Garden Tulln

Kring kring from Die Garten Tulln.

Hi, everyone.

Today I take you to Die Garten Tulln, a beautiful garden in Tulln, Lower Austria. It was beautiful day  (and hot) when I and my husband strolled around from garden to another garden. Each garden has different style or theme but all of them are very nice for photoshoot spot. There are shabby chic, mediteranean, asian, vegetable garden, minimalist style, etc. My favorites are the dahlia and roses garden. The massive big flowers and colors are spectacular, we were just at the right time. Unfortunately I couldn't find cactus garden except a small corner in a glass room. I would love it if there was.

What I wore that day:

• Linen jacket: LOGG by H&M
• Long arm Tee with crochet details: I forget the brand. Old piece of mine I bought in Indonesia.
• Jeans: CCS Legay Flex, a quick secondhand snap at Pfenniq Bazaar in Stuttgart (€5 for whatever clothes you can fully stuff into a paper bag)
• Hat: Triset (bought in Indonesia)
• Sneakers: ASICS
• Sunglasses and camera pouch: Claire's. I bought at the mall but Claire's has online shop with international delivery here. They have cute and affordable accessories. Things I bought from it are happened to be my fave and I wear very often (this is not ad or affiliate). 
• Backpack: Kipling

Tips:

• Die Garten Tulln opens every year from April until early October but you may want to have a chance to attend a garden exhibition (Gartenbaumesse) at one go. If you purchase entry ticket Die Garten Tulln you can use it as entry to the exhibition too, the exhibition only take few days so you need to check the schedule if you like to see. I know my post is too late :) but who knows you would like to go there someday in the future. For more information this is the official site: www.diegartentulln.at and events/exhibition in Tulln.
• In front of the entry gate you can rent a canoe and rowing around the river.
• Die Garten Tulln is not far from the town center. You can wandering around trough the nature path, or rent a bike (great place for biking), or take a free mini tourist train. There are nature swimming pool, shops, caffes, delicious ice creams, beautiful park along the huge river, a restaurant in a ship, stage, and Egon Schiele museum. 

Act like a Bond

Relaxing on a bean bag or having foot reflexion massage walking in the water

Among roses.

Aming dahlias.

In front of tall sunflowers.

Garden and its tower.

Stepping up the tower and then looking down.

This retro camper is cranky. She doesn't want to move nor let me in. 

Garden walls

A little glass house.

Pumpkin soup and Apfelstrudel ( a must taste if you visit Austria)

Childhood flame. I know...I'm 30s I know.

I don't need SPF under this sombrero. I borrowed it in exhibition area.

My great great great grand family (this is in the exhibition area)

Beside beautiful garden you can also take a high step up to the top of tower and look down and around (or use the lift).

There is also a restaurant facing a pool with its fountain attraction. It seems like the vegetables are picked from its own garden. my husband ordered Apfelstrudel (a must taste if you are in Austria). Unfortunately I only tried the pumpkin soup because I didn't feel well enough to eat more. I had suffered nausea since the night before, vomitted over and over again after I ate ginger chocolate followed by roiboos tea straight afterwards. I don't know what was wrong. 

Lately I have attended some exhibitions, shows, movies and other events but my outfits and photos were unfortunate hahaha, not sure if I should share you too many flop fashion stories or crappy pictures :-), I am afraid you will leave worse than uninspired. Well, let see. I hope you all have fortunate events anyway! Tchuss!

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A Velvet Jacquard Jacket

Hi, everyone.

It's been a while. Here I am, trying to blog again. :)

First, I want to say Happy Eid Mubarak to all of you who celebrate it. I wish you joy and peace.

Anyway....

Last month I spent a week in Stuttgart for family reunion. Lucky woman I am, because I have two sisters (plus my mom) with sustainable wardrobe thought which means I went to Stuttgart with empty trolley and came back to Austria with full load of secondhand clothes (grin) (grin).

This jacket was one of those I brought home. I wore it when I attended the opening show of Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival  (if you are interested, it's still running until August 17th and click here for info).

Cotton velvet jacquard A line jacket

The Event

This jacket gives my casual tee-plus-jeans outfit a more dressy look. The Impulstanz Vienna International Dance Festival show I attended has no formal dress code though, and the dance was contemporary. It even had setting of the stage covered with all kind of clothes all over the place. The show took place in Volkstheater, Vienna. The building was built in1889. I think the floral relief pattern matched the building ornaments, don't you think? Below I pasted pic of me on the Volkstheater interior photos to illustrate what I meant because I didn't take selfie there. Hehehe.

Jacket pattern and interior ornaments

The Weather

It was hot and we arrived at Vienna about an hour before the show. However I felt comfortable with my jacket put on as when we walked around Volkstheater and Museumsquartier it was windy. After I went into the Volkstheater, wew...it's too hot. A lot of people swing their hand fan. I finally gave up my jacket and exposed my casual tee. It's an outwear anyway.

The Fabric

It looks like the jacket is made of cotton velvet jacquard fabric, although I'm not 100% sure because there is no tag. Tell me if I'm wrong. Without inner lining, it feels rough against the skin but it's still comfortable and absorbs sweat.

As you can see in the picture above the floral pattern quite matches the ornament of the building interior. I don't know if the color would bleed when I wash as I haven't done it, but I am afraid so. I also wouldn't wear it too often too long under the strong sun again because the color seems to fade or become dull easily. Again, just like my red chiffon shirt and cords pants, I would have to hand wash it alone and lock the bleeding with vinegar soak or use color absorber sheet.

