Some new eBay findings

Ebay and Etsy are big big friends of mine. We get along really good and communicate often. I buy craft supplies, accessories and clothes from both of them. From eBay, mainly used clothes, though.

I wanted to share some of my latest eBay findings with you. Ebay is so big, that it is difficult to find good stuff without knowing exactly what to look for.

A sugar skull type bag. It was really cheap. The quality is okey, altough the strap ending broke as soon as I tried it on. But what can you expect for only a few dollars? And it was easy to mend.

I have searched for a similar necklace for some time now. I had several listings in Etsy in my cart, all rather pricey, and I was trying decide between them and also bring myself to give so much money. Most of them were laser cut acrylic necklaces. But then, while looking for something else, I found this! It is perfect and the cost was only a few dollars again. I have worn it a few times and the color has not faded yet, but I suspect that it may. 

I have many skull print items made by the great China, but not this cardigan yet. It cost about 7 dollars and is one size, as usual.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness, simply went to the wrong shop.

Uh, I finally found some missing pictures from summer. This pack of things is special in two ways - I found a great pair of boots and I also went to a real mall with new things! Haa. Altough I did not buy clothes, it's still worth something.
From the usual once-a-month-second-hand-shopping I got a black longsleeve with a cute white lace collar and sleeve puffs, a shortsleeved leather jacket, an adorable black lace blouse with a bow on the collar ( I love it to bits!), a black dress I already sold cause it was a wee bit small from the chest and as a funny addition for me, a pair of pink pajama pants with skulls. Funny, because I do not wear pants at all. But they already proved to be useful when it went suddenly cold and the heating system couldn't keep up.

So, my new boots! I still cannot believe that I am so lucky to have found them. They are real leather, so-so good looking, so comfortable, well-kept and had a very reasonable price. I bought them in the summer and could not wait for the weather to go colder so I could start wearing them. It does not show on the picture but they are actually really high, so not everyday boots for me as I am rather tall.

And finally, a few small things I got from "regular" shopping. Some hair clippings and a pair of pantyhose from Seppälä. Actually, I recently went to mall-shopping once again, got some nice jewelry, I have to make pictures of them too.

A new home for all my shoes

I have had a dream. For a long time now. To have a huge shelf for all of my shoes. But everything else came between me and my dream. Until one day I decided - no more! I need my shelf NOW. All of our shoes were cramped up in a small shelf and spread all trough the house in different boxes.
I contacted the guy who had already made my wonderful handicrafting station (a desk, alright, just a really pretty desk) and asked him to make me pieces for a huge shelf. So he did. After that it all took some more time, I painted it over and over and yesterday, after months of waiting and work, it was finally finished!

We put it up and although I had a very busy night, I still decided before going to bed that I HAVE to fill it with shoes. Who cares about sleep when you have shoes, right?

Who has a lot of shoes? Me? Oh, no, dear, the last shelf was just too small.

I also had a good chance to count my shoes. Counting the ones what are not on this picture, like about 6 pairs from work and some still in the boxes, I have about 60 pairs of footwear. Ohboy.

But I still made room for everybody else's shoes. For example my husband has a total of 3 pairs of shoes on the shelf...

Anyway, here's my new deary. Love it to bits!

My new favorite handbag

I was looking for a cheaper version of a dress for a friend and while doing that I found a handbag I instantly fell in love with. I knew I had to have it, but as I am not the person to easily buy new (as in not used) stuff and money was really tight, I made I deal with myself. I will sell some of my handbags in order to come up with the money for this new one. The one, not just any bag, amiright?
So, I sold both of my Restyle bags. I haven't even gotten to wear the striped one really. But I had gotten used to a bit bigger bags and they did not suit my needs anymore. I also sold two embossed skull bags I had gotten from one of those cheap UK sites. I sold them all in one evening and I had my money! Four for one, but the one!

Here it is: Banned Cameo Skull bag. And I could not be happier! I do not regret the deal at all. This bag is bigger and fulfills my needs exactly. It is also very pretty and much better quality than the Restyle ones. The fabric is not so fake and seems much more durable. Love it!

