Well hello there, it has been a while! Alas I have been kept away by work and family over the Autumn holidays. I have been busy taking lots of photo’s but haven’t been able to post them here as of yet, but they are coming!
Tonight I am finally getting back on track with regular blogging (determination!), since just because I haven’t been blogging certainly doesn’t mean that I have stopped dressing up, shopping or finding interesting things when I am out and about town.
So let’s get started with tonight’s snap in classical style! For a change I went out to my favorite Italian restaurant for a super tasty and leisure dinner. Please forgive the photo’s graininess as night time shots are alas, not so great. Thankfully as the days are minutely getting longer, evening snaps will improve. ^_^
Headband: Innocent World
Blouse: Baby, the Star Shine Bright
Bustier: Innocent World
Skirt: Metamorphose
Earrings/Rings: Baby, the Star Shine Bright
Bag: Alice & the Pirates
Tights/Shoes: Offbrand
There are so many lovely outfits in these clips….but I have to say, my favorite is definitely the Alice and the Pirates black dress at the end of the first video. I keep hoping it will come up for order soon as I don’t want to miss it!
(My bad dearies, I thought I had posted this waaaaay back when!)
This past weekend on October 23rd, Misako was looking for the next Momoko Ryugasaki of Kamikaze Girls film fame! She toured many filming locations in the town of Shimotsuma, in the Ibaraki Prefecture in Eastern Japan.
As a huge fan of the film and of course the fashion I certainly wish I could have attended! Here is the promotional trailer for the event.
Special judges for this “next princess of lolita” contest: Misako Aoki (Charisma Lolita Model)
Novala Takemoto (Kamikaze Girls Author)
Akinori Isobe (The president of BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT)
Fumiyo Isobe (The executive director of BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT)
This past weekend on October 14th; Baby, the Stars Shine Bright held their much anticipated ~For pure maidens~ The magical tea party from “Hoshi no Namida Princess” and 2011 Autumn/Winter fashion show. It was held inside a beautiful ball room at the Four Seasons Hotel in Chinzan-so.
Below is a video of the amazing fashion show, I highly recommend viewing it at full screen so you can see as many details as possible. :3 This show also included Alice and the Pirates showing off a collection of 20 new pieces! <3
The first black and white striped dress is really lovely, but I’m not quiet sure what is going on with the paws and tail. Is Baby getting in the Halloween spirit perhaps? I also can’t tell if the fabric is of the satin type or cotton. When the models come back down the runway for the final showing it looks to glint in the light with a sheen.
The use of gift/hat boxes as props during the early part of the show is quiet a lovely effect. Part of me really wishes those would become items available for purchase. :3 I do wish I could see the dresses better that they are pared with as they look like the print could perhaps be more soft in style?
I drink a lot of tea and over the years I have accumulated several tins from the Taylors of Harrogate company. I use to sit them out in a pretty display as the tins are different colors, but after they were re-purposed a few times with new labels for other tea flavors they were looking less than attractive. :-/
As these are all the same size and stack well I hit upon the idea of decorating them up in fanciful ways. Now this was something I could get excited about as once again I could display them lovely on a shelf and also have easy access. Over a few days I used several different patterned papers, lots of glue, faux pearls, ribbons, lace and rhinestones to breath new life into them.
Here is what I started out with, not much of a pretty sight is it? This tin is most definitely in need of some serious help.
Aoki Misako has kick started her Kawaii Revolution by hosting “Aoki Misako no Kawaii Kakumei Okoshimashita desu Ocyakai” (Tea Party Celebrating the Kawaii Revolution coming true)]! More than 100 lolitas joined attended the party to celebrate this exciting event along with her.
Everyone enjoyed making parfaits and listening to Misako’s Q & A. I love the part where she talks about the color pink and smooth skin. I wonder if there really is something to that or is it just her cute theory on it. Hurms…thoughts to ponder!
This party actually took place in August but I still wanted to share it here as the timing with this weekends exciting upcoming event is just to perfect. If you don’t know what I’m talking about it’s mentioned at the end of the video. Please look forward to this weekends post! ;D
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