The Silhouette

Maybe it is designed to be a crop jacket, with A line baby doll shape. It's size 10/ EUR S/USA S. My sis is taller than me. On me this jacket ends at the start point of my hip curve. I think it emphasizes my pear figure but somehow, I like it like that. I saw on a magazine, the same type of jacket on a woman with a long torso, the hem of the jacket ends higher so it looks like a bit hanging and exposes more of the waist-to-hip curve. It looks good that way. I could alter the length of my jacket but if I do, I should alter the pockets and the sleeves too otherwise it will not look nice.  By the way, the type of my jeans takes part in determining the whole silhouette too.

The Outfit
Velvet jacket: label Marchie, bought in Indonesia (was my sister's).
Jeans: Nevada Jeans, my old one (one of my three favorites), I bought in Matahari Dept. Store in Yogyakarta, Indonesia.
Lace up booties: label unknown, thrifted around my town.

Black leather bag: Romwe.
Polar sunglasses: Jacque Lemans.

That's all for now. I wish you have a super inspiring day. Ciao ciao.

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Sunny Walk and Sunnies

Hi, everyone. 

I took a Nordic walking walk. (Note that I only take photo of my self when I stop walking and set my timer/selfie snapshot. :-)) It was hot, bright sunshiny day so I have a full protection outfit. Though I wore a visor I still needed to wear sunglasses because I used antibiotic drops (made my eyes more photosensitive) and I need them to protect my eyes from the wind too. This time my choice went again to my brown sunnies from Firmoo.com. These sunnies have UV filter and brown tint lenses. They are comfortable, light, fit, don't make headache and don't make distortion or make my eyes tired. I had posted the first review on my other blog Chachamisu here.

If you are interested in shopping glasses, especially in a vintage cat style, this online optical store Firmoo.com has good news for you who has been following my blogs (thank you). They offer $30 off on the Vintage Cat Eye Frames with this code: this voucher code: 72b859e6a. It is valid till May 29th and can be used by 5 persons. Be sure to check their delivery range.  (Not to forget their Free Glasses offer they open periodically.)

It was as well colorful day. The sky is bright blue, green spring foliage, wild flowers in white, pink and yellow. People playing basketball, soccer, running, walking like me, roller skating, biking, archery, walking the dog or just doing a relax stroll.

Quite matching to that colorful surrounding, I wore my old colorful print top. However I wore burgundy socks and there is blue too on my shoes and my walking sticks so the color palettes are actually a little bit out of harmony. Blue is like the sky though :-)

I also found a white feather few months ago and I slip it into pen pocket on my backpack.

I only have one pair of sport sneakers which really work, so I have no other sneakers option. They are 2 number bigger than my usual size, big enough for my custom orthopedic insoles (due to feet/ankle problem in the past).

About the cargo pants, I got them in a weekly flea market. I bought it cause I like the design. It looked comfortable yet functional. I just found it afterwards that some of the pockets with zippers are fake. There is pocket at near the right knee, a real pocket with zipper but I couln't find any opening and it didn't look like an unfinished design. Strange!

The material of the pants is a mix of linen and other fibers. It felt nice, but after a few times of wearing, it started to feel rough and itchy.

By the way, happy belated Mother's Day to all moms. I love my mom more than I'm able to express. She is at other side of the globe, in my homeland. I wish you all, especially every mother much love and happiness. Take care!

Outfit:

Sunglasses: Firmoo.com, #FS04 Brown Acetate with brown tint sunglasses from Firmoo Classic Series, not available anymore but you can still check for another option or similar design.

Vintage print top: Thrifted. Label St. Chris (seems to be from Japan).

Visor cap: charity market. No label, T-shirt: MNG Jeans, pants: flea market, sneakers: ASICS, backpack: Kipling.

xo,

Naty

*disclaimer: this is not sponsored post. Anyway I use this post as an entry to participate in the giveaway by Firmoo.com. It doesn't influence my opinion about The Firmoo glasses.

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Blumenstadt

We are in Tulln. Blumenstadt: The city of flowers.

I made my self to get onto the hammock and have a good swing dizzy.

I am always amazed by trees and foliage.

Self-timer before the waterpark

Colorful floral print, pink scarf, and a smiley face under straw hat amongst yellow flowers.

I was lost in yellow.

So yellow round and around

Love the textures of my path.

Regentag by Friedensreich Hundertwasser

Spring Print! Floral and colorful!

3 scoops ice cream and chipped turquois nail polish.
My choies: Coconut, Mozart Kugel, and Chocolate Noir. Taste divine!
Tip: Usually you can get for € 1/ scoop, and there are few shops/cafes that sell ice cream and there are the one whic Lactose free, or Sorbet (the one like fruit juice, without milk)

Little me under sunshine

Lovely hood.

Lastly, selfie under pink blossoms.
Tip: go to Austria early Spring for plethora of Magnolias and Cherry Blossoms. They're gone fast, most of them won't last till middle of Spring.

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Note: my floral print top is thrifted in Indonesia. Label St. Chris but the fabrics and care tag are written in Japanese so I can't say about that.

Oh well, I hope you all have a lovely weather lovely day :).

xo, Naty
 
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