Dead I am the sky, watching angels cry

♥ Ready for the night ♥

Last weekend was the second edition of Nachtschade. This party is one of the way too few EBM industrial and synthpop parties around here. I had the greatest time dancing and socializing. The evening was great. weather was good, music was danceable and the people were friendly. Thanks for the great night I had, NachtSchade!

Preparation music of the evening: 

Rob Zombie yeah!

Valentine's

♥ Valentine's look, red eyeshadow and heavy shading. Valentine's outfit; lace dress with transparent sleeve (vintage) and plain black leggings. All plain and simple, to not pull attention away from my face. ♥

♥ Booked a pretty hotel room in another town for the occasion. The room, located in the "authentic part" of the hotel had a stylish touch to it, with so many different textures, and still all matching together so well! ♥

♥ How to make a girl happy? Take her shopping. Zwolle is a perfect city for that. Aside from the main shopping street, we wandered into this cute hidden street full of the cutest (kitsch) shops ever!  ♥

One shop that I want to mention particularly is Kunst&Klieder. This authentic, colorful shop shop inspired me so much! Colors and kitschy objects all over, this stuffed little shop is built on what used to be a bakery and a mill. The floor still shows traces of the old times. In the back of the shop is a tiny crappy room, which is stuffed with vintage and second hand items; paintings, cups, tea cans, wallpaper stamps and a little book corner, as shown in the pic above. The sign reads: Exchange your book. Rules: 1 hand in a book. 2 Choose one from here and take it with you". How cute is that?!

This street was decorated with lanterns, or what looked like lamp shades of all different colors and different shapes, garlanded between the buildings (also in the collage above).

 
♥ Zwolle turned out to be cuter than I had remembered from past times I've been here. The shape of the old city still shows in the surrounding  star-shaped canals and the oddly organized streets. Parts of the old fortification are still visible, as well as many old towers, city gates and buildings. Also, a part with a petting zoo with Bunnies, chicken, goats of different sizes, an alpaca and two donkeys. Goats like attention, alpacas don't. ♥

♥ These roses are made of soap and float in water and slowly dissolve into the water, so romantic in the bathtub. These are from last years' valentine, but they are so pretty and I have such nice memories of them that they are totally worth posting. ♥

Major ring post

♥ New year's eve was celebrated with friends and this was my outfit. ♥

And lately I have been finding lots of joy in jewelry again, I thought it was time to post about my pretties, some of them new, some of them old, but certainly all much appreciated.

♥ Plastic bracelet bought in Berlin on a school trip like eight years ago (H&M). Rose bracelet if new (Six). ♥

♥ Black ring with rose pattern (old, I don't remember the brand), large new ring with black stone (Six), bird-skull ring from years ago (Accessorize) & a smaller new ring with black stone (I am). Other hand: small new ring, suited for every occasion (Kruidvat) & a double-finger-ring with roses (old-idk). ♥

♥ Hair clip is one one my prettiest new purchases, from the Kruidvat limited edition holiday collection. I love holiday style!  ♥

Last month I decided to buy the gel-nailpolish lamp after all. I had been doubting a lot about it lately, because a lamp is expensive. In hindsight I am glad I bought it. My nail polishes last up to a weak with this new system (compared to a couple of hours only, as before)! This system requires a special LED-UV lamp and special gel base- and top coat. Additionally, I use a gel primer and pre- and after cleaner from the same brand. Sometimes I just put top and base coat without any color, but for optimal result I like putting my Lady in Black OPI in-between the layers. But of course any color would do. Occasionally, I put a mattifying normal top coat for increased mysterious effect.

♥ The keys were originally purchased with those ugly hooks on them, but I transferred them onto these little roses that I have been wearing for ages already. (Key hangers - Six, black earrings - Pim Kie) ♥

♥ Red collection. Hardly wear it to be honest, although the bracelet is one of my old beloved pieces. ♥

Sassenhein

Taking pictures at the Sassenhein lake yesterday.

♥ Thanks for the pretty pictures, Elselien ♥

Christmas dinner & Christmas on JohnnyWoof

Last evening we celebrated Christmas with my family and my Love. For the first time, we hosted the Christmas dinner, although mom provided the actual food. We provided our house and all the decoration, which, by the by, turned out fantastic. Unfortunately I had to work during the day, but my boss was so nice to let me go home earlier (thanks boss!). After dinner, presents happened. There were so many presents under the tree! The present I offered were all wrapped in leopard paper with black ribbon and custom name tags with golden lettering. Here come some pictures.

