bury me in this dress

I stumbled upon D.L. & Co. by accident and fell absolutely in love. It’s gothic luxury at its finest!

Douglas Little is the man behind the company. He’s also a decorator and stylist whose designed special gothic window displays for Bergdorf Goodman (It was featured in House and Garden magazine. See photos here under events.). Here are some of my favorite items from his shop.

skull swizzle sticks

correspondence box

skull candle

diffuser

I saw this item in Modern Alchemy but it’s not in the online shop. I want it sooooo bad.

perfume watches

D.L. & Co. also sells fragrance candles but I have to smell them before I decide if I like them or not. My olfactory nerves are really sensitive.

All of the items I posted are expensive. These are luxury items for the monied romantic goths. I want to own a perfume watch or even the diffuser but I can’t afford them. I’ll just keep on dreaming…

The year didn’t start out right for me. In fact, it was very painful. I was with my family in Hong Kong then. Hong Kong Disneyland to be exact. Ironic since it’s the happiest place on earth as they say.

The trip turned ugly when I became over-excited in Vivienne Westwood store and shopped like crazy. The sale drove me wild and it became too hard for me to resist. I bought a bag, a wallet, shoes and sunglasses – all of them I charged to my credit card. I also happened to impulse-buy a Lumix FX38 camera right before I went to the Westwood shop. So once again, ladies and gentlemen, I have credit card debts. I never learned eh? Mom went ballistic when she found out how much I spent. I would have too if our places were reversed but she said some pretty harsh words which infuriated me. Of course, that resulted to much drama which ruined the fun in the trip for everyone. The shopping spree and the drama happened on the 30th of December when we were still in Kowloon. We transferred to Disney on the 31st and the moods were much much better then. However, things became nasty again on the dawn of New Year and I don’t even remember what triggered it. I just got so fed up that I wanted to quit working for the family business and move out of the house as soon as possible.

Things are much calmer now but I can’t afford to move out. I can’t afford to quit my job as well since I need money. Since I don’t want to become overburdened with installments and interests and all that credit card shit, I want to pay as much as I can ASAP. Now I’m selling my Nikon D80 (waaaah), my ibook, my Canon Ixus 60, and even my whole toy collection (It breaks my heart to part with my Gloomy Bears and Nyanko plushies). *sigh* I brought all of this to myself. Now I’ve finally learned my lesson because I don’t want to use my credit cards anymore except to pay for my blogs’ webhosting. I’m happy with my Vivienne Westwood buys and the Lumix but I can’t afford to make the same mistake again because I have nothing of value left to sell anymore. Yes, lesson learned.

I’m pining for a Nintendo Wii. It’s not too expensive but I still have a long way to go before I can save up for one. Maybe I can ask mom to give me one for my birthday.

I was in Serendra and Bonifacio High Street last Friday with Phoebe. We had supper at Zao which is a Vietnamese restaurant beside Conti’s. The food is good but expensive. Ugh. Spend spend spend. Jenny caught up with us as we were about to finish eating. After paying the bill, we headed to Fully Booked. I wanted to go just to buy Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban which I thought I already have. I’m reading all the books in the series now and when I read that book, I remembered that I only borrowed my friend’s copy.

So anyway, we were at Fully Booked and I went to the manga section. I was looking for guro manga even if I doubt that FB sells them. Well they don’t. But what I saw made me shout out to my friends. They have NANA! I guess a lot of people buy the series since only volumes 1, 3, and 6 were there. So I got those three volumes and mulled over buying The Drifting Classroom series. I decided that could wait so I went to the second level to get the Harry Potter book. It was in the sci-fi section so when I was checking out the other books, I was astonished to find Francesca Lia Block titles. Some of them I still don’t have in my collection. So I got the following:

• Psyche In A Dress
• Ruby: A Novel
• Wasteland

We hung out at the Starbucks (but didn’t buy anything) until FB closed then we headed to Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf. Until that, too, closed.  I think that was around 1:30 AM.

