OOTD & The Avengers

Yesterday I went to see The Avengers with Tenna and a bunch of other people. The movie wasn't until after six, so Tenna and I hung out bit at my place first. She gave me this lovely set of handmade earrings which are just about as fabulous as anything can really be. See for yourselves:

 

I love them and I can't wait to wear them :D

So The Avengers was awesome. It was such a good movie. I've been feeling like I want to watch it again all day long. It was so just funny and action packed, not mention all the eyecandy. All right, well, just in case you live under a rock and have no idea what movie I'm talking about, I'll leave the trailer below.

This is what I wore yesterday. Finally got a chance to break in my new JCs that arrived last week. Felt goooood, haha. Although, not so good when I decided to walk home from the cinema and halfway home my feet were dying. It's a 30-40min walk. But it was just such a nice evening, it's been getting warmer lately and it was twilight and there was a slight breeze, I couldn't resist. I'm still paying the prize ;)

Blazer - H&M
Bag & jumper - Gina Tricot
Skirt - H&M
Shoes - Jeffrey Campbell
Jewelry - Regal Rose

Museum of Zoology & a couple of outfits

A couple of weeks ago I had the past two weeks off from work, which has been great. I haven't had a vacation for a really long time, so it was really nice to gear down. I didn't travel anywhere or work on any major creative projects. It's basically just been a fairly low-key vacation. I will, however, take you through some of the highlights.

My friend Amy and I went to the Museum of Zoology which I haven't been to since I was a child and I've been wanting to go back now for the past couple of years, but haven't really gotten around to it before now. I just remember that I loved going there when I was a child, so I was really looking forward to going again.

Amy

This one freaks me out a bit, but I figured some might like it.

I thought this owl was a hoot ;)

I became a little too attached this polar bear. Mighty Boosh fans will understand why probably ;)

All right, so it was fun to go there again, but it was so much smaller than I remembered. Super small, actually. But I still liked being there again. I love museums with all the corridors and corners, they feel so much like a labyrinth.

Another thing I did in these past couple of weeks was to sew this dress:

I've had this fabric lying about for so long and had even half-started making something, but I finally sat down and actually made something wearable with it.

The colour isn't coming out right in the photo. It's a lot more blue in real life; A really gorgeous colour, and I had so been looking forward to wearing this colour, but I don't know... I made the dress a bit on the large size, well, not intentionally, obviously, but I was using a new pattern for the bodice, which apparently is a bit bigger than my old one.

Honestly, there's a reason I put the belt on in the picture. I used 4 meters of chiffon fabric for the skirt and it's just too much, so it's all sausage-y around the waist and then it's too big in the back and ugh, I was really disappointed with the outcome. Mostly, because in my mind I had this image of a nice, light and breezy Spring dress, but when I put this one on, I just feel like a big cupcake, like I'm on my way to a six year olds birthday party.

It probably has more to do with how I feel in Lolita in general these days, than the actual dress. It's just something with all those layers that's putting me off at the moment. Hmm.

Random outfit picture from my holiday.

Jewelry: Gina Tricot
Knit: Vero Mora
Leggings: H&M
Shoes: Bianco

And another one from Easter.

Everything is H&M except shoes and jewelry.

That's all for now :)

Cats, meetups, photos and horror movies

Last weekend I visited Tenna at her parents' house. They have a dog and six cats. Their newest member is this cute little kitten that Tenna's mom rescued recently. She was so cute :3 It was a lovely day spent mostly inside mostly watching Supernatural and Mighty Boosh, hehe :D

The latest issue of Starlight Magazine was also revealed this week.


Besides a couple of mini features, I did two "minor" shoots. The Harry Potter selfportraits and the Hunter Loli shoot. Have look:

  



More photos can be viewed at my photoblog.

Yesterday I went to a meetup to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Danish Frills, which is a Danish forum focusing solely on Lolita fashion. We went to A.C. Perchs Tearoom which was a lovely place with a wonderful atmosphere. Everything was so luxurious.




I drank white temple tea, ate small sandwiches and scones with lemon curd and everything was absolutely delicious.





Tenna and I had decided to be really fancy, so we both had big hair XD I tried doing this Marie Antoinette inspired hair do as shown in this video. But next time I think it needs to be a bit bigger ^^

I made this hairpiece from a decorative garland I had lying around.

After the meetup, five of us went to the cinema to watch The Woman in Black. We had plenty of time before the movie started, so we took some outfit shots and then went a had something to warm to drink in the café at the cinema.

 

Dress: Aatp
Blouse: Dear Celine
Cardigan: Louise
Tights (two pairs layered): H&M
Shoes: Bodyline

The shoe choice was sort of a last minute thing, and next time I'm wearing this outfit, I would prefer to wear something more elegant ^^ 



The movie was really good. I'm not one for horror movies, but since it's Daniel Radcliffe starring, I had to see it. I think he did really well. It was really scary, though, I found myself burying my face in my fox stole aka. George so many times and continuously bursting out "Dude!" and muttering to myself "nonononono", lol XD

But then again, I'm really not one for horror movies. ;)

So yeah, check out the trailer if you haven't already :D

Afterwards, Tenna and I went back to my place and watched Mighty Boosh, really tired and worn out from being out in the cold.

And to finish this entry, I'd like to show you two of my recent purchases:


Fresh out of the box ;)

These shoes from Vivienne Westwood. Gosh, I've been sighing over these for so long now, so when I found them in this colour and my size, I had to go for it. They are so freaking comfortable and they smell like bubblegum, haha :D
I love them so much, I wish I could get a pair too in gold, lol ;)





The other thing is this dress from Metamorphose:

I remember seeing this print back when I was starting out in Lolita and I just loved the cats on it! Ever since I've been keeping my eye out for the right colour and version. I found this on mbok for just about 4000JPY. I think it's really cute and it has a really nice length, although not as much width in the skirt as I would have liked, but oh well :)

Btssb Lucky Pack

This is my outfit from last weekend when Tenna came over for some sewing and Harry Potter movie watching.

