DIY: Ideas on a spooky Christmas

Halloween is over now and the holiday season is right around the corner. Everyone ist doing holiday dekoration and there is christmas stuff every where you look. Bright and shiny Christmas ornaments, sparkling Lights and cheesy red and green Santa Claus Stuff.

So I thought it is time to bring the nightmare before Christmas to live and let this holiday season have a little toutch of never ending Hallowenn. Silent time? Lets get loud!

The easiest way to add a little goth touch to it, is haveing a black christmas tree. They can be easily found at the internet. The other way are black christmas ornaments. Last year black ornaments were really popular at Bavaria.  And they are moste time really cheap an easy to find. When you dont find them to buy, they are easy to make. Buy some really cheap ones and paint them black. 

But you can go way more creative. There are so many Ideas on the internet what you can make. 

Here are my Ideas:

- cut out Bat or Skull ornaments from Cardboard or made from modelling clay

- Black Santa Socks. (made out of felt, no hemming needed)

- Black Santa Hats

- A black Angel Christmas Tree Topper

- Black Candles and Bows at the wreath.

My personal holiday decoration this year is really minimal because i am moving during the holidays. So there will only be a gothy christmas door wreath this year.

I took a cheap styrofoam wreath from the craft store and covered it with grey knitting material. I used this because i can re-decorate it for every season.

The decoration are black ribbon, silver snow star jewelry and a black bow. The Bells i like very much. these are my personal "Hells Bells". It is nothing really special, but it is definitely diferent to the ones you can buy.

Now get everyone a black Santa Hat, listen to one of the gothy or heavy metal Christmas songs and enjoy a spooky holiday season.

Next time i will show you my gothy christmas bakery.

best wishes, 

your Queen of Bats

Shopping: WGT 2016

The WGT is now about 4 weeks over. And i finally managed to take pictures of all things i bought at the Festival.

This jear war the first time i went to the WGT Festival. And it was amazing. I spend a lot of money on new things. And now i want to show them to you

The Skirt

A pouffy princessy big skirt in black and purple with lots of tulle and cute little bows. Its a Sinister Skirt (my third one now)

The Corset

A Corset from Burlesca, the same purple as the skirt. Its got plastic bones and so it is very confty for wearing every day.

The Jacket

A steampunk Jacket, i have already worn at the victorian picnic, from Phaze. It was really strange to wear that much brown.

The Bracelet

At the "Heidnischen Dorf" i found a really cute bat bracelet. And my boyfriend decided that i really need this. And now i wear this nearly every weekend. 

The Tophat

I decided that i badly need a Tophat. And at the Aderlass Store i found the one i looked for. And i am wearing it every time i can. 

The dress

finally i got a Hell Bunny dress with all over bat print. Its really great to wear and super cute. I think i need a petticoat going with this.

link to the shop where i got the picture from

I am already saveing money for the next year. And maby the next time i do a basic shopping posting.

What are your favourite WGT buyings? 

bat wishes,

Regina

I got a bat present

This is just a very short post because I have got a great bat present from one of my best friends Selina. 

Thank you so so much!! 

It is a bathig Towel for a gothy, bat Style at the beach. Now summer can come.

Do you have any gothy towels? Or simple black ones?
Do you want me to do a summer survival guide for you?

Bat wishes and have a nice day,
Regina

Daily Planner + free download

Its been a long time since the last post. Again. I didnt manage to post as regularily as i wannted to. 

So i need to organize my days a lot better. And how could you do this the easyest way? By getting a daily planner!

Because there was no planner on sale what suits me with the classification of the days, i took a look at pinterest and found one that i liked. It is to download and print for free, great thing. The problem is: its bright and colorfull and very ungothy, so i would not use it.

Here is the link to it: Daily Planner German and English

and another one that i liked a lot: daily planner german

So i decided to make one my own, bought a blank journal and started to design pages at my PC. And when finishing the first page i realized that there is no need of printable pages when already haveing a journal.
So there was the next thought. Buying a binder for the printables or design the pages of the journal? I decided to buy a binder. Why? It is a lot easyer and it was a lot work creating the printable because i am not really good at working with a computer.

