won't get one. I'll have to order one to be made from silver.