Coordinate : Teddy Coat Reversed

Coat: H&M | Dress: Topshop | Watch: Michael Kors | Bag: Tory Burch | Loafers: Puccetti

I seriously fell in love with this coat! When I first saw it in store I was really hesitant about buying it, it seemed like one of those pieces you buy because they look cool at that moment but are probably never gonna wear again (You'd be surprised about the number of clothes in my wardrobe that are just like that!). Luckily, this coat didn't turn out to be one of them, it turned out just the right piece for me for the cooler temperatures. And the coolest thing about it is, it's reversible!
One side is kind of fluffy like a camel sheep fur while the other resembles soft leather - it's definitely the best faux piece I've got myself so far and I do not regret buying it at all <3

Do you have any pieces you were hesitant about buying but ended up totally loving?

xx ♡ Micky

Book review : The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

As autumn is definitely my favorite season for cuddling up in an oversized sweater with a cup of tea and a good book, that is exactly what I've spent my time with these past days. 
Never would I have thought, though, that I would discover a book as special as this!

I've read this book in German but I can only imagine the English version to be even better!

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and is drawn to the farm at the end of the road where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl and her mother and grandmother. As he sits by the pond ­behind the ramshackle old house, the unremembered past comes flooding back—a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy.

It seems almost impossible to write a summary for this book. You don't wanna spoil it by saying too much, and this novel is so beautifully poetical, so wonderfully fantastic, that each word could be too much. It doesn't happen often that I'm sad a story is over once I've finished reading it, but it was definitely the case with this book! I would love to just take it and read it again but unfortunately you can only really read a book for the first time once.. 

The seven year old boy, the story teller whose name we, the readers, never get to know, tells us the story from his perspective. So we are very close to him and get to feel all the emotions first hand.
It think that is it, what makes this little boy who's living in books so authentic and lively. 
He get's to know the girl "Lettie" who lives together with her mother, and her mother's mother, in a farm at the end of the lane. They are very loveable, but also strange people. 

And then things start happening that are so incredible they totally fall out of any reality. 
The little boy is often scared and I would have done nothing more than to hug him while reading this book. The style of writing is just as fantastic as the story itself – I don't want to tell you more because I don't wanna take the magic of reading this book for the first time away for anyone.

This book definitely deserves 5 out of 5 stars, the title of my new favorite book, and a recommendation to read this for everyone, who loves to dream and isn't scared of strange and extraordinary stories. This book absolutely put a spell on me and I'm pretty sure I will reread it more than once! It's a book that you can always discover something new in, a book that invites us to linger and just get soaked up in it's magic. 

What was the best book you recently read? 

xx Micky

Spooky days!

It's just been a very special time of the year again, guys – it just been Halloween!
And if you're like me, you'll probably have been looking forward to this time of the year for ages now because, from adrenaline-junky to adrenaline junky, what's better than being scared?
Walking home on those empty, foggy streets after having spent a horror-movie-night at your friend's place and feeling that adrenaline, that comes with the fear, rush through your veins! It's gloomy, scary & thrilling - just Halloween.

But why do we actually celebrate Halloween each year?

Halloween (derived from "All Hallows Eve") is a pagan tradition. 
Celtic priests, druids, used the 31st of October to commemorate the dead souls and the prince of death "Samhain". During this ceremony, the druids would move from house to house demanding sacrificial offerings - those were often human sacrifices, usually children - if the families would deny making a sacrifice, the druids would smear blood onto the door of their house which was about equal to a death sentence to all residents. For protection from evil spirits the druids would wear animal masks because they believed that by doing this, the strength of the animals would be transferred to them. Irish immigrants would later bring the tradition to america. 

Today children will dress up for Halloween and walk from house to house demanding "treats" and if no sweets ("treats") are offered to them they will play the house owner a prank ("tricks"). 
Little do they know that the original "trick or treating" of the druids brought death and destruction and was idolatry in its purest form.

But now enough of the gory details, let's move on to my latest coordinate under this theme! 

Eating Souls 

Are you scared yet? 

I know, I know, quite a light outfit for the low temperatures but I wasn't going trick or treating this year anyways – it's more of a party look & honestly, I probably only made this look so I could show off my amazing make up skills *cough cough* (obviously the black eye is partly edited) :P 

I have to admit I really, really enjoyed this demonic look. 
Maybe being creepy is just in my nature, haha. 

This was the first try for this look, sorry for the graininess of the photo.

Overall you can definitely say that I'm the kind of person that loves dressing up and slipping into different roles, that's probably why festivals like Halloween or Carnival are always so much fun to me! Unfortunately I didn't get to use this costume idea in the end because a friend got sick so we stayed in and spent the night watching Halloween classics with popcorn and whiskey but who said that Halloween has to be a fixed date anyways? We will just celebrate it later :) 

How did you spend your Halloween?

xx ♡ Micky