Saturday, March 28, 2020

Wish List Update

I finally have the Blooming Snow White Underbust jumperskirt! :D
But... I am having some difficulty coordinating it. At least, nothing came to mind right away... :<

From and back of the JSK. Has mint green accents. The print has images from the snow white fairy tale including the dwarves, mushrooms, Snow White, the cottage and forest animals.


I have so many prints with deer on them now:

  • Classic Fairy Tales (Angelic Pretty)
  • Delft Lotta (Innocent World)
  • Forest Harvest Festival (Innocent World)
  • Bambi (Innocent World)
  • Alice & Bambi (BTSSB)
  • Blooming Snow White  (BTSSB)
  • Milky-Chan the Fawn (Angelic Pretty)


Disclaimer: Just because a print has deer doesn't mean I instantly want to buy it! Somehow, it needs to fit a certain aesthetic. Milky-Chan gets a pass. It doesn't fit the aesthetic; it's just a sweet lolita print I always wanted.
For example, Metamorphose's Lovely Forest or BTSSB's Bambi de la ForĂȘt Secrete aren't on the list of prints I want to get. Even though they have the woodland forest theme and deer.

Also, I bought two new pairs of boots:
Axes Femme
Clara Short Boots
Perfect in time for winter to be over. :| But at least I'll have them for next year. The Clara boots are darker than I would like, but at least they are shorter than my other boots. I think I'd still like a pair of cream coloured boots.


I meant to post this last week! I forgot that I hadn't posted it yet ><; 

Now that I have acquired some things on my wishlist, I can remove them!

Friday, March 13, 2020

Some Food Related Topics

I recently received Peter Rabbit's Cookery Book in the mail and it inspired me to want to write out some recipes and put them on this blog. There is now a Recipes page. I was intending to just write recipe posts, label them and then create a page that links to posts with that label. However, I don't want recipe posts showing up in the main blog. I'm not posting anything spectacular. Like the rest of this blog, it's just for myself for fun.

The cover of Peter Rabbit's Cookery Book by Beatrix Potter shows Peter rabbit eating some long scarlet radishes in a garden. A robin is sitting on the handle of a shovel in the ground next to the rabbit.

On the topic of Peter Rabbit's Cookery Book: It's a cute book (it is made for children). The recipes are frequently things with pastries, eggs and meats with vegetables here and there. I think I will endeavour to make a vegan version of each recipe. This particular edition of the book is from 1987.

On the general topic of food: People in my country are starting to go a little bit crazy over the spreading COVID-19. There is footage of a grocery store lineup that circles around the store. My husband and I stopped at the grocery store last night and it was busier than we've ever seen. We have a good supply of non-perishables but I wanted to buy longer lasting vegetables as well.

I don't know why, but I want to list what vegetables we've "hoarded" and their estimated shelf life given proper storage:

Potatoes ~ 2-3 months
Sweet potatoes ~ 1 month (outside of fridge), 2-3 months (in fridge)
Cabbage ~1-2 months (fridge)
Rutabaga ~ 2-3 weeks (fridge)
Carrots ~ 1 month (fridge)
Onions up to 6 months
Apples ~ 1 month (fridge)
Tangelos ~ 2 weeks (fridge)

A wooden bin filled with potatoes and one large sweet potato.

Also, I have things in the mail and I am a bit concerned about what might happen to them. One package contains Baby, the Stars Shine Bright Blooming Snow White underbust jumperskirt. Seems like a frivolous thing to worry about, I suppose.


Misako Aoki modeling the Blooming Snow White jumperskirt in green colourway. She is wearing a blouse with princess sleeves, tights and flat shoes. She is holding a basket of apples. There is a fake deer next to her. She is standing in front of a forest background. There is a red curtain off to the side.

Sunday, March 8, 2020

Collective Winter 2020 Haul

I was going to make a post on my most recent haul but I've decided to actually do a collective Winter 2020 haul. The reason for this, is to keep track of what I have received this season. I sold quite a few things as well after my wardrobe post. After the wardrobe post, I sorted through just about everything (except for shoes).

Sweet lolita JSK featuring bunnies wearing bows of different colours and birds.. The bottom of the dress has a striped boarder with lace. The bodice has three satin bows in different colours down the front and at the bottom a bow that's the same material as the dress. The shoulder straps also have small bows on them. The dress has polkadots.
Marshmallow Bunny JSK in pink
Three pairs of socks on display. Left is pink with a bear with wings and snow flakes, middle is blue with a bear and stars and the right is white with a bunny and bows and polkadots.
From left: Sugar Dream Dome OTKs, Hanikami (Shyness) Bear OTKs (2013), Marshmallow Bunny OTKs 
A closeup showing the adorable characters on the socks.A bear on two of the socks and a rabbit on the last.
Closeup of cuteness

A pair of pink high top shoes with two ribbons on top of the laces and ruffles sitting in front of an Angelic Pretty shoe box.
Double Ribbon Sneakers
A closeup of the high top shoe showing the angelic pretty logo on a pleather scalloped heart on the heel of the shoe.
This was an amazing buy. With the tags, in the box (still stuffed!). For 8K yen. 

