Musée De La Marionette

Hey cuties,

as promised, the post to the Lolita meet-up we had on the 1.September (^.^)
We met in the early afternoon in Fribourg and went first to the puppet museum. It is really really tiny, but very cute made and decorated. I was surprised to learn that puppets are/were also widely spread in China, the orient and the Middle East, somehow I had always assumed puppets are commonly found in Europe, I don't know why.

Photo by Tanja

Chinese Shaow play; photo by Tanja

After visiting the museum, we went to the Auberge aux 4 Vents, a little restaurant right next to Fribourg. There's no bus to get there, so we had to walk a litte (a little further than planned because we got lost fist, but then we found our way quickly).

Photo by Lea

The restaurant itself is very beautiful, but the garden is just breathtaking. We were lucky with the weather, so after drinks and cake, we took some pictures!

Photo by Lea

Me and Fifi; photos following by Lea

Outfit rundown:
Umbrella. Lisbeht Dahl
Kanzashi alice band & shoes: handmade/altered by me
Crochet lace bolero & lace collar: ebay
Longsleeve: handmade
Corset: handmade
Jsk: Innocent World
Tights& socks: H&M

The whole group

Afterwards, several of us had some time left before going back home, so we decided to go to the town house of Fribourg, which I adore, and take some more photos.
I guess that's just what Lolitas do (^.-)

With Lea

It was a very nice meet-up, I met lots of beautiful and nice people, and everything went more or less as planned. If all meet-ups would go off without a hich like this one!

By the way, for several days now I'm the proud owner of a kindle. I was opposed to get one for a long time, since I think books shouldn't require electric power to be read, but people told me how practical it is, and I must admit, they're right! It's just so convenient not to carry around one or several heavy books.
But don't worry, I still love books, especially the beautiful hardcover copies, or large illustrated art books.
So in order to accomplish my love of pretty things, I bought this beautiful wine red cover for my kindle, to protect it and make it feel a little like a real book, too (^.^)

Photo by Pyl

And a bonus picture; some details of my outfit, accessoires an a bit of my hairdo:

Photo by Pyl

Back From The Undead

Ok, after I announced the same resolution some time ago, I'll have another try and hereby solemny swear that I'm up to no good I'll try to be a good blogger and write more often from now on. The past weeks I was kind of busy while feeling like a zombie from time to time, but sometimes that's just life.
However, there are some things I'd like to show you. We had a Lolita meet-up some time ago, I'll make a seperate post for this.
Then I had another chance to dress up a little; we had quite a big family celebration in an alpine cabin that is a little isolated in the mountains, so I decided to wear one of my favourite jsks and go for an inspired Classic Lolita look:

Not the best picture, but you can see most of my outfit; I wasn't wearing a petticoat and just brown tights and boots with it.
I was also responsible for the cakes:

All my work (^.^) please ignore the cake roulade in the front. Although it was very tasty, it looked not very appealing. I had tried to make one several times now, but I never succeed to create a decent looking one.
Oh well.
Something I'm much better at is baking muffins:

Yoghurt muffins with raspberry cream and chocolate-raspberry muffins in the background.

Punk Rock Pony

Hi gals!

Today, I only have an outfit to show you, which I wore on Thursday; 1. August is the national holiday in Switzerland. Not that I'm particulary into festive activities like that, but it also means a free day from work, so I met some friends in the afternoon. Actually, It was too hot for this outfit. But on hte other hand it's too hot in general, no matter what you wear. So I thought I might as well take my petticoat out of the closet again!

Outfit rundown:
Alice band: Claire's
T-shirt: Darkside
Belt: H&M
Skirt: Dear Celine
OTK's: Baby, the Stars shine bright
Shoes: Bodyline

Speaking of which, I got a new petticoat from Dear Celine, it's a little shorter than the other one I have and quite pouffy, I really like it (^.^)

As much as I love these shoes, thery're a tinly little bit too small, unfortunately. So I'm thinking of selling them (although I'm not sure yet. They're so awsome!). Maybe one of you is interested? Size is 23,5 cm. I also cleaned out my closet recently, so I'm selling some clothes, if you're interested, check out my sales (^.-)

Summer Sunday

Hi cuties,

despite my resolution to resume blogging, I don't really have something new from this week to write about... however, there are a few things I wanted to share with you (^.^)

Tokyo Fasion Express

source: Quini Maze

NHK made a broadcast about Lolita fashion. I think the show is well worth seein; besides the usual information about the fashion, there are also insights to the office and sewing shop of the brand Baby, the Stars Shine Bright.

Tokyo Fashion Express - Lolita Fashion

Minutes 2.50 - 21.22

Putumayo for the iPad

Lolita label Putumayo developed an app for the iPad, where cou can see their designs in a 360° view. I really love the idea, I wish more brands would do that.

