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    Hello lovelies, 

    right after I arrived from Italy I had tickets für Dita von Teese's Glamonatrix show and it did not disappoint. I had already been to a show in 2018 when she was in Vienna for her show "The art of the teese" and the acts were all amazing. I even recognized Dirty Martini again from the first show and the only guy, Jett Adore. The MC Jonny McGovernwas super hilarious and had been the MC in the other show before. The full cast included Dita von Teese, Dirty Martina, Zelia Rose, Laszlo Major who was from Budapest and told us that his parents were in the audience, Jett Adore, Tosca Rivola and of course the Vontourage.

    The only problem I had was that the show was held at Stadthalle in Vienna and I did not see very much because we sat all the way in the back. Damn! To fix this before the next show, because I really wanted to see Dita's face, I bought myself an opera glasses. But in the end, I didn't need it because Glamonatrix was held at Burgtheater and the seats were different and not that far away from the stage so I could see much better than before. But I guess I have an opera glass now for for other shows were I do not see a lot like...Rammstein?

     

    I tried to go with the theme of the show and add a bit of glamour into my outfit. The dress is from DreamV and the overlay is from Mon Lily. The bag belonged to my grandmother and it's so cute but very small. The shoes are from a vintage store but I do not think they are very old.


    I also wear a mask whenever I go to venues or shopping and to my horror I realized that 90% of the people in the theater did not wear a mask. Why? It's just a piece of cloth. I find masks very breathable and I like wearing one. I really do not understand it. It's the new punk. lol

    M. and I were much too early and had to wait for almost 40mins until we could enter the hall. Usually one is able to enter an hour before the start but I think they still had rehearsals because we could hear the music through the closed doors.

    Burgtheater is a small but very nice, art nouveau style theather built in 1888. The show was not sold out but it was very full. 

    There are no pictures of the show or videos because it was not allowed and I respected this wish, even though I would have loved to have a full video of Dita's performance. 

    At the end we went and bought ourselves some merchandise and I finally have a new brooch again! I bought myself a brooch at the first Burlesque show, it was Dita and her cat and so cute. I only wore it a few times and keep it in a glas case most of the time. 

    Usually I am not a T-shirt girl but that print was just so hot, I really wanted it. I'm thinking of maybe just using it as a sleep shirt or something like that. 



    Have a wonderful weekend, 


    Auris Lothol




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    Hello lovelies,

    it's been a while since I posted my brooch creations and it is definitely time for an update. 

    In just one month I created so many brooches that I could also start with version two of some of them. Version two is the same design but with a better, at least that's what I hope, bead design and usage of rhinestones and pearls. 

    Sailor Moon Brooches

    This is version two of the sailor moon brooch and it is so much better than my first try. (see my blog post about it here).
    For this brooch I used small sequins for the wings and a swarovski stone as the heart of the moon. Top and bottom part are smaller and less clunky. It is still not the version I want to go with and I need to make a version three but all in time. It takes me ages to do this brooch and I really want to do other ones too.

    Another brooch and another version two. This one already looks so much better than version one.

    Version one and two (left and right). Left still looks clunky. Instead of pearls I used rhinestones and the rhinestone chain was cut to build crisp edges on the star. I don't like how it blends into the pink and I want a bigger gold chain so the star is more visible. Version three will come soon.

    And this is already version three! It's much better than the other versions, again see below.

    Left is the first version and right is the new version. The newer version only looks a bit wobbly because it has a pink on the back and the others don't. It's also fatter but smaller, I need to change that and I guess there will be a version four...
     
     
    Sailor Moon would be nothing without Luna and this is her own brooch. It took me ages to find a bead that is moon shaped and when it arrived I realized that it just has one hole and is very unstable. I glued and sewed it onto the pearls beneath but I hate using glue for projects like this. And now I have to order new moon beads again from aliexpress. That is annoying.

    Pokemon brooches

    Yes, you read correctly! I also made Pokemon brooches, or at least pokeball brooches. I also have pikachu on my list but did not yet have the time to figure him out. 
    Thhe first pokeball is more 3D, it looks really amazing far away but a bit wobbly up front. I need to change the gray area, it's too dark but the rest is fine.

    This Pokeball is made with big pearls and just looks like an old 2D picture of a pokeball. But I like dthe project because it didn't take ages, compared to the other one.

    Happy Pride

    This special collection is my tribute to pride. The first brooch is a rainbow with silver lining in white clouds. It's my SO's favourite and he likes to borrow it when we go to events.

