La vie en rose in Paris - Day 1

 

Long time, no see....again! I'm sorry! I don't know if you even want to read something about Paris anymore but I will blog about it anyways ;D
So last month was the Street Fashion Europe event in Paris. This year it was called La vie en rose, last year it was Enchanted in London. Because of my new job, I wasn't able to get a day off so we (Aimee, Cindy, her fiancé and I) drove to Paris on Friday evening (Feb. 20th) We arrived really late although we were lucky and had no traffic jams. Next day we had to get up early because we had VIP/ Valentine tickets and the entrance started at 10 o'clock! When we arrived, there were already many girls waiting in line. It's always a nice picture to see so many beautiful girls in one spot! Cindy and I were one of the first Valentine ticket holders to enter the venue (we also got ticket no. 1 and 2, haha but that didn't matter) and looked for the Triple Fortune bonnets... woaah soooo many! In all the colors you can imagine. Cindy thought about buying one but couldn't decide. Next we looked for the evil live bags. I got the one and only heart bag in pink. YEEEESSS! My first light pink Lolita bag! After all this time, can you imagine? I was/ am soooo happy! They also had gold, beige, black... wanted all of them ;_; I had the feeling that the shopping stalls were much better than last year because... I bought much more, haha! I also bought a necklace from Li-Paro and the Lolita necklace from Syrup. I was thinking about getting a Grimoire dress or socks or.... geeeeeeez! Couldn't handle all the cool stuff! We strolled around and ate the delicious food. OMG! It was sooooo good! How to make me happy? Give me something delicious to eat! I can get really grumpy if I can't get anything to eat :D We checked our goodie bags and found many cool things. A calendar, Baby buttons, post cards, nail stickers etc. I really liked the things they put in the goodie bags ♥
I also took a photo together with Masumi Kanoh and got her autograph and talked with other guests. I'd say Juliette et Justine was a big thing this year! I saw many girls wearing their dresses. Last year the inofficial theme was: BIG headdresses. This year there were many veils (wedding theme) and 3F bonnets (of course) Then the program started. Unfortunately it was still very loud during the Q&A because many guests were still shopping and chatting. Although I'm not a huge fan of fashion shows at Lolita events, I liked both of them. The brand that participated had beautiful clothes!  When BABI's talk (designer of 3F) started we got so thirsty and got something to drink at a supermarket. But the girls I talked with later, said that it was very interesting! Then...the raffle. Oh my, I'm not lucky when it comes to raffles BUT "1" was my lucky number that day. I got a necklace from Sweet & Tiny and a hat from Promise of Nostalgica!! I could't believe it. I loved the stuff from Sweet & Tiny but I already bought two necklaces that day. But I won one.. so much better! And the PoN hat was made of me (I'm sure!). The color combination is just my thing. Cindy won a hat and Aimee won earrings at the raffle but unfortunately the hat wasn't Cindy's style and Aimee has tunnels so earrings are nothing she can wear :(

The stuff I got and bought that day ♥
Our feet hurt like hell but we still managed to go to L'arc de triomphe which was nearby and took some pictures. Later we met up with Sarah and ate burgers in a 50s style diner called "Happy Days Diner" and yes... this was a happy day!
We also made a video about it! 
Thank you Street Fashion Europe for organizing this wonderful event ♥ I enjoyed it a lot!


