drowning in snow.

i'm going to be away for a week from tomorrow, enjoying my one and only trip this year (if you don't count the festival..). right into the snowy snowy mountains, to livigno, a town in italy, wich hasn't only got excellent slopes for snowboarding and a huge park (at least i'll try to learn some tricks..) but also is a duty free zone with more than 250 shops - wich is awesome! well, that's what my days will look like: snowbarding - shopping - eating - sleeping - x7 !! i hope i'll come back with some new stuff to show you and a flood of both digital and analogue photos to share with you! enjoy your days, free or not and be excited about me coming back in a week! ♥ ♥

grunge is the new black.

print shirts, asymetric skirt / NEWLOOK - grey and striped sweater / TOPSHOP - dress and denim shirt / PULL&BEAR - creepers / UNDERGROUND

asking alexandria.

wednesday had been one of the best days of the year so far, i went to see ASKING ALEXANDRIA playing at the backstage-club in munich and it was such a wonderful and beautiful concert. four girls, third row and even the supporters had been quite good, especially bless the fall. the next day i was more like a death person, but the awesomeness of that evening couldn't somehow be destroyed anyway! ♥ 

diana mini - DONUT.

there's an awesome design contest on somelostgirl with the absolutely awesome chance to win a lomography diana mini in white! white's pretty boring or a super cool background for your own design and so polga, who's running the blog, decided to give the camera to the contestant with the best design for it.. i decided to do the DONUT-design (and i could eat that camera, yum :D) and i really hope i'll win, i love the diana mini cameras, it's a 35mm one and you can even shoot 72 photos using the double frame! love love love it ♥

sparkles.

 i just discovered the most awesome rings ever - i think i'm gonna die. you'll find them on regalrose, such a wonderful online store for exraordinary accessories, lot's of feathers and crystals, well - i love it!

darkness.

it's a weird day. normal people feel awesome when they get extraordinary school certificates, but i got depressed. i could study nearly everything with my grades, but i don't want to, i want to study industrial design or interior design and for this you don't need the grades, you need the talent and you need to pass the qualifying examinations. so when i held that paper in my hands today i started having doubts about my future plans - why should i waste the grades and with them all the effort it took to get them (well, not that much actually..) ? i could study mathematics or physics, i'd been better there than in arts this year, but i know i do have an extreme passion and ambition in arts - why should i waste that? so well, i'm in a kind of struggle now, i can't decide , the only real alternative for me would be becoming astronaut, BUT: there are only 15 in europe, two or three of them german - the chance gettin in there is pretty low, huh? and i don't want to study air and space technology anyway.. and my mother doesn't make it better, she always tries to keep me from studying something design related, she doesn't believe i'm strong enough or talented enough or whatever.. but you know what - now i'm really convinced doing the design thing, i want to prove it to her, to myself and this course in munich is just PERFECT. i can even learn japanese, do an exchange year and three months of work expirience in a foreign company - sounds too awesome. I NEED IT.

PS: if you wonder, i was in a quite dark mood, so i simply had to delete some of the old posts i found too stupid for still being here. 

creative week.

 since i've been drawing a lot in the past weeks i wanted to show you some new things in my sketchbook, wich i had already shown you here . . and i really hope for some critics - so feel free to comment, especially what i could do better!

san fran.

DIY american flag shorts.

so, this is my secret DIY: american flag shorts. i wanted to do this for such a long time - and since i had plenty of shorts to customize - finally i found the time and materials to get started.. this is what you need:

1 a pair of shorts - i use levis vintage high waisted cut-off shorts from 2ndhandstores or ebay

2 an american flag bandana - important: at least 55x55cm and cotton! the material of standard flags is nylon, wich doesn't look so good..

3 sewing stuff: scissors, needles, twine

1 cut out a  piece of the flag, big enough to cover one side of your shorts, make sure to leave 2-3cm more of the cloth on each side.

2 put the piece of cloth on your shorts and cut out the pockets - always leaving a little bit more of the cloth!

3 to get the cloth under the belt loop cut into the fabric, a little bit longer than the belt loop is, then do two small cuts to the sides and simply push it under the loop. it should close behind the loop. - if it doesn't it won't matter, you wouldn't see it later, because the denim belt loop is over that part.

4 now fit the cloth exactly to the shape of the shorts. flap the seam of the cloth to make sure it won't fringe later or when you put the shorts into the washing machine. at the pocket and zipper fold the cloth really around the denim to get a nice selvage. secure it with (a lot of!) needles. 

5 now sew the cloth to the shorts. i decided to use white twine, but you could also use red one, doesn't matter. i did it by hand, you know i'm not that skilled with the sewing machine and i think doing this with the machine would need a lot of expirience, but you can do it whatever way you want to.

6 repeat steps 1-5 with the other side, the star spangled part, of the shorts. for the final touch roll up the seam of the shorts and secure it with several stiches - you won't have to roll them up after washing everytime anymore then.. and you're done!

 i loved this DIY, i think it's one of my favourites, it wasn't that easy and took me about 5h, but the shorts went out soo beautiful, can't wait to wear them! and by the way the price is just awesome: €8 - i got the pants in a secondhand store, on sale for just €5, then i simply cut them and the bandana is from ebay and was €3 - compared to the shorts from runwaydreamz for $162 or topshop (OMG, love their new grunge-collection!) for €44 that's just unbeatable! - and i could customize them just the way i wanted it, PERFECT.

stars and stripes.

guess the upcoming DIY - i'm excited!