carnival in cologne

Oh what a fun weekend. I just came home from a really fun and creative weekend at my friends house in cologne. Every years there is a huge party all over the city to celebrate "carnival" or as you might know it as "mardi gras". Its a fun spectacle where we all dress up and go as something or somebody different. Usually the whole group interpretes the same topic just as this year, where we all went as "dia de los muertos- dolls".

To be honest, we didnt plan it that much this year, cause we were all super busy and didnt have that much money to spend for just a day. It turned out to be a really fun idea and the people around had a fun time looking at us as nice girls first, then turning around and kinda shock them by looking so different.

Well, the real carnival comes up next year and it'll go for about 5 days dressed up as whatever you feel like and having fun with tons of people listening to local music. 

On one of these pictures you might questioning yourself, who is that guy in the middle... well, thats our great friend, who came to visit us for a couple of days. Amazing surprise for us, cause we not get the chance to see him that often. Thanks for that great time guys ♥

Wednesday quote

Time for my weeks quote.

My alarm went at around 4am this morning to remind me to follow the U.S. election on television. 

Half asleep when the news popped up. Relieved and super tired, I fell back to sleep again and was dreaming about the time I actually was part of the States. Exactly 4 years ago I could follow the election of the (now!) second time winning president and totally got caught by the atmosphere. I could see people taking sides between the 2 fronts by showing big posters in their windows, while I was taking my daily walk with the babies. Having plenty of stickers on their cars or wearing Tshirts with statements. Being part of a college program with people all over the world talking about the states, the language, traditions, food, culture and the history, made me feel more curious about the country.

This important year for myself and then this changing election was a great combination, because everything seems to be so new to me. 

Thinking about that amazing time - which I do at least once a day!- I couldnt help myself looking at all the pictures and papers I've made and collected during this year. 

Tears, Happiness, Laugh. I've passed all these stages all at once. This always happens when I look at the pictures and the great time we've had. 

Well, here is my wednesquote for you. Shakespeare. Photo was taken on Route1 back in 2009.

snapshots

I've been having lots of fun this last week. I was having a great schedule including lingerie cuttings, Illustrator fall collection 2013 and a power point presentation about the Inkas and their fashion. That kept me busy this week and I actually didnt have any time to do an outfit photos at all. Sorry for that my friends! 

Nevertheless I could do some wonderful little projects for my soul. Here is a little sneak peek of my latest jewelry project. This amazing venture Im working on for the Illustrator workshop will include some handmade leather jewelry and some leather accessories... Oh btw. the quality is not that good this time, cause I was playing with my little digital cam this time.

Thanks for the lovely comments and emails these weeks!

daylight saving

Time has changed. This last week and also first week back to school really kept me busy. As I've mentioned before, I was struggeling with Illustrator and switching between my Ipad and my brothers laptop constantly. He is the only one who has that needed program and was really kind giving me his laptop to work on my duty. By friday all was done and I finally had time to finish some projects, like sewing some hemlines, finishing some fashion drawings and just organizing my laptop by creating new folders.

At the end of each semester, there is a fashion show of the students who got their degrees in fashion design. As so friday night. A really engaged semester of about nine students created tha amazing show and made me realize that its what I aim for. This fashion industry is such a tough one, where you sometimes forget where your place is. Especially when you are in the fledgling stages, where you still try to fogure out what your name or design should stand for. This year is about my very own collection and what I really like to show people. I allow myself to show something private in this collection and how I interpret my thoughts about my family and my very own place in between. 2 outfits are finished and still at least 3 more to go.

While babysitting yesterday I figured it would be fun to ask these two cute girls I take care of once in a while if they would like to go on the runway, too. Of course they were all excited about it and before bedtime, they just had to play and pretend to be a model walking in that fancy dresses. It was soo cute how they think a model should be and what they have seen in movies or magazines. Actually a little scary too, cause at the age of 8 and 11, they already get the tension between being normal and just way too skinny. But these two have a great opinion about it and like who they are. Thats what I love the most about it and what I want to see in them everytime. They should be theirselves anytime, everywhere.

Earlier this day, me and my friend Vera from TakeTime4me finally got back together for our favorite hobby, shopping the fleamarkets! We used to go almost every weekend, but since we both are super busy studying, working or just not living that close to each other, it got rare catching up. We've finally made it and had so much fun talking about trends, people around us and the lovely things we've seen and couldnt decide If one of us "needs" it or not. (its always like that, when visiting a fleamarket!)

The pictures below were made spontaniously, cause be both actually were neighter dressed nor in the mood for a shooting that day. 

Time has changed. It was incredibly cold outside. The temperature switched from + 10°C into - 4°C overnight! Way to cold to walk through a market at 9am. Well, we did it anyways and as cold it was and as exhausted we were we could not just leave without taking some snapshots together. A wonderful memory of the first winter-day of the year. ♥

 

Outfit - details:  

dark red pants: h&m / croched shirt: fleamarket / black cardigan: Zara / scarf: Primark / shoes: clarks / 

parka: from my brother / necklaces: handmade / ring: a friends gift 

Inspirational artwork

Monday is almost over and must say, a wonderful start of the week aswell.
It all started with a wonderful song in the jukebox, called "you and I"(click) from Ingrid Michaelson, an oh so lovely singer and songwriter from NY. Her music is really catchy and especially this song caught me a while ago, while dreaming of a kids camp owened by me and a good friend. I thought it somehow fits and I made it into the song I need to hear as my alarm clock each morning! It works just great and the morning starts with something so sweet. What kind of alarm sounds do you guys have??
So staying at the trainstation (which is an open space, from where u see the fields) waiting made me fall into a daydream scenario full of ideas for the week. Fabric shopping, sewing on some projects and finally getting them all placed nicely to take a pic to show you guys.
As soon as I arrived at my school, I was surprised to see so many new people sitting there smiling at me. Oops, I totally forgot that the new semester started today and everybody is waiting to have their first meeting in our circle. This first week of each semester is always a week full of projects.
I luckily could choose an Adobe Illustrator one, where Im gonna start from the very beginning now. I know, there are so many creative heads out there who know how to work with it since... forever.
Not me! I took a little course over a year ago and loved it. But as Im not the best in dealing with the computer things, I didnt do anything for a long time. Sad, but oh well, another year another chance, right!?
I have so many figurines drawed by me, but never used the programms to go crazy with combining and illustrating. There are so simple now, but with the right know- how on Illustrator I'm gonna change this soon! ;)
Check out these pics I've found on the world wide web. This amazing artwork is from Stina Persson, a creative soul from sweden. Find more about her on here