Turquoise Black Roses

My father, a trained electrician worked his ass off to offer our family a life where we lack nothing. One of his biggest goals was that my mom don't have to work anywhere. He almost single-handedly renovated our house before my sister and I were born.
I would say we were always on the upper side of the lower middle class. While other kids in school all got their Nokia phones, my sister and I just received the cheapest phones where you couldn't even play snake :D I couldn't afford some albums that I wanted to hear and my mom just bought the cheapest dollar store clothes thinking it was good enough. I'm sure I'm not alone and it sounds familiar for a lot of you.

Until I was 28 I was always problem "child" of my family. The jobs I had couldn't even cover my expenses each month. Imagine having a girlfriend and you can't take her out anywhere because you are broke af. Been there and it's not a nice feeling.

Through designing playing cards my financial status has changed so rapidly in the past four years. Last year my father told me something that I'll never forget. He said he never had more money in his whole life than I have right now.

From the point where I drove my parents to despair until the point where I can help them financially with everything just by doing what I love. It's making me so proud.

And I never really celebrated this "success" in public because people would just say how pretentious I am and how much I love myself. I always tried to stay as humble as possible and I'm always kind to everyone but you can see the result in my last post. People don't f*cking care anyway.

That was a long ass intro just to show you this investment that I made at the end of last year.

My fascination for luxury watches started last year. My Instagram feed looks like that: luxury watches - hamster photos - playing cards. I made a post with the watch a while ago on Instagram but I just photographed the bracelet since I didn't want to trigger envious people. But again, people think what they want anyway. It's also not my goal to brag. This watch reminds me of all the headache that I made my parents but also how I was able to turn everything around 180 degrees. And as you can see in my photo, I'm still driving my Renault Twingo since 2013. Let me know if you know anyone else who has a watch that is worth twice as much as his car. That must be a really nice person I want to meet. :D

The watch has a turquoise dial. I immediately fell in love with it. As you know from my Hotel decks I absolutely love pastel tones on playing cards. The first thing that came into my mind was that I want a turquoise Black Roses deck. Sadly this turquoise color is exatly the color between Hotel V1 and Hotel V2. So it probably wouldn't be the best color for the 3rd Hotel edition. But I really want to see this color printed on a card, that's why the double backer of the Immergrün deck will have this turquoise color on one side. Maybe it looks great, maybe not. We will see.

I was so far that I thought about a turquoise Hotel back with silver foil. Definitely something I still want to do in the future. Imagine if you take out a silver rose from the back design and then you hand it out to the spectator - best trick in the world.

Thanks for being here with me.

Much love

Daniel