M'era Luna festival 2011 - Day 1, part 2

So, lenses were put in.
Here's the thing - we were supposed to have black sclera lenses, that's why we choose to have dirty white outfits, to bring out the eyes more.
But I was a bit too late to order,  and then I didn't want the fuss about changing outfits, so in panic I choose the next best thing - white screen lenses. But imagine my surprise - it looked sooooo cool!!
We sang "Two blind mices..." all day :)

And yes, I'm aware of my friend sniffing my genitals. What can I say - we're swedish!

The pretty (and available *hurry*) sister of mine coming out of the bathroom looking happy. Makes me wonder what she did in there?

Sweet cutie Hanna came to our hostel (with lovable mum) for the pre-party

My husband illustrates how short he feels next to Jenni and her plateau shoes :) Or perhaps he is just a pygmy? I never cared to look below his *beep* -is

There will follow more pictures from the pre-party as the festival. Keep posted for Day 1, part 3! But since requested I throw in a few pictures at once :)

Old picture of the day

Today I present a picture from 2001. The wierd thing is that all pictures turned out blue because some wrong setting on the camera and color have not been edited. But the cutout was not the best job...well, it was the early 2000...
This was after the Leaf market.
Here you can see my best feature - my perfectly rounded forhead :)

Question time

I got a question from Krista Stewart on Facebook:



Question
"i was wondering if you were able to do the Montignac Method lifestyle while you were pregnant?? Thanks"
Answer:
Noooooo.... I was sick for all 9 months and puked when ever I smelled food. The only things I could eat was tasteless white bread, Danish pastry's and crackers. Everything else made me cry because I felt like puking. And that's how I gained 22 kilos in 9 months...
And I ain't joking. This is the total truth.

Adora's 30 day challenge - stairs

I'm already eating healthy (Montignac Method) most of the time, but I hate to break a sweat.
Sure, I'm skinny enough, but I think my body would be even happier if I was in a tad better condition.
I will totally diss the elevator the next 30 days (for me that is at least 8 times every day) and run the 4 floors to out flat.
I'll race the kids!

Join me for a hell month (health month). If you have no stairs to run, run the first part to your work/school - just to get that blood pumping *yummie*
Goths around the world - join in for a hell month!
Let's be healthy just to spite everyone else and out-live them! 

Need to buy that perfect Bat Brooch I'm wearing? Here's Pinkabsinthe's etsy.
She's got many unique things, enough to make a horde of goths to droole.

Kids started school today - finally!

Ok, not all of them. "Baby" TeeBee is still at daycare, but Fairlight started pre-school today (or class 0 as it's called here) and Synthia went on to second class.
I felt so proud when leaving my two big girls.
Finally they will join the treadmill that's goes on for life...poor suckers. They might think it's fun now...
Worst of it all is that it involves me somehow.
Yeah, I thought I was done with school and brain damaging homework - but NO, then you are a good citizen and produces children, and once again you are punished and dragged back to a life of homework your kids needs your help with. WTF?!

Sure, I have a husband who loved school growing up, and studied mathematics and stuff just for fun (and still to this day finds it funny to pull out some old mathematics on biochemical level to solve just for fun) but I still sit by half of the homeworks.

I don't wanna!!! Schools over for me. I can't learn anything more, brain switched off, input only for make up skills, sewing and baking. There is no room left for pointless dates of when king Blabla Blah died or when the first snail landed on the moon. I'm not interested!
I think I will have my mum make me a note to give to Synthia's and Fairlight's teachers saying I don't have to help with homework.

M'era Luna festival 2011 - Day 1, part 1

I got a fab close up picture of my make up and the white screen lenses I wore at Day 1 from photographer Jan Blok, Holland.

Old picture of the day

This was taken in Gothenburg, July 2011.
And now it is my new Facebook avatar.
If I'm not mistaken I'm wearing Green Tornado lenses...and nothing more..hahaha

Made me an apron

All of the little BatBrat's were invited to a birthday party today so all of a sudden I had 3 hours ALL to myself.

What to do with all this unexpected time?
Sleep/planning horrible deeds/bake a bunch of cupcakes and have them all to myself/spy on the old lady living next doors/try out all of my cool shoes and have a catwalk/clean the flat/play Bubble-Bobble or grow a bit taller.
After some serious thinking I decided on sorting out my new crafting slash cocktail cabinet (often a very good combination) to put everything in the right place.

I had that area re-made. This is the messy area before:

And here's my new, improved crafting/drinking area:

Inside:

When I was done I wanted to do something fun, something to ease my mind. And sewing is what my brain likes the most so I simply jumped to my Zwart Chateau (the sewing area) and made me a lovely heart apron. It happened to be about 5-7 cm too long (according to me) but I still think it looks pretty.

