Bathroom of a modern psyko. Or a vampire.

This is from our bathroom

I can imagine that a lot of goths live in rented apartments, and the landlord is not too keen about a thought of purple wallpaper or black paint. I myself felt allmost depressed with the bathroom, untill my significant other bought us a lovely shower curtain.

That was over a years ago, and I today saw something at Sourpuss (I feel obligated to say that I do not get paid for advertisement, nor have I ever bought anything from them). :)

It is a blood bag filled with red fluid, though it is said to be cherry scented shower gel. Too bad my skin is so sensitive I can not use shower gels and my spouse does not like cherries in any form.

Picture is from Sourpuss

This picture is from Sourpuss' site and I think it is a fabulous product idea. But I must say I would prefere some other scent than cherry. What about others, do people like cherry more than strawberry scent for example?

Or more importantly, do you have some easy trick to make your home more gothic or prettier?











http://www.sourpussclothing.com/index.asp?cat=Bathroom&prod=BLOOD+BAG+SHOWER+GEL&start=1

Living next to a mansion

Come and meet my next door neighbours! I live in a block of flats, 2 kilometers form the centrum square, but next to my apartment is actually an arboretum and two manor houses. Those mansions are quite next to each other, so the city has decided to make it an outing area for common folk. This is the first manor house, if I have understood correctly, one can rent it for special occasions.






The day I went to the garden was a bit chilly and when I was leaving it started to rain. I was wearing a hat with one of those "Skeleton Bride" camees. The blue scarf is cashmere and it was a present from my father. The shirt underneath is just plain ordinary shirt, from H&M.

I am one of those people whom have large breasts, so most of the shirts made by gothic designers do not fit me well. The prints get stretched and if the fabric is not elastic, then my bosom is going to be crushed, or the cloth is way too big from waist. Also, I am not crafty with my hands and it is rather expencive for a student to buy custom made clothes.

The other pictures show how wonderfully this garden is decayed. It is taken good care, of course, but the old structures are left in the state they are, with no restoration.


Unfortunately the weather has been quite cold, so the arboretum and all those beautiful flowers and roses and  plants weren't in a very picturesque state, but here are couple pictures of more prettier sights. The mansions are situated at a lake, actually the whole town where I live is surrounded by water.

Finally, the last mansion. There were many cars in front of it and around it, so I did not go too close. I did not want to interfere, if somebody was having a meeting or a wedding reception. Still, it looks very pretty and those stairs just scream after a fair gothic lady to walk down in a gorgeous evening dress. 

 

Red and black week: basic wear for grocery

I was in a bit of a hurry, so I didn't have time to actually find a good angle to make my face look pretty. I do not normally have that weird chin. But, this is a casual look, I'm off to the super market.

 


Honestly, my face and hair looked so weird, that I had to cut it out of the other picture. :( I really should get a proper place to take pictures.

In the picture(s):
Jacket Vero Moda
Top H&M
Skirt Bazar collection
Shoes Bata

Tattoo, body and soul

I had a tattoo made. It took three sessions, but I think it was worth it. It is good to get a little time in the process. Now it is finally healed, so I have a chance to show it. It is situated in the upper part of my leg, not in a buttock, so don't be alarmed by the picture, it is not meant to be any way rude! It is about the same place where My Little Ponys have their rainbows and other branding iron marks.


It is a sort of fantasy flower, and first it may seem quite ordinary and conventional tattoo of flora. When one looks at it more closely, one starts to see all those little oddities. It is scattered and weird, possibly little repulsive.

In a way, it is a picture of my soul, because like that flower I too seem normal, pretty and nice, but under the surface I can be ugly and petty. Many years I had thought about getting a tattoo, but I thought it should really tell something about me and past few years have been a turmoil for me, more for my personality and the way I see the world, not so much as huge concrete shifts of space and substance. Now, finally I have found something true in myself, so I decided to ink it to my skin for all to see.

I would be really interested to hear about other peoples experiences or about their dearest tattoo. Doesn't matter if that answer comes after months, it would still be delightful to read. So please, stranger, tell me about yourself, if you feel comfortable!

Wine for gothic dinner table

While I was visiting my family, I noticed they had purchased some wines, that had somewhat gothic allure.

The other one is more like rocky tattoo-artist's wine and the other one is more sinister. Those were emptied long ago, so I can not tell truthfully were they any good. Those were purchased from airport who knows from what country and my lovely relative confessed she bought them simply for the looks. According to her those wines were no especially tasty.

This is what it says at the back of the black bottle:
"Designer visionary Christian Audigier and legendary Montpeyroux estates collaborated to create a cool, young wine..."
And then it tells it goes well with lamb and other praises about the youthfullness of the content. So, it is from France and I imagine possible to order online, if one chooses to.

Darker decor.

Finally I am through with showing old pictures. The reason was that my camera was broken and now I finally got the new one I ordered a couple of weeks ago. I'm still learning to use it (different brand), so I took some test pictures of pieces of gothic decor in my apartment.

This bottle holder is carved from a single piece of wood and the usual comment I hear is "macabre" and I always reply to that "yes, isn't it wonderful!" It was bought in a little boutique in Amsterdam. I think it was on Doelen-Hoogstraat but I would not bet on it.

This picture is not flipped. That clock is from London and it "goes the other way". I'm so used to it, that I no longer know how to check the time from my normal wrist watch. I use it very seldom. Underneath the clock is a picture of a Swedish designer Ludvig Löfgren's glass statue. There are many different variations of that beauty and here is a link to Kosta Boda, where one can by those. I unfortunately did not have money to buy a real one, so I had to be content with a postcard in frames.

http://www.kostaboda.com/products/single-product/product/vanitas-romance/vanitas-romance-sculpture-purple.html

This cage-like thing is actually meant for a little candle, but I decided to put corks of champagne bottles in it. Those are from times that we celebrated something special. I guess many save corks from special occasions, but I have learnt it from my mother. She is a writer and every time her book is published, she and her husband will open a champagne bottle. She conserves her corks in a huge glass chalice.

Peeping through windows.

I was rambling through my old pictures again and wanted to show these. These pictures are from the Netherlands, Amsterdam 2009, when I was on holiday with my significant other. For some reason I spotted many windows that were broken or had some interesting content. Here are the best.

This was apparently some sort of security glass (there was a little sticker about that at the bottom) and I thought this spiderweb-like pattern was pretty.

This here is a brilliant solution, if one has had a family fight and a plate has once again gone through a window.

This was the bottom part of a window of a small art gallery. Unfortunately i can't remember what was the gallery's name or at what street it was located.

This here is quite a generic picture of a gothic church. Still, I think it is pretty (but smeared, because one could not use flash) and it is in fact Oude Kerk, wich is an old church that is in the middle of the red ligth district. It is in the middle of a small square and it is surrounded by brothels, where ladies are showing the merchandise in the windows. Oh, almost forgot to mention, it is no longer used as a church, there are exhibitions, like in 2009 there were journalistic photos.

Another scattered window. Those old houses in their slow decay were just breath-takingly beautiful.