Last thing I want to show you is Cindy's and my twin outfits.
Dress, socks, necklace: Angelic Pretty
Blouse and headdress: Taobao (forgot the shop names, sorry)
Shoes: Bodyline
Bouquets: selfmade

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Castle & Princesses

Last Saturday, there was finally a meetup again. We had maaaaany meetups at the pink Benrath castle in Düsseldorf but we never actually visited the castle itself. You can take several guided tours through the castle with different focus. We had the "basic" tour and it was reaaaaally interesting. Unfortunately, I'm not allowed to show you pictures from inside the castle but there are some pictures on the official homepage if you're interested. I learned that a part of the castle burned down many years ago, I didn't know there even was another building there. You felt that our tourguide was really into all this and explained many interesting facts to us. He also liked our outfits although he was color blind. So all in all it was a lovely idea to visit the inside of Benrath castle after visiting the garden grounds for so many years.
Unfortunately the rest of the meetups was a little chaotic but it was not all fault of the organizers. We were too many people to reserve tables at a café or restaurant and not all of the participants of the meetup took the guided tour. So there was so real date to meet after the tours were over and we couldn't take a real group picture ;_; I would have loved to show you all the beautiful ladies from our local community! We splitted up and some of us took a train back to the city and ate there. I was very happy with my company but also missed some of the other girls. Hope next time will be more manageable for the organizers.

I twinned with lovely Aimee for the first time! We planned to do this about a year ago and finally managed to twin - yay! Except for the rings our outfits matched perfectly together, I am very happy with the result, haha :D


My ring came just in time for the meetup! I stopped the postman on my way to the trainstation and asked him if there was anything for me - yes! Success!!

Our third Chess Chocolate girl Meri. Look at her art page tentaclething! She is soo talented!

Julie was our special guest that day! She came from Hamburg and it was sooo nice to meet her again!

We snapped a small mirror picture in the castle
Cindy's outfit was mermaid themed! She decorated her bonnet with shells and had a matching shell bag - so creative!

Hope you like the pictures! What do you when you meetup? Visit a museum or take a guided tour someplace, too? Or just meetup and chat/eat? Let me know, please! I'm always open for new ideas for meetups! :)

Candy Day in Rothenburg

Part 2 of my Lolita weekend report in Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Bavaria).We met at the market place and maaaany people asked us the usual questions, took photos etc. Some even knew us from the newspaper article. We were divided in two groups and had a guided tour through the city. I didn't find it that interesting. I prefer guided tours through castles where you learn something about the people who lived there and not the architecture for example. But there were some interesting facts and we saw many beautiful places.

Isn't it cute? The whole historic center is landmarked and so the buildings all look so pretty ♥
Cindy, Aimee and me
After the tour was over, we visited the Käthe Wohlfahrt christmas shop but I was absolutely not in the mood for christmas music and decoration. Aimee found a super pretty rocking horse, could be from Angelic Pretty, right? Meanwhile, I took a seat at the hotel where we ate lunch:

My camera isn't good enough to take decent pictures of the food at bad light so here is the menu. The illustration on the postcard was done by Tentaclething. She is so talented! There was also an outfit contest and Natalie, a girl who sat next to me, won with her awesome classic coordinate! She deserved it ♥ There was also a raffle and OMG!! I won something again. I broke the curse somehow. I won the Juliette et Justine catalogue with the Rothenburg pics, so cool!

This is a picture of all I got from the whole weekend! ♥♥♥♥

After the lunch we took photos. Some of the pictures are done by ME. Fotografie, Freitagsgasse 1, 98617 Meiningen. You can identify them because of the ME watermark.

Our group picture ♥ Again, everyone looked so pretty!
Cindy and I wore our pefect Romantic Rose Letter coordinate. Perfect because we twinned every little detail (except for an underskirt :D)

dress + socks: Angelic Pretty * bags: Loris * blouse: The Floral Notebook * bonnets: made my me

Our matching rings by Baby! Cindy gave the silver one to me as a birthday present!


Like the day before, there were other girls wearing RRL. So we took a group picture together.

You can click on the group pictures for a better view! Ami, Lisa, May, Cindy and me

I enjoyed the day a lot but we had to leave quite early because we were afraid of more traffic jams. I had to work the next day but it took two hours less than two days before! Phew, so I was already home at 10 o'clock (I suspected to be at home after midnight..)