A pink coat from Angelic Pretty with white faux fur details. The buttons are heart shaped. It has two pockets. The cuffs and hood of the coat are faux fur. The hood has two bunny ears. One of the ear has a tag on it like Lyrical Bunny does.
Fairy Bunny Coat
Look at those ears! So cute :)

A blue and white stripped blouse with a white yolk that has eyelet lace and a Peter Pan collar. The cuffs also have eyelet lace as well.
Nile Perch blouse.
The Nile Perch blouse was a totally spontaneous purchase. I had seen photos of the seller wearing it on Instagram and just really loved the look of the blouse. When I saw she was selling it, I took a chance knowing that it's kind of unusual and might not go with my wardrobe that well. Happy to have it.
A jam cookie that says eat me with a bow and pearl chain and a pink dear wearing a bow with a chain that has pearls, plastic gem beads and a bow.
Both necklaces from Sweet Dolly House.

Left is a white and blue pair of socks that looks like it has ribbon from the toe to the top of the sock ending with some polkadots right at the top of the sock. The right sock is green and also has a ribbon wrapping up it but also includes flowers along the ribbon.
Left: Angelic Pretty unknown socks
Right: Innocent World Cross Ribbon High Socks
One hair accessory is three head bows along the side of the band in different colour. The band has lace and so does each bow. The second is a single head bow in a satin material with ladder lace and also mini bows on the end of each side of the bow. It is slightly offset to the side of the band.
Triple Ribbon Lace Head Bow and Ladder Lace Mini Ribbon Head Bow
I would love to find the triple ribbon lace head bow in the "pink" colourway because it includes yellow and blue so I think it would work really well with Happy Garden.

I also received the Innocent World Apron with Skirt and a pair of Bodyline shoes but I haven't included any photos of those. Instead, here is a me wearing both of them:
Me standing awkwardly wearing an old school lolita dress with blue shoes and a heart ribbon bag from BTSSB

That should all the new additions. At least, what I can remember. I should probably try to document things a bit more regularly. ><
What I sold this winter:
  • Kiss Me! Cat Marie OP
  • Seraffi JSK
  • Bright Starry OTKs
  • Glitter Ribbon OTKs
  • Triple Ribbon Bolero
  • Maria Antonio OP
  • Sweet Girl Head Bow
  • Lace Up Ribbon OTKS
  • Marie Parka
  • Toy Fantasy Print Parka (I kind of regret selling with whenever I look at it)
  • Toy Fantasy Skirt
  • Toy Fantasy Socks
  • Victoria Princess Cuffs
  • Bodyline Polkadot OP
  • Polka Dot Milk-Chan Applique Skirt (sad to see this one go but I want a different colourway)
  • Milky-Chan Socks, black colourway
Obviously, I made some headway in closet cleaning. A lot of that money was used to buy things in this haul post. There's still more I want to sell but I'm not sure what the best method of selling things is. If it's not a hot item, do I just keep relisting it or what?

Another thing I wanted to note is that this was a very "sweet" focused season for me. Very few things were classic/sweet-classic. This is fine with me. It felt good to let go of some things though :)

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Minor Update

Things I should buy before buying anything I don't need:

  • Boots (something like what is currently on my wish list page). 
  • New petticoat
  • ..
Okay, this list isn't that big. (maybe will add things later when I remember them)



I am thinking about creating a neocities website.

Also, I got Marshmallow Bunny Ribbon JSK with the matching socks (but no headbow boo)
I want the white colourway. But! I got it in the pink colourway because a listing came up with the matching socks.
Now that I have it in pink, I really like it. If the white comes up, I think I'll still buy it and then compare them and hopefully come to a conclusion about which I like best. This isn't the first time I've bought a dress in order to obtain matching items being sold concurrently. 

Me wearing the pink Marshmallow Bunny Ribbon JSK by Angelic Pretty on top of a blue and white striped blouse with a white yolk. Pink shoes and white socks. I'm waving.
Trying the dress on. It's a crummy picture but I wanted to point out that I felt the combo of the blouse with the stripes at the bottom of the print was interesting.

I want to do a proper blog post of what else I received in the mail with this dress. I basically went on a buying spree because of missing out on both Vanilla-Chan accessories and the Milky-Chan bag. The humorous thing is that I spent less on everything in the haul than if I had bought those things so~
I got some things for quite cheap because they were dirty so I want to launder them first before photographing them. (feeling inspired by some recent posts about cleaning lolita pieces).

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