Putumayo: The looks for iPad / Trailer

Putumayo: The looks for iPad / Making

(I'm really sorry, the video function on blogger doesn't work for me currently, I have no idea why).

ModCloth

Do you know this online shop, modcloth.com? They sell lovely clothes, with a hint of vintage, and really adorable shoes. I could spend so much money there (>.<)

John Fluevog Little Boutique Heel

Made to Measure Bracelet

Specialty Sweets Heel in Mint

Book Club Cutie dress

Gossamer Vacation Dress

Have a nice sunday evening!

Change.

Hello lovelies,

I know I have been a terrible blogger lately. But I have a good excuse; there's been a lot of change the last few weeks, so I just had almost no free time. To make up for the unexpected hiatus, however, this post will be quite long (^.-)

Real life tetris

I moved again. I struggled with university courses and kind of lost my motivation for going to school, so I'm doing an internship now instead. So I packed my stuff and moved back to my mum's place, because my new work place is much closer from here. Normally, moving can be a rather expensive affair, but luckily I just had to get some new book shelves (pictured above). 

I say luckily because I got a very pleasant surprise this week and for which I have to start now saving up money...:

Vienna calling

Yes yes yes, I can attend the Innocent World tea party in Vienna in October after all! 

It was sold out after three minutes and it had taken me four minutes to finish my application, because the server I used had some problems (apparently, I haven't been the only one with these issues). But some people backed out, so I moved up and got a place. I'm so excited! Last time I was in Vienna was about five years ago, and I always wanted to go back there, it's such an amazing city (^.^).

Of course, I'm also looking forward to meet all the gorgeous Lolitas from Austria and the rest of the world. It's the first official tea party I'll attend, but I'm sure it'll be great. Is anyone of you lovely readers also attending?

Lavender & Lace

Besides that, I also did some sewing. For me, I made two things, one of which is a black underbust corset. I've wanted to sew one for ages, black and simple, so I can wear it with different styles.

Well, in the end it was not just simple black. I had some lace fabric from another project left over, so I doubled it with black cotton.
Looking back, I think I should have done the same with the edging instead of taking normal cotton bias tape, but oh well. I'll see how it goes and if it's too horrible, I can always change it.

Similar to the corset vest I made in spring, it's short enough to wear it with a petticoat respectively a Lolita outfit. I made the pattern myself, nothing exciting, just a normal corset pattern consisting of five panels per side.

For the lining, I took a leftover of mint coloured cotton fabric with little polkadots. Isn't it cute? I like it when my clothes look pretty from the inside too (^.^)

The second garment I made is a dress/top (depending on what you consider still to be a dress xD).
I used this very light jersey that is super comfortable to wear but really impractical to handle. So it turned out not very perfect.

However, I love this colour so much, so I'm going to wear ir anyways. Now I just have to come up with an outfit that doesn't make it look like a nightgown...

The tiny bow buttons are a little darker than the fabric but otherwise match it really good. That was a coincidence, I had them in my collection for some time without knowing what to do with them.
I really like this kind of top/dress, maybe I'll make another one, I have the same fabric in cream lying around somewhere (^.^).

So, that's what's new so far. Well, actually, there is more, but it's not blog-worthy yet. But don't worry, I hope I can write about it soon. Until then, I hope you keep posted!

Back From The Dead

Hi lovelies,

I haven't written anything here for quite a while, because, to be honest, there wasn't really something I could have been writing about...
But oh well, lately I've been crafting a bit again and I thought it would be nice to show you what I've done (^.^)

First thing to do was to make a pair of shoes prettier. The shape and everything was quite cute already, but the bows on them kept falling off. Originally, there have been two bows on every shoe, but I had lost one and the others could be torn off easily. Sad! (>.<)

So I made two new bows, took two od the old bows and added some pearls:

I'm really happy with them now, they will go perfectly with classic lolita and are also a little eyecatcher.
Maybe some of you recognise the fabric I used for the bows? It's from a jsk I sewed last year. Speaking of which, I also needed a hair accessoire to wear with that jsk. So I made an alice band adorned with kanzashi flowers, lace and pearls:

Besides that it matches the jsk, I think I can wear it also with mori girl inspired styles, don't you think so too?

And just for the fun ot it, I made up a coord with the jsk and the new accessoires:

The blouse is from Innocent world, brooch is handmade, pearl necklace is from ebay and the deer necklase is  from sheinside.

While I was at it, I made another alice band, this time using fake flowers and leaves. I guess I thought about a spring forest fairy or something like this, haha (^.-)

Besides that, I got two new hats. You know how much I love hats, and I wanted something to wear in spring and summer. So I bought two big simple straw hats and adorned them too:

For the first one, I used big pink orchids.

On the second hat, I addes yellow lillies and white chiffon fabric, tied to a bow in the back:

Now I only hope summer will come soon, so I can wear my new hats (^.^). Are you looking forward to summer too?