Dress form!!

It's an iconic item for a person into lolita fashion to have! A dress form! And now I own one! Ahhhh!

This is really exciting for me, excuse the exclamation marks. This feels akin to the feeling of when I got my Usakumya. Only even more so.

I was always under the impression that dress forms are prohibitively expensive because the ones on display at Fabricland are hundreds of dollars. But, apparently you can buy cheapo ones online. This dress form that came in the mail today was actually ordered by my mom for making my wedding dress. But! That project hasn't started yet and she's away on vacation.

I dressed it up! Ah! This is so cool, I'm really happy about it.

Today, I went to an indoor trampoline park and did a lot of bouncing around. I haven't been able to get exercise while I'm being murdered by school. It was a lot of fun, though I wish the trampolines were a bit bigger... it's geared more towards children (why do children get all the cool things?).

Now I'm just sitting on the couch and enjoying the view:

No, I don't know why the oven door is missing. Things have been consistently breaking down since my dad died. Maybe it's his ghost haunting us 👻

Down with the Sickness

I've caught a flu or something. I have a lot of schoolwork I could be doing, but I don't quite feel well enough. At least, everything that's due tomorrow is done.

I bought a new-to-me head bow that should be coming in the next few weeks. It is the one that matches with my BTSSB Tartan Check Hem Scallop JSK

Lolibrary link: Tartan Check Head Bow

I have the matching jacket too.

Apparently, Innocent World made a JSK with the exact same fabric as these BTSSB items because I actually ended up buying this head bow in a set with that IW JSK.

I've looked for it on lolibrary, but no luck. I can find a JSK that was released with the same cut, but not the same fabric.

I'm also thinking about ordering this vegan egg. I think eggs are the thing I miss the most. I wonder if I would even still like them.

Nearing the End of Summer (Finally!)

Nearing the end of summer --> The weather is colder! This means: wearing lolita again.
I wore lolita the entire day today! I had a group meeting in the morning, I stopped to visit my aunt and then had dinner with my fiance's family. There was a lot of stress involved. When I used to take medication for my anxiety, I had no problem wearing lolita. Now I get anxious wearing it. I'm super exhausted from the day, but I'm glad I did it.

Coord rundown:

socks: Bodyline

shoes: An*Tai*na

everything else: BTSSB

So what happened when I wore lolita? Here is a record to help me remember:

• A girl in my group told me I should wear it more often, even to school. 
• My aunt really was interested in trying to sew a lolita dress for me. I told her I have patterns from the Gothic and Lolita Bible, but they're in Japanese. I think she's up for the challenge!
• And some guy on the street yelled at me, but he seemed to like what I was wearing.

There was a flying stinging insect hovering around me during this photo.

I'd love to wear lolita to school, but I don't know if I have to guts to do it. Plus, lolita isn't the most comfortable stuff to wear. I'm looking at you, petticoats! :<  So for now, I'm going to try to wear it on the weekends when I can. I've probably spent thousands of dollars on my wardrobe at this point (which is insane to think about) and I haven't been wearing it. Me from 8 years ago probably would hxc hate the current me for not wearing it more often.

I super like this photo.

I like this one too.

Okay, that's it. I started my last year of uni last week and I'm probably going to drown/die over the course of the next few months.

Circling Hawks

I bought things at a cool store up 'north'. It's a sort of eclectic magic-y mystical store. They have a fairy garden in the backyard, but when we were there they had actually just discovered a large sinkhole that morning and it was closed off. :'(

 

The book and socks were on sale. I think this book is in a sort of series. I needed more books to fuel my goal to read one book a month this year. The foil tube has charcoal tabs inside (I've had a hard time getting the charcoal from my backyard fire pit to light, so I wanted to try these out instead) and powdered incense is inside the container.

 

I like owls. These socks are strange. The toes are not like normal socks. They're sewn different, like the seam is straight across and doesn't curve with my feet.