Customizing!

If you are running out of money at the end of the month, shops are getting boring or it's just too cold and rainy to go outside to shop, there is nothing more gorgeous than customizing things you already own! Sometimes it's only details which change your clothes that much, you feel like just having bought new ones! Right now I am working on a deep purple volant corduroy skirt I never wore. I removed one of the volants to make it a little shorter and added some white cottage-style crotchet lace, which cost me about 3 Euros. It's not finished yet but I think it's a whole new skirt already =) The kitty likes it too!

the flea market

Yesterday's walk to the flea market was a great success for me! I found a couple of items, that are too enchanting, over all an adorable black wool-vest with flower embroideries (my friend hated it but I think it's gorgeous!). I've been looking for a cardigan like that for quite some time by now, but a vest is just as fine for me. I will probably change the buttons though, I sort of find them too pink ;)

I also bought a lovely off-white dress - very cute and romantic - a horrible scarf and a shirt with rosy prints. I close it with a butterfly brooch because it's got a deep v-neck which I don't like. The green corduroy bag I found is great but I plan to customize it so I'll post that one later... all that stuff only cost me 11 Euros!

These shoes!

Due to being incredibly busy I didn't get to post anything during the last couple of days, unfortunately. There were several jobs I couldn't postpone, but for now I got some free time to enjoy the golden October weather, which is unexpectedly frosty but sunny though. So: yesterday was fleemarket-day, finally again! I went there very early with a friend of mine, wearing my new beloved autumn-style shoes, which I simply love - aren't they the cutest thing to wear in this time of the year?

DIY kitties

My project for today is to introduce to you an absolutely loveable blog I discovered. It is a site run by Mimi Kirchner, she has tons and tons of do-it-yourself-projects, which are so inspiring and cute, I couldn't but love all of them! She works with several materials and the results are enchanting! These I found in the January 2005 issue, they just make me smile, I definitely have to try to do that myself...

You can buy those adorable creatures in the cozy.org shop. They are extremely expensive but if I had the amount, I'd buy ten of them! Enjoy the stroll through her gallery and be inspired!

New kitty bag!

Today I received my new supergreat, grey kitty bag, which I ordered from an Austrian seller on eBay. It's just so lovely - I love the natural fabrics, the cottage style linen look, the wooden button and those ever cute kitties. It's handmade and it cost me almost nothing!

red shoes

Today is red-shoes-day! I don't wear this pair very often because I always find it hard to walk on kitten-heels... but they looked so fine with the red curduroy skirt, that I had to give them a chance for today. I combined them with a soft, black 60s style babydoll coat and black lace tights. I sort of felt like little red riding hood, even though I didn't wear any cap ;)

coat: vintage
skirt: H&M
shirt: inscene / sisley
tights: H&M
shoes: vintage

tunes: sacred cantatas / buxtehude

today's outfit: black and purple

I'm not that much for this strange dots-trend which arose sometime last winter. Neither do I like the silly skull-print clothes you can find anywhere you go. Strange enough, today I found myself wearing a dotty outfit with a scarf, in which you can find pink skulls if you only look hard enough... don't ask me. I felt like dressing up a little darker as it was quite dark in the morning too, which made it hard to take good pictures. So this is the result:


It's a simple combination of an embroidered babydoll dress with a purple longsleeve, a black corduroy skirt, purple knee-highs and a beautiful black pair of Mary Poppins style vintage boots, which I love.

dress: H&M
longsleeve: unknown
skirt: unknown
boots: vintage
scarf: H&M
knee-highs: H&M