24: Red

My hunch was wrong, Sandman rudely lured me away before I managed to share these outfit pics from last night. We have a tradition in our family to dress up a little for the Yule dinner. I went casually with bare feet, a few mild curls and code red for the holidays' sake. (The dress is an old Stop Staring second hand find, in case someone wishes to know.)

Dorothy nails. I snapped my fingers three times and I was home!

Odd fact of the moment; I can't get this song out of my head today. It just echoes and echoes and echoes in my mind in a crude way. "It's like dying on Christmas Day". My subconscious seems to be in a jolly festive mood!

23: Merry X-(ray)mas!

Happy skeletons, grim moths and apocalypse ponies that I named Death and Famine. Almost traditional Yule gingerbread cookies! There's still one calendar piece left, and I have a hunch it will appear during the night. But for now, I wish you all a wonderful Yule Eve! 

22: A peek on my thesis!

Now that some time has brought distance between me and the graduation inferno of spring, I'm ready to show you something about the thesis. Just a small peek! Movement will come later. 

I wanted to create something I had absolutely no hands-on experience of. It's always a risk but I craved to do a piece I would genuinely enjoy making. So, my love for pop-ups and horror tales was compressed to this within a month:

Can you tell what three Poe stories are portrayed here? These three were in the final printed prototype, but I made some designs for a couple more stories too. I hope you like it!

21: Ouija dress

Weary traveller here, hello! I've had such busy days again, phew. Now I finally arrived to my childhood home to spend Yuletide with the family, but I decided to snap a few pics on this dress before going to bed. I got it as a payment for doing some modelling hours for Evil Clothing a while ago. I'm especially fond of the longer hem and the detail between shoulder blades.

This garment feels more special to me, because I happened to design the fabric! (The dress itself is designed by Jenni Salmela) I've made some other fabric designs for the company as well, but somehow I feel a little shy about typing any work related stuff here, although I really love doing them! Find some moths, occult tones and Cheshire Cats, and you just might find my sketches behind the lines. :)

20: Nihon-go

Lately I've felt like learning Japanese again.

I used to study this beautiful language through high school years and a little while beyond that, but other studies came into my way and I forgot. I forgot so much and it's all covered in rust, but I hope some of it will come back to me. I dug out the old textbooks and files under the dust, and might switch the current independent learning method back to actual lessons at some point, if I can. I have no other motives than just to be able to speak it more fluently and find the deep joy in learning new words! Isn't it amazing, seeing something unfamiliar and unlocking its meaning? And the little spark inside when you understand a whole sentence? That's what I love about languages.

19: Green potion

Some of you have been asking for food pics, so here's one! I consume this almost daily, and I really enjoy the sour green flavour. I can almost feel the dental enamel corroding away. This potion is very healthy, delicious and simple. Just mix a good chunk of freshly cut pineapple, two fistfuls of spinach leaves, lemon slices, banana, half an avocado, some water, a dash of spirulina and whatever pops into mind, like kiwis or apples. I find wild testing to be the best option with smoothies as people have very different tastes!

Looks like some mad scientist's toxic brew, but it still looks much better than some of my other smoothies that unmistakably resemble vomit. :D Time for a new blender, perhaps?

18: The Bone Church

Last month we went on a little road trip adventure with my friend Laura, and at one point it led us to the church of Sedlec Ossuary, an hour away from Prague in a sleepy town of Kutna Horà. I don't know when was the last time I actually sought a church on purpose, but this place had to be experienced! It's a pretty dumbfounding -even surreal- sight, and it took some time to realize we were actually there. I don't think I still fully have.

I hope the photos will speak for themselves as my words seem to fail me with this place! I'd suggest not to scroll down further if you feel uneasy about human bones.

Tourist! My bones are still hidden.

It's horrible, but I think this one looks like a band promo pic.

17: The Moon

"If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.

You leave the same impression

Of something beautiful, but annihilating.

Both of you are great light borrowers.

Her O-mouth grieves at the world; yours is unaffected,

And your first gift is making stone out of everything"

-Sylvia Plath

16: The Addams Family II

Someone might still remember my old Addams Family matryoshkas, and I now I have created another set! Very similar one (as the client requested), but still unique, as always. This particular family will be sailing to England very soon, but I will happily make another in case someone has her heart set on one. And oh, I should finally expand the family to Lurch, Grandmama, Thing and Uncle Fester too. ;)

PS: If you wish to share these dolls somewhere, please always make sure to credit me accordingly. Thank you!

15: ▶▲▲

Last night.

Most of my personal favourite songs remained unheard in the concert, but who cares when the overall feeling was so fantastic! And I got to see Dave's outrageous dance moves, shake to their hit songs (and even saw a miserable pug on the screen), so the evening was worth all the waiting and the coins. I wish everyone had a great time there! Greetings to the reader who stood next to me, I hope my erratic swaying didn't traumatize you too much. ;)

14: Library of dreams

I guess that most little girls, when watching the Beauty and the Beast, wished for an everlasting love story. But I think the library that Beast gave to Belle was pretty damn brilliant and equally desirable, too.

Last month something remotely similar crossed my eyes in Vienna, and I wish to share a few glimpses with you. I had never seen a library of this magnitude so it was a true delight for a bookworm, although touching the books and climbing the stairs was strictly prohibited. I'd take a smaller version of this in my home anytime! ♥

Celestial globe by Vincenzo Coronelli, 1693

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna