2016 is over

Finally.

And I'm back to tell what I have been up to during the last months of 2016!

For a lot of people 2016 hasn't been the best year and neither has it been for me. I'm going to start the year's review with the bad stuff :

Life update - what Bergen has taught me so far

Hello again!

I've been really busy/lazy and kind of kept forgetting about blogging...
Anyways! As I have been living in Norway now over a month (wow, time flies!)  I thought I'd post a little update on things I have discovered so far! Here we go - (ﾉ･ｪ･)ﾉ

Personal music updates!

Welcome back! ꒰๑˃꒵˂꒱◞ ♪⋆ฺ｡

Today I'm going to talk again about music - this time on a more personal level!
As some of you might already know I am active as a singer/songwriter in some musical projects.

Somehow these projects also reflect the diversity of my own taste in music. I love metal and classical music, but also have a big soft spot for jazz and funk, acapella singing and many more. People love to put others into categories and so it has happened to me that people reacted surprised when they found out "Oh, she does listen to something else but metal".

Shocking, right?
Let me show you a bit of this musical diversity I'm talking about:

Sweets and Updates

Hello there again! ʕ·ᴥ·ʔ

I spent the last month studying like a maniac - I had some very important exams and so my social life was basically set on pause for that time!

Seldomly I managed to take a little time off and met up with friends.

Once I met up with my friend Claudia for lunch at the Jewish Museum of Vienna, which has a really good café attached to it. The food is so extremely lovely, I wish I could go there more often!

 Yummy tahini salad with falafel and ice tea ʕ•̀ω•́ʔ✧

Afterwards we went for a walk around the district and went to get some sweets.
Claudia had never tried macarons before, so I suggested to try some at Café Oberlaa!

Left to right: vanilla, chestnut, salted caramel, orange, raspberry and 2x currant

Liebster Blog Award

Already some time ago (October? *cough cough*), the lovely Punkangel

nominated my blog for the

The Liebster Award is given to upcoming bloggers with less than 200 followers.

("Liebster" is a German word, which can mean any of the following things:

sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, valued and endearing.)

I'm back with a tag

Hello there people and welcome to 2015!

This blog has unfortunately been inactive for over half a year now. Time just swept by and I was all busy applying for a couple of courses of studies. Eventually I passed an entrance exam and have been studying there since last autumn. The general workload is quite big and during exam periods I'm just impeccably stressed and busy.

Nevertheless I hope that I will be able to share some bits and pieces of my life here again on this blog and also do that more frequently!

I'm starting off with a tag video I already filmed at the end of December!
I did the Harry Potter Tag! :D

Life Update: cakes, bands and dresses!

Hello hello,

It has been a little quiet around here recently, but at least I'm not letting this blog die off completely xD
I'm in the middle of my preparations for taking entrance exams, so I don't have much time to do anything else - except when some special occasions occur!

Last weekend two of my bandmates from Daedric Tales celebrated their birthdays and I decided to surprise them by baking cupcakes and a cake for their party.

I tried working with fondant for the first time and it was rather giving me a hard time, being all bitchy and tearing on the edges of the cake, so I had to take it off the cake again and smooth th edges out completely.

The end result looked like this:

A parcel a day...

...keeps the money away... quite definitely!

Hello again!

As I already mentioned in my previous post since the beginning of this year I've totally gone bananas on all sorts of lolita clothing/accessories...

In the last days of 2013 I ordered stuff for the first time in ages... and that clearly was the beginning of my wallet's downfall.

It's crazy, but I love it.
Last week there was almost every day a new parcel in the mail for me.
I stopped buying stuff after February... but ermh well ... started again at the end of March :'D

So let's get to it!
Some of my most recent arrivals:

*unpacking the treasures*

Day 1 – 10 things about your lolita bubble

It feels a bit funny to start a Lolita challenge on the most unglamourous day of all - I've just been working today and because I've been way too lazy to get up on time in the morning I just snatched the first clothes I could find and put them on. Because sometimes I just don't care :P

Alrighty, let's get this baby started!

01. I recently realized that I've been into Lolita fashion for 7 years now (that's a hell of a long time!) Wearing it "successfully" for about 6 years now I'd say.

