Where Did I Dissapear To?

This past week I have been so busy! First of all, I got several orders at the same time at my etsy store. Here are the things I have been working on:

Glow in the dark rainbow mask

Batman belt

Rainbow beadkini

And now I am working on another beadkini thats going to have tons of purple daisys all over it! Which is actually an idea I have wanted to try for a really long time, but never got around to it.

Aside from that, what has really kept me away and busy was a little baby mouse, who I just called Baby.

My ex boyfriend and I had a snake together. Now that we dont live together and arnt with eachother, our variable king snake Iris lives with him. A little over a week ago I went to bisit the both of them, and I picked up a baby mouse on the way over. For whatever reason, Iris didnt eat. So, I started to feel bad and didnt want the baby mouse to starve to death if it wasnt going to be eaten, so I took her home with me and took care of her.

This past week my life has been filled with constant worry if I wasnt home to take care of her, smelling like baby formula when I was home, and when I would go spend the night at my sort-of-boyfriend-but-im-not-ready-for-that-yet's house, I would pack a bag of baby suplies and bring her over with me so I could still see him, and still take care of her at the same time. Unfortunately when I woke up for her feeding, I discovered that she had passed on.

I tried really hard to not get attached just in case she didnt make it. I didnt want to know her gender or give her a name. But a week of hand feeding a baby like that with a bottle or a miniature droper, seeing that she was in fact a girl (male mice and rats do not have nipples, so eventhough i didnt want to know the gender, as soon as I saw, I knew), and by just refering to her as baby, it ended up sticking as her name, I couldnt help but become attached, so now I am quite devestated.

But, I suppose on a happier note, I am going to attend my first convention in 5 years! I am going all 3 days, and my sort-of-boyfriend said he will try to go with me too! So now I have an excuse to wear my new raver lolita outfit even sooner! Plus try an OTT outfit with my black Milky Planet jsk! It is next weekend and I am really excited! Plus, all of the lolitas will be in the same place, so its going to be loads of fun!

Though I have been to conventions before, I never went to any of the con raves. So next weekend will be my first one! To tell you the truth, I am sort of nervouse about it. I am use to real raves, so I dont know what to expect from a con rave. I have heard scary storie of people being snooty, and when asked to trade kandi, they will stick up their noses at you. Wich of course is the opposite of the real raves I go to where everyone is friendly and everyone wants to trade, and you can feel the PLUR in the air! (Plur or plurr is the rave motto for pleace love unity arespect and responsibility)

But I will have tons of pictures to share next week from the event! I am so darn excited!!!!! XD

Experimental Lolita + my Etsy

Well I have been juggling cyber lolita outfits in my head for a while now, but I dont have the money to do exactly what I want. However, after going through my events page on Facebook, I realized that on April 28th, I have two events I really want to go to on the same day! AND they just happen to be at the same park! The first event is our May Day picnic for all the Arizona lolitas. The second is the first raver picnic of the season. Since I know that the raver picnics usually last all night long, and I know that the May Day picnic will last till about 3:00, I figured I could just walk across the park to join in the raver kid festivities.

I havnt had the time or money to go to a rave recently. The last one I went to was back in November. I really misss it a lot! I miss all of my raver friends! Unfortunately we are so busy with our own lives that raves are the only time we ever get to see eachother.

So, at first I was planning an outfit for the May Day picnic, but then I was thinkng, that wouldnt do so well at a raver party. All though for summer International Lolita Day last year I wore lolita to a rave, but that was a speciql case. So I figured why not create an outfir that combines my love for the rave world, AND lolita? I have a ton of beads, so yesterday I went to work on a few accessories.

A kandi mask, a bow, and a cupcake hair tie. I am contemplating making kandi goggles, but I am not sure if thats going to be too much on my head since I am also obviously going to have my headbow on as well.

I am going to wear my Whip Magic jsk in black, and wear my pink fuzzy legwarmers and wrist cuffs. I am really excited for this outfit! It is going to combine the two things I love most, AND it will be with my favorite dress!

