Paris 2015 - Day 4 - Doll Classica Tea Party

On my fourth day, I meet with Shalisa in the morning at the Aki boulangerie. The Aki boulangerie is very delicious, however they are a little weird, because they have 2 prices for all their food and drinks. If you want to stay at the Café, you have to pay a higher price. Since I can speak a little french, I understood their system, but my friend didn't understood it and accidently payed the "to go" price, and when the shop staff saw her sitting in the Café, she totally freaked out about that my friend didn't payed the higher price. But when we asked her if my friend can pay the additional 20 cent (20 CENT OMG !!!), she calmed down xD.

I would have never thought that I would get to know other persons through blogging, but I actually did get to know Shalisa, because we were reading the blogs of each others! It was really nice to meet you in person <333. We were talking about the differences between UK, Germany and France, really interesting! Especially the UK system of city, village, town etc. xDDD

 Picture by Shalisa - visit her blog for her post too ^_^

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In the afternoon, we went to the Doll Classica Tea Party. I think the tea party was ok, it could have been better, but it was really not the fault of the organizers that Midori has cancelled her appearance only a few weeks before the event.

the Tea Party room

A major problem was the lack of air conditioning. In hot summer I would really try to choose a place with air conditioner. But on the positive side, there was more than enough food! The organizers even asked everyone to eat more cake since there was so much left of it. I surely did xD.

 The cake (one of them xD)

My first round of food xD

At the beginning of the Tea Party, the 3 Lolita ambassadors of France did a tutorial to show how you can coordinate 1 dress in 3 different styles. For me, it was boring, since I'm not a beginner Lolita anymore and I don't need such suggestions. And we weren't allowed to eat the cake before the tutorial was over xD.

Then the buffet opened and after everyone had enough to eat, the special guest Luna Haruna peformed a song. I think she looked so cute and she is a very good singer and dancer.

After this, we played a little game. The game was quite confusing, everyone got a picture, and you had to find other persons with the same theme of the picture. For example, my picture was a violin, and I had to find other persons with the theme "music". The first 3 groups who were complete could win additional tickets for the raffle. Every group had 6 persons, but my group couldn't find all 6 pictures, so we didn't win anything.

After the game, Luna Haruna was singing another song. But then she directly left, because "she has other stuff to do". We couldn't even take pictures with her D:

At the end of the Tea Party, we had the raffle. Sadly, many people who had several tickets also won several prizes, that means a few people got 2 or 3(!) prizes, while most of the others got none. I also didn't won anything.

During the Tea Party, you also could go shopping. Many indie-brands were announced and I thought that I can shop a lot, but actually each brand only had ~3 items?! So they couldn't even fill 2 tables with it. Of course I still found something to buy, I bought the Lolita Tokyo Shopping Guide and postcards with artwork of Sakizo.
(Btw I'm a bit disappointed by the Shopping Guide, since in the last GLB, there was an advertisement of this book with a lot of english texts, but the actual book has no english texts at all!! Except for the adress + opening hours of the store...).

 The whole shopping area...

 Original artworks by Sakizo which you could buy

Because Midori was ill and couldn't come, we could also write her something in a book. I did wrote a little message, but my drawing of the Eiffel Tower looked horrible, I'm glad I didn't took a picture of it, so here you can just see the book and decoration material xD

Now I also want to show you my outfit. I don't know what Btssb was thinking when they created the crown, but THAT DAMN CROWN WAS SLIPPING OFF MY HEAD THE WHOLE TIME >___<

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Paris 2015 - Day 3 - Japan Expo

On our third day, we went to the Japan Expo (JE). When you enter the area to buy tickets, you have to go through a very long labyrinth (in case the queue gets very long). We needed 10 minutes (!) to walk through that labyrinth D: Then we had to wait 40min in the queue to get our tickets. Even if we had to wait long for our tickets, the JE itself wasn't too full. I think thursdays is a good day to visit the JE.

