All About ME Meetup!

Just kidding the meetup wasn't actually all about me! DORO arranged a meetup because I haven't been to one in over a year! We went to California Pizza Kitchen, an art exhibit to see a friend's artwork, and then went out for dinner. It was a roughly seven-hour long meetup haha~

Unfortunately when I got to CPK the other Lolitas had ordered the group meal which had no vegetarian options, but I did get to try a slice of the dessert pizza, boba milk tea pizza!! Yes, it was invented in Taiwan and is every bit as strange as it sounds. Very yummy though!


We got really silly and took photos of us imitating the Thousand Hand GuanYin/KwanYin because... why not?

For privacy's sake everybody is a bunny


Walking through the exhibit. LOTS of different artists!


My favorite piece at ANO's exhibit (he's the one with dreads):

It's all 8-bit gaming icons! How many do you recognize?

This is a very fun piece too. It's "Magic Hat"

Oh, it's an 8-bit bunny coming out of an 8-bit hat

AND NOW IT'S A KITTEN!
Ok so it's not exactly magic, but it's cute!

Frogger, anybody?

There are lots of cars I don't recognize in this one :P

And another interactive piece shows these 8-bit owls and a mommy owl. It's actually a light, so when it's off, you see them chilling on a branch. When the light is turned on, you can see raindrops and the mommy owl's wings stretched out to shield her babies~

Super cute!

Hope everybody had a great weekend!
What's your favorite game? Mine is Pokemon for sure :D I actually had my Pokewalker and Pokemon X on me the whole day at the meetup :P

Lolita Blog Carnival: Your First Lolita Item

Oh boy, it's been quite some time since I've done a Lolita Blog Carnival post, but this was too good to pass up!

Five years ago, BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT opened up lucky packs to overseas buyers. It was... a completely chaotic mess of frantic clicking, overloaded systems, and accidental leaks.

The original page on EGL is here if you want to see our madness

I hadn't been planning on buying anything, but after being in the thread and commenting around I got pretty excited and then went on the BABY site just to check it out. Eventually I was just putting a lucky pack in the cart to see what it'd cost, but then the system screwed up and let several of us order about half an hour to an early for a few minutes. Yes, I was one of those people ^^;

Also, I got TWO in my cart because the system was messing up so much. They shut the shopping system again until the PROPER ordering time, which was midnight in Japan's time zone, but a few of us had already ordered and got confirmation emails so our orders were still valid. BABY later did another round of lucky packs to make up for the fiasco of the first round and forbade anybody who had ordered early from ordering in the second round, but hey, it makes for a great story!

I got two of the same lucky pack, but the main dress was in two different colors (pink and black) so that's nice! I ended up selling a set of the hairpins, but kept everything else. They came with plain knee-high socks and a simple camisole as well as two sets of hairpins. I consider the One-Piece dresses my official first lolita item though! :D Love them still!

Here are some unflattering photos haha:




What was your first Lolita item? If you haven't started obtaining clothing yet, what would you like your first item to be?


Other Lolitas' First Items:
Spoon and Fork
Sparkling Girl
Wonderland Gone Mad
Vanillas Traumfabrik
Whimsical Adventures of Me
The Life of a Lolita
Breiðholt
The Beautiful and Damned

Outfit shot!

Thanks for all the positive replies on my previous post! I put on some nicer clothes yesterday, the first day of midterm tests!
The socks I'm wearing are the funniest cute/scary unicorn socks ever! From the top/front it looks very cute, but then you turn it around and realize its got a mouth going down its neck....

I made the skirt and fur ribbon and modified the tank top.

I'm going to try and slowly accept myself and tell myself I do deserve to have pretty clothes! So thanks to the people who encouraged me ^_^ FIGHTING!

Am I Still Lolita?

It has been quite a long time since I've worn or done or made anything Lolita. I still admire it but I've been rather down on myself this past year and haven't felt like being beautiful.

School and work have both been immensely difficult, so I apologize for the lack of real updates!

For my Fashion Design class we had to choose a brand to introduce to the class (just a very quick, basic overview) and I chose BABY, THE STARS SHINE BRIGHT because that is my favorite aesthetic. I made a PPT but I don't think it can be embedded here. I may upload it as a video instead :)

Now, we have to design looks for the brand we chose, so I hope this will help me get back into living the life I really enjoy!

Anybody have any ideas on how to get your kawaii mojo back after you fall out of it? It's been just over a year since I've really Lolita'd it up. Wearing my BTSSB dress for the presentation a couple weeks ago felt really nice, so I'd like to get that feeling back more!