Here is a rough preview of what it will look like:

But I think I am eithet going to wear black otk socks instead. Possibly with my pink glittery fishnet tights on top if I can find them! ;P

As for makeup, I have no idea what to do!!! All I know for certain is that I will be wearing my green cercle lenses. Here is a closeup of what the mask looks like worn. I also have my circle lenses in right now, but please excuse my boring every-day makeup. Whatever I decide on is going to be very glittery, and probably have lots of swirls or something going on.

And while I really wanted to continue with the 30 day challange, I can not at the moment. For one, one of the people in my building has bed bugs. The infestation is so bad they are having reports of them now moveing into other peopls rooms. When I found this out yesterday I was incredibly grossed out! I even slept at my gentelman caller's house last night so I wouldnt have to be here. I have never had a bug problem. I like to keep my place spotless and clean! Even with all the animals I have, I always make sure no cage is smelly and I vaccum regularly! So now that this infestation is going on in the room beneath me, the exterminators came in and tore my apartment apart to set up bug traps, and spray down my floor and walls. They also gased the heck out of the breeding grounds down stairs, so hopefully that will be the end of that! So now that my place is torn apart, I dont really want to take pictures of my room for the next challange.

Secondly, I have been really busy with my Etsy shop. I make and sell custom beaded bikini tops and belts. I have also done purses and skirts for myself and others. I recently got several orders so I have been a bit busy and havnt been able to have the time to continue with the challange, and then the bug problem happened :[

Anyways, here is the latest order I have finished. This is for an A-cup, and the rainbow pattern is glow in the dark.

The next order I will be working on is a Batman belt. It is going to be awesome, and I will definately share pictures of when it is done!

I think after I finish all of my current orders I might make a few more masks and list them and see how they go. If they sell allright then I might add them to my list of custom pieces that can be ordered.

So what do you think of my outfit and newest creations? I would really like some con crit for all of them! Thanks so much in advance for your info!

Past two events + new purchases

Ok! So not only have I found a new job, but Ive scored some really cute things, and went to a couple cool events! Life is treating me good!

First of all, a few Fridays ago I went to a rave in Phoenix called Kandiland! It was so much fun! So many of my friends were there!!! I had friends from all over Arizona show up, and all over California as well!!! It was great to see everyone in one place! Especially since I hardly ever get to see most of them! I had the cutest Hello Kitty outfit planned! Unfortunately I couldnt find my Hello Kitty fleece hat! :[ Also, I made a beadkini for one of my friends and she was going to make me a matching bead skirt in exchange, bu I guess she didnt finish it in time, so I ended up wearing a purple tutu that I made. It was actually the first tutu I ever made, but unlike my other tutus I never got to wear it untill now! Sorry for the bad pictures! I forgot my camera at home and my friends who did bring their cameras...well, we were having too much fun to remember to take more. ;p

Full outfit shot:

You can sort of see my hello kitty beadkini.^^

And a closeup picture. I didnt really like how my makeup turned out...I think its usually better, but everyone else liked it so that made me feel better about it! :] This is one of my really good friends from way out of town. I was really excited to see him! We hung out all day before the rave and some other friends joined us after the rave to eat at iHop, which is kind of a tradition for me and my local rave family!

All though I had a blast though, I was really dissapointed with the organization. The outdoor area was SO tiny! I have been to that same venue before and the outside are was big! I have no idea why they made it so tiny! Especially since it was packed! If I can remember corectly, tickets were sold to people in 23 different states! I have no clue why they didnt prepare for it. Also, at 10pm they ran out of water for 2 hours! So it was hot and packed like sardines, and no water. :/ Aside from that though, I did enjoy myself.