Published

Some of the pictures of the avant garde hairstyle hairstylist Marita Näsman made on me, and the genius Henrik Pilerud photographed, is up on Mirroronline.

Recipe: Guacamole (Montignac)

The story says vampires are afraid of garlic, well, it might have been true in the early decades when we travelled the world and tryed to act all aristocrat and smell like roses and champagne and we were to stuck up to be near those stinkers....
..but hey, life evolved and almost every person smells like garlic nowadays so we just had to adapt.

If you can't beat them, join them.

Being a total snob is good too, but eating always tops.
So, over the years I have become a garlic snob instead, and impress by my fantastic skills in different garlic dishes. Here's my version of the Mexican dish.

Vampire Guacamole, 4 persons

1 avocado

1 tablespoon of onion

1 big garlic clove

2 tablespoons of sour cream (for Montignac Phase 1 - NO!)

½ fresh squeezed lime/lemon juice
½ teaspoon (or more) sambal oelek
salt
black pepper

Bring out your blender and chop that onion until you can't recognice it anymore (as you would if you were a potential serial killer trying to get rid of some victim parts). Use the garlic press and add the garlic to it. Then go completely wild and just toss everything else in there.
Put it on.
Walk away.
Fix your make up a bit.
Go back.
Turn it off.
Put it in a sweet little bowl, preferably in clear glass for everyone to enjoy that sweet moss green color. Store cold until it's time to enjoy it "with" your friends ;)

Todays trip - IKEA

Seems my ass still wanna sail down a road for hours and hours... just as the 12 hour trip back from M'era Luna was not enough.

We took a trip to IKEA, Kalmar, to buy "me" a Flåren cabinet to keep my make up in. I'm getting tired of getting my husbands hairspray over everthing making it look dusty all the time.
I need to save my darlings! and Flåren/Flaren was the answer.

IKEA and I am not the best of friends since an IKEA wardrobe tried to kill my Synthia but I will give it another shot. Most of the time I've been very happy with the products. But stop trying to kill my kids, God dammit!

The kitty-cats got a new sleeping basket as well <3

I'm so happy my make up will find a new home :) and the fact I can soon bring out my Friday glass!

 

M'era Luna festival 2011 - Day 1, part 1

Saturday the 13'th.
Here's the first part of Day 1.

Sitting in a bed full of make up. I love it so much I sleep with it in my bed :)

 "Blow up doll-face". Apparently we went for dirty white. It was my stupid idea...

Althought we both felt very wierd wearing white we tried to own it. Someone even commented "some more black would have been nice"...and we agreed with him. We looked cute, but it was a bit strange for us.
The Kanekalon teased hair turned out good though. Kept us warm too.

 My husband let me have my fun with him. He even wore a white lens just for me <3

 A close up study on the Wimmerstedt sisters different make up styles (me to the left).

 To see what I look like I just look to my sister, and I do like the reflection <3

Of course we didn't go to the festival just looking like this! We put in some sweet lenses as well, part 2 will follow..

M'era Luna festival 2011 - Friday 12'th; The Trip

Here's the trip to this years electro/goth M'era Luna festival in pictures.

My super pretty sister Jenni is about to leave our apartment at 04.00.

 I always drive the first part, all the way from Karlskrona to the bridge towards Denmark.

 Jenni and my husband posing the "band picture".

 Stopped for some kind of food.

 Since my driving wasn't appriciated I was banished to the backseat.

 Finally, almost 12 hours later, we arrived at our hostel and could eat all the nice food we bought.

 You might think it's all my food, but the nice organised boxes to the right is Jenni's. I "only" have the other 5 boxes ;)

Then it was good night to be in shape for next day's fun and games :) More pictures tomorrow.

Home!!!

After a VERY long trip back from Germany to our lovely apartment I'm soooo tired and a bit sore in my throat after shouting/singing and talking to lots of wonderful people I meet there.
I'm official happy after this wonderful festival.
Photos?
Yes, lots and tomorrow. Must sleep now.
But for you with Facebook - check out pretty Hanna's pictures.

I'm at the M'era Luna festival, Germany

Today is Day 2 of the festival. And since we had white on yesterday we are now in panic and needs to have a lot of black. I hope I didn't sprain any ankle this time.
Today's look is nothing special at all...to tell the truth I haven't had the time to think about it.... All I know is that it will be black...
Here's from another year:

I'm at the M'era Luna festival, Germany

Today we'll go to the festival - all dressed in dirty white! This is just sickening to us, but it has to be done.
Here's a glimpse of what we're probably doing right now (from past years):

On my way to Germany

Right now I'm probably in my car driving to Germany and this weekends M'era Luna festival.
Here'a a video from a previous year:

Sister is here!

