Craft time~! Majokko☆Bag!

Hey everyone~! I've been excited about this post for a while~! I meant to do this over the weekend so that I could make a post by Sunday afternoon, but my weekend turned out to be pretty busy, so I didn't get to finish this until earlier today! So what is it I'm talking about anyways? It's actually a school project, believe it or not! I take a Fashion Marketing class at school, and our most recent project is to design a tote bag! there are other more school-y parts to the assignment, but all I really wanted to show you was the finished tote bag ;v;!

Ta da~! This is the front~ the "Majoko" Text means Magical Girl in Japanese ;u;. I decided to romanize it because I like the look better~. I originally wanted to put two K's in, since I'm pretty sure that's more correct, but I just didn't have enough room for it. I'm still okay with just one K there anyways, since I think it looks cool haha.

and the back~! Whenever I draw out 'Millions of Bows' it ends up looking pretty much like that~

Since I really don't do a whole lot of painting or coloring (traditional or digital haha) in general, this is a little bit rough around the edges, but I'm still proud of it ;u;! So here are a few close ups~

Starry and magical☆!

The eyes were so fun to do! I absolutely love putting planets and stars inside of eyes ;u;

If anyone is interested, I definitely wouldn't mind hand painting tote bags like this to put up in my shop! Let me know if you're interested in that kind of thing and I'll try my best to get a few up ;v;~

☆Thanks for looking, everyone☆!

☆Silver Stars and Crop Tops☆

Hi everyone! This is just a pretty quick post of something I did yesterday~! A friend of mine came over, and while we were hanging out in my room suddenly I was struck with the urge to finally remake a too big T-shirt I got while thrifting into an uchuu kei style crop top! I had meant to do this for the longest time, but lately I've hardly been able to craft of sew anything for myself! It was nice to get the feeling of 'Warm up that sewing machine and get going' again, and I'll hopefully be more motivated to craft and sew more and more often from now on for both myself and my shop, since I've got a lot of materials piled up now~! 

Anyways~

That's what I made~! It was made for uchuu kei, which even though I have a master post coming up to explain more completely I'll explain a little bit here, which is a style that draws inspiration from the ideas of popkei and outer space alien cuties! Think stars, planets, metallic, neon, and anything a particularly stylish alien would wear! Since I've been dying to expand my collection of uchuu related goodies, I sketched this out somewhere (probably on school notes;;) and had wanted to do it for the longest time before I finally did it hahaha. Also, if you're wondering, the holographic stars are actually made from paper from a gift bag I had! It was more or less an experiment to see if it would look weird on clothes, but I like it and figure I can hand wash or not wear it enough to wash it anyways, so it's all good~!

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And worn! haha, the full pictures I took didn't show anything very well at all so I took a close up this time ;v;

Thanks for looking everyone! See you again soon~ 

Hello~! Updates and Spring Break!

Hello everyone! I'm sorry it's been so long! I haven't posted at all this week and I really hate that I've had to leave this blog alone for so long ;^;! I was actually on spring break this past week, and went on vacation with my family. I thought that we would have internet there, but it turned out we didn't! I did mean to make a blog post before we left but there were problems with my internet connection here and it never worked out ;^;! On the bright side though, I did have a fun time on vacation and took some pictures before we left and while I was there ;v;~!

Usually for Spring Break my family has gone to the same place to spend the break ;v;. It's a small beach town in Florida, close-ish to Panama City, but not quite there. I actually really dislike going to the beach all the time so every year I end up super bored and watching way too many movies and eating a ton of not so healthy food. It's usually like any regular break off of school, but more boring because I don't get to hang out with friends or anything. Last break, I was lucky enough to vacation with friends of mine instead, so I didn't have to go which means that this year, I was looking forward to it just a little! I wanted to share some pictures from thing's I've done recently and things I've bought and so on since I only took one picture while I was there hahaha! Since I had no internet connection anyways, I mostly just turned my phone off and went with whatever was going on. anyways on to updates and pictures and all of that ;u;~

First off, I don't think I showed you my March nails yet! I did these for Momocon earlier in the month, and they're not my favorite but I liked them ;v;.

I actually went with my mom to a nail salon before we left and got a manicure~! I almost never go to salons since I enjoy doing my own nails, so this is a fun kinda change for me ;v;. 

I got a pretty cute cover up for the beach too, and put together a beach spring break-y outfit before I left haha

Recently, I picked up reading again, after three years or so of only reading school-assigned books. Since I had a week on the beach I picked up and borrowed some reading material~ I brought a lot of old books that I loved too and ended up reading six books over the vacation! I even bought two more books while I was over there aha

that pretty much sums up my break haha. Basically I read a ton,Went on bike rides, ate seafood for the first time in a really long time, and had a great time hanging out with my family ;v;! I did really miss having internet access though ;A;!

Happy Easter by the way, everyone! I'm not doing anything but unpacking today, but I hope you have a lovely day ;u;~!

Thanks for looking!

☆30 Day Fairy Kei Challenge! Days 14-18 & Art Post!☆

Hey, everyone! I'm sorry about the weird posting schedule lately! School and other things have been pretty intense lately, and I haven't had much time for blogging at all ;A;! I don't want to leave this blog totally bare, though, so have four more days of the 30 day fairy kei challenge!

☆ Day fourteen: Do you have any hobbies that you could consider Fairy-Kei’?

I suppose fair kei hobbies would include collecting old cute 80s things or crafting? If that's so then, sure! I'm not an avid collector, sadly, so even though I claim a lot of "collections" it's usually not more than five items per "collection" of mine hahaha. I collect Care Bears and Unicorns! I would love to start collecting 80s magical girl items as well~!