And if anybody is familiar with Crumpet who runs this site dedicated to sharing hundreds of kandi picture cuff patterns, then I have cool news to share! She was at the rave too! I evnded up trading her one of my 3Ds for one of her cuffs, and she said it was really pretty and loved it! :D I am really happy I actually had the chance to trade her! It's like celebrity kandi! ♥



Ok! And so event #2 was at a local bar, and it was called Vampire Masqurade! I honestly had no idea what to wear for this event! I had just gotten home from my first day of training and threw something together! However, I think it actually turned out really cute for an all offbrand thrown together outfit! I wore my underbust corset most of the night, but took it off around 2am, which made it look sort of like a gal hime outfit, but it was really cute! I want to get more flowy tops like it now so I can experiment with more styles! BUT enough of my babling and on to the pictures!

And a bad quality outfit photo for the night with my good friend Tom (who is in the very first pictur with me), this time being a photo terrorist XP

There were a few really nice photos taken by a photographer there, but I have yet to see them released, but I will definately share them as soon as I find them!^^

This same night was also when the new Angelic Pretty lucky packs were released online! I was so excited, except they were sold out a mere 3 minuets after they were released...

However, I did manage to order the new Angelic Pretty print Decoration Dreams in the sax colorway! I am so stoaked to get this set! Even though I honestly prefer more subtle things, and black, Angelic Pretty just seems to have this wicked spell over me! Every so often I see a print that i must have! I do try to keep it to jumperskirts though, so I can pair it up with a black blouse and socks to kind of town it down. However, I think I may just do an OTT sweet coord with this new set. I just cant resist all the adorable ponys! Besides, blue is my favorite color!

So, even though I know there are going to be a ton of people wearing it the typical coords that you would find in the add, I want to wear it that way as well...at LEAST once! ♥ Then I'll mix it up with the rest of my wardrobe. But even though the color and the ponies are what sold me, this is why I fell in love:

And I've decided I'm going to stop buying things unless they are on my wish-list here on my livejournal account. :]
Allthough, honestly I really need to take a break from buying lolita till my birthday! XD So I think I can wait untill May to get anything else! :]

Armin van Buuren

So at the beginning of September I drove several hours to another town to see the #1 DJ in the world, god of trance music, Armin van Buuren! I was so suprised to find out that he was playing within driving distance of my town, so I couldnt NOT GO! I decided to wear my Sheep Garden to the show.

Makeup:

So I paid extra so I could get VIP tickets, because, well, it's Armin! The event was helled all day at a small resourt. The stage was poolside, which was pretty cool. Before Armin came on there were other local artists playing. The majority of the people who attended were all bros and people who dont typically go to raves, so it was a little odd.

While Armin's set was beautiful and amazing, I was really put off by the people in attendance. While one set was going a bunch of people thought i would be cool to start calling and chanting for Armin to come out and the current djs to step down which was incredibly rude. You would never see that sort of thing at any rave. Secondly, when Armin finally did come out, again, stupid bros thought it would be cool to keep on throwing beach balls everywhere, and they kept on bouncing off of the equipment on stage, and evin hit Armin in the head a few times! I was incredibly embarrased by everyones rude behavior! Third of all, my friend and I stood at the very front of the stage for over an hour before Armin even came out so we would be sure to front and center for his set befor it got crowded. I was front and center for Armin and it was amazing!!! What wasnt amazing was the stupid little girls behind me shoving me into the rail trying to get past me. So, I danced ever crazier, jumping up and down, and shaking my booty, making sure that unless they wantet their toes steped on or they wanted to get booty smashed, they would let ke have my space. Same goes for the guy who "dropped" his phone behind the rail in front of me and the girl to my right, who tried to get infront of us that way. Fortunately we were small enough to squish back in front of him and we both pushed him back into the crowed.

And my final dissapointment was that I spent extra for VIP, but they didnt have anything for VIP. But it was Armin and It was definately worth seeing him live, and so incredibly close! I was probably about 3 feet away from him! <3

30 Day Lolita Challange- Day 2/30 Day Raver Challange

Ok! I've decided to do a 30 day rave challange as well! Allthough I think I will wait until I am finished the lolita challange to start that. I figured since both raves and lolita have a special place in my heart, any meme I do for lolita I can tweak around to work for raveing as well.