We left Serendra then headed to my house where Phoebe left her car. She wanted to see Yasu so when we got there, we went to my room and babbled some more. Phoebe has the newest Canon camera (not sure if it’s an ixus) and it has a cool feature which takes 10 shots using its timer. We had fun posing and goofing around. We were noisy and the racket we made woke up mom. It was really fun though. They left around 4 AM.

I forgot to mention that I went on a spending spree last Saturday and bought a new ipod to replace my broken one. I got it on 0% installment for 12 months. It might have been a wrong decision but I like this new ipod since it’s colored and can store 80 gb worth or music. The busted one was just 30 gb and was black and white. It was more expensive than the new one actually. I guess the prices of ipods really dropped since the iphone got released.

I’ve been spending too much lately. Just today, I bought a UPS for my G4 and a 1 gb thumb drive. The UPS is necessary spending though since the old one doesn’t work anymore and electricity is so unstable in the country. I also need it for the weekend since I’ll be editing an AVP. I think I’ll be able to get a return for that investment soon. Hopefully.

What is unnecessary  are my Yahoo Japan expenses. I think I racked up close to 10 thousand Pesos for toys. Eek! I bought more Nyan Nyan Nyanko plushies and clothes for my BJD. At least I didn’t win the Pullip doll I wanted.

I took the plunge. I hope I won’t regret it in the end.

I settled for this guy.

I want to buy Dollfies ball-jointed dolls instead of Pullips after I saw him.

He’s so dreamy! I want to have one badly! He’s a dollfie BJD made by Dollmore and he sells for $627. Too fucking expensive!!! He’s huge though. Around 73 cms.

Here’s another one I want.

He’s “Amos”. Not as cute as Kyle Reese but I think he’s so cool. A bit cheaper at $550 but still expensive. He’s shorter too, 62 cm in height.

I really want a dollfie BJD now. He’ll be my substitute boyfriend. Hmmp. I’ll save up for one. I need to save up before the month ends because Dollmore is offering free shipping but only for this month.

Fuck! My ipod is officially dead. I thought I was able to somehow resurrect it by defragging the drive. That worked for a while but not anymore. Sad. I reformatted everything, thereby erasing all the songs, in the hopes that the fuck would work. It didn’t. So goodbye mp MP3 collections. Goodbye my 3-year old ipod. It was good while it lasted.

Now I have to save up again to buy a new one

It’s Holy Week in the Philippines and most of the country is calm and quiet. Well that’s what I think because I’m stuck at home since the family decided to just stay here to avoid expenses since we’re saving up for a trip to Thailand this May. I don’t really mind staying at home since there’s always cable TV, internet, and DVDs for entertainment.

I invited some friends from the depression mailing list to an overnight stay in Fontana (Clark) but there were only 4 of us plus the driver. I had fun anyway. I loved the buffet dinner we had, our viewing of Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, and story telling until 6 am the next day. My friends went for a swim but I just slept. I prefer sleeping and I needed it. I think they had fun. At least I hope they did.

I still have fun during our classes in Fashion Institute of the Philippines. The teachers are great and very nice although they love to gossip about people in the industry. Scary. What would they say about me WHEN I become famous. Ha! Anyway, John gives us lots of homeworks so I have to do that during the vacation.

I need to make money. Lots of money. I want to buy stuff I can sell from Thailand. I’m selling some of my beloved books out of desperation. The price is quite high so I still haven’t sold a single book. Boo. How come the resale value of once-read books so low? Is it the same in other countries? I mean, I spent a lot of money for those books and they’re still in great condition. So how come there are no takers?!

Hmm it’s late. I was planning to watch DVDs but I’m sleepy now. Tsk.

I’m accepting pre-orders for cell phone accessories again. Deadline is March 25. For Philippine buyers only. See the straps here

Still depressed but what can I do? Anyway, I want this lomo. Too fucking expensive though.

I couldn’t even afford a regular lomo.

I want to promote my friend’s store. She makes awesome accessories. I just got this from her.

Check out her stuff at  http://estrellasaccessories.multiply.com/