Friday 31 January 2014

Valentines Tiara



I don't care what anybody says, I love Poundland. I picked up these "heart shaped picks" from the Valentines selection this year.

Please forgive my lack of make-up!

I'm not sure what they're actually meant to be for but they make awesome hair sticks!

Thursday 30 January 2014

THIS...THIS SO MUCH THIS

Dear men, I don't dress to please your penis so kindly fuck off.

Tuesday 28 January 2014

SKYNET!

So it turns out that Nigerian Prince is actually a fridge!

Brimstony

I have no idea what is going on with my hair today... Makes me look like one of the witches from Macbeth! 

Monday 27 January 2014

I have a cold nose

Must be because I'm such a bitch ;)

Century


I wonder what I would have worn if I had lived a century ago?
Would I still dress to my own style, or would I follow fashion?
I mean fashions were so much nicer then but I'm flighty and bore easily.

Image via pinterest


Sunday 26 January 2014

Wishlisting

It's been a while since I last updated my Lolita wishlist so here it is.

Glorious burando


Iron Gate - Moi Meme Moitie

Because I am a totally unapologetic cliche!


Whimsical Vanilla Chan - Angelic Pretty

Part of a long running joke, also KITTIES!


Elisabeth, Bride of Death - Alice and the Pirates

Featuring beautiful cameos of Elizabeth of Austria


Napoleon Short Jacket - Antique Beast

Seriously though, is that not beautiful?


Follett Gobelins - Emily Temple Cute

It just reminds me of William Morris Wallpaper!


Better pictures of the PVC Dress

 Obviously these still aren't professional pictures but they're better than my mirror selfies lol

Super proud of how this turned out, and I have enough PVC left to make a pair of leggings :)

Saturday 25 January 2014

PVC dress



Awkward mirror selfie of the dress I made yesterday :) Pretty chuffed with how it came out given that I've never worked with four way stretch PVC before. Will track down a photographer to get some decent photos in the next few weeks.

Blutseschwister AW14/15

And suddenly I feel like I need more colour in my wardrobe!

Friday 24 January 2014

Today's Sewing Adventure!

Today I made a skin tight PVC dress, I didn't get a photo yet because the light had died by the time I finished but tomorrow I will take one after I add the finishing touches (I still need to attach the frill at the bottom and trim off all the excess threads).
Feeling super proud :)

Lena Hoschek AW14/15


What is vintage inspired, fabulously flirty, glittery goodness, metallic, floral and jewel toned awesomeness?
Lena Hoschek's Autumn/Winter collection, that's what!

Thursday 23 January 2014

Someone Else

Margaret Beaufort who is kind of my dead celebrity crush of the moment.

Do you ever wonder what it must be like to be someone else?
I do sometimes.
I mean do sexists really believe all that stuff about male superiority? Like is there not even a twinge of them that thinks "hmm this seems a bit wrong."

Do you ever wish you were someone else?

Sometimes, I think it might be fun to try being someone else for a while, but only for a while, I couldn't stand not being me for very long.

Living Doll

On Tuesday I had my first photoshoot of 2014


The theme was "Living Dolls"


I wore the corset and skirt that I made with my Caroskell fabric


Photos in this post by Graeme Owens Photography



Wednesday 22 January 2014

Magic

Snape, Snape, Severus Snape

Wouldn't it be cool to have magical powers?
If you had a magical power what would it be?
Mine would be the ability to see if someone is hiding something from me that I should know, it would save so many problems :)

Shakespeare's Hamlet - Assignment 1 - Hamlet from the point of view of the first audience.

Like I'd ever pass up the opportunity to post a picture of David Tennant!

So last week I started a new course with Futurelearn, I already finished one course on life in England at the time of Richard III which was super interesting, involved some of the people who found his body and I felt like I really learned a lot from it. For my second course I picked The University of Birmingham's course on Shakespeare's Hamlet, I'm only a week and a half in and I have already learned a few things that I wasn't previously aware of.
For example I didn't know that Hamlet wasn't an original idea of Shakespeare's and that there was a previous, now lost play of the same name prior to the play we now know.
Anyhow this week's assignment is to write a blog post review of Shakespeare's Hamlet from the point of view of a member of the original audience.
So without further ado (about nothing?):

I must say that I was beginning to tire of  Hamlet, surely this is a concept that has been done to death? Nevertheless William Shakespeare works his magic once more and breathes new life into the classic tale of revenge.
Richard Burbage's performance as the tragic Prince of Denmark is fantastic and very believable, I wonder if perhaps his own personal tragedies (you may recall that he lost his own father just last year) have played some part in how much he has simply become the character of Hamlet, truly his finest performance to date.
The supporting cast were pretty good too though, the actor playing Ophelia was mildly unconvincing (perhaps a closer shave is in order!).
My only complaint is that perhaps the play is a little slow at first, but my advice is to stick with it, put down the cabbages and be patient because when the action kicks off, my word it certainly kicks off!
4/5

Cute teapot!


Seriously how adorable is that?

