northwest fan fest 2014

so i was lucky enough to be selected as a model for fairytale boutique @nwff. i modelled a gorgeous blue dress from automatic honey called "moonlight pegasus". the dress was covered in individual crystals and was very beautiful. the headdress was a veil with more crystals, and... everything was just very elegant and extravagant.

i'm so lazy to post photos... lol but i should, what kind of blogger am i, anyway... the answer to that is, a bad one. hah~

borrowed my friend's btssb scepter~

Model's group shot~ i-is it cute?

it was a really fun experience, and i got to spend time with two of my local lolita friends... i really felt so lucky to be there. i won't forget my happy feeling... such an experience, i'm so thankful for.

i really hope i can get the chance to model for angelic pretty when they come to vancouver this august. i don't really have anything to look forward to recently... but no point in worrying, if i can just focus on improving myself, things should be fine, right?

filled with poison / but blessed with beauty and rage

once upon a dream

Michael's Blessing Rose Headband &
Searching for Baroque Pattern Tights♡

My rose hair accessory and tights from BABY arrived today. The little pink roses look so delicate, and exquisite at the same time... seems really delicate. The entire band is wrapped up in pink ribbon. I can't wait to wear this coordinate~

The fashion show is on Saturday, so I have to prepare for that. At least I have the day off... I'll upload more photos of things I bought later. I haven't had much time for personal things lately...

yeah my boyfriend's pretty cool  |  but he's not as cool as me

-lana del rey, brooklyn baby

Untitled Morning

This morning was a morning of mixed emotions. ( p′︵‵。)

I woke up really early and 자기야 came over with his big suitcase, since he was leaving Vancouver on a flight later that afternoon. We got into a tiff over trivial matters, but managed to solve our disagreement with enough time to eat a lovely breakfast at "Locus" on Main St.

I've been there with my BFF before, and last time I got the benny special, which happened to be smoked turkey. I didn't like it *too* much, but the nugget potatoes and coffee are always good to me! My friend got the wild boar poutine, which was a very flavourful and unique dish.

Obligatory food photo of my meal~

I don't have a photo of what I ate this morning, since most of the time I don't take photos of my food anymore; I just eat it! But this morning's choice was much more satisfying than my previous one. I chose the "Main St. Eggs" with bacon, which was delightful.

오빠 got the "Steak & Eggs", which was delicious too. He was really full once we were finished eating, and we both had 2 cups of coffee each. (´；ω；`)

Then we drove to the airport and he had to go check in for his flight while I went back home to do my own things. Yeah... bye-bye, 오빠... I don't know how the time is going to pass by from today on...!!!

Afterwards, I went to Metrotown to meet up with a local lolita to hang out. I also met up with a local alpaca fanatic, ("Alpaca Galore" on Facebook) to adopt this adorable alpaca prince from her. He is such a sweet, cute little baby: a 12cm white prince.

His name is Wilfred. What a tiny, adorable cute little baby!!! ♡

I hope to get two more little babies, another girl and boy. I think the "Caffe Kids" series' beige butler with the green bowtie is adorable, and so is the pink girl from the "Powa Powan" series. I'm mostly likely going to get those two, we'll see~~~

Anyway, my lolita friend and I went to my place to hang out and chat a bit. We watched "Mister Rococo", which was an odd piece of comedy... and that was my day. A bit stressful, and I miss my baby...

Oh, but the one ray of sunshine today is that my BABY dress arrived:

Scalloped hem = love~

I love it a lot, it's like a sister dress to Chocolate Fascinate Fairytale. Anyway, thanks for visiting.

"Chocolate Princess"

On April 5th, I participated in a small spring fashion show for the "Sakura Days Japan Fair". This event took place at VanDusen Botanical Garden. A lot of local lolita showed up in their frilly dresses to take part in this event.

