fleamarket again

 The first of May is traditionally fleamarkettime for me. 

This year I bought the paper geisha mask I always had on my mind. 

The "Ostbahnhof-Flomarkt" is huge, so flats are a must.

 

 dress: jears ago from ebay uk

strawbag: 50s vintage from New York

shoes: Clarks Originals

tights: Falke

On my way I saw all these cherry blossoms - to perfect to ignore.

 But see what I have found: a 40s hand brooch, a 50s silver leaves bracelet 

and a paper hatbox with asian vintage ladies. Happy me!

 

In front of my home, I recognized another little treasure: a wild tulip. Springtime!

tights and colours

 

Lately I found some tights in my wandrobe I bought in a rush and had forgotten. Time to integrate them into my everyday office wear. I always loved pink, turquoise, all the bright candy colours and leopardprints... and Spring is the time for colours, isn't it?

 

 fake fur collar: asos

fabric clip ons: 50s vintage, my grannies

I´m into the sixties these days. I wear beehive hair dos quite often and I even changed my red lipstick/nailpolish-routine into heavy eyeliner and pale pink lips and nails. What do you think about it?

tights: Emilio Cavallini

peep toe plateaus: ebay uk

box bag: 60s vintage, fleamarket find

And there is another pair from Cavallini, teamed with my sweet birthday present bag.

 Think pink!

 

Yummy Easter

I love easter - especially all the pastell colours! 

Time to take out my litte 50s rabbit on his scooter, he is with me since my childhood.

This year I invited friends to have a little easter dinner together.

Honey was cooking. 

Starter: wild herbs salat with pansys.

   

Main couse:  

deer roast with trout caviar on french beans and mash of Truffe de Chine.

 

Dessert: 

mint curd cheese cakes and egg liquor served in tiny chocolate cups.

I wore my Horrockses housewife dress from etsy,

 

 

with a little beehive

and matching 50s gloves, 50s poodle brooch and 50s clip ons - all found on fleamarkets.

And finally lets have a look beneath: my egg nogg coloured petticoat 

and my pale pink 50s killer heels. I served all courses in these... murder!

 

 Hope you all had a great easter celebration, too!

Uckermark

 dress: Trashy Diva

hairflower: Swell Dame, etsy

When I bought this dress for my birthday party months ago, I was sure that it would be already springtime... but I was the only one in bright colours between all the black and grey turtlenecks in the club. This time we all get the feeling, that the winter will never ever end...

After a great party, it was time to relax and have some days off. We left the city to enjoy the village life in the Uckermark, a region north of Berlin. On our walks, we found the ruins of an ancient abbey and the hardly expected sun showed up.

 

dress: good times Barcelona, etsy

hat: handmade

 

  

 We paid a visit to our beloved Amur tigers again. I think they really were enjoying the snow.

The best of all - we had rented a very, very old farm house. Everything was authentic conserved and so charming. This sweet knocker was still working, but the pump had been defeated by the winter. 

Is there anything better than a warm, crackling fireplace and a big red velvety art nouveau sofa when you come home from a walk trough the biting cold? Fortunately we had both...
 

 

I hope that this sweet little bird house will soon have some cheeping visitors and when the birds come back, spring will finally break. Have a yummy easter time!

Leopard Lady

Today we enjoyed the sun like all the others. Time to visit East Side Gallery before parts of it will be destroyed from estate venturers. You may have heard from it? It is a scandal!

On the way we found this great tattoo shop.

coat: fleamarket find

leopard scarf: vintage shop find

 hat with leopard bow: asos

 leopard booties: Miss L Fire

When I´m in a leopard-mood, it´s time for the ethnic pieces in my jewellery collection - like these golden african lady 50s clip ons.

After walking in the sun, some yummy cupcakes from tigertörtchen and a warm cup of tea at the Berliner Naschmarkt made our Sunday perfect.

Hope you had some sun too?

Cry Babies

Friday was a good day! We were out the first time since I felt ill in November. To be back in my favourite club, listening to my local heroine and enjoying a glass of champagne on ice was beyond words.

I honored that event with one of my favourite 40s original dresses. It is handsewn and really stands on its own.

The best thing about it are the embroidered flowers, only few of the glittering stones are missing.

I teamed it just with one glittering bakelite bangle, glittering 40s clip ons and some silk orchids. 

In the end of the evening I treated myself with the new single from Trinity Sarratt. I discovered her ten years ago with the Sin City Circus Ladies and now she is the singer of  many really cool bandprojects like the Cry Babies or the Kamikaze Queens... go and check her out!

Treptower Ehrenmal

Last weekend we had such a freezy snowy winter in Berlin, that I got into a Russian feeling in a way... so we decided to have a walk in my beloved Treptower Park and visited the 1949-built "Treptower Ehrenmal", a Soviet war memorial for 80.000 Red Army-soldiers who died fighting for a free Berlin.

Time to wear my new 40s felt hat and my 40s mink coat. The light was perfect for the cold colours. It is not reworked with Photoshop, this is real great blue winter light.

When you pass the huge gate, you will meet a statue symbolising Mother Russia.

Vis a vis started the gigantic soldier cemetary framed with red stone flags 

and a soldier on each side.

 

This figurines are always decorated with fresh flowers.

 The essential piece is the famous 30 meters high monument.

In his base is a round memorial hall with a mosaic wall. 

You can´t go in, but you can see the incredible picture with respect from a distance.

On our way back, we gave attention to all the details on the gravestones.

We will come back in spring.

 

Do you like my new hat, Santa brought me?

It always gives me a special feeling to visit historic places in fitting historic clothing.