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..

Wear something you rarely wear

Today I went over to a friend's place to hang out. I wanted to wear something from my closet that I rarely use. I actually really like this dress, I just haven't used it much, because it fits me almost like an empire-waisted dress, which really isn't flattering for my figure, but then I thought of wearing this belt with it and I think it looks much better.

Outfit rundown:
JSK: Bodyline
Blouse: Zara
Belt: New Look
Bag: Lace Story
Jewelry: Accessorize

Miss Caro-chan just blogged about bangless Lolitas, which was kind of funny, because these past couples of weeks I've  been thinking a lot about bangs. I've been growing my bangs out for the past year and now I'm starting to think about getting them back and I'm really on the fence here. On one hand, I like the more mature look of being bangless and it's easier to manage on a daily basis. But I really like how bangs look with most of the usual hair accessories in Lolita. For now, I've settled with dying the roots of my hair a dark brown to match the ends better. So I'll continue to think about the bangs.

Lastly, just a photo of my new coat worn:

Should I?

Last year I didn't get a chance to order this set before the deadline. Now I have my second chance, but I'm not sure. I could use a new winter coat, especially one that would go with Lolita. I have a black one now that I love, but as I've probably stated in an earlier entry, I'm trying to weed out all the black from my wardrobe.

My concern is that it's a little too "LOOK AT ME!" for every day use e.g. to and from work. But damnit, it's just so cute, I can totally see myself in it, haha :D

I've been thinking about getting these boots at Ellos:

I think the coat and those boots would look great together :3

The deadline for preordering the set is the end of the month, so I'll think about it until tomorrow evening... DUN DUN DUUUUN!! ;)