02. I've already had two Lolita flatmates, which can be really practical (I can always run over to Sylvia in case of not knowing what to coordinate xD and sometimes we inspire each other on what to wear <3)

03. I have quite a big collection of Lolita clothing (20 dresses and 10 skirts to date); it just kept growing over the years - although I'm still nowhere near satisfied with it.

04. I can't choose a favourite style. I do especially love Gothic Lolita, aswell as Bittersweet coordinates, but I also have a knack for Classic, Sailor, Country and some forms of Sweet Lolita.

05. I recently discovered my love for OTKs.

06. I like to mix some other styling influences into lolita, for instance mori girl or vintagy stuff.

07. When I was in school I wore Lolita almost every day. One teacher even called me "little hat" because I was mostly wearing tiny top hats with my outfits.

08. In summer I always work at a hospital and never wear lolita to work because we have no air conditioning in the office and I'd probably die of the boiling heat.

09. I'm literally obsessed with headgear. I never leave the house without an accessory stuck to my head - may it be bow, flower, bonnet, beret or hat.

10. At school I even had a Lolita friend. It was so awesome to meet up in the breaks and talk about Lolita; after we graduated we spent a holiday together in Japan (and shopped the shit out of hell xD)


That's it for today!

Hope you enjoyed reading ! :)

Newsflash 1.0

 Heya!

Once I'm here already, I figured why not throw out another post...


I know it's already out of season by now - but I anyways wanted to post the two vlogs I filmed during Christmas time for my YT channel purplecatbaguette .

...


What else have I been up to recently?

During the past few months I've been playing several live gigs with my band Daedric Tales and finished working on the first mini-release of my other band Desire, which is going to be released soon. (I also put up a new facebook page for Desire, check it out if you like ;))

In autumn I changed university studies and currently I'm studying Maths (YES Maths, this is not a typo xD) and preparing for an entrance exam at an fh.

I've totally fallen in love with Lolita fashion again.
For a while I didn't wear it too much, because my petticoat had deflated and I was missing some other items that would have been handy for coordinating (I somehow find it really hard to acquire nice blouses and tops which go well with Lolita.)

However in the course of the last year my closet gained a few basic items that are pretty nice to combine with Lolita and I wanted to wear it more often again.
With the beginning of the new year I also got a new skirt from Emily Temple Cute and another headbow from Angelic Pretty, aswell as... a petticoat :D

So whoopie! The fashion fun can begin now once again!


I haven't been photographing as much recently. I still have tons and tons of polaroids to scan though (and scanning polaroids is a pain in the butt, so it won't happen anytime soon I assume xD)

Another fairly new developed passion of mine: I listen to Death Metal
I used to despise any sort of growling a few years ago... and now under the influence of Metal festivals and my band members from Daedric my musical taste has been taken to the next level x'D

I guess these are all the shocking news for now :P



Have a good night or day, wherever you are!
Thanks for reading!

There and back again...

Hello there ! :)

About a month ago I had a look at this blog and was quite shocked how fast time has actually been passing by!
My last post has been in May... unbelievable. =_=
...

I've always been one of those super busy people, but even then I could always maintain blogging in the past (on my other personal blog at least).

Summer is always one of the busiest times of the year for me.
Although I don't have to go to university, I have loads to do.
I work full time and travel a lot usually.
Also I have stuff to do with both of the bands in which I'm taking part.

In July I've been to Italy for a week and working for the 3 remaining weeks.
I had a great time relaxing on the beach and regaining energy before returing to the office.

In August I totally outdid myself with traveling! :)
My aunt in Germany celebrated her wedding, so I spent a weekend in Düsseldorf.
The following weekend I went with my best friend to see the city of Salzburg.

Last week I took two days off from work, luckily there was also a national holiday, so I had 6 days off ! Together with a bunch of friends I went to a metal festival in Germany, called Summer Breeze.
Entirely worth it and full of (drunken) awesomeness! ;)

I also took a looooooooot of pictures during the past months...
So you know what that means - I'll have a lot of material to post! ^^

Now there's only one week of work to go! I'll have the whole September off!
Time to study Physics & Maths, prepare myself for university, work out... and travel :B


See you soon & thank you for reading,

:)