Well, I'm not a religious person but I enjoy the days off due to the Easter holidays.

It's a great time to do some work, without being interrupted by work related emails or phonecalls.

It's also a nice time to enjoy films. So, last night we, finally, watched Django. Wow!!
Amazing film! Tarantino is so awesome! Not to mention all the wonderful actors.
Jamie Foxx is without doubt an exceptional actor, however I adore Christoph Waltz. He is so damn talented and I cannot get bored of watching him act. Ever.

A highly talented and skilled actor. I would like to see him in a theatrical play, but that's almost impossible.

Granted this is not a very gothic-y post, but I just wanted to share my thoughts about the film. I'm not good at writing reviews, so this isn't a review film. However, if you are a Tarantino fan - or not - and haven't watched Django yet, go to your local video store or rent it online, whatever works for you, and watch it!

It's a masterpiece.

If you want to get a cool goth or industrial style, then you know it already that you need a couple of cool accessories. You don't have to spend a lot of money to get a complete cyber industrial outfit (but if you can then that's great), instead you can just invest in some cool accessories, stay on budget and manage to create a cool outfit anyway!

So here are my tips.

I own this amazing Tripp arm warmers:



I love them. I can combine them with so many different clothes.

Now let's see.

• Do you own a fishnet shirt? 
• A black athletic style shirt?
• A black skirt?
• Boots like Demonia,or doc martens or something similar?

Well, a fishnet shirt, a black tank top and a black skirt can be purchased for around 50$ (or similar) the most expensive would be the boots and the arm warmers. I know that.
But still, your budget will be less than buying a whole outfit form a goth shop. I love Tripp skirts but they cost around 500-600 SEK, that's around 70-80 dollars) so why not skip it and get a different cool black skirt, for less?


So here is a set I just made, with "regular" black clothes, besides the arm warmers and the shoes/booths.

...but now that I am older I tend to go back to more classic, old school gothic style, if I can use that expression.

Hehe, I sound like a boring old person. But it's not like that.

I love watching people in fancy industrial and cyber clothes. As long as they make nice combination and are capable to "wear" it, if you know what I mean.

I love this shirt but this is - in my opinion - cool to wear in goth clubs or a concert:

LIP SERVICE FALLOUT RIB RACER HALTER TOP

Ok, truth be told, sometimes I still do it. I like my big demonia boots, my arm warmers with chains and my accessories and everything.

Oh and I am a sucker for skirts like this:




But sometimes I feel a bit "old" to keep dressing like this. Unless I go to an industrial band concert. Well, you might argue, "Well, duh, that's where you are supposed to dress like that". I know, I and couldn't agree more.

But recently I have been founding more appealing to me, to wear a cool fancy shirt, with a skull, or a steampunk pattern, a pair of black jeans, my black belt with red stars and my doc martens or my bikers boots.

And always "accompanied with" my black eyeliner and red lipstick makeup.

I guess I'm struggling inside to find a balance between my gothic - ok I will use the word alternative - self and my work self. But I refuse to get rid of my black awesomeness!

And here is a gdoc link with all of the above links. Whenever I find a cool store, I will update the list.

So I got me a nice pair of doc martens (comfort to be precise), a pair of regular no-name (well I'm sure they have a name but it's not a big brand or anything) biker boots and a pair of black ballerinas for the whole 2 weeks of summer here in sweden. They were on a bargain price so I couldn't resist. Even though I'm not a huge fan of ballerinas, I admit that they are quite practical and since it rains a lot here, I wouldn't even consider looking for sandals (I leave that for when I visit Greece where it's a sandal overdose everywhere - and you can even find cool alternative style sandals)

Let's see if we can find something cool to match them.

I'm 33 years old and I go to school... again!!

Let me explain. I have finished school in my home country (Greece), and I have a degree and a master but now that I'm living in Sweden, well, I need to learn swedish, so here I am in a classroom again. I have been studying for a while, but I took a break, and now I'm back again.

Small note: I don't have to say how important it is to learn the language of the country you live in. Without it, you just can't function. 

Being at school is nice, it's the homework that sucks (the teen inside me awakes).

But anyway, here is the bag that I decided it's appropriate for me!! :)


It's from my little gothicfashion.se. I wanted it to say SIMPLY E.B.M., because it's simple. It's E.B.M., my default choice of music!

I live in a small city, and I'm almost confident that there is not many people here that know what E.B.M means (if I had to guess I would say 10 people, in a city of approximately 16000). I might be exaggerating but that's how I feel.

But this also means that I get to carry by myself all the coolness that there is around here 8) 

I have been thinking a lot about the house decoration. I'm in the mood for some changes.

I mostly prefer modern things, and I'm not really into the whole medieval, old castle house decor. Not because I don't like it. I do. But I wouldn't want it for for my everyday life.

I prefer  modern things. Our living room is a high-tech and gadgets paradise,  at least for me.  We have an Xbox, a PS3, my bf has a killer sound system, a Boxee, a 42" inch screen and a projector. I should take pictures. I'll do that and I'll make another post soon.

We have also put a black - almost shiny - wallpaper behind the area where all the electronics are, so yeah, it looks pretty cool.

I'm more of an EBM person, so is the bf, so there you go.

 However, I do appreciate a few medieval, gothic decor items and there are some stuff that I really like and I think that the kitchen could use some medieval atmosphere. Luckily, we have a big kitchen with a big old wooden table in the middle, with 6 chairs, and a big wooden furniture with all the wine glasses etc.

So, to begin with, I have in my ebay radar gargoyles statues like this or this. They should be just perfect on top of the wine glasses furniture.

The kitchen table could use a black table runner cloth like this (that is also on my ebay radar).

I have been also looking for some black kitchen paper. You know, the big rolls that are like toilet paper, just bigger. But black. Or with some prints. I was even searching on Halloween items, but no luck. And I have searched in so many places. Any tips guys?

Butt looking for kitchen paper, even toilet paper, I came across this little guy:

source: Amazon -Skeleton Toilet Paper Holder

Cute, right? Well this is not a kitchen item, but since I found it and I like it, I decided to include it as well.

And another thing that is on my radar, is a gothic dragon bowl - which would be perfect for fruits -  and I found on a store near by. I should go and get it while it still there, otherwise I will regret it for life.

I couldn't find the exact item online, but here is something similar:

source: Toxic Realm


The above, combined with the dark wood furniture of the kitchen will definitely give a darker atmosphere to the kitchen.

Now, the only thing that is missing is the evil necessity of money.

So, how does your kitchen look like? And if it's not there yet, how do you imagine it to be? Are you a modern or an old gothic style person?

Since I would have the evening to myself today, I decided to treat myself a bit.

NCIS episodes, popcorn and a fine British ale.

I hope everyone is having a Gothtastic evening, along with some fine alcoholic beverages.

Image source: http://www.squidoo.com/gothic-beer-tankards

I'm watching NCIS and I'm not ashamed to say - even if I'm not a teenager any more - that Abby Sciuto is one reason that I'm enjoying this series.

And yes I get nostalgic because I used to dress like she does on the show (except from the collars).

I used to wear more often short skirts (not uber short, normal short) and funky goth t-shirts and I looked cute and all.

But I have a "problem". I look young for my age, and dressing like that makes me look even younger. Which is not a real problem, but, well it is a bit, when it comes to work.

So, of course I do dress goth, and wear black and wear gothic accessories, but I try to look more "grown up".

I'm not that successful always. But anyway, here are some Abby moments.


Abby makes drinks (this pants and t-shirt outfit is very cool)