    The next one is my favourite as it has the pride colours and is heart shaped. I also made a trans-pride heart a few months ago, see here.

    The rest

    Not to be mean to my other brooches but they don't really fall in a special category. They are forms which I thought were cute or would work with that style of bead and pearl embroidery. 

    This is the only brooch I do not have anymore because I gave it to a friend. It's a sakura blossom and I tried to blend the colours into each other.

    These are the sweet as candy collection. I absolutely love this technique of not being in a straight line and just sew anything I want onto the brooches. It's a bit chaotic but very fun. Usually I start with going from the largest beads to the smallest and fill in the gaps left with tiny beads.

    No collection of mine would be done without a fleur de lis. I challenged myself to a colourway which was not previously done and that was the wonderful result.

    This is is actually a shell but looks more like a fan. I did not blend in the pearls and it looks very weird. Not my best work but that is how I realized that I can also blend them and I guess it helped me with the sakura blossom which came afterwards.

     
     
    And that is what I did the last month or couple of months. 
    I hope you enjoyed my small tour of the brooches I made and let me tell you, I am not done and still have so many ideas. 
    I am planning on selling the brooches and other things I made on the next animarket on the 26th of October. So if you are in Vienna and want one, be sure to check out my booth at the market. 

    If you like what you saw and want to tip me, go over to my ko-fi or support me on patreon from just one euro a month. 

    All the best,

    Auris


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    Hello lovelies, 

    my parcel from L'esprit de la Noblesse finally arrived. I am so happy about that. At first I did an unboxing video but my SO caught me at an especially unflattering angle and I looked like Jabba the hutt. haha. Also the video had a weird orange tint and I looked like an orange. Or Trump. But I still uploaded it and you can watch it on youtube or here at the end of the blog post. 

    So first of all, who is L'esprit de la Noblesse?
    It is a small and independent brand from Russia founded by Nicolas and Elizabeth Degaire. They specialize on portrait print and chiffon dresses with inspiration taken from historical clothing or art.
    Dresses can be pre-ordered and will be shipped out as soon as they are finished. 
     
    I bought two dressed and my SO got two bags and a cape.  As we chose combined shipping it was not really that bad, I think shipping was about 40€. But the import taxes were quite a lot, I expected them but it was still a small heart attack with 200€.
     
    The first dress is the "Le boudoir de Madame". It is soft and very silky and has paintings and portraits printed on it. My favourite!

     

     The shoulder straps can be tied separately.
     
    The front of the dress is a painting of a greek mythology tale called „Leda and the swan“, a story where Zeus once again can't keep it in his pants.
    The print is fashioned after a drawing by Francois Boucher between 1776 to 1802. It's currently in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

     
    Other prints in that dress include "The Pleasures of Education", "The Toilette of Venus", "The Charms of the Morning" ,"The awakening of Venus", "the woman taking coffee", and "Cupid begs Venus to give him back his arms".
     
    (c) https://lespritdelanoblesse.com
    (c) https://lespritdelanoblesse.com
     

     I am wearing it when I had my spring fotoshooting and I loved it. The only issue I have with this dress is the creasing underneath my boobs. It seems like my torso is too short for the top or I have to tie the shoulder straps lower.
     
    The second dress I ordered is called "Sea Godess JSK" and it came with a scarf which can be used as a stola, scarf, belt and anything else one can think of. 
     
    The shoulder straps are detachable and one can change the size.
     
    And there is a shirring for the back.

     
     It's fashioned after another portrait of Francois Boucher called "The Triumph of Venus" from 1740 and is now in the Nationalmuseum of Stockholm/Sweden. Venus is seated in the middle, surrounded by a number of tritons, naiads, dolphins and cupids, all representations of love and all paying tribute to the goddess of love.
     

    This dress also creases but I solved this problem by tying the scarf around my waist and make a big bow at the back. No more creasing! Hooray. 

    See more about the creasing in action and the full review on my youtube.





    All the best,


    Auris Lothol


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    Hello lovelies,

    with this post I am officially done with posting my coords from 2021. As it's almost May again, I am way behind again, but I am slowly getting there. Baby steps!

    I don't have a lot of coords for these three months because I tend to be super lazy in the winter months and more active in the summer months. Reasons for that may have been all the stress at work and a cold flat. We only had about 19°c because we refuse to spend more money for heating.

    October

    The only lolita coord I wore in October was for the lolita teekränzchen witch meet-up.

    One picture is made by a professional photographer, the other one is made from a mobile phone. Can you guess, which one? haha.  

