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Summer 2014

Long update.
This has been my most busy summer ever. I spent the entire summer working in a laboratory. Six days a week. I'm exhausted. And rich.
Good thing is that I could avoid both the sun and all the summer heat by chilling out under the air conditioning system while secretly reading books on my phone.

The only week I was able to take off, I went to my favourite two summer festivals: Amphi and Castlefest. What better way to explain than showing some pictures?

A cute snapshot of my boyfriend, me, and an empty bottle of coke.

 And me with the friend who took the picture.

 How they serve wine at a goth festival.

Wardruna. They sound like you just stepped into a dark fairytale.

How you treat your little sister at a medieval festival: BATTLE TO DEATH!

And tomorrow I'm starting an internship at an environmental laboratory. 

No rest for me.

World Goth Day

Every day is Halloween, except today. Today is World Goth Day. Despite the fact that there are no special events in my country (-sad face-), I woke up to the sound of the Cure, went to school in full zombie mode, went back in to let my neighbours enjoy Bauhaus, went out again in full goth gear, blood red lipstick, perfect Siouxsie eyebrows (okay, a bit toned down ones) (okay, extremely toned down ones), my favourite bird skull rosary, one hundred percent ready to meet fellow monochrome beings.

But there weren't any. Not even anything remotely goth has been seen today.

Except that Facebook status from an semi-stranger from an online forum.
You give me hope.

Maybe it just was too sunny outside.

Lucky shopping (My Docs obsession)

Remember those shoes I posted before? Those platform doc Martens?
The expensive €180 ones?

Yes, those.

They were on sale and only my size was left.
For €60.

I was brave enough to ask if the student discount also applied to sale items.

Yes.

I got them.
For €54.
Instead of  €180.

So after almost 100 days I called my shopping ban to an end. Saving €126 on a pair of shoes that I was going to get anyway at some point in my life is a good excuse.
Breaking them in feels like walking trough hell though. Especially because of the platform.

Naturally, I already have a next big obsession.

 

These!

On the website I suddenly saw these beauties. Doc Martens with the "Hell" panel from The Garden of Earthly Delights (±1500, painted by Hieronymus Bosch) printed on them. 

A few years ago when I was writing a huge essay about surrealism I came across this painter. I went back into the history of art to search for surrealism in art. Before the 20th century it was very uncommon to portray things the eye could not see, so some consider these paintings the first surrealistic paintings.

 The Garden of Earthly Delights

I'm pretty surprised that of all of the paintings in the world they picked one of my favourites.
Next, please make Dalí or Magritte shoes. My holy trinity will be complete.

Pinterest.

When I woke up, I decided not to go outside today because I couldn't remember the last day I stayed inside all day long. I spent the whole day on my laptop.

A few days ago a friend introduced me to Pinterest. She swore that I would become addicted immediately. And she was right!

I created a board for personal style inspiration.
All that fancy stuff to pin... makes me a bit greedy.
I want to go on a killer goth shopping spree.

I have exams coming up, so instead of browsing it all day, I used it to get some studying done.  - How, you ask?
For every subject I summarized I allowed myself to look up and pin one pretty picture.
Worked out pretty well.