Redecorating my kitchen

The kitchen area where I prepare all my slaughtered people I've "found" outside cute little cupcakes and pies is in need of some storing.
We never eat in the kitchen (dear God, we are not savages!) so we're gonna make it a kind of kitchen bench.

Before

We used 3 frames from a wall kitchen top cabinets size 40x40x70 (IKEA) and put on high gloss white doors on two of them. The one in the corner will remain open and turned to the side. Between the frames we have a slide rail (right now we just tried it out with 2 towels).

On top we have bought a vintage wooden lamina to put on. We just have to take it to the lumber-yard to get it cut in size. And that might take a week..

Halfway though

I think it will be very nice once it's done. The best thing of it all is I can now fit my kitchen aid inside the cabinet. Redecorating is so FUN! And the bench itself will be long enough to have a dead, full grown human on it...just saying...

Bake: Rhubarb crumble pie

My husband scored some rhubarbs from someone at work.

The best thing about rhubarb pie is that it's just so goth.
Is harsh, stern, bitter as well as wonderful and pretty.
The worst thing about rhurbarbs is that it needs a ton of sugar before it's perfect (quite similar to me and a ton of make up). And since I prefer to eat according to Montignac this must be the least best thing for me to eat.
But I will suffer for rhurbarb crumble pie anyday. I like to suffer that way. Suffering is part of being goth, and this is the weapon of my choice.

Crumble pie 6-8 guests converter
For best taste; serve lukewarm. Let pie cool for about 15-20 minutes at room temperature.

fruit of choice (preferably something you don't need to add sugar too)

112 gram butter, room temperature
3 dl wheat flour
2-3 table spoons of sugar
(a dash of cinnamon)

Put the chopped and well stabbed fruits in a cute little pre-buttered pie tin.
Mix all other ingredients until you have nice crumbles (the more you work it the bigger the crumbles). Bury the fruit with the crumbles. Put in a 200 degree Celsius hot oven for approx. 15-20 minutes.
Let set for 15-20 minutes at room temperature before serving.
Add some icing sugar on top (I forgot).

Serve with lightly whipped cream (whip 2 dl cream with 1 tablespoon of sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla sugar).

Now you have got yourself a typhical swedish crumble pie.
I use this recipe mostly for apple pie, but it works with anything. Best thing is that it is really good and doesn't contain that much sugar. To make it even more Montignac you can use sifted rye-flour instead of wheat flour. It gives the pie a bit more nut-ish flavour.

Old picture of the day

Yesterdays Midsummer party was super! We had such a warm weather with a sun that almost fried the skin of my body.
I'll put up pictures tomorrow :) But for now I found this old picture of me from 2006.
I liked the make up a lot. Think I will do that again some day.

I really like it when the twins says hello!

Midsummer tomorrow

Tomorrow I will celebrate Midsummer together with my good friends and a whole lot of kids :)
There will be no M'era Luna-partying for me...just 1schnapps with the herring and water rest of the day.
I'm mostly looking foward to meet with the people and and laugh and have a good time, as well as eating classical swedish Midsummer food.

Here's a few shots of last years Midsummer.
The kids wouldn't join in the big group of dancers so we made our own little dance group. Here we are singing and dancing to
"Vi äro musikanter"

 On our way back to the summer house we spotted this wonderful goth calf! He's got his best goth make up on! He's just perfect with white foundation and black around his eyes and black lips. Coolest cow ever!

Bought a new crown

The sweetest thing ever!
Today daycare celebrated Midsummer with all of the kids.
Usually our kids are all white on that occation, but I found the sweetest Swedish dress that Fairlight more than happily wanted to put on. It's is a simplified version of our common Swedish dress worn by the Swedish princess and Queen for example.

TeeBee and Fairlight getting ready for Midsummer at daycare

 Synthia took this picture of us together <3 What a talented photographer!

 On my way home I bought this cute crown with green stones.