Dress+bag: Baby the stars shine bright
Cardigan: Vero Moda
Shoes: Deichmann
Jewelry: H&M
Hairaccessories: Accessorize

I wanted to do something new with my hair, so I tried this do. I received this dress in the mail recently. It's Baby's Blooming Snow White print which I also have in pink. I was so happy when I found this dress, because it was in the colour that I originally wanted. :3

I've been doing some more shopping lately. I bought one of Baby's lucky packs :D It's my first lucky pack, yay. I figured it would be safe enough seeing as I liked all the colours available and the sizes were listed. The shipping price was insane and when I picked up the package on at the post office, I saw why. The box it came in was huge, at least twice as big as what would've been necessary. The lucky pack came in a pink tote bag, but haven't taken any photos of that, but here are the contents:

The headbow

The bag. It's cute, but really tiny, lol

The blouse. It's so adorable

The dress

and finally the socks.

I was so thrilled when I opened the tote bag and saw that it was this colour that I had gotten. As I said earlier, I liked all three colours, but I was really hoping for this one. I love this tartan red with the white lace. It's reminds me of old school lolita and also one of Momoko's dresses in Kamikaze girls.

The fabric of the dress is so lovely, thick and comfortable, with lots of cute details like Baby's dresses usually have. How to know it's a lucky pack dress? There's no zipper, which I guess makes sense, as the manufacturing process would be more expensive then. But the whole back of the bodice is shirred, so there's no trouble putting on the dress. :)

Here's my outfit for today:

Dress, bag  & headbow: Btssb
Cardigan: Louise
Shoes: Bodyline
Necklace: handmade (not by me, though)

I've just been at home today working on my stuff for next issue of Starlight Magazine. We have a "Nerdy Lolita" theme coming up, so I've been doing some Harry Potter stuff. And Tenna and I have also talked about doing a Supernatural/Lolita shoot on Sunday. Should be interesting, yes? ;)

One last thing: Teaparty shoes. I've always been fascinated by all the lovely colours they're made in and how when you see other Lolis' wardrobes some have a pair in each colour. They're pretty cute. I've been wanting to get some for a while, but I've been worried that they would be too Sweet for my wardrobe. But when I saw that Secret Shop only had a few pairs left in stock in my size, I couldn't resist getting them. 

I wrote Clobba online to inquire when they would restock the other colours and if more colours would be made. They replied and said that they wouldn't restock for a really long time, maybe never for some colours. I don't know, it seems a little unrealistic that they should never make these shoes in the larger sizes again, nevertheless, I went and bought two pairs:

Pink

Lavender

I'm looking forward for the weather to get warm enough to actually be able to wear these outside. It'll probably be a while ;)

Lastly, I'm closing in on 100 followers and would like to announce that I will hosting a big giveaway when I reach 100 (or when my next taobao order arrives, whichever comes first ;)).

Magical things ♥

I want to make a special post about the Christmas gift I received from Tenna, because it's so amazing. *__*

When I opened the box (the chest came later) I was in complete awe.  It was full of cute bottles of dried flowers and plants, bath salts, beads, soap and glitter. Each bottle had a little handwritten label with a magical name on it (felix felicis and unicorn tears, guys ♥).

 

My own potions set :D

Rock salt and devil's weed seeds were added later

 

The chest and my very own fox stole aka. George (as in Fred and George, Fred is Tenna's fox).

Rose hair clip and glass case :D

Handmade cameo by Tenna. It's so lovely.

 I love this gift because, like I told Tenna, having things like this around me makes me feel like magic is real. ;D

Three days of Lolita

Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you've all had a lovely couple of days :)

Christmas eve

I spent with my family and it was a nice cozy evening ^^

I wore my Gryffindor dress, because it feels so christmassy, hehe, and the shoes I just bought recently from Miss Selfridge. I've been wanting a pair like that for so long, I love the straps and finally I found some. Well, I've been watching these for so long, waiting for them to go on sale, hehe. Unfortunately, while the fit is actually really good, they're extremely difficult to walk in. So I guess this pair will be reserved for photoshoots and occasions where there will be very little walking ;)

Outfit:
Dress: homemade
Blouse: Dear Celine
Tights: H&M
Shoes: Miss Selfridge
Hairaccessory: Rococo's Soul

I received lots of lovely gifts, but I'll make a separate post about that soon.


The 25thUsually I just spent this day hanging out at home, enjoying my presents, but Tenna had asked if we should do something that day, so we hung out and then went to the cinema to see Sherlock Holmes 2. It was really awesome :D 
My brother had given me two tickets for a movie and popcorn the day before, so we used those and then there was a mix up with the system and all reservations had been cancelled. Some people became really frustrated, so after the movie, the staff handed out one free ticket for each person. Yay, hehe. But yeah, the movie was really good and I just love Robert <3

Outfit:
Dress: Innocent World
Cardigan: H&M
Shoes: Deichmann
Flowers: Accessories
Necklace: Handmade (By girleverafter)

After the movie we went back to my place and had dinner while watching Sherlock Holmes 1 XD
The 26th

My family usually meet on this day for a Christmas lunch and then we just relax and watch a movie afterwards and this year was no different.

This is what I wore.

Outfit:
Dress: Baby the Stars Shine Bright
Blouse: H&M
Cardigan: Louise
Tights: H&M
Shoes: Miss Selfridge
Underskirt: Ebay
Bag: Dream of Lolita
Accessories: Accessorize and unknown.