My conclusion of the weekend: It was aweeeeesome!! The people are awesome, the program was good, the food was delicious and I had much fun. I'm sad some of the cool people live far away from me but it's even more fun to hang out with them at such an event. Looking forward to next year ♥

Nice view!

Many girls in my local community complain about too few meetups. Sometimes, I do this, too. So I decided to organise a meetup with my best friend Cindy. The last meetups we visited the same placed and did picnics. I'm not a huge fan of picnics and the parcs and are always the same. This is why we chose to visit the Rheinturm in Düsseldorf. It's the television tower and you can visit the platform at 168m height. It has been a looong time ago since I visited the tower for the last time. I was a small kid and my Dad wanted to show me Düsseldorf from above.
"Unfortunately" the weather was TOO nice (+30°C) and many people who have promised to come, canceled the meetup one day earlier. I was very sad and upset about it. So in the end we were only FIVE people. One week earlier, there were around twelve.
We met up at the main station and of course many people wanted to take photos and some even asked if we were famous. Hahahaha no, sorry :D But they wanted to take pictures anyway. I asked a waiting woman to take a picture of us and she agreed. Same as always: The feet are cut off! Random people are not capable of taking decent group pictures.

Ina, Himecookie, Arina, Cindy and me
Cindy and I wore Rose Toilette, we were the orga twins :D Arina wore her self designed Bodyline dress and looked beautiful in shiro. Himecookie wore a lightblue x white coordinate with a pretty floral dress by Innocent World and Ina rocked Kodona in the heat!

We had a beautiful view over Düsseldorf and it's harbor! Because of the heat outside, we decided to sit down in the tower and talked. It was a very nice atmosphere you can only achieve in small meetups like this.

Very important: a fan! But the air conditiong was on, it felt good to sit there and relax.

Twin selfie!
After that we ate something proper (Sushi for the other girls -> very Japanese and baked potatoe for me -> very German!) and had smoothies and frozen yogurt as a dessert. Thankfully the other places we went to had air conditiong, too!


Café TenTen, the place to be!
Back at the main station, we took selfies again before parting.

It was a very nice day, I enjoyed it a lot especially after feeling sad the evening before. Thanks to the girls who braved the heat and came to the meetup - you rock! Always harcore!!

Last but not least, I want to show you my outfit from that day. It was very simple and just a set but I liked it very much.


My red Rose Toilette set by Angelic Pretty! Still one of my favorite dresses! Hope you like it as much as I do ^_^

What did you do at the hottest day of the year (at least in Germany...)? Not wearing Lolita, I guess ;D

Small meetup

Two weeks ago, we did another small meetup in Düsseldorf. At first, we went to the Japanese Takagi bookstore and looked at the newest fashion magazine releases. After that, we visited Toykio, a café that has an exhibition in the basement where we were allowed to take some photos :) Unfortunately, the light was quite bad and my black outfit looks even darker in the pics :D Almost no details visible but nevertheless I can show you some pictures from the day ^_^

It's me before a picture that perfectly matched my outfit in black x gold :D

My lovely Cindy and me ♥

A group picture: Me, Jessi, Cindy, Alina, Laura and Ina

After that we ate at Dschunke, a Chinese restaurant. I ate suuuuper delicious chicken with sweet-sour-sauce *v*
But that's not enough of course :D Next stop: Café TenTen!! We had smoothies and matcha latte
It was a wonderful day! Thank you, my dear friends! Here is another picture of my outfit because the tights are not visible in all the other pics =(

dress: Metamorphose
headdress: Bodyline
blouse and tights: Primark
necklace: Harry Potter merchandise
shoes: Vivienne Westwood x Melissa

I wish you a wonderful weekend♥

Meeting with Rosalynn

No Lolita Blog Carnival for today but a meetup report ^__^ Last weekend, the lovely Rosalynn (check out her pretty blog!) visited Düsseldorf and May planned a Lolita meetup for her. I love that ♥ I've done a small meetup some years ago for a Lolita from the UK. It's so nice to meet other people and show them around. Most of them really like the Japanese area in Düsseldorf. You can buy mooks in the bookstore, drink bubble tea, eat Japanese (of course) and buy some groceries.
We went to Okinii, a Japanese all you can eat restaurant. We were soooo full afterwards °^° I don't like sushi, so I ate yakisoba, gyoza, fried rice and stuff.