I chose to wear my Chess Chocolate Jabot JSK and that boston bag I waited so long for. Yeah, a lot of gals commented on my chocolate bag and congratulated me for finally finding it! Which I smiled because it really is a charming bag, if bags can be such things. (*´∀｀*)

Chess Chocolate Jabot JSK! ｡*ﾟ✲*☆
Chocolate from head to toe. I'm a basic lolita.

I like to refer to myself as a "basic lolita", referencing the slang term "basic b*tch". It basically means that my style is a generic style of sweet lolita that all sweet lolitas love. You know, Angelic Pretty, pink, chocolate, etc.

I don't find anything wrong with that, it's just that I haven't really developed my style to become unique like some of the seasoned lolitas I know. But I suppose one could use this term for lolita of all categories, because gothic lolitas love black lace and MmM (haha) and... well, country lolita must love strawberries, straw hats and... plaid? IDK. All I know is that for now, I'm fine being basic in my sweet style. (Did I mention I also love roses, cute little animals, and candy hearts? Lol.)

More coming soon? I should post a big group photo of us all, and introduce the new (and old) friends I met, but for now I just wanted to document another successful outing in lolita! *^^* I did resolve to wear my frills more, didn't I?

The majority of active members in the Vancouver lolita community attended.
[ Photo Credit: Dale L. ]

Thanks for visiting~~

Chocolat Dance Party

I should be sleeping... but instead, I'm not! I'm blogging! (*´꒳`*) Because I said I would try and blog more, so I will keep my promise to myself. If you have blogger too, let's follow each other! I want to encourage others to write about their daily events, too. Or whatever is on their mind..!

I wanted to share my photos... yeah~ you know me, just a little bit of lolita-related items and cute things. I don't have an interesting life lately! Work, school, and a bit of leisure time is pretty much my fall/winter this year.

My gorgeous AP boston bag♡ I haven't used yet, but I will carry to a fashion show this April.

Some exciting(?) news is that I bought the Bon-Bon Chocolat Dance Dance Dance Cafe Milk JSK in the "double chocolate" colourway instead of "chocolate vanilla"! This is new for me since I always buy light-coloured prints, I rarely have any dark prints.

I've never bought a dress with navy blue detailing before. I love the scalloped hem~
The whole dress looks like a light chocolate wafer ♫꒰･‿･๑꒱

I like the dark blue! I am slowly drifting away from pink, yeah? (No! Pink is my favourite colour! But I wouldn't get this print in pink.) Actually, I only have two BABY dresses, the other being Chocolate Fascinate Fairytale, and that dress is indeed in pink.

...Sometimes I wonder why I am a sweet lolita? Some people hate on sweet style because it is a common style in lolita fashion, but to be honest sweet is really hard to wear! Everyone will stare and think you are a little girl, or have some strange wish to be a little girl again. But I just love beautiful dresses and I feel this style really expresses my inner personality to be free from society's constraints to conform!!! (Haha, dramatic.)

In truth, I think gothic is much more mature and elegant, and black makes the wearer seem more mature and respectable than a sweet candy dress. But, I love chocolate and sweet prints (same as many other lolita) so I can't help that my style is more common. Who can resist chocolate or biscuit purses? I can't.

Speaking of purses, I bought a purse for casual wear last week.

Betsey Johnson

Nothing special, just an off-brand bag I was attracted to because of the quilted heart stitching.

A lot of the bags I have, I rarely wear out because Vancouver is so rainy, and I (try to) take really good care of my belongings. Several times I carried out my Miu Miu bag and it started to rain... So I remedied that by getting a bag I wouldn't mind getting wet! (Leather is so fickle...)

This bag is actually really spacious, and keeps my makeup bag, wallet, keys and phone all neatly inside. I've never bought anything from Betsey Johnson before, but apparently some of her designs for accessories are popular.

