I'm at the AP website

Angelic Pretty released the pictures of the tea party, pop-up store and fashion walk! You can see me there too on 4 pictures ^^. Those pictures are also printed in the newest issue of "Spoon"! Now I can say that I was in a japanese magazine :D. I directly bought the magazine and I will show you the scans when it arrives.

I think these pictures were all taken by Ms. Honda, because I can remember that she took the picture of Ami, Asuka and me. But maybe those pictures are from several different photographers or another photographer took the same picture at the same time, because there were many people constantly taking pictures at the AP Tea Party xD.

Here is the link: http://www.angelicpretty.com/news/2014summer_paris/report.html
I hope they will release an english version too!

I posted the pictures here but on the website they have better quality!

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Animagic 2014

The Rothenburg posts will follow later because I have to write so much and wait more pictures. So today I will write about the Animagic which I visited yesterday (Saturday).

Since I started with Lolita, I always helped out at the Animagic Dunkelsuess-booth as staff. But this year I didn't wanted to do it, because it's always nearly 30°C and the booth is outside in a tent, and sitting 3 days in a hot tent from early morning till evening while wearing Lolita is very exhausting. And because I went to Paris 3 weeks before and to Rothenburg 1 week before, I thought it was too much. And it was the right decision, because this year I only came for 1 day and it was sooo exhausting, I really couldn't have done 3 days.

It was a really spontaneous decision. First I didn't wanted to come at all, but then I heard that many Lolitas and friends would come on Saturday, and the Animagic is in my hometown (only 10 minutes away from my apartment), so I decided to go. I was really happy to meet my friends again! I didn't saw many of them for a longer time. But like always at conventions you don't have much time to talk with all people. I hope we can meet again soon in a more relaxed occasion.

First, I visited the Dunkelsuess booth. This time it was waaay bigger and they had waaay more stuff! And they had a 'professional' tent with wooden floor. The last years it was more a garden tent and we had to stand on the grass. Because of the collaboration with Lorina Liddel, Dunkelsuess could offer A LOT of Lolita dresses, and my friends told me, that the dresses sold very well. Most customers were new Lolitas, because those girls maybe saw the fashion online before, but it is always a difference when you can actually see and touch the dresses in real life, and can try them on to see if Lolita fashion really suits you.

And the prices were also really good! Lorina Liddel is a reseller for japanese fashion brands, but they only sell smaller and more unkown fashion brands, which have lower prices! Most dresses from these brands cost around 100-200€, while dresses from AP or Btssb for example cost 250-350€.

The attending labels:

Sweet Sakura:

Carmen Fiolere / Li-Paro:

Merry me / Dunkelsuess + Lorina Liddel stuff:

Lorina Liddel stuff (left) + Sweet Sakura (right):

The hangers from Lorina Liddel were awesome:

More jewellery from Lorina Liddel:

 Gina Wetzel + V.aroc.K:

Then it was time for the fashion show. The japanese singer "Luna Haruna" also participated as a model. She was one of the special guests of the Animagic and since she also wears Lolita, she took part in the fashion show. But honestly I have never heard of her before, does anyone of you know her??? (I honestly don't think she is that famous ^^')

I searched for some pictures of Luna Haruna:

This year, the fashion show was all about Lorina Liddel. All models only wore items from Lorina Liddel, not their own outfits, and some of the items were sample items from the japanese brands! That means those items were not officially released yet and we were one of the first people who could see those items!
Also some of the models were new Lolitas or never participated in a fashion show before. But you really couldn't see it, all of the girls looked amazing and did a good job!

I only have one group picture of the models, but I suggest you to follow Dunkelsuess on Facebook to see more pictures and videos of the Fashion show, they will be uploaded in 1-2 weeks I think.

Funnily, many of the models liked their own outfits so much that they bought it after the fashion show xD.

After this I met with Riina (again xD) and we went inside the building of the Animagic. I actually met Riina directly when I came in the morning and we talked a lot the whole day ^_^. They had several photo opportunities so we used them all. But we didn't stayed too long inside because it was freakin' hot inside and they had no air conditioner X_x.

After this I went home. When I came home I was sooo exhausted even if I only stayed there for 6-7 hours. But it was very hot and I had rarely sat down the whole time, so my legs were also really tired. But it was still worth it :)

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Rothenburg Day 1 - Arrival

Hello!

This weekend I travelled to Rothenburg with several friends! We stayed there for 4 days!

We arrived on Friday afternoon in Rothenburg. Normally you need 3,5 hours by car from Bonn to Rothenburg, but we needed 6 hours. And some friends who only started their jouney 30min later from the same city and drove the same streets, needed 9 hours X_X. There was a huge construction site which caused this crazy traffic jam.

In the evening we met with other friends and went eating. We were around 15 people I think. After eating, we went drinking cocktails. First we went to the "Rock Café". It was a true Rock'n'Roll Café and they had shots with naughty names xD. It was so cute when we asked the waitress for a suggestion, and while she was a real Rock lady, she didn't wanted to say the name of a shot loudly xD

But the Rock Café didn't had a large selection of cocktails, so we went to another cocktail bar. The waitresses there were also really nice, because the cocktail bar was inside a 4* hotel (thought it wasn't one of those super-expensive hotels).