Then we wanted to take some pictures but it was sooo windy! Thank got we all wear safety pants/ bloomers. We asked a couple to take a group picture of us but.. I think none of the people you ask for taking a picture are able to do it. They cut off your feet aaaaaall the time. But the pic is a nice memory even without feet :D

(credit for this and the following pics go to Rosalynn!)
We also made some solo photos but I was so cold and not really in the mood for pics. I am really sad I don't have a good picture with that dress because I will sell it now T_T But here you can see my coord:

dress: Baby the stars shine bright
socks: Metamorphose
cutsew and beret: Taobao
shoes: no name (doesn't seem like it on the pic but they have the perfect matching color for the dress *^*)

Of course my beloved Cindy was with us! We did our signarture pose, too :D

The day was very short but I had an awesome time with beautiful people and nice food ♥ Hope we will meet again at another Lolita event, soon ♥

Kawaii Weekend preparations

Finally, summer has come to Germany! I have holidays, too so I'm very happy with it. Like I said before, two respectively three events were cancelled: The Rose Toilette meetup and Royal Pony because of the rain and the whole Paris trip because our boyfriends had to work. Because of this, I'm totally looking forward to the upcoming events!
This weekend, there will be the Kawaii Weekend in the Netherlands with Misako and RinRin for example. I will be wearing two or even three different outfits. I hope I will have time to change on Saturday!
My first outfit will be the AATP Queen's Coach OP in ivory, I'm wearing this for the tea party, for the after party and the outfit contest, I will wear my brown Chess Chocolate bustier dress, it's one of my favourite dresses/outfits. The third outfit for the picnic on Sunday will be my fluffy frill halterneck JSK in red by Angelic Pretty. I hope the socks arrive in time!!
Because my other coords are not finished (socks or bag are still missing) I can only show you my Chess Chocolae outfit for Saturday evening.

The blouse and socks are ivory, hard to capture with the sunlight. The outfit is a bit of brand, offbrand and handmade but to be honest, I have no idea if the bag is a replica? Never seen this (Lolibrary doesn't have something similar) and bought it second hand.

I hope the weather will be nice, not too hot ♥ Are you also attending? Hope to meet some of you there! ^_^

Girlgroup Meet-Up

Finally I met my girlgroup again. The last time I've seen them was my birthday at the beginning of June. But then we went on holidays (New York, Vietnam, Italy, Paris...)and couldn't meet. Unfortunately one of our Lauras was still not home on Saturday but it's rare that we're all together =(
Our typical meet-ups look like this:
Meeting point is the McDonald's in the main station. Then we head to OCS, where we take purikura. After this we go to Pizza Hut or go shopping (and then to Pizza Hut ;D)
So here are some photos:

Squeezing time in the purikura machine :D

We had so much fun with Binh's fish lens :D

Svenja, me and May *fishyfishy*

The whole group (click for their blog links ^~^)
Ina, Svenja, May, Laura, Alina, me, Maren and Laura

We always HAVE to make funny pictures :D derpy and dorky

We sat down at the nearby Bubble Tea shop because Charlotte still had to work. We chatted and laughed a lot. Then we finally went to Pizza Hut *O*
What's your favourite there? I always eat Lasagne Bites Bolognese and then share Apple Crumble with Alina as a dessert <3

Lotti joined us <3


Some of our purikura <3

My outfit, felt very pink that day ;D
dress: smashed lemon * cutsew: primark * usamimi: Primark * socks: tutuana * belt: h&m * shoes: Osco

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