Lastly, I took some photos with a demo of the newest HTC phone! It's called the HTC One (M8). I wish more phones came in pink! Anyway, this doesn't come in pink. But from what I heard, it's a solid phone with several people pre-ordering it before release date. Worth checking out~

Mandatory work selfie with my manager.
I won a free donut from the roll-up-the-rim-to-win, hehe~

Thanks for visiting!!! ♡♡♡
I hope fellow lolitas also enjoy and share their recent purchases~ (ॢ˘⌣˘ ॢ⑅)

International Women's Day / J-Fest

Today I was unsure whether I was going to attend J-Fest, which is an annual mini-con. I don't normally attend conventions because I'm not deeply into anime or anything. The only anime I really like is "Attack on Titan", which most people already know... 

Anyway, I decided to go because going to conventions is fun for me to see the cosplayers as well as other lolita. I bumped into some of the local Vancouver lolita -- I believe Kelleigh and Charlene -- and we chatted briefly. But I'm still quite shy from all the people asking to take my photo. Doing so makes me nervous. Anchovy said he's worried people will use my photos for indecent things, but a lot of cosplayer's photographs get taken at conventions. So really, to me, it must not be that bad???

I wore AP's "Holy Night Story" with "Holy Lantern" socks~
I really wanted to wear this print during Christmas but I was too shy.

Bunny teapot~ I improved so much as a lolita from my past years!

I really hope I find Angelic Pretty's Royal Chocolate boston bag (first release) in time for April! I am planning a coordinate with the pink Chess Chocolate JSK mentioned in my previous post. I haven't decided which OTK or shoes to match with that coordinate yet, but I will be taking photos with flowers in a lolita fashion show...? *^^* SELF-MOTIVATE MYSELF TO DO THINGS THAT MAKE ME HAPPY~~ like lolita fashion~~

I should wear my royal chocolate socks or maybe the new AATP diamond socks in gold? Even after I reminded myself to stop spending money on brand over-the-knee socks, I couldn't help it... They are just too gorgeous...!!!

Pink Biscuit

My Emily Temple Cute biscuit JSK arrived this week and the dress is super cute. (ღ˘⌣˘ღ)♫ I don't regret swapping the ivory for the pink, because pink suits into my wardrobe a lot better.

Slapped together an experimental coord: everything ETC, except the bag~

I rarely see any photos of the biscuit dress in pink. I only see it in the ivory and blue colour. So I'm pretty stoked to wear this dress. Although the cutting at the bust of my ivory dress was a bit nicer, I'm not going to mind it.

I made a hair bow out of my hair~~or maybe they are cat ears?

Thanks for visiting!!! (´ ▽｀).。ｏ♡

Lacy Cat Princess II

A test coordinate in darker colours for fall.（*＾＾*)
This is the photos of the coordinate I described in the earlier post~

AP's Lacy Princess JSK, Grimoire tights, Antique BeasT headdress

Since this is my first black coordinate (I usually deck myself in pink, white, beige and lighter colours) I did not have a black blouse, but luckily this Juicy Couture blouse matches well with the ensemble. I will wait and see what the finalized coordinate will look like!

Thanks for visiting!*･゜ﾟ･*✧˖°

Easter Holiday 2013

I've been really lazy to update this blog.  It's in a very messy state, but much like other things in my life. But I will try and be more organized... (If this is even possible... haha keeping a blog updated is very time-consuming)

So, my dear father came back to visit during April, which is also the time of my little sister's birthday. She turned 18!!! So it was great for her, I ended up getting her a cute shirt with a kitty wearing red glasses, and a pair of red TOMS shoes. I think she is happy with it... I hope so!

On that Sunday morning the cherry blossoms around our neighbourhood were in bloom so I was able to take some photos! And some of them, my dad was in the picture as well.

Attempt at being artistic~~

Odds & Ends

Hello, all. I took little photos of ensembles and pieces I put together on a whim. Don't mind me, this post isn't of much value other than filler~~

I was really glad my long-awaited Royal Choco socks finally came. And I was actually at a loss for what to do with the 6%DOKIDOKI glitter clips I bought. For a while it seemed like they were going to waste... but I found a way to incorporate them into my closet somehow!