Tuesday 21 January 2014

Feet sies



:)

Dear You


Years ago when I first was allowed my own email address the very first thing that I did with it was sign up for the AFI (as in the band not the American/ Australian Film Institute) fan forums.
Anyway on the 10th Circle section of Despair Faction boards one of the recurring threads was the "Dear You" thread where people would write letters to anonymous people in order to get things off their chests.
I participated in many of these thread over the years and I found it incredibly helpful to be able to write things down sometimes.
So without further ado:

Dear You,
             Sometimes I wonder if I should feel bad for enjoying this but then I remember I've done nothing wrong.
You put me through so much pain and no matter how many times I tried to reach out to you you kept on stabbing.
Well guess what, looks like it's all come unraveled at last doesn't it? 
I get it in ways, I mean I have everything you ever wanted now because I decided not to obsess over bringing someone down and instead focused on self improvement whereas you seem to have lost everything you had going for you, it's almost like karma bit you in the arse or something. 
You look ridiculous by the way when you act like that. I hate the phrase "man up" but good grief you should just admit it, you dun goofed.
I suppose it's pointless attempting to give you advice, because I've tried that so many times already, so well I guess either you could grow up and stop being such a drama queen, admit to your lies and move on or you can just keep massively over reacting whenever I dance into a room if you want because it's actually pretty entertaining.
Alexandria xxx

Sunday 19 January 2014

Irene Luft - AW 14/15

Sheer awesome!
I love all the lace, gloves and 3D textures in this collection!

Photoshootings!

Whee lots of new ideas and shoots planned for the coming weeks :)

Finished cake



I fucked up the icing but it seems to have been well appreciated anyway.
My baking is now a fetish :3

Friday 17 January 2014

Style Icons: Isabella Blow

She had such beautiful eyes.

This is kind of an odd one for me to write, usually when I write about my style icons they're long dead but Issy lived and then left us all too soon within my lifetime.

I saw her and Anna Piaggi on some TV show (it might have been something about The Clothes Show?) when I was a little girl, she sashayed around in a Philip Treacy hat looking like nothing I'd ever seen before, just amazing!

How could you not want to be her?

I kind of hoped when I was in college that some day I'd be able to make something good enough for her, unfortunatly I'll never get that chance as she took her own life in 2007 after battling depression for years.


I have no idea why these chocolates didn't sell!


Wednesday 15 January 2014

Wedding Cake

How cute is this?

Sometimes I wish that I could time travel forwards to our wedding so that people will finally stop asking me about the table decor before we've even picked a date.
I get that people are excited that I'm getting married at some undetermined point in the future but it isn't going to be for YEARS yet, we're looking for a house first so that I don't end up murdering our neighbors for refusing to STFU, so no, no I have not thought about what I would like on our wedding cake yet.
Also please stop asking JUST ME about these things, can we please give it a rest with the "BRIDE'S DAY!" bullshit?
It's not just my day, I do not get to make all of the decisions so stop JUST asking me stuff.

Augustin Teboul A/W 2014


Very different from the last Augustin Teboul collection I featured, but gorgeous all the same.
I really love the bit of sparkle going on here and the headpieces are divine.

Sunday 12 January 2014

Outside Looking In

It used to feel like I had no control over my life, and I suppose I was right, for a long time I didn't.
Obviously when I was a child I had very little control, most children don't after all, but even after I grew up for a fairly long time I still felt I was on the outside looking in at myself unable to change anything.
But these past few years?
These have been great.
It's nice to feel human.

Saturday 11 January 2014

Christmas stockings!


Quite chuffed with how many pairs of socks I got this year :)

Tartan Dress


Thinking of making something similar to this Gunne Sax dress with the tartan double cloth I bought yesterday :)

Tuesday 7 January 2014

Rainbows

Sometimes I am
Red with anger
I'm a warning sign
do not touch
Orange flowers are my favourite
random messages when I'm upset?
I wonder if they're like flowers 
from an all night garage
"I feel guilty so now I'm going to act like I care"
Yellow
Is how I'd describe that
Stop pretending that you care so that I will be normal
I am not
Green with envy
No matter how much you'd like to think it.
I'm just blue
once again disappointed by you.
Indigo and other expenses are pointless
I learned long ago I cannot buy happiness
So it is doubtful that you can buy it for me
Violet won't help.

The Sahara


This video including a special extended edition of Kev's proposal :)
Also the next big thing: Camelstep!

Monday 6 January 2014

The Collisium



One of the best preserved amphitheatres in the world! As is often the case with videos featuring my other half, this video probably isn't suitable for younger viewers as Kev has a bit of a potty mouth :)

And thus it begins!



Starting out wearing a corset every day (well most of them anyway) because 1. Fuck bras and their ever changing sizes, I can get all the support I need from a decent corset and 2. I'm quite interested in tight lacing. More on that to come :)

Sunday 5 January 2014

Tunisia videos :)



Kev FINALLY got around to uploading our holiday videos from Tunisia, this is part one, featuring chickens, horses and a guy who may or may not have been trying to mug us!

Saturday 4 January 2014

Ever the highlight of our New Years Party!



Third time lucky!
Yes we actually managed to get three lanterns to take off this year, though there's only video of two as Kev got a little overly emotional (bless). Also we extend our apologies to the residents of Blyth, he gets a little competitive around this time of year (though I blame your football fans ;) ).

Dark Matter Comics and Gaming Cafe




Spent most of my day here yesterday drinking coconut hot chocolate with Kev and Marit :) nice place, nice drinks, probably disturbed the staff for life though! 

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