Rothenburg Day 2 - Lacebook Tea Party

On Saturday we had a lot of time to get ready. The Tea Party should start at 14:00h, but we arrived 1 hour earlier to take some pictures in the garden. I wore my new "Innocent Rose" JSK, which I bought during the Btssb Sale, after I saw it in the Paris shop and fell in love with it! I bought it 1 week before the Tea Party and I didn't thought that it will arrive in time, BUT it arrived on Thursday evening! Sooo lucky :D

Then it was time to enter the Tea Party! When I entered the room, I entered Lolita heaven *_* Not only the room was pretty, but also the table decoration was incredible beautiful! I never saw such beautiful decoration before. You could really see how much effort all the organizers put into this Tea Party!

Our table neightbors:

The fans were presents from the Tea Party. Very good idea, because it was really hot that day!

The food was already prepared at each table. I think this is a good idea, so nobody needs to wait in a queue at the buffet in order to get some food. I almost directly started to eat because I was soo hungry xD. Only downside was that they didn't prepared enough hearty food. They only had 1 sandwich per person and we thought that they would bring more sandwhiches, so I directly took 2 pieces. When I realized that there wasn't enough, I gave one sandwhich to another person. BUT it really wasn't a big deal, because there was MORE then enough sweet food for everyone! There were Macarons <3, raspberry cakes, small cupcakes, mini-cakes with lemon and basilicum flavour (sounds strange but was delicious!) and many other sweets.

We also had a timetable prepared at each table:

14:15 - Time for eating // 14:30 - Outfit contest // 15:45 - Workshop medieval dance // 16:30 - shops opened // 17:00 - raffle // 18:00 - end

First take pictures...

...then start eating! *nom nom nom*

Then it was time for the outfit contest. Everyone who wanted to enter should come to the front and present their outfit with a small text. I'm not sure if I liked the idea, because I think many girls were too shy to enter, therefore many girls with amazing outfits didn't entered the contest. But I wanted to enter and I convinced Ami to enter with me as twins, thought our outfits weren't true twins, we only had the same dress xD

After the first girls presented their outfits, I realized that the Tea Party theme was "Rococo Fairy Tale". I totally forgot about the theme, so within 10 seconds I prepared our speech and told everyone that we would be "The double Lottie" (Das doppelte Lottchen) - Lolita Rococo Princess version xDDD. Haha okay I know it was a bit silly and I think everyone knew that I just made it up, but whatever xDDD

After this we had time to eat, talk and taking pictures. But after a while I got a bit bored. I think there could have been some games, so you could interact more with all Lolitas and kill a bit time while waiting for the photograhper. We had 4 photographers which was A LOT, but with 50 Lolitas not everyone could take pictures at the same time, so waiting time was there.

Pictures with the photographers (they weren't taken all at once but I just put them all here xD):

Picture taken by Kia Rose / Vampire Symphony

Then they announced the medival dancing lesson, and Ami and me decided to join the lesson spontaneoulsy. It was organized by Jasmin and she did a great job!!! Medival dance is perfect for Lolitas! Only downside was that there were some perfectionists in the course who asked tons of questions. Of course it's okay to ask questions but this course was only a 45 minutes crash course, not a professional course were every step should be perfect ^^'''' So we only learned a sequence of 20 seconds. But in medival dance, you often repeat the same steps again and again, and you just change your dancing partners after every sequence. That means, even if our sequence was 20 seconds long, you could do this dance for several hours if you want!


Then it was time for the raffle! They had many small prizes, and even if you didn't won something during the raffle, you got another small prize. But honestly the raffle only had "small" prizes, I think it's good when all prizes have nearly the same value. I even won something, a necklace by Li-Paro! I'm happy about my prize because it has real flowers in it, and I love flowers <3

Then they announced the winners of the outfit contest. The girl who won started to wear Lolita only in October 2013!! I really couldn't believe it because her outfit was perfect, and I wear Lolita since 4 years and still don't look as perfect as her <3. All attendees of the Tea Party could vote for the winner, but then the organizers announced a second prize which was decided by the organizers only. They said that there were many girls with great outfits which didn't entered the contest, so they gave their prize to such a girl. I think her outfit was amazing too, but honestly ALL outfits were amazing!!

First Winner

Second Winner

Sadly some of the brands which were announced weeks before as ruffle donations + shop stalls weren't actually there (Lady Sloth, Ophanim tights, Poppemonica berets). This were the brands I was mostly interested in xD. I guess the brands didn't ship their items in time, or they were stuck in customs.

At the end of the Tea Party I was hungry again and wanted to grab some more food. I don't know why but our table had NOTHING left, while all other tables had some food left xD. I guess we were the most hungry ones xD. So I went to the other tables to ask for more cupcakes ^_^'''''

Then was the obligatory group picture and after this, the Tea Party was officially finished!!

Some more pictures of the room:

In the evening we went to a restaurant and cocktailbar again. But we were a bit unlucky... first, we invaded a very small restaurant which didn't expected that many people, so we had to wait nearly 1 hour for our food (thought the waiter announced it at the beginning, so it was okay, and the food was delicious). And then we had to wait 1,5 hours for our cocktails! Well not all people had to wait that long, but since we were sitting at the end of the table, we were one of the last ones who got our cocktails. But nevertheless, we had enough stuff to talk about so it was ok ^_^

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Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

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