My new old sewing machine

A person who takes a look at my wardrobe without knowing me any further can't even imagine that I sew. I don't blame her either, because along the years I've been more and more exausted with sewing.

Sewing do requires a lot ot patience, and it is far from flowers and happiness: you go to hell sometimes and there you stay, trying that the fucking thing be perfect.

So, as my will of doing new things is vanishing from the surface of earth with my depression, the main role that this sewing machine had before turned out in a few uses to change elastics of the dresses or fixing a thing or another. Some weeks ago I made a few accessories, but that's not common.

With my participation in the Pink House group, I was inspirated by the girls there to paint things. Then the pink spray said 'hello' to me in a store, and we had to hang out more. My first victim was a Daiso black earring stand.

It turned out so good that I gained confidence to paint the sewing machine. So, the first step was clean it and remove the stickers.

Before

After I cleaned it, I covered some parts with tape or replaced them with plastic. Then I applied white spray paint all over it to hide the printed words. When it was finally white, I painted it pink.

Then when it was done I thought "that's too plain", so I decided to sacrifice the Sheep Garden stickers from my Gothic & Lolita Bible. I usually don't take off the stickers, but I realized that lately my life is worth less than a sticker sheet, because I don't mind if I die, but I stay sad if I lose one sticker, so I decided to change that. Depression sucks.

And that is the final result! I am very proud of it! Painting it pink not only make it look newer and happier, but kinda made me feel more useful and made me have more will of sewing.

Now I am looking for the next pink spray victim!

Halloween Meetup - Nov 2, 2018

Photo: Amy

From the series 'Delayed posts for an eternity™', today I am posting about the Halloween meetup we had in November.

I wore my Holy Lantern to the meet. Besides the super hot weather, I could manage it well thanks to the air conditioning system in the cafe. Oh, the cafe that was chosen to host the meet was the Mansion XV, a very elegant cafe, that suited very well the theme. I went there other times, and they always treat us well.

I met Annah at her house before the meet to change clothes and then we went to the meet. Little by little the girls started to arrive, with gorgeous outfits. I was just sad that this time we weren't so numerous so they didn't allowed us to use a separated and reservated space in the café for our group, but anyway everything was very fun!

Outfit

Headband: Angelic Pretty

OP: Holy Lantern - Angelic Pretty

OTKs: Enchanted Dream Wear

Shoes: Cotton Candy Feet

I was very happy with the outfit! Holy Lantern was one of my dream dresses! I wasn't planning to buy the black colorway, but after I bought it I felt in love with the details! My hair seems to have suited the outfit as well.

Eve and I

So, let's talk about the food! I was hugry, so I ordered a quiche. Then after that I ordered Ice Cream with Rafaello, and omg, that was huuuuge!

I couldn't even eat the whole thing, it is so huge!

We spent the whole time chatting and eating. Has something better in this world?

I am so proud of being part of a comm full of gorgeous people!

Photo: Victoria

Photos: Amy

Pullips' Sugary Carnival Extravaganza

Lately I have been insterested in two side hobbies other than Lolita, but kinda relacted to it: pink house and Pullips. In the last days I felt more inclined to Pink House, buying plastic bowls and pink home stuff like crazy, but some days I just like to relax playing house with my Pullips.

I felt in love with the Pullip Family when I saw Victoria Suzanne's dolls some years ago, but I just bought my dolls like a year ago: a Pullip Tiphona (Innocent World) and Pullip Favorite Ribbon (Baby the Stars Shine Bright's Misako Aoki Pullip). Since then, I like to buy little things for them: clothes, accessories, shoes... I even bought kid's shoes only to take the Barbie's Bakery set that came with it. Now my little Pullips are two spoilled brandwhores, who own their own bakery business and have a pink convertible car, besides a chair and a wardrobe from Angelic Pretty, and a few brand dresses.

So, while there's some time that I wanted to have the dolls, the same amount of time I've been desiring a specific item - or set, what do you prefer -; Angelic Pretty's Sugary Carnival doll set!

I think it is curious the fact that, from the first time I saw Sugary Carnival, its black colorway hit me like a bullet; and that was the favorite color for what I see for some side releases, like the totebag for the Museum Mook and this lovely set.

The set consists of a jumperskirt, a head eating bow and a lovely pony bag, which come attached to the package by loose black threads. Unfortunatelly the set doesn't come with blouse, socks or shoes, so you need to buy some by yourself. As I am not very familiar with the market and where to buy it, I simply made my own socks out of a thrifted cutsew and completed the coord with items I already had.

Tiffany (Tiphona) was the first one to dress the set, and she keep it to herself. I really think she looks sad when she wears the clothes she came into. She's a born sweet lolita, so I let her dress what makes she looks happy - and well, Sugary Carnival stills an iconic dress.

I was happy to finally find it after some time looking for it. And in the end I found one more, so I grabbed the opportunity with both hands: soon Misako will have her Sugary Carnival outfit too! So, the three of us will have the same print in the same colorway to be twins, or better saying, triplets!

Chile - Day 3: International Meet up

As my posts are a bit delayed, I will start to post them in the order they happened.
So, in the third day visiting Chile was held the international meetup. As it was only by afternoon, I took the morning to visit some places in Santiago. By the morning I wasn't wearing lolita yet, so we were walking by the empty streets. We went near a Mc Donald's and they were open that time of the morning. As it is unusual in Brazil, we came in. They serve breakfast (desayuno), and they even had healthy food there. I was, omg, everything in the Chilean famous fast food branches is so different from what we have in the same fast foods in Brazil! Then, after taking an orange juice, we were walking a little bit more and found something.

omg

So a few hours later I went to eat something. It was very fun to eat fast food wearing lolita. It was unusual, for sure, but the people were so respectful, so I felt very good. In Brazil you can't walk like 2 meters without some dumb ass saying shit to us, so being in another country and being treated with respect was like being in heaven.

Outfit:

Day Dream Carnival bow, jsk and tights - Angelic Pretty

Shoes and bag: Cotton Candy Feet

Accessories: Swimmer

Blouse: Offbrand

At the time of the meet, everyone gathered together to visit some places in Santiago. It was very fun! In the end, we went to a cafe to eat something.

Twiiins!

Me with my shitty face and Chadias. Have I told you that I like to show my teeth in an awkward way when they start to take pics of me without telling me first?

It was a really happy day ! I hope I can return to Chile soon!