"Let them eat cake" (aka. HAPPY2014)

The year 2014 got a warm welcome by the NSF-scouts at Ransbergs Herrgård in Värmland, Sweden. Alot of new wonderful friends, a nice cavalier, good food and drinks (virgin of course). Since it was a masquerade ball it was quite expected of one to make their own mask, do alot of dancing and be just a bit over the top. So I went dressed up like Marie Antoinette. BEFORE she lost her head of course.

It was alot of preparing, traveling time, time traveling and fun! The dress I wore for the evening I had found at a local thrift store (hehe, you probably got that thrift shop song in your head now)  in Växjö. It needed some repair and modification. Handmade old thing. So I pimped it and puffed it (didn't have nearly enough volume at the back to measure up to Marie's standards!) Also customized some earrings to match the necklace and I hand stitched an underskirt that was very much like a pair of bloomers. My twin sister arranged the wig which took an incredible amount of time. THANKSx2! And thank goodness that style not in fashion now...

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.

Lookin' sharp

The cardsharps is a painting done in the end of the 15th century by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (commonly known as Caravaggio). Unfortunately one of the card players couldn't make it today which means they had to find a replacement and... well, here I am, showing off my fancy pirate hat and game skills.

 

The thing about Caravaggio is he likes to sneak himself into his paintings, so I wanted to kind of do the same thing. Found one of his sneak selfies (this one from the Martyrdom of Saint Matthew), took a photo of myself and disappeared into photoshop for a while. Put Caravaggio as a reflection in the mirror eye patch, had to do some face job (the guy behind me got a whole new eye) and my sleeves are a bit more frilly than usual.
Notice how I'm elbowing the man in the middle... is it because I know they're not playing fair game or because of where his eyes are at?