Alcest, Opeth, Beastmilk & In Solitude

There are so many good gigs on here at the moment, I'm having to choose between them. I've still got Solstafir and Bast to look forward to and, already this month, I've seen Opeth, supported by Alcest and Beastmilk supporting In Solitude another night.

My friend is a big Alcest fan which is what lead us to going to this gig in the first place. However, I especially enjoyed Opeth who I'd not heard much of prior, I hate to admit. Alcest were very good too. The tracks I liked the most were apparently from their older albums so I'll need to check those out. 

Two days later I donned my new Restyle harness (love it!) to go and see Beastmilk. I hope you folks are appreciating all these tiny, blurry pictures of bands...

Beastmilk put on a fantastic show as we'd hoped and In Solitude were great too. Good stuff!

Gold Jewellery & The New Paperchase Shop

People always say blue eyeshadow is a risky thing to wear, but I'm not exactly a fan of playing safe when it comes to "the rules" of style or whatever.

Seriously, who invents these ideas? Don't wear blue eyeshadow; don't wear blue and green clothes together; eyes or lips but not both; legs or cleavage but not both... *pffff* Anyway! Here I am doing the very (for real!) brave thing of wearing gold jewellery instead of silver. I had a gold candelabra earring in (which you can't see, oops), a gold bracelet, the skull ring from this post and a gold cross with red jewels on a red velvety band.

I'm also very excited because a new Paperchase shop has opened in town. It's a massive one with art and craft materials as well and even a Tinderbox coffee shop inside. If you don't explode with the cuteness of the stationary before you get upstairs to the coffee shop, that is. Tim and I tried it out ourselves one particularly hot day after a visit to the GoMA. I had a vanilla milkshake, but I think they'd forgotten to put any vanilla in it so it was technically just... uh... warm, sweet milk, I guess? At least Tim was smart enough to get a chocolate one .

Now On Sale In Lalaland!

My stuff is now on Sale in the amazing Lalaland, both on the website and in the lovely boutique in Creswell Lane, Glasgow. Lalaland not only sells some of the most adorable stuff around, but it also has a lovely atmosphere. It's definitely one of my favourite shops. There is also a facebook page.

My cat necklace and pvc heart brooch up on the website (next to their new stock from Locketship!)

Some of my black cat necklaces in various places around the shop. You can get them from the Lalaland website here.

And my star-shaped cookie brooches

They now also stock my book 'Underneath Glasgow', a short horror story about the pigeons and homeless people of Glasgow. I'm currently waiting on a higher quality print sample of it which I will be putting up for sale as a new edition if the print turns out alright!

And here are some of my black pvc heart brooches which you can buy here.

So what do you think? Are you near Glasgow? Have you been to Lalaland before? Do you know of any other good boutique places near you? I'd love to hear!

Bronze Smokey Eye Look And The Buttercup Dairy Co.

I've decided to keep a photographic record of every make-up style I try out since I'm so obsessed with make-up these days. Who knows if it'll actually lead to anything or have a final result, but I guess it's nice to have a record of these things anyway. Especially since it's not like drawings: you can't keep a make-up look for more than a day so it makes sense to photograph it!

We were going into the west end of town on Sunday and I was wearing my glasses (which I hate wearing) because my eyes were kind of tired so I gave myself big bronze smokey eyes to look better with my specs on.

 

♥ I used a matt black super soft eye crayon by Barry M over the lid (and under my eye) and smudged it with my fingers, then used Mac matte eyeshadow in 'carbon' over that.
♥ Then I used a metallic bronze around the black and curved it up to the outside of the eye, blending it into the black with a big blending brush and softening out the edges.
♥ I finished it with a little wing of black liquid eyeliner.

Anyway, once I'd got my face on, we left for town. We went to the scifi bookstore and then planned to go to our favourite tea house, but it turned out that there was a gala on. That ruined our plans a bit since the tea house had live entertainment on outside for the gala and, well, we're a pair of miserable old gits so we ran off.

Managed to find a new place for coffee though. The Buttercup Dairy Co. at Felix and Oscar. There's something really lovely about having a coffee in the middle of a gift shop. I don't get to do that very often.

A wee sketch I did while we were sitting. The jars at the top are the types of chocolate you can choose in your drink. They're all by Temper Chocolates. Tim had a dark chilli mocha. I had a try and you could really taste the bitterness of the dark chocolate, not to mention the chilli aftertaste. We we already  converts to chilli hot chocolate anyway, but I kind of wonder what the lavender chocolate tastes like...

A little tutu (pettiskirt?) I saw in the shop. I may just have to go back and order six of them for the little flower girls we'll be having at our wedding. It's adorable. I'm not sure about the pink though. I know little girls love pink (and so do I... sort of), but it doesn't really go with the gothic colour scheme we've been thinking of for the flowers etc... Oh well, lots to think about!

And just to share before I forget: my aunty brought back this beautiful jewellery set from America for me. The ring's a little big although I think I can fix that,, but the earrings are so gorgeous they make me want to get my right ear pierced so I can wear them both at the same time. I've still only got holes in my left ear and I have to admit some earrings look better in pairs.