My sister Jenni arrived tonight because tomorrow at 04.00 we'll start our journey to Hildesheim, Germany and the Mera Luna festival. If I meet you there - hugs!!!!

If not, here's a virtual hug *mmm, hugs, hugs*

Todays outfit (yesterday).

Having black roots is always a good idea to hide with goggles, tiaras, hats and other shrewd hair decor.
I have just bleached my hair, but yesterday was not a good hairday...

My EBM (Electronic Body Music) look :) This feels so Headhunter by Front 242 1988 for me.

I used to look like this at discos in my teens. But wearing 10 eye Doc's instead.

One cool dance move if I might say!

And no, I'm not knock-kneed as many have asked.

But my knees have a story of it's own. Tell it some other time ;)

 This isn't a mirror image and, hell, even I am blown away by my skill to make exact the same painting on each side! I'm better than I thought!

Question time

I got this in my comments the other day and feel like I want to give a fair explanation:

Question
Anonymous said...
she never answers your comments or questions either here or on facebook, you losers ... that's how great she is. it's nauseating.
August 5, 2011 3:01 PM

Answer
@Anonymous: That's not true. I answer every now and then :(

The next day I always read through the comments from the day before. I would like to answer every comment and mail I get, but I am very sorry - I cannot :(

I get over 200 mails and comments every day, I blog and works with other things and I have 3 kids that want's mummys attention as well. I try to be humble and answer when I can, but I'm sorry to say I failed...

I can but say I will continue trying and perhaps say "Thank's" a bit more often since many are sweet taking their time to leave me comments.

Thank you everyone for leaving me cute comments, interesting questions and telling me to shape up (I appreciate this too).

One more thing: I think there is always two ways of saying the same thing.

Instead of insulting this blogs followers (people who have done you no harm) and me you could just have rephrased it to:

"Adora, I feel like you never answer any comments here or on Facebook. How come? A bit more feedback to your readers would be welcome."

This still makes your point, but sounds a bit nicer.

Always try to think about how you say things (this lesson I tell my kids every week). Try to be humble, since you know nothing about this person. I could just have lost someone close to me, I might have a disease myself, perhaps I suffer from narcolepsy or I killed someone and ponders about that all days being afraid the coppers will knock on my door with some cold steel to put on my wrists. And I do not mean the stylish kinds that's called bracelets...

Married for 13 years

Today it's 13 years since I walked down the aisle to marry the boy who I can't take my eyes off. We both fell madly in love the first time we layed eyes on eachother and I have never seen a boy who I find equally attractive since.
To me he is the most beautiful boy I've ever seen (ok, so he gained some weight over the years, but when we met he was that skinny boy-type I've always found so enchanting).

Here we are at our wedding day the 8'th of August 1998. I made our dresses. Stupid me bought his fabric on the Tuesday of the week we were about to get married and had it done 4 days later (while sewing my own dress, the bridesmaids dresses and be on top of the wedding plan...).
I was so worth my morning gift; my solitary diamond!

Synthia's 8'th birthday party

As the swedish tradition I made 7 kinds of cakes/cookies for my beautiful first child; Synthia's B-Day.
She went out and bought the serviettes for her party. It turned out perfect!

Here's some shots of the cookies and cakes. My favorites are (well all really) the blueberry as the raspberry cupcakes <3 and death caps.

 Mini raspberry cupcakes with frosting and a small jungfru bröst/virgin breast (as we call them in swedish) on  top. Or if you're prude you can call them jelly raspberries...

 My "eye" cookies. To make them even cuter I put them in a small candy paper this time. They look like super small cupcakes <3

 All in one shot! From front to back: chess squares, eye cookies, sticky brownie cookie with peanuts, sticky brownies cookies, blueberry cupcakes, death caps, raspberry cupcakes.

Minimal blueberry cupcakes with blue frosting and sprinkles on top. I feel like a GIANT when I eat all those small cookies.

 The birthday princess herself <3
Happy 8'th birthday, my pretty and sweet girl Synthia! Beautiful Fairlight in background is totally pre-occupied by her cakes.

 

and here's the strawberry filled cake she decorated (with some help from me).

Todays make up

Tomorrow we will have Synthia's birthday party for the relatives :)
It will be so much fun!
So, although it's a super nice Friday, it's mostly been cleaning, bathing the kids, baking, preparing the cake, ironing and some last minute shopping.

I paint my white dots with dipping the other side of the eyeliner brush into Kryolan Ultrafluid Foundation TV-white. This gives perfect round dots :)
Green eyebrows is made by adding some water to my green FACE eye shadow. Paint with eyeliner brush. Simple as that.