 I had to put it on immediately! It was supercute <3

Modelling X-tra-x

I just checked the X-tra-x catalogue online since I've been told it's now out - and see - there I was! I found myself on page 55 and 127 so far. Cool!! And - phuu - I think I did a good job :) My pretty sister  Jenni looks cute as always.
I can't wait to get my hands on that physical catalogue!
I really, really liked these stockings!

I can really recommend the corset I wear (picture in middle). It was easy to wear AND you could lace it in quite tight even though it might look just like a linnen. My favorite of all clothes.

And might I add once more how I loved too model for X-tra-x (no, I'm not payed to say this). Everyone was just so incredible sweet to us and the thing itself; just being in a room filled with all black clothes to try on, a BIIIIG rack of shoes, accessoires and other cool stuff to use as you please - isn't that kind of every goth girls kind of heaven? For me it was. It was SO funny :D

Modelling Marita Näsman

The secret shoot I did some time ago is now being released!
It's for the hairdresser and company owner of Marita's Studio; Maria Näsman, and the shot is done by the AMAZING photographer Henrik Pilerud who's also done many videos, amongst others 2 for the electro band Elegant Machinery where I have small cameos :)

The ravishing skirt and collar + cuffs are made by Thistel (from band Mergel Kratzer). Marita made the hair.

Shopping

I've just ordered these glasses.

When summer comes it's so nice to be out strolling and hunting for humans, but since it's hot outside the blood flows faster from their bodys then in the winter time so I need bigger glasses to protect me from getting blood in my eyes that clouds my vision. And I figured these would be perfect.
And of course they can be used on the head to hide a growth too. Stylish AND practical :)

If the quality is good (=don't leak, and looks nice) I'm thinking of having them in my webshop.
I have been working the whole weekend on it and so far I think it will soon be opened for business. But for now I only have a couple of stockings....not much business there. The lashes and make up will be added the next 2 weeks, and the Adorable Heart blouse seems never to be ready...
It's been VERY big trouble finding the materials I want ;/ But it's within the horizon.

Now it's time to brush the fangs to keep them in shape for Midsummer!

Todays outfit

Sweden is at it's prime with a perfect sun almost every day. It's wonderful and I feel like a black dressed Julie Andrews when I'm outside....

..but with sunblock 50+ from Vichy and a big umbrella and singing "Kill, kill, kill, because I can...." instead of "Listen to the Sound of Music..."

I have spanish heritage, I'm a 1/8 of a Spanish and I get tanned sooo easy. Not red like most swedes, but brown at once - isn't that just typhical! Many people would kill for that, and I have the worst trouble every summer to stay looking half dead.

I forgot my gloves ONE DAY when I went to daycare and back (a super short trip of about 3-4 minutes each way) and already my hands are browner then the rest of me!
Never, ever not to wear gloves again! It looks so stupid now.

Hat, blouse: H&M, stockings: Shock, skirt: (altered) Lindex, short petticoat: online pornshop, shoes: Demonia, gloves: Camden market, London, belt: from another shirt

I love my pearl bracelets (I mix real as well as fake). My grandma always used pearls so I really love it since it makes me think of her <3 My grandpa even gave me her two long pearl necklaces she always wore since he knew how much I loved them. And he was so right - it is still the best gift ever given to me.

Cupcakes and Mandrake the Magician

Yesterday when I delivered cupcakes for Synthia's schoolmates she couldn't join beacuse of the chicken pox, so I forced (I like using that word) her to decorate one of her own just so she wouldn't be sad about missing the 10 o'clock break at school.

The ugly pink with hearts is mine, pink flower is the one creative Synthia did and blue flower was made by creative TeeBee. I need to think more like a child - their's much prettier!

I'm a BIG fan of Mandrake, and I usually think in serie strip ways, like:
Synthia is decorating her cupcakes looking happy, but what you can't see is me hypnotizing her dressed up like a marshal telling her she is happy.
Just like when Mandrake hypnotized the criminals so it appeared like he magically got their guns in his hand, but then there will be this strip saying "This is what really happened:" and you get to see him hypnotize the bad guys, walking up to them, taking their guns, get back to where he stood before, and snapped his fingers making them believe it just re-appered in his hands. Magnificent!

