BE GOOD TO YOUR FRIENDS

The lovinspire shop (see it here)  is now shipping style for you worldwide! 

We are aware that with this freedom comes responsibilities 

which is why we've decided upon a few things that we live by...

Since the environment is our friend, 

and we care about our friends, we: 

- Never wrap our goods in fancy newly mass produced one time packages 

  but instead we prefer newpapers and the reusing of old boxes. 

- Want you to think before you decide to buy, because we have a no return policy.

- We get extra happy when our customers are located close to us. The nearer the better!

This package destined for Australia is a reused old Aladdin chocolate box covered in papier mache and wrapped up with a cotton ribbon. Not only does it look fun to get things like a chocolate box with a delicious piece of clothing inside, but you can also take pride in the fact that you did mother nature a favour. 

Steampunk sundays

Now that  I'm enjoying the academic life (I'm studying Culture Environment at LNU) I find I haven't got much time at all for being randomly creative. Still I kept sundays sacred and decided that they shall be used for working on my steampunk costume. So steampunk sundays. So far I've made a small cylinder hat in papier mache, bent the frame of a pair of glasses and of course I have started with the transformation of my old corset made into an underbust.

The other day me and my sister, Alice, started taking apart things, this time a VCR and an old clockwork, to get parts to make us (she's working on an outfit too) look more mechanical. Gonna keep it simple though, wouldn't want to end up looking like I just "glued some gears on it" even though that's probably how I'll go about it. Glue gun is after all a very effective weapon.

Deer & skinny Lady

Papier maché is seriously underrated! Fell in love with the technique a couple of years ago when me and my twin sister did masks for a film she's making. The lenses of an old pair of sunshades made splendid eyes. Painted the thing with a sponge and acrylics.The only real problem I'm having is connecting the horns (a pair of sticks painted in white). How do I do that? I've tried a few ways but I haven't found a long lasting solution. If anyone got any ideas it would make me very happy if you shared them with me!
(just send an email to: trololovisa@gmail.com)

This here is fine Miss Lush - a fragile lady who loves to wear hats. I actually made her as a hat stand for the fancy pirate hat project... which there will be more about later. She's also good for surprising people. One time my dad put her by the window so when I was looking in through it (as I always do when I come back home) I was for a second sure I was staring death in the face. AAAH!