I customize my Chess Choco headbow by adding 6%DOKIDOKI glitter clips~ 

Sweet Surprises

So exciting! I finally got my Royal Chocolate overknee socks in mocha! *^^* I can't wait to see how the socks pair with my coordinates. If not then I suppose I can always try and wear them casually~~

For Valentine's Day tomorrow I also made a second batch of chocolate... This time without the pudding and strawberry flavoured candies inside. They are sticky to the wrapper but pretty cute!!!

I got a beautiful card and multi-coloured roses! My favourite are the white roses with dark pink tips. There were also lavender colour and white. I loved the surprise!

Hope you all have a lovely wonderful chocolate sweets filled day *^^* ~~

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

February Update

Hello, all~

I have not blogged in a long time, but I have had many adventures. Valentine's Day is fast approaching! I wonder what surprises will arrive this Thursday...?~

For starters, I did go on a little lolita adventure with two local gals. We didn't venture anywhere too special or too far, but rather went to "Shaktea" which is on Main St. I finally got to wear Honey Cake in a full coord. I finally got to give my Prisila wig some love~ although I still need to work on perfecting the curls. Most of them are tangled...  

Just My Style?

Yesterday, after work, I went home and tried on a new dress I received. Finally, Sheep Garden arrived in my closet! YuShan was kind enough to come to the post office with me to pick up the package~~ I was trying the jumperskirt on over a blouse and tried a new hair-style technique:

Apologize for no make-up at this time~

Finally I think I can get a style similar to my Pet Society character from a long time ago... Don't you think?

Lately I have been feeling very surprised over a certain customer I met. I've been not having a very good time...!!! But perhaps I will write about it later.

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

Biscuit Bag

The only package that has arrived in a while has been the Swimmer biscuit bag. I jumped onto the bandwagon for this popular bag that a lot of lolita seem to own. Only, I chose to get it in the hand-bag style as opposed to shoulder bag because the strap on the shoulder bag is flimsy and awkward to pose with. I don't mind having to hold a bag, I think it's quite elegant. 

Biscuit-y overload~

Love the attention to detail. 

I really have to stop buying these cookie/biscuit related goodies. I don't even really like biscuits, but these designs are too cute to resist. I also noticed the Japanese brands love to use French words in their pieces.  It's quite amusing. I should create some image print with random French words too, that would be cute. YuShan keeps telling me to draw again, but I just don't know about it ~

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

2013(︶ω︶)♥START!

The New Year's was eventful and I look forward to what 2013 is going to be like. I know simply another day has passed, but for me it is like turning a page. It's the chance for a new start, both mentally and physically. So, I wanted to post some things that happened to me the last month of 2012.

10 December 2012: I received my AP jewel jabot blouse from AP store in Japan~~ and also picked up other minor goodies, like the Kyary x Mameshiba iPhone case (I wanted forever!!), the AP rose lace socks I've been admiring (drawn in Imai Kira's Wonder Story art), and the AP honey bear necklace to match my honey cake dress. \(＾▽＾)/*

A very uplifting package I received after writing my term paper~

14 December 2012: Visited True Confections for dessert after dinner! The devil's food cake was huge and I wore casual lolita. *^^* It was one of the rare times I order something other than cheesecake. I didn't even finish the whole slice!

18th Dec 2012: I also got a new set of nails for the holiday month! They are a more extreme deco-style. Can't say it really suits me.. but my technician chose it for me~ so I wasn't picky about it.