And yes, I was in love with Mandrake.

Shopping spree!

I've been running free today! I had an amazing shopping spree!
Well, not so much shopping as spree'ing.
My best shopping is SALE SALE SALE! I love buying cheap! And today I grabbed a cute cream white layered tulle skirt for the girls and a white shirt with short sleeves for TeeBee. I want to make skull prints on it, I think he'd be glad.
And WHAT about me - I should have something small too *pouting my lower lip, winking my lashes*

I found the most magnificent hair clips in my favorite faded pink color (kids department H&M)

I really, REALLY love this old pink color, the only thing I hate about it is that it will look horrible when I change my hair back to pink again

;(  I mostly wear red hair-stuff when I have pink...

But I won't change back just yet *sorry*.. I usually have a 1 year limit for my hair colors. But this flourescent green will change to a more "Adora-green" after M'era Luna in August. And no to be unfaithful to this crazy green, because I DO like it for being so funny and crazy, but I think it's a too "sharp" color for me. It's not the pastel, faded colors I'm used to, so I will try to make it a more "me" green.

Only hope it won't look like I've used to be blond and showered in water with too much iron in it...

And not to have any confusion here...the color after green will not be pink. I will have another inbetween :) Whihoo, can't wait!

Todays outfit

I felt so lovely today so I just spread the love all over myself! A bit downer I couldn't find my heart hair clips and jewellry in the morning, but at least I found one red heart to wear. I looked very casual today - I felt like I was on my way to a work out..

Sweat jacket, altered shorts and stockings from H&M, Demonia shoes, gold crown from toystore, Jack Skellington hair clip

Todays outfit

Today I went for my blouse with small white dots in sort of 20's cut and collar (from H&M ages ago), a skirt with white flocked hearts from Camden markets, London, stockings H&M and flip flops from Demonia.

Shoe search

I'm about to buy me some new shoes.
My wet dream is to get my feets into these beauties:

I have searched for them for a VERY long time, but only similar shoes turns up.

Some help anybody?

I want the exact same: 7 eyelets, made of PU and with those special fastening straps.

But in the meantime I've ordered these from China:

I need me a new pair of shoes since my Demonia Trashvilles broke in the zipper, and they are my day to day shoes for all autumns and winters when running back and forward to daycare. But I think the new ones will do the job :)

Here I am in my beloved Trashvilles at the M'era Luna festival 2008 in Hildesheim, Germany. AND as a coincidence - today is exactly 2 months to the day left!
I have the exact same Trashvilles with buckles as well. Soooo comfortable.

Make up crisis!

Nooooo!
I'm such a klutz! I broke my blusher! My everyday blusher!
Now I have to survive on the crumbles for 3 weeks...
Every single picture of me from the last 8-10 years is by this color (if I don't wear purple or blue etc.)
Boohoooo...I'm totally heartbroken.

On all following pictures I have Make Up Store's blusher Chic

For many, maaany years I've bought the same blusher when ever in a town that carries Make Up Store (this makes it sound like I live in the far jungle).
I use the color Chic by Make Up Store.
Not many people like to wear as much blush as I do, I'm definately an overdoser when it comes to that.
I love wearing blush since I think it makes me look like a mix between 18'th century people, a doll and a girl in heat ;)

A hot tips for blush is; when you paint it on, make it about 1/3-1/2 more then how you want the result.
Why?
Because when you paint on the blusher you agitates the skin underneath and that makes it blush naturally causing it to look as you had enough, but after 10-30 minutes you will hardly notice you painted any on (well, unless you're an overdoser like me).

