The little things

This time I got my inspiration from another blogger. It started out as a blog comment to her, but I think it got a little bit too long...

http://www.theeverydaygoth.com/2013/04/9-quick-ways-to-make-your-life-more.html

I so agree! Alltough I am the person who does not think you can be inside something 100% and you don't have to.
But I have those days or even periods of time where I think I have driven away from the dark things and interior I love.
As I have a lot of interests which influence my life (e.g. fashion) and I also am a handycrafter, I have times where I find myself happily screaming over a pink glittered thing. There is nothing bad about it, absolutely, but at the end of the day, that is not something I want to carry with me. I don't really care about what others think or where do they but me in their own subcultural latter, but I care about how the things around me make me feel and if I like them for a longer period of time (rather than just "ohsocute").

So at one point I started to think more about the little things around me and what I carry with me. If everything in my clothes and accessories have to match a certain style, then why does it not apply to the little things like my stationary etc? They also give a certain expression of me, right.

I also narrowed down my crafting, which I sell, to a certain style and handwriting. Its not all goth and dark and skulls, but it has some dark style, I hope. I still have pink glitter things what I make as presents for little girls and all sorts, but making a name for myself comes from things I deeply and truly love.

So in conclusion, it's not about what others think, it's about how the little things around you make you feel. If you want more spooky in your life, make them spooky!

A summer(y) breeze

It has been really-really-really cold here for quite some time. Its already April and there were no signs of spring until a few days ago.
But even before it went warmer, I grew tired of the heavy winter coat and scarves and hats and... So I gave up and took out my favorite spring coat. I decided to wear it even if I had to put three jumpers under it. But fortunately it went SO warm in here, that it's even too much.

Here are some old pictures of my favorite spring coat. It was sewn by a seamstress, but the design is all mine!

Restyle bags

One of my many many weaknesses is bags. About a year ago I tried to take control, sorting and matching and thinking and sorting, and I think I even got it under control, by selling and giving away more than half of my bags. I kept only the best ones.

Then I discovered Everythingfor5pounds.com page. A silly page, in so many ways, but oh the cheap shoes and skull embossed bags... So I quess now I do have too many bags again. But I really like to change bags and match them with my outfits, so I need different bags.

And I am a bag person in every way you can imagine. I basically never leave the house without a bag and usually it is a big purse full of so many things. I will make a post about what my bag contains some day, so You will see.

As said, I usually buy cheap bags, because they last enough time, as I change them from time to time. But last year I started craving for a bag from Restyle. I finally pampered myself and bought it.

Love the bag, really. It fits so much more than it looks.

But now Restyle had some new bags coming in, and oh, I had to have another. I have a stripes mania this winter so I have been looking for a black-and-white striped bag for quite some time. I ordered one from the EF5P page, but it was too big even for me and quite not so pretty as in the picture, so now I can sell it.

Anyway, here's my new honey Can not wait to get it!

http://www.restyle.pl/product-eng-1061-GREY-DOLL-gothic-lolita-handbag-black-and-white-stripes.html

I think I shop too much

All right, all right. I know I shop too much.

To my excuse, 90% of my shoppings are second hand. Truly. I just rarely find something from regular shops around here and after a while, I kinda stopped looking, it just became too boring. So I stick to many different thrift stores, second hand boutiques and ofcourse online shopping. I buy alot from eBay UK and local FB groups and auction sites. I like the idea of buying second hand, I like the friendlier prices and a much more interesting selection than we got at the shops at the time.

Especially now, I think, because the new spring/summer collection peeping out of every window in the mall seems rather horrible to me. Too colorful and too many weird shapes. I still remember 2008 when everything was black, studded and leather...

Anyway, I buy a lot, but I sell a lot. I am very pretentious when it comes to my clothes and accessories. So buying online means a fair chance that the item does not fit. So I sell them. As clothes cost a lot here and altough it has became really popular to order from all those cheap UK sites like Everythingfor5pounds, justfor5pounds etc, it's mostly really easy to sell stuff, especially brands we don't have. I also have a dark or alternative fashion selling group in my native language, what makes the selling easier.

Around the ending of last year I felt really uncomfortable with myself, so I sold and gave away quite a lot of my clothes. So i guess I am trying to make up for it now.

Yesterday I had lots of free time to spare hanging around the city so I visited some second hand shops. I got a longsleeved top and a black hooded shrug. I am a sucker for shrugs! They only cost 2,,50 euros, as it was sale day.
And I also received two cardigans which I ordered from Miss Rebel. They are really basic but I needed something like that for work and hopefully they will last forever.

Welcome to my world!

Hi! So, here I am. I think it's been more than 2 years since the day I first tought about creating a "goth blog". I do blog actively about my life and family, in my native language - or to be fair, not so actively anymore. But still, I consider myself a rather experienced blogger.
But a dark fashion blog... What took me so long? Why now?

At first, I did not have a camera. It seemed essential to me to have one. When I got it, other suspicions arised. English is not my native language, so is it good enough for blogging? Do I have enough ideas and enough shoppings to show? What are my goals? Do I have enough time? How to get readers for a new and small blog?
And every time I tought about starting another blog, all those suspicions came back. And I put my wishes to sleep.

So, at one point I started to not have so much time for my other regular blog. People started whining. And I do want to blog more, it's just...it's like I don't know how all of a sudden. So I quess it's not fair of me to get myself another blog instead of keeping in touch with the old one. But who knows, maybe I will start to love blogging again and all's well that ends well? A girl can dream.

Who am I? I am not a babybat, which would make this a lot easier and peole would let me off the hook more with this primitive blog. I have "been dark" for over 10 years. I have grown and developed a better sense of fashion, as we all do. It's been a wonderful journey. And I like to call myself goth, even tough sometimes I might dress boring - because I HATE mornings.

It's a rather small country where I live and a rather small community of alternative fashionistas. Altough thanks to the Internet, capitalism and postal service we have a lot more things and easier access to things than when I started, I am still not aware of any active goth blogs or sites in my native language or even from my country. I do have a Facebook group for dark fashion online flea marketing and it's rather popular. So, we have hope. And a one really wishful me.

I gave a lecture in a youth seminar last fall. It was about goth, history and styles and also goth in my home country. I got asked about five times if I have a dark fashion blog. Whoops.

So, why now? You know how sometimes the smallest of things can make you act? Well. Here I was, having a sleepy morning, reading blog posts from my reader and suddenly:

"Start a blog."

http://www.theeverydaygoth.com/2013/04/5-things-i-wish-id-known-as-babybat.html

Not a babybat, still, but hey, I just started a blog.