Today I’m back with a little picture series on how I tried out an 18th century hairstyle. First of all: Those pictures were taken pretty spontaneously so please excuse the background and my weird faces. First of all: Pomade and Powder. After many, many tries to make authentic 18th century pomade with leaf lard and […]
Hello again! I hope you enjoyed my last two posts about the recreation of Marie-Antoinettes court gown!If you haven’t seen them go check them out to learn more about the reason why I made this dress and also how I made the skirt of the gown! Today we’re going to talk a little bit about […]
Marie-Antoinettes court gown is very famous for the amazing skirt. You have a grand panier and over it a lot of layers of fabric with details and trims.This is why the first thing for me to make was the grand panier.I decided to NOT use a stage costume pattern but an authentic one which I […]
Finally!!!Finally I am allowed to tell you what I was working on in the past couple of months!Many of you know that I started the mastersclass for stage costumes at my school in september.This year we were given an amazing, once in a lifetime opportunity – we were able to work together with the Kunsthistorischem […]
A few weeks ago when my good friend Franziska (@missparlic) and her boyfriend from germany visited vienna to attend the ‘Zeitentanz’ ball. At the ball we decided to make a trip to Klosterneuburg near vienna the next day.And so we did! It’s a very old and also very big monastery which is still operating today […]
My trip to venice started on friday evening (21st february) because my parents and I were taking the Nightjet from the ÖBB (austrian railway service) from vienna to venice. I’ve never been travelling with a Nightjet so this was new to me and I’m torn wether I liked it or not. We chose the sleep-cabin […]
When this post goes online I will be in venice (and probably pretty tired)! As I’m writing this now I feel how excited I am to attend the carnival in venice. I really can’t wait! To be honest, venice is not my most favourite city but it’s still in the top 5 because it’s so […]
My break was a bit longer than I wanted but I used the time to get a lot of things done and sew also a lot. In january I finally got to buy a sewing table and some storage for my sewing related things and I was also very busy with school and my costumes […]
My trip to venice is approaching so fast and my sewing list was still very long for this trip so I used my semester break to work on all the accessoires I wanted and needed. Since the carnival is in late february which is usually one of the coldest months in europe I remembered to […]
It’s been a while since I posted something on my blog but after the new year started my school was also starting to give us so much to do, that I just didn’t have much time to sew AND write new blog posts. 🙂 I already mentionned very shortly in my Welcome to 2020 post […]