CRAFTED: Schützenfest 2019

Hello Ghouls and Mansters,

here is Cleo deNile with the second Blogspot under the new adress.

It is "Schützenfest" in Olpe. The Germans of course understand the word. Those of you who follow us since years under the old adress may know it too, meanwhile.

For those who don't: It is a local folk festival (I hope the translation explains it) with a shooting contest. There some men are shooting a wooden eagle down off a high pole.

This festival begins each 3rd Friday in July and ends on late Monday evening. It is the most important festival here in town, and the whole town is decorated with buntings and green-white flags and more.

The men are wearing hats called "Schützenkappe" and the women will wear their best dresses, usually. There are parades in the town with march music and a huge festival on a public place named the "Schützenplatz" where 10000 of Olper meet and drink and talk, listen to music, eat our gastronomic specialities like "Beff" and "Spüene", drink beer, watching the King's Polonaise on Sunday and Monday, watch the men shoot the eagle down and guess who will be the new king and so on.

I wish I could show you pictures of the festival itselves and not just of an empty road in the morning, but I am a monster and don't like to walk between those thousands of normies.

Instead, Clawdeen decided we have our own litte Schützenfest here at home each year and create green and white clothes for each of us.

This logspot is about showing you the latest ones, but before, I wan't to post the old group shots of what Clawdeen made in the past years.

Here are the old fashions:

2014:

Everything is crocheted, not so Deuce's "Schützenkappe" - he wears it under his arm and it was a bit too tight so Clawdeen will make a new one for him in future as well as a new top - and pants.

2015:

Draculaura still has a crocheted dress, but all the other fashion is sewn. Here you can see how the "Schützenkappe" looks like when worn. Clawd's has got holes for his ears.

2016:

A nice year for Schützenfest fashion: Venus, Ghoulia and SloMo got T-Shirts with printed on "Schützenfest" motives, and I really like Robecca's steampunk outfit with the hat!

2017:

Clawdeens old fashion didn't fit her new body, so she decdided to make a new set for herself. Of course she thought of four of her friends as well.

2018:

Last year the collection expanded even more. Clawdeen found a nice green and white fabric with stars.

2019:

 - Well, this is this years collection, and I want to show you each outfit on a single picture.

Here you see again my new outfit. The old crochet dress didn't fit me too well and also, it has lost some of the glued on rhinestones it had.

My new outfit for Schützenfest is a green striped top (that perfectly matches the streaks in my hair) with golden glued on star shaped studs, a pair of cute loose white shorts and a pair ow new crown earrings with green rhinestones glued in.

Elle Eedee got a dress made of upcycled T-Shirt material in green with white trims around neck and bottom increased by a white belt with golden buckle and a pair of white bead earrings.

Moanica D'Kay got a simple white top and a skirt made of a new green and white fabric Clawdeen found this year. The skirt has a white fake button border glued on with golden studs, and she is wearing a pair of white fake pearl earrings.

For Spectra Vondergeist, Clawdeen came up with a flower print top in green with white and a skirt that repeats the fabric and has also inverted parts. She also has a pair of green leaf earrings.

Here we are again:

Me - Cleo de Nile - Elle Eedee, Moanica D'Kay and Spectra Vondergeist in our 2019 Schützenfest fashions.

Well, just four fashions this year?

No... Clawdeen had been able to create one more, but it doesn't make it on the group shot which had been shot before.

Here it is:

Clawdeens little sister Pawla Wolf got a white upcycled T-Shirt material dress with a big green polka dot bow at the front.

Also she has got a pair of new hair accessories. You can't see them on the picture. Those are white dice beads with a "P" and a "W" on each of the beads.

Also, Pawla has a little flag to wave with when the parade passes.

Well, this had been this years Schützenfest fashion, and Clawdeen hopes there are some pieces you liked and maybe also got some ideas to create your own festival doll fashion. As you can see, you can do a lot of different stuff with just two colours: green and white!

BTW: Maybe there will be some extra blogspots this week, if it works. Those will just be repeats of older reviews we did - maybe a little bit upgraded. This way we want to save the reviews we did on the old blog, so there won't be new stuff from Mondays to Thursdays - whenever Calaminthe will find time to save one. OF course you are nevertheless invited to stop by and have a look on these new old reviews. This is what we do it for - for our readers!

We just want the old reviews to be safe here in the new blog.

Next weekend though there will be new stuff - and there is also a review planned.

We will, as always, post hints of the weekend ones in our facebook groups, on twitter and on pinterest so it is easy for you to follow us.

Have a majestic weekend and a royal week,

for the ones from Olpe who read this: Guodde Fierdahe!

💝💖💝

Cleo deNile