A surprise visit to Hellocon!

Last Thursday I happened to mention to my boyfriend that I would have wanted to go to Helsinki Lolita Convention since it was going to be the last. He asked if he should find me a flight, and I said okay then! The following morning I was already on a plane to Helsinki.

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Originally I had packed my dark blue Infanta dress, but at the last minute I changed it to a pink dress. Of course, I did not remember to change the tights I 'd packed to match the pink dress, but luckily I did at least have some plain (ugly) white cotton tights to wear on the day.

 

Headbow: BtSSB

Blouse: Bodyline

Dress: Bodyline

 I did a little tour in the hall to see what they were selling before the opening ceremony. I didn't buy anything yet, but there was a dress that I was considering buying. I noticed a few other people looking at the same dress later, but luckily it was still there when I decided to get it. Picture of the dress is at the end of this post. :)

I had never seen any of Baby's dresses in real life before and the coarseness of the fabric suprised me.

 The opening ceremony was very brief introducing the schedule and guests.

The designer fashion show was the first on the list. I took too many pictures, so here's just a few of my favourites.

  I really enjoyed the interview of Baby's designer Kano Masumi. She told us that we can look forward to new animal prints and prints inspired by the countries their designers have been travelling to in the future!

 

The "World Championship of Bow Tying" was over very quickly. I was sitting in a bad place to see any of the tying action, but I managed to get a picture of the winning bow.

Lolita Project Runway was also over quickly. The one in the middle was the clear winner.

 The final thing that I stayed at Hellocon for was the Baby the Stars Shine Bright fashion show.

Again I took way too many pictures to include them all in this post, so here are just my favourites.

 

  I was getting really hungry and I had already done all of the shopping I wanted to, so I left right after the fashion show.

Finally, as promised, here is the picture of the Belladonna dress I bought at the event.

I also bought a blouse from the Lolita Collective table.

 -S

Wearing lolita again and tsum tsums

Exams and assignment are over! That marks the end of my second year of studies here in Dublin.

To celebrate the end of exams I wore lolita for the first time in over a year. I do not have any flat black lolita shoes, so I tried to excuse wearing normal shoes by wearing my punk style jacket with the dress.

Headband: Rococo Soul 

Dress: Bodyline

As you may notice from the picture, I now have short hair. :) I got my hair cut shorter last summer and at the start of this year I got it cut even shorter. It has grown quite a bit since then. It was actually too short three months ago, but it's a good length now. I've had long hair since the start of this blog, but right now I'm much happier with shorter hair.

In other news, I've been visiting the Disney Store at least once a week, so naturally we have collected a few tsum tsums. We don't buy that many tsum tsums because we only get the ones that we really like. We currently own 10 tsum tsums, and we've bought two for my mother as well.

These are the lastest additions to our little collection. I went to the Disney Store with my boyfriend the day they released the new Alice set and I got myself three tsums from the collection. We went there again later that week when they were having a sale and got a medium Donald and a regular Piglet for my mum. The Piglet on the left is one we got from Paris last year. My mother loved it so much when I took it to Finland with me last Christmas that I had to get her her own Piglet.

I will make a post about all of the tsum tsums we have after I get back from my trip. I went to Finland alone for Easter, but today I'm flying there with my boyfriend. We are staying in Finland until the end of this week and on Sunday we are going to London for two nights. Hopefully we'll get to add more tsum tsums to our collection from London!

-S

Preparing for a new chapter & Outfit Post #22

Summer is gone and I have too much to post about. I had planned on doing so much more this summer but all of my plans were ruined. After my trip I had to think it all over and forget about writing for a while. At several occasions I tried to make myself write something  but I didn't want to act as if nothing had happened but I didn't want to explain yet either. If you want to know the reason I haven't been posting, I have already mentioned it here.

The trip to Britain was a success but now I find it too late to post about it, and I feel like it's something I should post about on my other blog because I have decided that from now on this blog will be entirely about clothes and other cute things. I will begin to write about my life in general in "Project Ireland" instead.

Now to start the new chapter in the life of my blog,

I have a few outfits I have been meaning to show you.

Firstly, I bought my first "normal" dress in 10 years.

The tights I found on my trip to Britain.  :)

Dress: Seppälä

Tights: Primark

Shoes: H&M

The second outfit I built around my newest Bodyline shirt.

Headband: Bodyline (ACC1197)

Shirt: Bodyline (L536)

Skirt: Bodyline (L368)

Socks: Bodyline (socks373)

Shoes: Bodyline (shoes178)

And thirdly, I quickly matched some pieces together for grocery shopping.

Necklace: Bodyline

Skirt: Bodyline (L303)

Shoes: Bodyline

After a little over two weeks I will be in Ireland. I cannot take all of my clothes with me in a suitcase, which means that I will have to buy new pieces in order to wear lolita, before I get everything sent as cargo on Christmas holiday. I will take as many photos as possible before leaving, so that I can still write reviews on  some of the items I need to leave behind.

-S

Shopping & Outfit Post #21

I went shopping a few weeks ago and found some really cute clothes.

The shirt and tights on the left are from a supermarket and everything on the right is from H&M.

I love the new shirt and skirt from H&M so I had to wear them right away.

Necklace: F+F

Loose black shirt: H&M

(white tank top: H&M)

Skirt: H&M

Shoes: H&M

I seem to have a lot of clothes from H&M.
I didn't wear a single piece of clothing from them when I was shopping though.

Hair accessories: Bodyline & F+F

Jacket: F+F

Skirt: Bodyline

I was really excited to finally wear the jacket.
I've actually had it for a couple of years but I just hadn't got to making it smaller until now.


Lastly, here is an outfit I wore today to get a Bodyline order from the post office.
 

The shirt has now been washed and the black fabric on the back didn't bleed at all. :)

Next time (in 2 weeks) I will post about the clothes I got.

-S

Outfit post #20

Living by the school has made me really lazy to wear anything fancy. And those few times that I have worn something, I haven't felt like charging my camera to take pictures. Now that I have only two and a half months of school left I am going to force myself to wear something else than just plain jeans and hoodies again.

Headbow: part of the skirt

Necklace: Fanplusfriend

Blouse: Anna House

Skirt: Bodyline (L368)

Boots: Bodyline

I ordered some shirts, a hoodie and a necklace from YesStyle.
I am going to make a post about everything I ordered later but here are two of the shirts.

Kitty ears: Bodyline (ACC1091)

Headbow: part of the skirt

Necklace: Bodyline (key chain)

Shirt: YesStyle (JSG)

Skirt: Bodyline (L404)

Shirt: YesStyle (Mini Jule)

-S