crafts!

Yay! i recently finished this scarf, its made from 100% alpaca! its amazingly soft and fuzzy and only tuck one skein to make.

also take a look at the new poll i have on the side! ill make whatever wins in a tutorial. ive also been thinking of having a small giveaway to 10 subscribers!

Things i always keep with me

I thought this would be a fun post to do! i've seen other people do it and i think its interesting to know what people cant live without having with them all the time.

things in the picture from left to right:
-camera
-lipgloss
-sour icebreakers
-pen
-notebook
-wallet

you can also tell a lot about a person from whats in their purse, im a pretty simple person who doesn't smoke and really likes candy, im also visual and artsey (thats what my purse tells me at least wich is pretty accurate). what can you tell from your purse?

sewing loli on a budget

To start off, i sew a lot. I'm also thinking of opening an etsy shop but not quite yet. I also don't have a lot of money to do stuff with so finding things for cheap is good ^^. so here are some tips to sewing loli clothes on a budget.

-Just because your dress has a lot of ruffles doesn't mean that you need a ton of fabric. 3-4 meters is normally enough and you tend to have extra.

-if you plan on buying a lot of fabric from the same store, and if they offer it buy a membership.

-space out your pattern for maximum efficiency, so no large spaces between pieces or crazy stuff like that.

-shop in the bargain sections of the fabric store first! most stores have a wall at the back of discounted fabric thats either ugly, from last season or just wouldn't sell, these are normally SO much cheaper than anything else and sometimes you can find a great deal! i once bought 4 meters of perfectly good pink cotton twill for like 15$.

-Shop online, if you buy in bulk this can save you a lot of money, especially on things like lace.

-dont buy things you will never use! i know there are some cute buttons but you will never use them >.<

these are a few things i do to save money on fabric, just some general pointers really but good to keep in mind.

giveaway!

theres a great giveaway at F yeah lolita! check it out here!

lolita and cosplay.

I had tons of fun at the local anime convention this year (though i do every year)! though i noticed some interesting things... There are no regular lolitas in my aeria but there are many who will cosplay it! why is lolita so tempting to cosplay? maybe because its cute or fancy but when you go into the venders room you see all these lolita-esque outfits being sold along with the regualr school girl/naruto/bleach cosplays!

bah! fashion being sold as cosplay! its kind of annoying but i suppose theres a market for it and i must say i to started off as a cosplay loli. everyones got to start somewhere right? if you start wearintg it as cosplay simply because you like wearing dresses and looking pretty then theres no reason to think of it as much different from a life style lolita, they just dont wear it any other time.

I have also heard that lolitas feel it wrong or improper to cosplay, this is not true! or at least this is my opinion. A hobby shouldent make you give up other hobbies because it doesnt mesh well, i do bolth and no ones yelled at me yet. though i have noticed that most lolitas dont cosplay if you like to theres nothing stopping you.

crafts

Ravelry, almost sounds like a place to party but is quite the opposite. I found this community while looking for things to knit one day while i was bored and i think its really cool! there are many free patterns for knitting and crochet and if you need help there are people to help.

when i first started crocheting and knitting i couldn't do anything that required a step by step pattern where you need "this many of this or that", because i always made a mistake somewhere that messed the whole thing up, or i had absolutely no idea what the pattern was talking about so this would be a huge help!

take a gander at it, there are many cute frilly patterns for the more experienced or simple ones for the beginner! i'm working on a cute scarf right now from this place ^^

Kendo!

A while ago i tuck up kendo just as a fun sport, iI'm not very good at it but its a great workout! The other reason i joined was to learn more about the history and traditions of japan. Japan has a rich history that goes back farther then anything in Canada really, and i really enjoy european and asian history where things go back centuries because of that depth and sense of time.

We as lolitas tend to know a lot about whats going on in japan fashion wise and trend wise but we often don't pay attention to things like politics or history because it doesn't really interest us.

But i figured if I'm going to spend so much time with Anime, manga and fashion from japan i should learn more then just the information given in those, considering that most stories will have changed the history for a better story and loli bloggers don't talk much about history or tradition because they themselves aren't interested. So kendo i figure is a good way to get aquainted with japanese history without pouring over books and the like.

just an idea really, maybe its only me interested in all this history stuff ^^