The top bow on the other hand is green instead of light pink~

I'm not sure what else I wanted to include but my December basically passed by very quickly. It was an event-filled last month of 2012, with finals and new friends and ups-and-downs. I am focusing to start 2013 with positive energy and happines~~

Lastly, some of my new year's resolutions are:

1) Budgeting better each month to save more money (only spend $500~600 per month)
2) Taking better care of Jacky, more walks with him (hopefully daily walks for at least 20min)
3) Bonding better with people, being less judgemental and more friendly (especially with my partner)
4) Studying harder in school, keeping in touch with friends, and doing hobbies I like (writing more~)

My new year's day started out with my having to go to work, but I'm happy nonetheless. I'm striving to be a more mature individual, keep wearing dresses, and living without regrets!

THANKS FOR WATCHING!

Caffeine Dream

Drank too much coffee in the afternoon at work today and now I cannot sleep... Sigh.

I found the Sheep Garden Round JSK in Beige! I was scouring Mbok and located it; it's like it popped up by ~magic~. My lovely SS snatched it up and I hope it will arrived to me within the next couple weeks. *^^* Stupid Christmas / holidays where the post office slacks! I want my goods, damn it!

I also caved and bought the Sugar Hearts cutsew in white. I swear that print and I have some magical connection because I own like everything from that series. •__•

I wish I could sleep! *cry*

I have work tomorrow and I am going to be so tired.

Holy Night & Sweet Sheep

Hi, dears. Today was a stressful day because of emotional reasons, but I hope everything turns up soon. (Why do I always find myself talking like that..??)

Anyway, I'm sure everyone already knows, that I really love sheep! I am still on the search for Angelic Pretty's "Sheep Garden" JSK, I cannot believe it is so hard to find! A local lolita in my community owns it, and I rather like the beige colour because I have too much pink in my wardrobe. Don't get me wrong, I love pink, but I want to have a variety of dress choices! But I cannot find it either in pink or beige, how sad. *sniff*

Lately I have been eyeing "Holy Night Story" in military switching version. If I buy it, it will be my first black dress..! For those of you that do not know, it looks like this:

image: angelic pretty

I sort of want to get it because the military-style appeals to me. The headbow has two little hanging gold stars on either side. I don't know if I really want to buy it because it seems like it would only be a "holiday print" that wouldn't have much use outside of Christmas/winter months... ^^"

Today I sold a dress I impulse bought, I thought it would be a good idea to go over it for my records because I won't be buying it again. The print I sold is called "Mary Sweet Sheep" JSK from Baby the Stars Shine Bright~ I took some photos.

Overall, a very classic sweet dress.

Close-up on hem details.

My favourite part of the dress, these two lambs.

The hellolace page doesn't have detailed shots of the little lambs in the print so I took some myself. They aren't really noticeable overall. I impulse bought it but only tried it on once at home. Although I love sheep, I only bought this dress because I wanted Sheep Garden, but couldn't find it. I hope the new gal likes it and puts it to better use~

~ Thanks For Visiting ~

Moii Christmas Party

~ Chocolate Fascinate Fairytale ~
Headbow & JSK: BtSSB
Blouse: Angelic Pretty
Socks (unseen!!!): Angelic Pretty
Shoes (also unseen rotfl): Dream V

Hello, all. I just got back from briefly attending a Christmas gathering... I was sick but I wore Chocolate Fascinate Fairytale in strawberry chocolate (pink).

I feel like I am not vain enough to be a lolita. I don't much feel like posting about myself or.. my coordinates

Anyway, thanks for visiting! I will write more when I'm feeling better.

~Karen

Chocolate Pancakes!

I found this image of a BEAUTIFUL lolita that I saw on Tumblr, and she amazes me!!! She is so gorgeous, and what a creative theme with "chocolate pancakes"~~ ugh swoon!!! I fangirl over gorgeous gals.

She has the AP biscuit clips, the Tokyo special version of AP's Honey Cake and the Royal Chocolate socks I'm jealous for. I don't dig the shoes, but this is such a fresh twist.

Beautiful ~~ I want to try this with my Honey Cake as well!

image: noblechaos