I will start useing my new journal at the 1st of June. (Today) In my opinion it is a good date to start something new. half the year is over so its time to take a look back at new years resolutions. How far did you came up with them? Did you finish one already? (like loosing weight, reading a book or so) 

And maybe it is time to get on some new ones. Or update the old ones. 

Back to the planner. Here is the pags i've made. Please feel free to download and print for your personal use. 

the picute is linked to the pdf

From now on i hope i could manage to do regular blog postings and do not stop after two successful weeks. 

How do you manage to stay on plan? And how are you planning out your day/week?

Bat wishes and have a nice day,

Regina

DIY: quick Jewelry Box

Some time ago i've been looking around pinterest on some diy ideas. And i came up with:

I need a jewelry box to hold my Piercings.

There are so many great ideas on makeing your own personalised jewelry boxes. Or boxes to hold other stuff. 

heres the link to it

This one i fell totaly in love with. this miniature dresser is so awesome! Unfortunately it is already sold. (and i think it would be really expensive.)

And so i was looking on one i can do myself looking a bit like this. And i found a really simple and quick tutorial on doing a little jewelry box. 

And here is the matching link with the tutorial: follow me

useing an empty Ferrero Rocher Container is a really great idea. Especially because i love them. And so i grabed my black paint and an jewelry piece to glue on top and started following the instructions

I simply added some red felt to the inside to give it a more Coffin like look. And prevent the piercing from skratching of the collour. 

It does not look like the jewelry box i fell in love with but it is pretty cool and very cheap too.

show me your diy jewelry boxes. Or do you have some great ones bought?

have a nice day, 

bat wishes

Regina

Outfit: going a little Steampunk

I am sooo excited!! My Boyfriend and i are going to the WGT (wave gothic treffen) Festival at Leipzig, Germany this year! And because of this i need some really coll outfits. And i started by putting some Steampunk elements to my normal styling.
The outfit is not completed yet. There are a hat or headpice left, some jewelry like earrings and bracelets.

Here is what i am haveing so far:

Skirt from Draculaclothing: black three layer bustle skirt
Shoes from Demonia
Corsett from Steamdreams: Corsett "Rebecca"
Necklace from Thrift Shop
Blouse from my Moms Wardrobe
Handbag from a Dollar Store (Box, der Kleinpreiskönig)

I really look forward wearing this outfit.
Maby i will change the blouse and make one myself. But thats a question of time.

So what do you think? Does the outfit look good? Is something essential missing? Because this is a kind of experiment. Usually i wear all black.

Only 9 days left to WGT!!

Bat wishes and have a nice day,
Regina

Goth at (and) the Gym

Gym's are some of the non gothy places number one. But: wanting a hot and toned body is a lot of work and this is done at a gym the easyest way. And nowadays working out, eating healty and beeing strong is everywere on media. Watching tv is not working without some fitness advertising. And because of that i thougt, why not blogging a bit about fitness?

Finding the right gym is the first step. How far is the gym away? What does it cost? What do they offer?

Then there is the next step: Time. One of my personal major problems. When do i go? How often do i want to work out?

And number three: motivation. What motivates me to go? Do i have a training partner? What do i need to do to stay motivated?

When visiting the gym i sometimes felt really unconfy. All the bright colours and loud top 10 chart music makes me feel not good. So i needed to change someting. And i started with the music. Getting out my old mp3 player and packed it full of good heavy metal and goth music.
As next the workout clothes. I get myself some black shoes and trousers. And a top from "Poison Industries" what gave me a good feeling back. Finally i toped it with a black towel and water bottle.
For now you can see i am a goth at the gym.

And while surfing the net, i saw the #healthgoth website were you can find goth gym clothing

the healthgoth website

Dont want to go to a gym? No problem. The internet is full of home gym programs. They are mostely really expensive and high intense. Not the right for everybody.

But fortunetly there is youtube. Full of fitness coaches who showes you how to workout at home without a gym or expensive online training.
My favourite youtube fitness coach is Joanna Soh. She is crazy high energysed. But her workouts do really work. And also all recipes i tried out so far tasted really delicious.

here is the link to her official website: J Soh official

writing this blog helps me getting my motivation back to do more workout. What gets you motivated? are you haveing a motivation board? And what do you do to stay fit?

bat wishes, and have a nice day,

Regina