Care Bears, Unicorns, and other stuffed animals on my bed~

I also craft, draw, and sew and love diy in general, though I'm usually either too busy or lazy to do a lot of it haha!

☆ Day fiveteen: Something you or a friend made themselves

 

I didn't make this, My friend Jesse did, but it's so perfect and cute! I love it a lot, so I wanted to share it here! I haven't done a whole lot of crafting at all lately, aside from the objects in my shop, so I don't have much of anything new to share ;u;

☆ Day sixteen: How did you dress before Fairy-Kei?

I used to dress in lolita, and other than that usually circus-inspired style!  I mostly wore combos of Black, white and pink.

Lolita~!

I think this was the outfit I wore to see  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1! I could be wrong though hahaha.

This is a petty old circus-centric outfit! you can tell especially because my walls were still beige haha. It's from January 16th, 2010! I'm pretty sure this was an outfit for school, but I'm not sure haha.

☆ Day seventeen: Do you dress in also another style, e.g. Lolita.

Not so much anymore! I still like to look at lolita and see it on others, but It's not really a part of my fashion zone anymore, so I've decided to more or less stop wearing it all together. 

I do dress in uchuu kei whenever it suits me, though (And I swear I am working that blog post! It's just pretty hard to put together information and references for a style that doesn't really exist haha.)! My wardrobe for that is still super limited, and because of my schedule lately I haven't been able to make a whole lot of things to match the outer space aesthetic~

☆ Day eighteen: How do you dress when you go to school?

Most of my outfit shots that I have are probably from going to school! That's where I go the most often, and I don't see a big point in having a fairy kei wardrobe and a wardrobe of "school clothes", so I just wear fairy kei or uchuu kei or whatever! Check out my outfit shot tag if you'd like to see some school coordinates~ ;u;!

I also wanted to share with you a shop promo I did for my grand opening! I thought I already had shown it here, but since I haven't I will!

There are only four more days to take advantage of the free gift! I'll be adding more stock after that, so please check out Millions of Bows Shop!

Also, if you'd like to see the full sized art, you can see her over on my Deviantart~!

Thanks for looking☆!

☆Momocon 2012~!

Heya everyone! haha sorry about that 10 day absence again, but Momocon, a convention in Atlanta I'v been attending since 2008, really snuck up on me this year! I'd mostly been preparing for that, along with studying for midterms and taking care of a few other things, so thats why I was gone for so long. I did have a pretty fun weekend at momocon this year, though, so I was going to share some of it with you~!

I went friday, saturday, and sunday this year, so here are my outfuts!

friday 3-16-12

rundown~

Shirt, tights, Socks, - offbrand

Jacket, shoes - thrifted

Skirt, bow, button - handmade

saturday 3-17-12. I could not take an in focus picture for the life of me! sorry ;A;!

Rundown

Jsk - Dream of Lolita

Tights, socks - offbrand

Shoes, apron - thrifted

Cardigan - secondhand

Accessories - offbrand, handmade

sunday 3-18-12

Everything handmade, offbrand, or thrifted!

I did my nails for it too~

I didn't take a whole lot of pictures friday or saturday, because there wasn't much on Friday and on Saturday my camera decided to totally spazz out and reject the batteries I had to use! It would only turn on sometimes, and go back and fourth between full battery and dead so I only have a few photos from when It was luckily working!

Got this super cute closet cosplay of Chibi Usa and Usagi from Sailor Moon! ;v;!

On saturday, we had a lolita meetup where we all met and took picctures before going to the food court and grabbing a bite to eat ;v;! I love taking candid pictures like this, but it seeme like one or two lolis were ready for this one hahaha

Thats actually all that my camera would let me get on Saturday ;^;!! I took lots more on sunday though~

We helped move lugage from jesses hotel room to a friends car to hold, and took a shoe shot while we were all down at the parking lot, though my skirts too poofy to really see my shoes!

Jesse and I together on the way to the food court! 

I saw a Ranma! I love Ranma 1/2 a lot so I was excited to see a pretty good one ;u;!

A super awesome Peter Pan group showed as well~! 

Near the end of the con on Sunday, we decided to go up to the 47th floor, which was pretty scary in the glass elevator! I took a picture from the top ;v;~

While we waited to get picked up, we sat around on the 10th floor and I took this neat POV picture~

It was a pretty fun weekend! I wish my camera hadn't spazzed out quite so much on satuday though ;A;! 

Thanks for looking~☆

☆Milky Planet☆ Photoshoot!

Hey everyone~! This is a pretty busy weekend for me, so sorry I didn't have my post up earlier today! I'm gonna share some pictures from the little "photoshoot" I had for the GLW contest! Voting is still going on btw, and though I don't think I can make the top 4, I'd really appreciate a vote ;u;.

I put "potoshoot" in quotes because it was really just my friends helping me out with this, and having a lot of fun! We listened to a playlist of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu while we took photos, so a lot of the shoot was spent dancing and  generally being silly! ;v;

I used this one for my contest full body photo!

The outfit rundown is~
JSK - Dream of Lolita
Tights (mint and pink split) - We Love Colors (two pairs)
Black Dot Tights - H&M
Shoes - Secret Shop
Accessories - Handmade, offbrand

And I used this one as the close up~

I did a lot of dancing along to Kyary's songs while we were taking pictures ehehe
Can you guess which song I'm dancing to~?

This is my absolute favorite picture! Maybe you can tell since its my icon...everywhere! hahaha

I don't quite remember why this happened, but I really love this picture!

Laffi Magic BEAM ☆ ☆ ☆!

More Kyarying!! 

And a silly picture to end ;u;~

Haha it was a lot of fun! This isn't even half of all the pictures we took, but these are some of my favorites ;v;

If you haven't yet, I'd really really really appreciate ☆a vote☆too! 

Thanks for looking~☆!