I am super P S Y C H E D about this tulle dress I made this weekend when I should’ve been studying for my first librarian exam (shh… it went well regardless of the needlessly complicated and elitist language used in the course for some simple cataloguing!). It was so easy to make so I drew some instructions. As a side note: you could make this dress in any fabric (though I’d recommend a heavier fabric or tulle like mine because some jersey would fall flat and the silhouette wouldn’t be as wide, but if you prefer that you should go fot it!) And another side note: tulle is like super cheap, I think I bought bought of these fabrics for three euro a meter! You could also look for bed spreads, I made this skirt out of a cool bedspread for instance.

Anyway, on to crafting!

I am very excited about these in particular.

Yesterday I was menstruating and feeling bad and grumpy and when I passed by a school cafeteria with large windows I saw young girl’s faces turn round one by one to where I was walking and I laughed but when that kept happening throughout the day I got grumpier and anxious and wanted to hide out and never go outside again. Usually I’m too oblivious to notice; I am blessed. Still, I am not outside of this world and I hate this belgian staring game because belgians are too afraid of confrontation (we would excuse ourselves for breathing) so in our catholic anxiety we stare everyone down in the hope of making others feel smaller than you yourself and mostly I laugh in their faces as if I was given a compliment but this drags me down just as much as cat-calling does. It makes me so madsad and sadmad because why would we even go outside anymore, why would you?

I have a soppy story to tell on why this is my favorite sweater, not only because of the adorable sheep, but for melodramatic reasons as well! But that story now only belongs to me and the friend who gave it to me ヽ( ⌒o⌒)人(⌒-⌒ )v

Every once in a while I’m like what’s Eley Kishimoto doing this season? and then I cry.

WHY.

Asos is seriously my go-to source for tights and socks. Admittedly their tights aren’t the greatest; I bought a bunch of colours last year and I got ladders from crotch to knees in one minute wear on all of them though after fixing them with nailpolish they stayed that way and are pretty warm but mostly asos has some of the cheapest tights around so whatever. As an aside: my favourite brand is Falke because they’re warm, they have some great colours, stay really elastic, I’ve never gotten a lader in them and they keep their colours after lots of washes… but they’re so expensive!

Oh well .

via asos.com

Lazy Oaf

Hmm yes food-related clothing good yes. That aside, I also have lots of feelings about sailor-style clothing? Currently I’m more into the sailor school girl uniform sailor wear. I’ve been bitter about losing my flawless blue coat for a while and I’ve finally decided to replace it with a sailor-style blue one because I make good life decisions. Yes.

above via Kling, bottom via etsy

A mix of all of these would be nice. Preferably I want something in a bright but deep blue, you know? Mod, A-line, oversized sailor school girl coat in a bright blue is a thing, right?

But really, spring is here today so I’m just gonna keep an eye out every where instead of seriously thinking about getting one. But don’t I need my sailor school girl needs fulfilled?!

Yes.

Yes.

Also since I’ve been getting a little bored of books lately:

oh yes please aaaahhhhh gamessss hmm yes

An outfit worn in the midst of another medswitch and I felt SO ANXIOUS I decided do dress royally for a day at library school. I’m gonna be the cutest most queenly librarian, helping you find whichever you need with a smile and a crown on top.

My majestic gown was made by one of my closest friends who has the same lazy ideology of DIY-ing. The dress turned out way smaller than we reckoned but it caused a super cute babydoll silhouette that I instantly fell in love with! Aaah, I remember, with only the zipper needing to be added, it was a beautiful summer and I told him, take it easy but I need it when winter starts STAT. Still, it arrived, collar unfinished in my hands in early december and what a joy it was! I love wearing it, flaws and all because it’s hand-tailored and ruffled with love.

Note that this dress is not actually asymmetrical but I have actual bad posture.