We did the same every evening! It was so awesome to spend so much time with all my friends and fellow Lolitas. It felt like a Lolita class trip xD
 
All of us have worn cute clothing, but no Lolita oufits. BUT still, so many people took pictures of us and asked us what we are wearing. And 1 week before the event, there was an article in the local newspaper, therefore many people asked us if we will go to this event. I was pretty surprised by this, does this mean Rothenburg has only 1 newspaper? xD Because many people told us about this newspaper article!!! 

The owner of our hostel cut out the newspaper article for us:

Btw, the hostel owner was the MOST AWESOME owner in the world! She was sooo nice and welcoming. She pampered all her guest like a mother xD. I would come back to Rothenburg only to visit her hostel!

In the evening we started to try on the dresses of each other! It is so much fun to try different dresses! We were 4 Lolitas in one room so we had a lot of dresses to choose from *_*. Lisa tried on my new Btssb dress and she constantly fell in love with it! So on Saturday during the Tea Party she just bought it :D (because at our hotel the internet connection was bad, so we had to do it during the Tea Party xD). I also tried on the Romantic Rose Letter special set OP.... and it was the first dress which was so overloaded with details that it was too much for me... can you believe it? A dress which is too OTT for a huge AP fan like me? I think this dress is beautiful but you can't really coordinate it in many different ways, you can only coordinate it in one way. Yes you can change your headdress, but this dress is so OTT it will always look the same. It's epic, but for me it's too epic xD.

The first day started pretty amazing, and it just got better each day :D
Thank you to all for this wonderful weekend!

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Story of a dress // Lacebook Tea Party // Ai Akizuki in London

Hello!

This will be a shorter post about different topics :)

Story of my "Tales of the Wood" dress
(Not that interesting and you can scroll down to the other topics xD But I want to write it down as a memory for myself)

Maybe you have recognized that I owned the same print in the same color twice, just different dress versions. 2 years ago I bought the pink JSK of "Tales of the Wood" from Metamorphose. It was a spontaneous purchase, because I wanted a print with bunnies for our Easter meet-up. Yes I bought the dress because of the bunnies, even if the main point are the deers xD

But then I wanted the Little Bears Café JSK and I found it quite cheap on Mbok. I didn't had enough money, so I wanted to sell one of my dresses. I decided for the deer dress, because I didn't liked the shoulder straps, I always prefered the OP version, and it had a negative connection because once I lend it to a friend, but she made it dirty but never apologized to me. So I didn't wanted to wear it anymore because of this.

After I sold it, I really regretted it because I fell in love with this print. And at the beginning of this year, I found the OP version for a really good price at Mbok. So I bought the OP!! I was sooo happy that I found my beloved dress in my preferred dress version, but when it arrived, it was a little disappointment. First it was babydoll-cut, and with my figure it looks horrible without a cardigan (I prefer OPs because you usually don't need an additional blouse or cardigan...). And the lower half of the skirt-part is very ruffled, so you can't see the whole beauty of the dress.

So now, I want the JSK again xD. And because I found a wonderful dress at the Btssb Sale a few days ago, and I needed money for it, I just sold my OP. So again I'm without the dress but this time I will not regret it, because I know I will find it again <3

Lacebook Tea Party

This weekend I will travel to Rothenburg for the Lacebook Tea Party! I'm already soooooo excited! There will be no special guests, but they are not always important. This Tea Party is made to spend a wonderful time with other Lolitas, to meet old friends and make new friends. Althought there are no special guests, it will be in a special location: JetJ did a photoshoot in Rothenburg for their 2014 summer catalog.

Unfortunately I don't own the catalog, but I found 2 dresses at their website, and the pictures were definitly taken at Rothenburg.

Grimm de Gretel - skirt

This street is a famous place in Rothenburg. If you google Rothenburg, you will find tons of pictures of this street:

Plein Grimm - JSK

This picture was taken inside the "Käthe Wohlfahrt" christmas museum. "Käthe Wohlfahrt" is a famous manufacturer of christmas baubels.

I planned to wear my Royal Unicorn JSK on Saturday and my Princess Tiered OP on Sunday.

Ai Akizuki in London

This year there is another Lolita event in London, the "Lolita Club Anniversary Event". Actually this event happens every year in September, and this time, Metamorphose will be the special guest. BUT I don't want to go there because of Meta, I want to go there because of Ai Akizuki! I saw her a few months ago in a german TV show and then I found her on Facebook. She is really cute and nice. When you make a comment on her Facebook postings, she always answers nice. And she is a Lolita model and all her pictures are really cute and inspiring :). Also, she is the leader of the biggest japanese Lolita community "Gothic & Lolita & Punk no Kai". I would find it really interesting to talk with her about Lolita in Japan.