♥ My Christmas hat is black. Like my soul... ♥

♥ Cosiness at home and Christmas dinner table.  ♥

♥ Fancy lemon cake, sponsored by grandparent; Glühwein (German weird thing of spiced warm wine) at a Christmas fair lat Sunday and a cake snowman, yum ánd cute! ♥

♥ My happy pink festive tree. This years theme of tree decorations; sweets. The tree contains full cakes, cake slices, (real) candy canes, cupcakes, a tea cup with can and ice creams.Previous themes were Alice in wonderland and Black. ♥

♥ My little town, at a first-Christmas-day-walk.Lovely, the quietness on the streets! ♥

Lately I've been playing a lot on the Johnny Woof server, especially on free days like these. Since I joined last October, I've got to know many cool people from all over the world, although the majority of players is from Belgium and UK I believe. Johnny (the owner of the server) himself is from the US.

I absolutely love how this server had a great community and people know each other and help each other. The cities are pretty and the people are friendly and talkative.

♥ A massive mushroom and new rose bushes. And Johnny (owner) and me. ♥

These days I have been helping Moe (people who are on the server will know who I mean) with the design of his castle walls and making him a special bridge. Before that I helped Omega to make his flying castle look good from under, since I have flying abilities and he doesn't. Often I'm also online just to socialize.

♥ This morning the Christmas tree in Entropia had presents under it! I received diamond boots with the 'Bunnyhop' enchantment on them! ♥

The main server is survival, but there is also a creative world with plots and in development are hunger games, mini games and a skyblock server extension. When joining you enter at the server hub, from which you can choose what world to go to. And one of the greatest things; there is a separate 'mineworld' that you can enter at any time, where you can mine, collect resources, destroy and grief all you want; it gets reset every week. :)

Survival/ No PvP/ 24-7/ Chest locks/ Protected build/ No Whitelist

This is my little online world with my online friends. I totally recommend this server for anyone who likes Minecraft.
server ip: mc.johnnywoof.us and website: www.johnnywoof.us

The Birds

"Why are they doing this?
Why are they doing this?
They said when you got here, the whole thing started.
Who are you?
What are you?
Where did you come from?
I think you're the cause of all this.
I think you're evil!
EVIL!"

-From: The Birds, 1963

At Halloween we started watching Hitchcock's 1963 'The Birds'. Due to partiness, we stopped half way and postponed the second half to one month later. Now, last Friday we watched the remainder. Our main conclusion was that movies were so different back then! Not full of action and heavy fighting. Scenes were much less hurried, there was actually time for characters to just sit down, light their cigarette (on the elementary school's playground!) and look around. Also the small amount of dialogue was surprising, which definitely added to the creepy mood.

♥ Crows and Seagulls. Way too many of them. ♥

♥ Tippi Hedren, actress of the main character. ♥

♥ And look who's here, on the corner of my mirror, evaluating my make-up before I leave home. ♥

♥ These dead pretties have been accompanying me often, recently. The ring is from a long time ago (Accessorize), the earrings are my most recent purchase (Six). ♥

As for some other birds:

♥ Beautiful in its simplicity. BlackBaroque uses old book prints and mixes them into strange compilations and print them on vintage book pages. This one is still on my wish-list! ♥

This is a link to a beautifully narrated
version of Edgar's 'The Raven', with music.Totally worth listening.

Judging a book by its cover

Before summer I started reading the Lauren Kate books, drawn to them by their cover print. I was looking for some easy reading, juicy surrealistic love story and this series totally fulfills those needs. It is a four-book struggle of human Luce and angel Daniel. Can you imagine how already that difference would make a love life complicated? Not to mention that it seems Luce and Daniel have met in the past. Many times... Ow, the romantic drama!

♥ From first to most recent with original titles: Fallen, Torment, Passion & Rapture. In between another book of this series was released -Fallen in Love- , with earlier love stories, which I haven't read yet. ♥

♥ Currently I'm halfway the fourth part. I read nearly every evening when I get in my comfy bed. Often I go to bed early so I can read. ♥

♥ I particulairy enjoyed the second one -Torment. It had the most beautiful scenery, on a cliff-side elitary school, where people live together serenely, the sea wind is like a calming melody, where every breakfast is a royal meal with the freshest ingredients and the flowers bloom freshly every morning. I could almost feel the sun on my face when reading it. ♥

♥ I'm in a brooch- and ring-buying mood lately. Here two of my brooches; the upper from a long time ago (vintage) and the lower from Accessorize. Since I took this picture about three weeks ago, I purchased two more; a silver snake and a skull cameo. ♥

♥ The wall decoration is a vintage soviet lamp (judging by its power socket) that my friends E and S bought for my house and I made a frame around it (wood, second hand) with real velvet background. I love the result! ♥