Challenge outfit 1/7

First challenge outfit coming up! This is how I look today.

2+7+9

So, I'm wearing a Baby, the Stars Shine Bright skirt, Fan+Friend blouse and Monki shoes.

10 items - 7 outfits challenge!

A challenge that was posted by livejournal user Raydance was chosen to be the monthly theme of the lolita community egl in February. The sparking post can be read here. The idea was taken from magazines such as Kera, that sometimes do things like this.

The point of the challenge is to pick out ten items in your wardrobe (things like accessories and socks do not count) and combine seven outfits or coordinations out of these items. I thought this would be lots of fun so I tookup the challenge.

These will be my ten items:

1)
Alice & the Pirates
Beardsley Rose Alice skirt

2)
Baby the Stars Shine Bright
(What's the name of this one?)

3)
Bodyline
Rose jumperskirt

4)
Dear Celine
Bolero

5)
H&M + handmade
Modified sweater

6)
Baby the Stars Shine Bright
Shortsleeved cutsew

7)
Fan + Friend
Black blouse

8)
Anna House
White blouse

9)
Monki
High heeled ankle boots

10)
Inherited leather boots

I had a quite limited shoe selection as it's all icy and very slippert outside due to the temperature being around zero a lot, but this is what I'll go with! I'm starting this off today so my first coordinate post will possibly show up later today or tomorrow!

Back to school

Spent last Wednesday with great friends from my old school and I had to dress up a little for the occassion. I've posted this same outfit earlier but I like it a lot, and this is a much better picture. Sadly I ended up with quite the showing petti, but oh well.

The JSK is from Bodyline and the cardigan is from H&M.

My dear friend Tiia and me.

We visited the school and had lots of fun there. Then we spent the whole afternoon in my apartment, eating mudcake and singing singstar. We were almost ten people in my tiny apartment. After that we headed to the schools sauna where we spent rest of the night partying. Such a nostalgic day!

Sandra + Emmi

My friend Emmi (who's blog can be read here) stayed over for a few nights. I hadn't seen her for such a long while and it was so much fun! Me and Emmi have a lot of things in common, even outside of lolita and it feels nice to talk about all that together.

On Tuesday we went walking around downtown with my camera. It's funny how sometimes you get no comments when you wear lolita, and sometimes there's lots of them. Yesterday was defintely one of those days. Some santa-dressed woman even wanted us to participate in a parade. :'D

First some pictures from outside in the snow! There's so much snow already, and we're getting more and more all the time. the whole country will probably be a big snowpile before spring comes.


And then a couple of pictures of Emmi. She's so cute!



Then we moved our frilly butts into Kamppi shopping center and found somewhere to take pictures.

And then one of Emmi again!

Christmas is in two days! I'm not all that excited yet, but I'm sure it will reach me soon! I still have to work all day tomorrow, and that surely pulls down on my excitement a lot. But Merry Christmas everyone! :)

October came and went

I have lots of photos I could show from this month, but uploading them all in one entry would be
just too much, so I'll show you the highlights of the month , explaining a little along the way.

A few outfit snapshots from the first half I'm fond of:

5.10

10.10

19.10

As you can see, somewhere in between my hair went from red to brown. I suddenly felt tired of
the red again and pictures of Mori Girls inspired me and my dream-hair suddenly became dark
brown, long, thick and flowing. I still want to dye it a shade darker or so, but this is fine for now
as my hair isn't as long as I would wish it to be yet either. But it grows surprisingly quickly!
This is my hair in October last year:

And now: Of course, it's pulled up in a messy ponytail in these pictures, but I still think you can
see what a huge difference it is. It reaches way over my shoulders now, but I'm still working on
getting it longer!

The 17th and 18th was Tsukicon here in Helsinki. It turned out to be quite the fail for such a
price. I personally wasn't a victim of how badly organized it was since I wasn't participating in
any show or anything but also the whole setup of the place was not very good and there wasn't
really anything to do other than walk around.

The Finnish lolita-forum Enfant Terrible had organized a fashion show with the theme "Lolita to
the Extreme" and the show in itself was fabulous, but it could have been so much better with
proper lights and stage-setup which all wasn't possible because of the location of the stage.
Otherwise i've also heard stories of their dressing-room and J-rockers passing through.

It's sad that all cons here lately have been so badly organized. Animecon is always like that,
there's nothing to do about it. 10 000 people and no entrance fee is a combination bound to fail,
so people put their hopes in the smaller "private" cons, but then Tsukicon goes and fails like this.
WHat will our summer cons then look like with the flood of immigrants from the big emptyness the lack of Animecon leaves behind? I fear a catastrophe.

But, not thanks to the con, but thanks to my friends, I still had a great weekend and made lots of
wonderful memories.

Going out on Saturday evening with Sofia and Jyri

On the way to Tsukicon on Sunday morning

And my outfit from the day:
Blouse and socks: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright
Skirt: Innocent World
Shoes: Bodyline

And then a couple of Outfits from the rest of October:

22.10
We went to the Helsinki bookfair with school. I experimented a little here, combining mint and
lavender. It turned out to be Mint x Lavender x Pink though because of the pink in the L'Oiseau
Bleu print. JSK and Cardigan is Baby, the Stars Shine Bright. socks are Angelic Pretty and the
shoes Secret Shop.

23.10
Breast cancer awareness "Dress in Pink-day"
T-shirt is LEGO, Cardigan is the modified H&M one, I've posted about before, Skirt is Alice and
the Pirates, socks Angelic Pretty and the shoes Secret Shop.

Now with all this behind we stepped into November today. I almost can't believe I've already
lived in Helsinki for two whole months. I should make a post with pictures of my apartment
some day. Just ahve to wait till i get the camera again. Sharing one with your sister living an
hour away isn't alway the easiest thing. Lucky my dad hinted I'd be getting one for
birthday/christmas.

Creme de la Garderobe

The Finnish lolita forum Enfant Terrible hosted a second hand event at Café Villipuutarha here
in Helsinki on the 27th of September. The day was full of nice people and nice clothes, pink hot
chocolate, shopping, beautiful decorations, wonderful feelings in the air and lighter wallets.
After the market there was a small 18+ party with live music and golden drinks. It was a
wonderful day and a wonderful evening. My heart is happy but my wallet isn't. Well that's too
bad for the wallet, because I don't care.

Rittis eating cake

Jenni and Elfie on the sofa.

Nera enjoying some Hesburger food.

Pigru doing quite the same.

A cute Myrre.

Her rings are wonderfully cute!

And I am wearing:
Blouse by Anna House,
Dress and socks by Metamorhose,
Shoes by SthlmDG

Moomin bloomers!

A very sweet Tiiau.

There was a raffle!

This is what I bought from there;
A pink Angelic Pretty blouse,
Dusty pink Innocent World skirt,
Brown velvet Innocent World dress
and a lavender x pink macaron ring!

Thank you girls for this wonderful evening!