But... I don't have $$$ ;___;. They only announced Ai Akizuki one week ago, and the event is already in 2 months. And buying plane tickets + hotel in such a short time is really expensive! I even thought about travelling there only for 1 day to save hotel costs but it's still expensive. If I would have known it earlier, I would have saved up for it and not spend all my money in Paris xD. Well, I hope she will come again to Europe someday.

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Paris 2014 - Day 3 - Museum

On our third day in Paris we only had a Museum trip planned. But it was not a normal museum - it was a very special one!

It's called "Musée des Arts Forains" and its exhibition consists of old funfair attractions! How awesome is this ?!?!?! When you want to visit it, you have to order tickets online with credit card. But I saw some people paying in cash, so if you don't have a credit card, I suggest to drop them an e-mail and ask if you can pay by cash.

I found this museum last year when I searched for interesting stuff in Paris. When I saw the website, I fell in love with this museum! Take a look here: >> Musée des Arts Forains <<

You can only visit the museum with a guided tour, which is unfortunately in french only. It is possible to book an english tour if you come with a larger group, but since we were only 2 people, we had to stick with the french tour. However our tour guide was so nice to print out some papers with information in english! So you can still enjoy your tour.

I was surprised that I understood quite a lot of the french from our tour guide. This gave me motivation to refresh my french skills, because I'm pretty sure that this wasn't the last time I visited Paris ^_^

Now some pictures of this wonderful museum!

The entrace area~

The first hall we visited~

In this museum you can actually use some of the attractions! The first one was a carussel, inspired by venetian gondoliers.

 A stage - you can book this museum for events too ^_^

Another stage~

Another attraction we could play with~

Between the exhibition halls is a street with chandeliers hanging in the trees *_*

 They had some really odd exhibits Ô_o

And now my favourite exhibits: the carousels!!!

Did you know that they often had horse carousels because only rich people could afford horses? This was the only chance for 'normal' people to ride a horse in their whole life!

Yes this is a bycicle carousel! The owners of funfairs often used the newest inventions for the attractions, so this carousel was for many people the first chance in their life to ride a bycicle! And this was also the first time that they could experience speed. Because this carousel can go up to 60 km/h, and back then there existed no cars or other things that could go so fast! I could even experience this myself... we were also allowed to use this carousel, and I got really scared when it was at full speed ^^''''
BUT the most interesting fact might be that this carousel works without electricity!! That means it only works when all people actually use the pedals to make it move, just like real bycicles!

Pretty wall decoration - the hall museum had wonderful decoration everywhere!

I wish I could show you more pictures, but the light was really bad for cameras and many pictures turned out blurry. After 1-1.5 hours the tour was over. Our tour guide said that we only saw a small part of the whole collection, there is much more stuff stored in other halls. This museum is a private museum and all this stuff belongs to only one person, can you believe it??

 All in all this museum was really nice, althought I think the entry fee could be a bit lower. A ticket costs 17€ and when you don't understand french, it could be a bit boring. And for this price I want to see more stuff. But it was really great that we could use all the carousels and some of the games. And we also got to hear some fun fair music instrument machines (I don't know a better name for them xD), and some of the information is really interesting to hear!

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After the museum we went to Axes Femme, because when we went there on our first day in Paris, they just got delivered some huge packages with clothes, and later they wrote on their Facebook page that they got more new stuff for Japan Expo, which will be also on Sale! So I wanted to see the new stuff and it was a good decision, I bought the long dress I already showed you in my earlier post :)

After this we went again to AP, but the shop was already very empty. We actually only went there to see how empty the store was xD. 

(Just as a side note, we were there the last time on Thursday afternoon, but I saw pictures on Facebook that they put out 2 brand new dresses at the weekend, "Lucienne Dream" which officially was released 1 week later after the Paris store closed, and "Cameo Window Paris", which isn't even released now!! But when I was in Paris 2013 they also had their new "Paris Window" print for sale there, even if it wasn't released yet in Japan!)

After this we went to Laduree. Usually I always buy Macarons at Laduree when I'm in Paris because I think they have the best ones in the world, but I only had a few Euros left and I wanted to buy some lunch ^^''', so only Ami bought macarons. 

Even if we had 3 hours left until our train would arrive, we still went back to our hotel because it was sooo hot that we hadn't any motivation to do something else. So we stayed over 1 hour in the hotel lobby and relaxed in their comfy sofas. But the guy from the reception was somewhat strange... first he was really nice, he brought us some cold fruits. And I think he was really bored so he came over and wanted to talk to us but with his broken english we couldn't really started to talk. But then he started to look at us all the time and smiled, like he wanted "something" from us. And later when I walked past him on the way to my luggage, he whispered to me "You are beautiful" xDDDDD. I really don't want to know what he was thinking xD. But I was happy that we directly left after this xD.

So yeah that was the last post about Paris. Just as a side note, our hotel was in the middle of the wedding shop street for "non-french" people. There were literally at least 60 shops selling wedding dresses, ball gowns, suits or wedding decoration. Next time I will plan more time to check out the decoration shops because they had some really awesome cheap stuff there!

(But on the down-side it was full of... those people. I don't recommend getting a hotel near Sacre-Coeur.)

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3