I also think this year, the JE was better than 2012+2013, because there were more Japan-related stalls. The last times I visited JE, half of the space was actually a Comic Convention, but now the space is also used for the Japan Expo, so there were a lot more stalls where you can buy stuff, but also where you can see japanese artists!

This year, they also had many japanese idols as guests, and we saw a very cute girl "Hiiragi Rio". We actually saw her one day before at the Eiffel Tower. She was singing and dancing live, and I really liked her songs!

You can find her here:
Facebook Page
Youtube Channel

However this year there weren't many Lolita-related stalls, most stuff was Fairy Kei, Gothic and Steam Punk. But I still managed to buy some items xD

Totoro and Alpaca plushies, Macaron hand cream, cat lipgloss, cat earrings and an alpaca bat (?!) pin by Moon Bunny <3

I loved the convention, and for an entry fee of 10€ (on Thursday) you really get an amazing experience!

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Paris 2015 - Day 2 - Sightseeing

On our second day, we wanted to make some Purikuras in the morning. So we drove to the Manga Café where the Purikura machines were supposed to be, but when we arrived at the store, the shop staff told us that their machines are currently at the Japan Expo >_<

Pics are from their website, you can visit it here => www.mangacafe.fr

Since we didn't really had any other plans for the morning, I suggested to travel to the other side of Paris to find a chinese bakery and eat very fluffy biscuit cake! There we bought a huge cake roll, but we hadn't any spoons and forks to eat it, so we went to a supermarket to buy some. We needed 30min to find them, because noone in this huge supermarket could speak english D: Also, I was the only white person in this area of Paris xD. All other people were chinese, african or similar.

Pandan is my favourite flavor ^_^

After this, we wanted to meet with Loopy at the AP store, we waited for her but she didn't came, so in the end we left without her and went to buy some macarons at Laduree. Later, we went to the Eiffel Tower, and there were nearly no tourists at all! It was very hot, so there weren't even a lot of those people who want to sell you stuff. Actually during our whole trip we barely saw any of those people, in comparision to last year, were we saw them at every street corner. I guess it was because of this incredible hot weather.

In the evening, we went to a delicious japanese restaurant. Funnily, most (or all?) of the shop staff were chinese xD.

Source

So yeah we spend most of the day just driving with the Metro from place to place, but we found places in Paris I usually would never visit if I would do just tourist-ish stuff, so I even learned something new about my favourite city :)

Thank you for reading,

Miuko~ <3

Paris 2015 - Day 1 - Shopping

I'm back from my wonderful trip to Paris! I travelled together with Miriam (yes she has the same name like me xD).

We arrived in Paris on Tuesday and directly went to the AP store. We arrived at 12:45h, and the shop only opened at 12:00h, so all the great items were still left at the store. I was very impressed that they brought ALL the rare items, which were sold-out within minutes in Japan.

 These pictures are from the AP website and this is how the shop looked before anyone could enter... look at all the amazing stuff *_*

 Of course I took a picture with Maki and Asuka *_*

This year I had enough money to buy 2 dresses *__* Before I travelled to Paris, I wanted exactly those 2 dresses, and I couldn't believe they had them! I bought Castle Mirage OP in lavender and Drained Cherry JSK in dark-blue:

And some new AP postcards:

My friend and I also tried on a few Putumayo dresses, but even if they had a lot of shirring, they were weirdly cut, so they looked horrible on us D:

After this we went to Axes Femme. I was so excited to buy a lot of clothes there, because I think the fashion in Germany is sooo boring, and I hoped to buy many items for everyday-wear. BUT when we arrived, they had not a single item in size L, and when I asked the shop staff about it, she told me that french people don't request that size so they don't carry it anymore. I was SO SAD ;____; It was the only shop in the world with cute clothes for chubby people like me, but it seems only thin people deserve cute clothes ;____;

Then we went to Princess Crepe to eat a delicious crepe! Of course I spilled sauce all over my shirt. This happens every time I eat there D:

After this we went to Btssb, but they didn't had any interesting stuff for me, I only picked up an umbrella for a friend.

