Outfits and lolitaloppis

My outfit from last Friday: 


Dress: Btssb

I tried doing a fishbone braid for the first time (succesfully anyway).  Then I wore that off white shirt which is made from this soft light weight cotton with dot embroidery. I really wanted something comfortable and fit for the country, since I went to my parents' summer cottage and just felt like going for a walk and taking some photos. It was a very summery day ^^



On Saturday I met up with Tenna at the Central Station in Copenhagen to buy our train tickets to Stockholm for the Lolitaloppis :D


The tickets and the dress I plan on wearing on Sunday.

Then we went back to my place and spent the day sewing while watching Supernatural. Gooood times =D

Tenna taking apart her AP skirt :O Turned out awesome though!

And my outfit from that day:

There is this blue-ish green in the embroidery, so I thought I'd try to coordinate it with this bolero.



I spent the day sewing a black dress. It turned out all right, but I still need to add a collar and some cuffs and then take it in a bit...somehow in the back. So no pictures yet.

But yeah, Tenna and I are going to the Lolitaloppis on Sunday. We have to get up ridiculously early to catch our first train, but hopefully it'll be worth it. I'm definitely looking forward to it :D

Photoshoots & new skirts

First off I want to share the photos I did for Starlight Magazine. On my photography blog, you can view both the Red Riding Hood shoot I did with Emilie, Stine and Tenna - and also a couple of Sleeping Beauty selfportraits.

Last Sunday, Tenna and I had wonderful day of sewing and watching Supernatural. Here's her entry on about that day. 

Here's what I wore:

I recently bought this skirt off mbok.jp. It's probably my favourite print that Meta has ever done.

While Tenna was busy sewing her dress and turning a cardigan into an awesome bolero, I was working on this chiffon skirt. Initially, I wanted a soft cream coloured chiffon fabric, but I found the colour in the fabric store to be too bright, then I saw this beautiful powder coloured chiffon with dot embroidery on a mannequin and fell in love.

I'm travelling to Wales in May and one of the photoshoots I'm go to do there is going to be inspired by nymphs. So I wanted some soft and flowy, but also, I really wanted to make something that I would be able to wear afterwards - preferably with lolita.

So I based my design on this skirt by Victorian Maiden:

Image from Hellolace.net

I was probably only about half-way done with my skirt by the end of the day. The dotted chiffon was extremely tricky to work with and the serger seemed to really want to test my patience. I found the 'normal' chiffon that I used for the lining easier to work with. Anyway, but I finished the rest of the skirt this week and here is the result:

Tenna and I have another date with the sewing machine tomorrow, where I'm to going try my hand at making a dress. Should be interesting :)

Selfportrait: Sleeping Beauty for Starlight Magazine

The Sleeping Beauty selfportraits I did for Starlight Magazine.

This shoot was really difficult in terms of the getting the right angles and also I was trying out a new way of 'tethering' which turned out to extremely unreliable. So yeah, not the smoothest shoot I 've done.

Dress by Innocent World.

Red Ridinghood, the Wolf and the Hunter

          

  

  

The Wolf/Tenna:
Skirt: h.naoto blood
Collar+shirt+tights: H&M
Belt: Gina Tricot
Shoes: Din Sko
Hat+underskirt: Handmade

The Hunter/Stine:
Cape: Asos
Sweater+pants+boots: Monki
Jacket+shirt+scarf+socks+hat: H&M
Gloves: Adax
Antler brooch: Handmade
Weapon: From private collector

Red Ridinghood/Emilie:
JSK: Baby the stars shine bright
Cape+headbow: Handmade
Blouse: Offbrand
Tights: Sneaky Fox
Pumps: Zara
Bracelet: Zygomatics

This is the shoot that I did for Starlight Magazine and finally I can reveal the photos. We did this shoot three weeks back on the 20th of March. Actually, this is my first time shooting with more than one model, so that was something I was excited about (but also a bit nervous, haha) and I think it went well - I definitely learned a lot about what to do and not for next time.
Although, when it started snowing a lot just a few days prior to the shoot, I got a bit nervous and then I became ill and had to stay home from work the day before the shoot and it just seemed like everything was uphill suddenly. That was a bit annoying, because until then everything had gone rather smoothly; I made the cape during my vacation, I had enough time to go to the location before the shoot and Tenna and Stine put together their own outfits. But luckily, the snow melted and I felt just well enough to do the shoot, which I think was rather fortunate as it is a bit difficult to get four people for the same workplace together on the same day.

But altogether it was a good shoot, I think, the girls did a really awesome job and I'm so happy they wanted to model for me :D

All right, well, go and check out the magazine here (it's in Danish):

Starlight Magazine

Outfits from this weekend

 

Bodyline skirt

Btssb JSK

Chocolate & fairy tales

Sorry, I’ve been neglecting this blog so much lately, I feel kind of bad, especially because I’ve actually had plenty of loli related times lately.

I had those two weeks off from work and I basically spent my time relaxing, sewing and taking photos. I made these two skirts and a matching headbow for one of them. I am planning to make one for the green skirt too. When I saw these two colours of this fabric, I just couldn’t resist buying it. I was planning to use these two at work, but I don’t know, I wore the blue one the other day and it just gets too dirty.

I got some red fabric too and I made cape for a photoshoot, I did a few weeks ago. I don’t have any photos of it to show you yet, because the photos are for the Danish online magazine for Lolitas which isn't released beofre April 11th.

I also bought some light dusty blue chiffon fabric for a JSK, but I haven’t started sewing that one yet.

Tenna invited me to a chocolate festival a few weeks ago and it was quite delicious. She owns Bodyline’s Chocolate Biscuit print in two colourways, so I borrowed her blue skirt, so we could twin this very event appropriate print :D

We met up with Tenna’s friend Keon there, so for once we had someone to take a photo with the both of us in it.

(Shoes: Monki, jewelry: Accessorize, headbow: handmade)

The moment we got inside and took off our coats, we were jumped by two event girls in hot pink poofy dresses, who complimented our outfits and gave us free chocolate! See?! Lolita pays off sometimes :D

We stayed for a while – until all of our free chocolate ‘coins’ (which came with the ticket) were used up and we were getting a bit nauseous from too much of a good thing which included chocolate and macarons :D

Afterwards we went to Baresso to recover :D A wonderful way to spend half a Sunday ^__^

This is my newest purchase: Baby’s Alice’s Portrait JSK in black. I love this print combined with the stripes and I’ve been searching for it for quite some time now. The pink and blue versions are all over the place, but I wanted the black or the red one. Finally I found it on mbok.jp and I really love this place. It gave me the Sleeping Beauty JSK, this one and Meta’s Swan lake skirt is one its way to me.

The photoshoot I mentioned before is themed ‘Fairy tales’ and I had three of my friends and colleagues model for me. I’ll save most of the talk of this shoot for my photoblog, I just want to share this photo Tenna took while I was setting up:

(Photo curtesy of Tenna)

I just want to say that is was a wonderful day, I had the pleasure of looking at three beautiful fairy tale characters and idyllic surroundings all day. More days should be like that ♥

Lastly, I want to share my outfit from last Saturday. I wanted to take some photos to submit to the magazine, but I’m too far from satisfied with the result, so I’ll just share one here and maybe more later at my other blog.

Dress from Retroscope Fashions. This was actually the first ever Lolita dress I bought three years ago and this is the first time I’ve really worn it. For real. It’s mid-calf length and a size too big, so I never liked it. But I gotta say, after this shoot, I’m loving this so much, haha. During this shoot which lasted for about thirty minutes, I experienced cloudy and sunny weather, and snow. It was ridiculous! Hehe..