    I wore my Hufflepuff dress and the new Innocent world items for this coord. I am still not fond of myself in black.



    November

    two coords month. At least one more than last month. 

    I still had the halloween decoration hanging in November but I think it fit the black/pink combination of this cat dress very well. The dress was bought in October via lacemarket from a spanish seller and I just love how cute the print is. But I think all cat dresses are cute. 

    The next coord screams summer and strawberries. In November? I guess I really wanted it to be warm and sunny again. I also look like a character from Rune Factory or Harvest Moon!


    December

    For December I have got nothing. I was so lazy, maybe this post should not be called ootd but sad three coords for three months. 

    I just got this picture from shopping at an outlet center wearing the rabbit teeth dress. Oh well, at least I have more coords now. 


    Sorry for that short post, the next coords post will be more and better. 

    Have a great weekend!

    Auris Lothol


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    Hello lovelies, 

    I recently spent my time making brooches from small rocailles and miyuki pearls. I love how delicate they look and while I am not very good  and still learning so much while going along, I really enjoy doing them. 

    Last week I finished a sailor moon brooch, a teacup (no pictures will be shown because it turned out really ugly) and a shell, although it looks more like a fan than a shell. Another post on this will follow. Or not, I haven't decided yet.

    I am so happy that the sailor moon brooches turned out so nice, it is way from perfect but looks great with my minimum experience in beading. 

    This is the brooch I am talking about, it looks magical with it's wings and the cute heart and moon. 


     

    The first thing I did was doing the outline with bouillon wire. I traced the outlines with a gold gel pen and it did not work out at all, it was all wobbly and not visible at all. But I kind of managed to stitch the heart symetrical, but not the wings; left is higher up than left. The outlines of the heart was then again traced with a rhinestone chain. The moon was created with bouillon wire too and then filled with gold rhinestones. I was thinking about using a rhinestone in the middle but I did not have one this size, I then resorted to make sew the rhinestones over a small round pad.

    Then filled in the heart with pink silver lined rocailles. 

    The wings was filled in too with gold rocailles and I made a padding again for the top and bottom. Seeing it now, I should have used pearls instead of the pad because I feel it made it a bit clumsy and rough. But I want to do a new and better version with all the things I learned..

    After I finished the embroidery, I cut it and then burned the edges off with a candle. It always reminds me of a small ritual were I offer the brooches to the gods and hope they approve. 

    The last thing I did was mount the brooch onto a gold leather and sew it on with these gold rocailles pearls all along the sides. And the brooch was done.


    So, is it perfect? No. 

    Can I do better? Yes.

    Will I do better? Hell yes!

    But first I want to do another wand and then maybe I'll come back to this, when I have the materials I want to use for it!

    Stay safe and healthy, 

    Auris Lothol



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    Hello lovelies,

    two weeks ago I had a wonderful and sunny spring day in Vienna. And yesterday I had to fight against wind and snow to go to my sister's birthday dinner. I hate snow and the cold so much. 

    But back to two weeks ago; while it was chilly and very windy, at least the sun was out and the sky was partially blue. 

    I met my sister with my SO and both of them took pictures of me. We also made a short video and a small reel because spring must be cherished. Especially when two weeks later the city is covered in a white blanket again. 

    Of course most of the time when I did my pictures the sky was just white. That's just my luck.

    I decided to wear my L'esprit de la noblesse dress which I got a few weeks ago (video and review is coming up soon) and a large hat with flowers. It's actually a flower crown I just re-used. With the coat my coord looks like that of a sassy grandma.

     I would love to tell you that I played with photoshop and the pictures are like this because I wanted them, but honestly, I still have no idea how to edit pictures. So this is more pink than the others but I love the pinkish and warm hue the cherry blossoms have.

    Even though my bangs are everywhere, I really like this picture. It's not that pink and only has a pastel pink tint

     Real laugh pictures are rare because I don't like my teeth showing. But I kind of like it! Plus the sleeves just look like a big ball of fluff.

     No photo shooting without a picture from the back! At least not in this household.

     The following is the another of my favourite. It's so soft and ink with all the pretty flowers around me.

    Another one just in a different angle. All in all, I have three full body shots and 27 shots of exactly these details with the flowers around it. I was so mad when I saw the pictures at home because they were not usable for instagram. At least they look nice, but still :(. 


    And lastly the video we made on youtube


    I hope you have a nice day and a wonderful spring day without snow,


    Auris Lothol


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