Back from holiday!

For my second holiday this summer,I went to Izmir and Cesme on the west coast of Turkey.I have been back for about a week now, but I have only just got the time to post about it!

Anyway we chose to take the ferry to Bandırma first, It's a lovely town on South Marmara, and then we took the train.There was nothing much interesting on the ferry so I leave you with the photos we took of the old steam engine...





On this photo I am wearing a dress with a Roman pattern embellished on it which doesn't show much...It's a great one though...I have a funny expression on my face because of the angle the photo was taken from...



The first place we went sightseing in Izmir was the famous clocktower.I read on a plate nearby that it was partly built by the money donated by the people of Izmir.We couldn't do much sightseeing during the day due to the horrible heat and humidity, It's much worse than we have it here in Istanbul, so all we did was to walk from Konak to Alsancak.(Two main districts in the center.)



There really is a strong resemblance with Thessaloniki in Greece by the way.We saw some Greek tourists too...The Greek name of the city is Smyrna, which is now used by a city in Georgia.

When we went into this street though my bf told me it looked American because of the palm trees and wide streets...


Sea view


Food is very cheap in Izmir.You almost pay half of what you wou would pay in Istanbul.



My Bf made me realise the graphics on the menu ad thingy looked quite vintage inspired...



Cesme is a peninsula an hour away from Izmir.It has very clear waters and one of the nearby towns is famous for having one of the best shores in the world for windsurfing...
It overlooks the island of Chios, so it has a lot of delicacies with mastic, especially icecream and cookies.(The Turkish name of the island translates as "Mastic Island".

It's also where some of the most famous Turkish captains in history came from, so you see a lot of statues.

Here are a couple of pics of mine taken in Cesme:









Sorry for my indecisiveness, but I like them all!



I had had my photo taken with the same dress around the same place last year too, it was beautiful but turned out to be a bit too grainy so I tried to recreate it this year!



This is a dress my mum bought at the start of the Summer from a shop I had not been buying from for over 6 years at least!Anyway, I think with this dress, they somewhat outdid themselves!



Photo before I left Cesme:



Photo in front of the Statue of Revolutions in Izmir, we stayed there for a night more on the way back...


A photo I like, My Bf took it...


Sorry it's been a very long post, bu I don't post very often so that should make up for it! :P

How I spent my weekend…

Actually, this post is more about how I spent my Saturday… I had heard that there would be a free festival in Santral Istanbul at the weekend, I read there would be stalls of some vintage brands and accessory brands, so I got curious…I wasn’t expecting anything great, Because I had been to one about three years ago and the vintage part was not really all that promising but this one turned out even worse! Anyway, I couldn’t know about it could I ?

Here is the general view of the place…


Here are some photos of the stalls:



I couldn't help but thinking I could make better versions of most of the accessories there or at least get better ones on the net for cheaper!

Record stalls:


I was also curious about the venue itself, it opened a few years ago and it has got ever so popular in time! It’s like the most popular concert and festival venue almost, even surpassed the posh one on the bosphorus side! (almost!) It’s the surroundings of an old unused electric plant at the outskirts of the city so it’s quite interesting…

Photo of one of the food places….



I like this one:



My boyfriend told me it reminded him of Manchester, especially the indutrial museum there…






The boats were interesting….



The only band performing at the festival: Portecho- They are the Turkish Camouflage!



It looks like they haven’t found enough sponsors on the muisc side of it, at the free festival three years ago, they had some foreign bands as well … I remember The paddingtons and Ms. John Soda….and loads more Turkish bands… But did I enjoy the music then? Not much….
In short, my guess is this festival will find its place in oblivion as its predecessor too…

All in all, I think the most entertaining guys at the festival were these two little kittens….

Especially the yellow one is kind of psycho, or schizo, or both……







It may look like innocent cat's play in the photos but you should have seen them!..

My first D.I.Y steampunk jewellery attempt!

I had been having this project in my mind for a while, after coming across all the steampunk jewellery on etsy some months ago,I decided I could do something too! These jewellery tend to be very pricy as well.So, I had intended to make my own humble version and finally got around to it! A few months ago I asked the local clockmaker for old watch parts, fighting my shyness, he told me to come later and when I was back the next day he had found some and asked me what I was going to do with them and told me that he had also thought something decorative could be made out of them! It was nice to get some empathy!

Here I am posting my first attempt at steampunk D.I.Y!



I didn't know what I would do with the parts for a long time Until I recently come across the round wire frame in a supply shop and from that I thought I could finally put the project into practice.I showed the final product to my sis and mum and they found it interesting too.The only thing is that it tends to go round on my ear too much.I think I can change it into a necklace soon.

Hi!
Here are photos of the dress which most people say is the one that looks best on me:



When I showed this photo to my sister,all she had to say was "why did you touch the wall? It looks as if you're getting support from the wall to stand up!" I was thinking I was posing!







close-ups of the necklace and the pin:

hi!
I think this is my most vintage inspired post ever to date!
I am glad that I finally found something that I can wear with my hairband! Plus the watch earrings that I took forever to start to wear! I bought them two years ago and then they got lost before I got to wear them, and now finally, I wore them for the first time! It feels like all the items had been waiting for one another to come together! It took a lot of work to put the vintage bag into a usable condition, but I am quite happy with the result! It was funny I had thought I would never be able to find a doctor's bag here and was thinking of ordering one from abroad in the morning of that day and then I came across it in the evening!

Close -ups of accessories:

green wrap dress

This photo was taken last week, I was wearing my sister's maternity dress! The colours and the pattern are so lovely!


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greek trip!

I have been to Greece recently.These photos are not taken to put on my blog, so they don't show details,nor are the combinations perfect, but I felt like sharing.