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“Masks, disguises, costumes and charades have always been a part of human culture. This page is for the ones who love to give themselves new facettes and looks. Be free with your imagination and enjoy … anything is possible in the World of Costumes!"
My dear friends!
Carnevale 2010 has started. Last year we decided to not participate in 2010 or come to the carnival that year. Why? Because I was pregnant and our second baby was due a week before carnival would have started. The best excuse ever to skip our favorite event of the year. But life's a bitch sometimes, cruel, unfair and not very funny at all. On September 24th 2009 we lost our little son Matteo in my sixth month of pregnancy.
After the first hard weeks (we are still not over losing Matteo, never will and he will always leave an empty space in our hearts) we decided to focus on beautiful things in life to drag us out of hell we fell in. As life and the world is everywhere:
Darkness has to be fought with light!!! Beauty wins over ugliness, joy will defeat pain if one really focusses in the good in life, not the bad. We are positive thinkers and even if the pain fades very, very slowly, we want to live and love life. We will try again for a new baby, since children are worth all the risks and the pain.
We are coming this year to the Carnevale di Venezia with a trunk (more than 100kgs) full of beautiful and exciting costumes again (one even pays homage to Matteo) which I made during the last months. To make them this time, was therapy to me. Distract me from the pain, take scratch and create new life of it. Turn something inglamourous into shiny costumes with a meaning and a story. To bring beauty and joy to all of you that we meet in the streets. To celebrate life with people from all over the world, in peace, joy and harmony. When somebody in the streets compliments me for the nice costumes, I share my good thoughts, my creativity and positive wishes and perspectives for the future and the people with them.
My dear friends, let's have a great time in Venice! Life can be so hard and shitty, so cherish what we costume makers offer you.
Celebrate life, especially in Carnevale 2010!!! Please say "hello" when you see me in the streets.
Kiss, Tanja
PS.: Costume making gives back a lot to me. And this time I am thankful to have received something really great besides celebrating with you: The German TV asked me to do a documentry about the Carnevale di Venezia. A TV team has followed me four days through the city and to a banquet that I attended with my friend Valerie (Tour arrangement by Ulmer + Wahl). Additionally we stayed some nights at the world famous stunning Hotel Danieli. And even if I come to the Carnevale for more than ten years now, staying at the Danieli was very special to me.
The film will be broadcasted on Saturday, 13th, 18.20-18.50, German TV, WDR "Hier & Heute"
And also the Deutsche Welle (DW-TV) will show a 5 minute thing about me: Tuesday 9th, German: 18.30; 00.30; 12.30 and in English: 21.30; 03.30; 15.30 or as streaming on Euromaxx Website http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,,7555,00.html
So have fun following me through this Carnevale!
Ci vediamo a Venezia!
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Im Juni gibt es wieder die Möglichkeit, uns in Norddeutschland in Kostüm zu sehen. Am 13. und 14. Juni sind wir wie letztes Jahr wieder eingeladen auf der wunderschönen 
Das zweite tolle Event im Juni, wo wir mit unseren Kostümen auftreten werden, ist die internationale Kulturparade „