In the evening we wanted to go to Queens House, a shop for korean make-up, but when we arrived, the shop didn't existed anymore! D:

So yeah we spend the whole day visiting shops but barely bought anything! Okay, I bought 2 dresses, but I expected to buy much more xD. My friend really didn't bought anything!

Btw here a pic of my travel buddy :)

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

New selfmade hat

Hello~~~

In 18 days I will travel to Paris! And since couldn't sleep well the last nights, I decided to craft a new hat. I plan to wear it at the Doll Classica Tea Party!

Most of the hat is glued and not sewed xD. But it's just easier for me.

More details:

Hat without decoration:

What do you think about my hat?

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Japan Day

Yesterday was Japan Day again! Rosalynn and Iris from the Netherlands visited us and I was very happy to see Rosalynn again and to meet Iris ^_^ Later we also met Poppy from Belgium. I was just happy to spend an awesome day with my friends <333 even if the day itself was so stressful >_<

First we met Rosalynn and Iris at the central station and went to the japanese shops. Then we went to Dschunke and had lunch together. Afterwards we went to the Lolita meet-up which I organized, but like always I came too late xD.

Then Rosalynn wanted to meet Reika (a very famous cosplayer), so we wanted to find the booth were Reika gave autographs. But it started to rain and storm very heavily, and then we even got stuck in the crowd for like 30 minutes?! Like we couldn't move back or forwards because everyone was just standing and noone was moving >_< This was very stressful especially because we were like 10 people and we all got lost D: But we managed to find each other again, but then we couldn't find Reikas booth. We were searching nearly 1 hour. The booth was at the most far spot of the Japan Day, a place I never visited before all the years. WHY ;___; But finally we found Reika, and Rosalynn was very happy :)

After this, Rosalynn and Iris had to say good-bye, and we went to Relax for a Cream Soda.

 Group picture from the Lolita meet-up - by anh binh

Here is my outfit. I could wear my new Btssb crown! I searched this crown for YEARS! Finally I can be a real princess :D

Some selfies with my crown :D

A cool picture with May :D

Thank you for reading,
Miuko~ <3

Dokomi 2015

Hello hello \(*ﾟｰﾟ*)/♥

This year was the 5th time I visited the Dokomi (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:・ﾟ✧ It was an amazing weekend!

I spend most of the time talking with friends and shopping! I planned to watch some of the programm but I totally forgot about it so I didn't watched anything... like every year ヽ(*^▽^*)ゞ

~*~ SATURDAY ~*~

Like every year I participated in the fashion show, but this year it wasn't a Lolita-only show but a Harajuku street fashion show! So instead of Lolita I have worn Romantic Gyaru ❀♥

 Behind the scenes xD

 I was happy that many people liked my outfit since I don't wear Gyaru very often... well actually never xD. And many people asked me if it was my real hair! Nooo unfortunately not xD

Some outfit pictures:

There was also a photo booth where you could learn how to take picutres. I think it was a very nice idea, however we weren't that interested in learning, we just wanted to take some pictures xD. I liked the cute Maid background *-*

Together with Ami ♥

~*~ SUNDAY ~*~

On Sunday I have worn a casual kawaii coordinate. Maaany people wanted to cuddle my puffy earrings ( ﾉ^ω^)ﾉ* I made them myself quickly in the morning because I was in need of an accessoire xD

I also went to the Maid Café to eat a melon pan and waffles. Some of my friends are also Maids, so I had a lot of fun there :) I think this year the Maid Café was very good and professional, better than the last years! The funny thing was, that our table got at least 5 Moe Moe Kyuns, but we were the ONLY table who got them while we were there xD.

Together with cute May ♥

 We also found Grumpy Cat (ノ ゜口゜)ノ

This year, the fashion area was really big, so there was a lot of stuff to buy! I bought this:

I love the Dokomi and I'm already looking forward to next year!

If I find more pictures and videos, I will make a second post ^_^

Thank you for reading,

Miuko~ <3