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The blog of Swedish artist Johanna Öst.

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May 8, 2015 in Instagram

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Another belated Instagram post.

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#tbt to looking to this. Probably about 2003.

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My sister’s dogs being easter witches.

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Back home after spending Easter with my family. I found this beautiful book, “Black Sabbath”, at a flea market. Very fitting since Easter in Sweden is mainly about the witches sabbath.

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Fantastic plastic bag from my parents’ storage room.

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Another one of the moth lady outfit.

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You can’t really see that I had black goo in my nose.

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Sushi with Liselotte.

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Another great flea market find from the easter weekend.

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Lazy day in shiny trousers.

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#tbt to 2001 probably, and one of my most amazing and most ill advised purchases. I’d seen this fantastic fraggle dress in a shop window for a long time. It was handmade and really expensive but I saved up and bought it, still one of the more expensive things I’ve bought.

I fell in love with it so much as an object that it never really occurred to me that it will just never fit into my style. It’s just too hippie-ish, which is probably the one subculture/aesthetic I just can’t get into (well that and rave, and this dress is like hippie and rave fused into one!). I only wore it a handful of times, probably less, but I can’t bear to part with it because I still think it’s fantastic.

I brought it home from my parents’ house this weekend in an attempt to find some way to use it. Maybe I’ll wear it around the house instead of a robe or something, or alter it some way.

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Same dress today. A bit scruffier but no less Fraggly!

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Pretty nice lighting by my makeup table!

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Making leg brooches.

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Went for a spring walk earlier today in another of my weekend flea market finds (it was a good flea market day!), this jacket with a really great fluffy faux fur collar that you can’t really see.

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Faces.

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New plants for the collection!

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Ghostly cactus and the meatiest plant ever that both looks and feels like roast beef.

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V cute dress I got from Liselotte a while ago!

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A commissioned art doll I made in, I think, 2004. One of my favourite commissions I’ve gotten since it was completely open as long at it was a doll. I would love to do something like this again. I’ve gotten a lot better at sculpting tiny hands…

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Huge dress. It was about Barbie size if I remember correctly.

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Sparkly head.

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She looked a bit like a sexy girl-Count Orlock.

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The last of those flea market finds. A hand in my favourite material, neon pink plastic, for storing rings.

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Just an outfit.

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#tbt with serious face and rose hair. 2001 I’d guess.

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Trying new ways to curl my hair, I find my foam rollers make the ends too dry as my hair gets longer. This is rag curls. Result: way frizzy and the ends don’t look very nice. Going to get some of those bendy perm rods to try next.

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Another photo from London.

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With Claire and Liselotte.

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Detail of my Intergalactic Paper Doll.

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My little makeshift conservatory with most of our plants.

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#tbt to cotton candy hair sometime around 2002.

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Rearranged our little diner-y shelf.

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Another one from London.

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Walking into the great hall at Hogwarts.

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Waiting for the Knight Bus.

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Werewolf.

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Another one from Elflocks modeling in Todmorden.

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Rather grand grey hair mid dry shampooing.

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Just a smiley picture from a couple of weeks back.

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Lovely mossy drain thing at the Chalice Well in Glastonbury.

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More lovely mossy stuff by the Chalice Well.

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Fraggle dress again!

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Update on the search for the perfect curling method. I haven’t tried the bendy perm rods yet but wanted to try the suggestion of applying smoothing lotion to the ends before putting in the foam curlers. Except I don’t have any smoothing lotion and I’m too poor and cheap to buy stuff like that, so I just tried using coconut oil instead since I already use that for pretty much everything.

It actually worked really well. Pretty much no dry frizzy ends at all. Still going to try the perm rods when I can afford to get some, but this is a big improvement!

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Detail of my Glamour Ghoul Paper Doll.

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Current reading: a 1970s anthology of 50s horror comics.

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Lovely illustration.

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#tbt to about 2006, with long blonde hair and Malungsdräkt. I don’t know how I managed to make my hair look that good!

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Hair still looking nice and ends still easier to manage than usual. The rag curls did make it less prone to tangle though, and I liked the volume and length I got with them compared to curlers.

Watched The Woman for Joe, really good movie in a carnival/sideshow setting!

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Snake earring.

From Henrik’s Instagram:

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Roadside pee break en route to my parents.

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In my old room.

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Rag curled hair.

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Goth plant shopping. Can only be fully appreciated when you know that the packet of bulbs Lisis is holding says “QUEEN OF THE NIGHT”.

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Repotting.

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Drawing.

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