The rundown of the 30 Day rave challange is as follows:

Day 1 –10 things about your rave bubble.
Day 2 –10 things you love in raves.
Day 3 –10 things you hate in raves.
Day 4 –10 different kinds of candy/sweets you like.
Day 5 –The one rave you dream about going to.
Day 6 –your dream rave outfit.
Day 7 –10 photos of outfits that inspire your raver style.
Day 8 –10 songs that pump you up for raves.
Day 9 –10 things you will never do at a rave.
Day 10 –What’s in your rave bag?
Day 11 –One day/night as a raver in pictures.
Day 12 –A picture from your first rave.
Day 13 –5 pictures of your favorite kandi you have recieved.
Day 14 –5 pictures of your favorite kandi you have made.
Day 15 –A picture of your last rave related purchase.
Day 16 –Your favorite outfit to wear to raves.
Day 17 –What do you want more then anything to happen for the rave scene?
Day 18 –what is your favorite genre of rave music?
Day 19 –What makeup do you wear to raves?
Day 20 –A picture of a raver friend.
Day 21 –Your favorite rave you have been too.
Day 22 –A drawing of yourself. :]
Day 23 – Your favorite color and how you express it.
Day 24 –What is your rave name and why?
Day 25 –Your favorite rave themed artwork.
Day 26 –Your current Facebook profile picture.
Day 27 –One song that fits your favorite rave outfit.
Day 28 –A picture of the perfect rave.
Day 29 –A picture of a raver you would love to meet for real.
Day 30 –A photo of yourself taken today and 3 good things that have happened in the last 30 days.

If anybody decides to do this one please link me to it so I can follow you!

And now I can continue with the 30 day lolita challange!

Day 2- 10 Things You Love In Lolita
1. I think the one thing that atracted me right off the bat was all the details that are in each and every pice of lolita clothing, such as the lace, pintucks, gathers, etc. The attention to detail is wonderful and makes me feel special just looking at it. The clothing really is a work of art by itself!

2. The shoes! I absolutely adore all the lolita shoes! They are all so cute and come in eveery color and shade you could think of!

3. I love all the crazy things brands put out! Pvc mini skirts, mini skirts in general, cakes and pastries to wear on your head, and even an ice cream cone headdress Angelic Pretty came out with a few years back! While it is all lolita brand stuff, you can easily make a "normal" outfit with ao these wacky items as well to give your lazy days i nice touch of cute withought having to go all out.

4. OTK socks. I kind of have an obsession with socks in general but I love all the cute sicks I can wear in lolita, and even pair them up with a cute non lolita outfit as well.

5. The community. Not only do I adore my local community, I love how I can be in touch with thousands of other frilly ladys and gents with just a press of a button.

6. Even though there are a few local lolitas here, I love the fact that unless we plan to hang out, chances are I will NOT run into anybody who wears lolita, let alone what it is. So its nice to walk around without seeing someone wearing the same thing you are.

7. All the various styles and looks you can have in lolita, yet at the end of the day it is still lolita.

8. It may sound lame, but i LOVE twirling around in my lolita skirts and dresses! Its so fun having them flair out while you spin! Or doing the booty shake to help your petticoat floof out.

9. The reactions! Obviously not all have been good, but the compliments are always awesome, especially with the children! I have been called princess, a beautiful lady, and I even once overheard a little girl exclaim to her mother that when she grew up she wanted to be just like me.

10. I suppose the most import thing is, the thing i love the most about lolita is lolita itself. No matter how long I go between wearing lolita, no matter what other fashions or hobbies I get into, I always go back to lolita. I just have some special conection to it. It makes me feel confident, amazing and beautiful. Not only does it put a smile on my face, but i have knoticed it puts smiles on the faces of others when they see me. And to know that wearing lolita has made others happy, makes me all the more happier! Sometimes it feels like I didn't choose lolita, rather that it chose me.