The summer of collecting stuff

So, we have a row of these secondhand shops called Humana. They have new merchandise days every month and I am in the habit of visiting them for...oh, over 9 years already. At first I was in high school still and skipped classes on those Monday mornings. Later on I arranged my things so I could still go. I think I have only missed about 5 times during these years, when I was abroad or something really important was happening in the same time.

They have really gotten their prices up during the last years, but I still manage to find something. I believe in second-hand shopping and I also just can not find interesting items in regular shops. And it would be too tiresome to visit all of them. So these Humana-trips are good ways to boost my wardrobe, actually all of my family's wardrobe. I try to look at every item and it's price in a way if it is okay for me to pay that amount for that certain item, I do not care that they are already used by someone. And I often find new or almost unused items too.

Sometimes there are many months in a row where I don't basically get anything, but this summer was a really good one, I got lots of items.

Guess now is the time to mention that I have got two daughters. So some of the items on these pictures are for them. They are not all black and goth like me, but I see no point in showing you the "regular" stuff they get.

So here is a dress, a shirt for the gym and a skirt for cycling. All black, I am boring that way.
I do not wear pants anywhere outside the gym, not even while cycling or during the coldest of winters. And as I am more of a mini or maxi girl, I need some reasonably long skirts for cycling to feel comfortable. I use my bicycle for transport, not for working out, so I like to stay chic on it.

And two pictures of stuff for my girls, lots of dresses, shirts and a skirt. All the items have different sizes, because I often buy a bit bigger items too - they grow up so fast, that when I see something pretty and reasonably priced, I cannot leave it in the store.
Oh, the black shirt on the second picture is for me, it has lace shoulders, really cute. It is rather cold at work, so I wear long-sleeved tops underneath my dresses. And shrugs and cardigans also.


The prices are different, I usually spend about 20-30 euros alltogether. In here the first two pictures are from one haul and the third from another.

I am definitely not a good photographer, but you get the idea. And I have lots and lots more to show you!

A new coat for the winter

We have this cute almost-national clothing brand called Monton (they send all over Europe, I think) and they had a birthday game in Facebook. I won! I am so happy. You could choose the prize yourself and I chose an adorable wintercoat, as I desperately needed one. I chose this one:

Unfortunately, I did not get a chance to try it on before. As I visited another city, I went to try it on in the shop with my friend who works in the same brand. She told me that the coat was too narrow for my body and she was right. It did not fit my hips nicely. So I contacted them and asked, if I could change it (for a cheaper version, of course!) and they said yes. Altough I love the first coat and especially the pattern, I know that I would not feel comfortable in it.     

My friend also told me that when she heard of me entering the competition, she immediately thought of this coat for me. So this is the new one I (or shall I say we) chose:                                                                

Winter, you can come!

Gorjuss "New Heights"

Sometimes I get attached to things. Altough, to my defense, it used to be much worse. Now I only get attached to really cool things and not so often.

This year it would be Gorjuss and especially the "New Heights" series. I love books and this picture really talks to me. Last year it was shoes... Well, in this picture you can see most of my stuff from Gorjuss I have collected over the year.
Half of the stuff is for handycrafting, so they are truly useful, not just pretty.

I have a couple of notebooks, a binder, a pencil case, two wallets, a thermos, set of postcards, two pencils, two sets of stamps, two sets of papers and pictures for scrapbooking. And maybe also something I cannot remember at the moment.

Not very gothy, but oh-so-adorable, right?

Also, this spring I decided to make my own dayplanner for 2014. I have a fanatic relationship with my dayplanners (and lots of different notebooks), I could not function without one in my professional nor private life. I have tried lots of different ones, but none of them is IT. Also, there are a lot of useless pages in most of them.
So, I made my own. I made the layout (in MS Word, oh dear...), calculated the order of the pages, printed it out, binded it in coptic style and finally, one night, made the covers. And, tatarattaa (trompet sound), of course it is "New Heights".

But I love it. Cannot wait for 2014 to start using it.