Also, I find this awkward and weird, but I added a donate button on my website. The offers for sponsoring my website have vastly declined ever since i started talking about depression, hahahaha. Seeing as this website is entirely funded by me (mostly because I am paranoid and I want the content I’ve made to be mine and always mine), am unemployed and way short on money I’m honestly getting sort of freaked out over how I’m going to pay for food and supplies. Mainly, it’s there to soothe my mind because everything’ll turn out okay! I can fall back on so many gorgeous people in my life. Yet money has been a huge triggering issue for me this year so yeah, that’s a thing now.

collar: p•p t•nes, cardigan: etsy, skirt: second hand, shoes: swedish hasbeens, vest: second hand, beret: veritas

Here I am in Marlena’s amazing collar! I really need to stay away from my stash of money because I need it for food but this collar got me lying awake and anxious and sighing and tossing and turning over its beauty so I just got out of bed and bought it because Marlena is amazing and she deserves my money and admiration and love because she is perfect and such an amazing seamstress. This collar is so perfectly finished I’ve also been wearing the back pink lining on my outfits! Thank you so much, Marlena, you are one of my all-time favorite bloggers and you’ll always will be because you keep doing what you want to do and it’s perfect and amazing and lines up so closely to my own aesthetic

A tutorial for this super easy and fun DIY because a reader asked for it and also it’s fun, relaxing and a perfect craft for a depressive!

You will need an empty toilet roll, at least three pencils, tape or a french knitting stool and a crochet needle or your hands. Then wool of your choice, some cardboard, a couple of scissors and a thick needle.

First make your own french knitting spool with some tape, an empty toilet roll and some pencils.

Cut up your old roll and fold it round till it reaches about the size you want your crochet string to be. Tape it madly! Now get your four pencils and tape them symmetrically on your roll. You want it to look like this, kinda whatever, it’s all good.

Of course you could also buy one but why do that when it’s so easy to make your very own in whichever size you want?

My spool has a diameter of about 2,5 centimeters and this made my necktie about 4 centimeters all around or about 1,5 centimeters in diameter. You can easily make a smaller or larger one depending on the diameter of your toilet roll and amount of pencils!

I got myself some semi-thick candy pink wool because crafting with thick wool is super easy. It was 79 cents for one pack at Zeeman and I’m so into it I bought like seven packs.

Pull your string through the stool and turn the wool around the pencils like so.

Now get your crochet needle and get to work! I am using a 3,5 large one. I don’t really know what that means. One day I just went into a wool shop and asked the lady behind the counter to just pick out everything for me. I am lazy. But, especially if you use thick wool, you can easily do this with your hands.

Now, turn the wool around the outside of your pencil circle and use your needle or hands to turn the wool over the pencil. Not sure what I’m saying here? Me neither. Here’s a youtube tutorial. (Crochet videos are so soothing.)

It takes a little while to make a long string but once you get the correct way of crocheting in your hands (and it won’t take long!) this will be really easy to do and then you can put on some episodes of The Face and cry over Naomi Campell’s flawlessness while crafting. So easy. So fun.

If you want to end the string, take one less stitch each round and tie it up.

Now, make some pompoms! I prefer making pompoms with the cardboard circle technique because it makes the pompoms, rounder and denser.
Follow these instructions via Pearls & Scissors. Trim your pompoms till they’re extra cute and round!

Then just somehow sew the pompom threads into the crochet string and the pompom, tie it up and you’re done!

YAY!!!

Let’s keep it short and say that my medication has gone all awry lately and grown worse because I was ordered to take even less of it and now I am basically feeling 01101000 01101111 01110010 01110010 01101001 01100010 01101100 01100101 etc. and 01100010 01100001 01100100 etc. and let’s not describe it all but let’s talk this one euro dress but what is good also is animals and I want to read all catsimal related stories and soothe my pretty head and wear this dress and cry, possibly.

Please feel free to send me animal-related stories. Or pics, or vids, or hand-made animal accessories.

(Especially considering my mostly second hand wardrobe is in sync with my ideologies on consumption.)

Having the possibility of dressing up is an awesome soft and reassuring cushion to fall back on during depression, whether it’s a character because I don’t want to be myself or just a simple play of pattern and colour. Lately it’s been mostly the latter and I’m starting to feel bored and anxious in an exciting way because I can’t wait to get to life again! ☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆.。.:*・°☆     ♡(●⌒∇⌒●)♡     ☆彡　　★彡　　☆彡　　★彡