Recipe: Viola bows (sugar pretzels)

As a young child, innocent and sweet...nah, who am I kidding? Who's story am I trying to tell?
The truth; as a young child, scary and with sociopathic streaks I sometimes were allowed to visit my grandma and grandpa under supervision of a crowd of psychiatrists and doctors standig by with a shoot of anaesthetic if anything should go wrong....again ;)
Everytime I visited my grandma, Viola, she baked these "sugary" pretzels. She was a diabetic so it had no sugar on top and I was not so fond of those plain pretzels back then.

But then I grew up to an innocent and sweet... Again! Wtf, tell the truth you fucking psycho! Okay, okay, I will, stop yelling at me!

But then I grew up to be a happy vampire (-Satisfied? Hmm, well, okay, it is bending the truth a bit on the kind side, but okay, I can settle for that.) and all of I sudden I just grabbed a recipe in my book and you can imagine my surprise when I took the sugary pretzel inbetween my fangs and I got ripped back in time just as if Superman had flown backwards of the earth once again as I landed in my (now deceased) grandma Viola's kitchen and was 7 years old wearing some hideous brown manchester pants and a white turtleneck with a big pretzel stuck between my teeth!

I've found Viola's recipe!

So from this day foward I named them Viola bows and it is a great memory to have of her <3

Viola bows/Sugar Pretzels converter

These will only yeast once

50 grams butter

1,5 dl milk

0,5 dl sugar

25 g yeast

4,25 dl wheat flour

Melt the butter and add milk to it. Heat to 37 degrees Celcius.

Mix in the sugar and yeast. Stir a bit.

Add the flour and knead the dough for 10 minutes in a machine (or by hand).

At once pour it out and cut it to 8 pieces. Make them as 20-30 cm long worms that you swirl like a pretzel (or whatever) on a baking plate. Add a tiny bit of extra flour if you must, but you shouldn't have to.

Put over a towel and let yeast for 30 minutes.

Put oven to 275 degrees Celcius (yes, it's correct - 275!) lower-middle for 5 minutes.

Paint them with water (or melted butter) and dip them in a sugary bowl before serving.

Do you have a memory cake from someone you love? Write down the recipe before they leave this earth is todays hot tips.

Shoe tips

I was just checking ebay.com for cut off body parts and cheap human skin when I saw they were selling "my" shoes. I know some people have asked me where I goth them - here they are.
The are SOOO comfy! I walked around in them for a whole night in Londons nightlife without the smallest blister the second time ever used. It's like shamble about in your morning slippers!

I'm wearing them here:

They might not look so high on me, but they are!

I'm 177 centimeters and these makes me 12 centimeters taller :) And yes, these are my feet. I tie little bows on the shoes every now and then.

Me in white, and I'm not even getting married!

Today Fairlight and TeeBee's daycare celebrated their "graduation" for the summer. They still have a few more weeks to go, but this is how it rolls.

As the tradition we all had white on (except my husband who had light grey pants with his white shirt and baby-blue tie). I felt so summerly! And it was SO hot!

We started out by having a quiz walk.

I must admit I feel a bit wierd wearing all white, but I think I pulled it off. But I like me better in black.

 Group photo of our little angels <3 <3 <3

 TeeBee was just so incredible cute in his turquoise bow tie!

 I put on the frosting "live". The cupcakes both tasted AND looked good.

 Full picture of TeeBee's recurring summer hair.

We had a great day and I managed to stay in the shade all the time! I LOOOOVE having an umbrella with me. But I really must buy me a new one, this is my surrogate since all the nice ones are broken because of this God forsaken town I live in is windy no matter what direction you choose to go!

Todays outfit

I've been out shopping some white clothes for TeeBee's and Fairlight's graduation at daycare. This is me right after I got home from town. I found a nice shirt for TeeBee to wear with his turkuoise bow tie and a hair decoration for Fairlight (so far). I will go out tomorrow too, perhaps I can find F some new earrings too.

Prinsess crowns makes me a better shopper

My favourite from last year; to cut off my stockings below my knees, is on my like-list this year too. And the heel-socks are perfect to avoid chafed feet when walking barefoot in shoes.