I said before that my hand had stopped hurting after that injection right? WELL THE INJECTION LIED :( It only made the swelling and pain go away for a couple of weeks and now it's back to how it was before the injection. It's like I went through that weekend of tourment for NO RAISIN.

Me, mum and Jimbo (my brother James, for those who aren't familiar) went out to Norwich shopping today. James got some UGLY shoes... He wouldn't listen to us telling him to get the nice ones and he was his usual miserable twatty self. We went to waffle house and he wasn't even amused by the fact that everything was on a waffle. What sort of person doesn't love waffles, HEY?
Mum got a nice coat from Hennes! It's tartan and really lovely. I was encouraging her to get a new coat because her old one was seriously embarressing. lol It was one that I had when I was like 10 years old XD
I bought a pretty dress from my Nanny's friend's boutique! Its skirt is gathered tiered tulles and chiffons with insanely cute bow lace and pompom trim, and what's even better, it has room for petticoats!! XD It makes a lovely kurololi look and it was on sale for £35! XD I love me some bargains I do!

One annoying thing about the day though is that everytime I went to pick something up or cut my food, my hand started screaming. FFS.




Oh, I finished making my minnie mouse "costume" but I didn't even go out in the end. My friend didn't want to meet in town until after X Factor but at like half 8 I was already falling asleep on the sofa, all dressed up, waiting for her to text me. I was far too tired to go anywhere. About as tired as I am now. you can tell when I'm sleepy typing because I make loads of shit grammer things and rambling sentences. I also don't know how to spell stuff and end up just leaving the shit wrong spellings. <--- that's rabling riiiiiight there.

I'm wearing my loliminniemouse now actually, I figure I should get some use out of it since I put all that hard work into it. OMG I could complain to no end about how shit the construction is but it's only really the waist band and it wouldn't have been so terrible if that fucking disgusting fabric hadn't been so fucking difficult to work with. I SWEAR THERE IS NO WAY TO PRESS SHINEY DISGUSTING POLYESTER. IT WOULD NOT CREASE, NOR WOULD IT TAKE CREASES OUT. I AM NEVER USING SUCH A HORRIBLE FABIC EVER AGAIN. Not even if you paid me... well I wouldn't accept payment because it would end up so shit.

At least it was a learnig experience! I did my first ever zip, gathering, fixed/half elastic waist band and, well, my first ever skirt! Also my first and last time I use shiney polyester.


I must really sleep now...

For some reason, the photo host I've had for years has stopped working.

Now I have to reupload all my photos to somewhere else but I'm not at home. FFS.

My hand is back to normal now! So Yesterday, I made some invites for a halloween party to get everyone on my course into the Uni-Party mood (handing them out tomorrow) and today I've been making my costume for said party! I'm making a minnie mouse skirt... but I don't know whether I sould do a heart shaped apron top on it like in this quick little doodle:



Lol I think I'll do a head eating bow for it too!!! XD With Minnie Mouse ears attached of course ^^ lol That should be great!

Even if the party doesn't go through for my uni class, I'll still have a costume for any other party :D I've been wanting a minnie mouse lolita costume since I started to get into the fashion four years ago :P

I'll post photos when I'm done!

Sorry I haven't been online recently guys!!! I've been quite busy with uni work, work work and Kit work :P I miss my online life but my irl life has been picking up! I really want to have a proper studenty year after such a shit one last year! The past three weeks I've gone out around Yarmouth and Norwich clubbing XD Last week me and anna had a hoot with James (A swiss guy on her course) in PoNaNa's and we invented a new dance move called the shark where you put your hand on your head (like a shark's fin) and swim around in a shark like manner. This is particularly effective in a busy crowd and you can treat the people around you like water! We made a shark chain as we left the club so we didn't lose eachother and we looked cool (like retards) at the same time XD We're hoping that it will catch on!

( Some photos from Norwich <3 )

One good effect from not being online is that I haven't bought any expencive clothes this month!!! What a good little Louisakins I am :P lol but I did go shopping with Anna when my loan came through! I spent about £80/90 but it's ok since my grandparents gave me £50 that morning to spend :D See I'm good! I'm sure my bank statement will say otherwise.

I had a steroid injection in my hand on Friday and can now not move my thumb at all. But at least I get this weekend off of work!!! Well I had to because doing anything with my hand could rip my tendon and omfg it was so painful! it's only just now starting to not hurt so much but I still can't move it and the rest of my fingers are pretty stiff and painful to move XP my hand is so swollen.... Urgh prolly shouldn't be typing... or computing at all.

G2G my hand is not happy.

( Angelic Pretty, Babyssb, MILK, HeartE and Meta for sale! Nothing over £45 in UK/£50 international )


Oh and my red millefilluers (sp?) skirt is still up for trading/partial trade if you have the black version!! HERE!!!

Basically I don't think there is such a thing as a lifestyle lolita, but there are so many cute things I like doing, like baking and having tea and cake... The sort of things that make you feel cute XD

To help along with these cute hobbies, I like to have cute stuff surrounding me. Anything that looks like it's from Cath Kidston or Laura Ashley! How couldn't a sweet lolita as myself not love these things? Well today I give you some photos of them...








( + 5 photos of tea cups and an awesome beer bottle I use for flowers... )

I hope you enjoy today's little bit of interesting :D

I feel so lonely... The only people who I spend time with is my family, Kit, his family, and Anna. Kit and his family don't even count anymore because they're my family too, so basically I have one friend.

Having a bit of web presence makes me feel better, but I don't even have that anymore. My life is consumed by school work and Kit... and that's it! Well I bake as well, read Vogue, shop, watch movies etc. Y'know, normal things that people do, but they're all so solitary.

Today, I watched Desperate Housewives, baked some cookies, did some summer project work, and now I'm blogging. I don't even have any friends to read my blog! Kit only reads it when I tell him something interesting in on here like baking taims or d_l photos or art or something... I even try to make it interesting!


Here's today's little bit of interesting! It's baking taims!!! :D







( Cookie recipe and pictures! )


I couldn't remember what me and Anna did to make those mocha walnut cupcakes but when I give them another go, I'll post the recipe. Until then you get these tasty and easy to make cookies! I did a batch as a present for my manager who has gone on maternity leave from this week and wrapped them up really cute with pink and white tissue paper, ribbon and put them in a hot pink box! Everybody loves them! <3 They really do make great gifts and are quick enough to do the same morning you want to give them :D

Next baking taims will be carrot cake! So yummy! <3 and no chance of forgetting the recipe for that since it was out of a book XD

This looks like an adorable movie!! :D queen of dorks posted some fanart on DA so I thought I'd have a little google around and see what it was about... Don't even bother with the American dubbing D: It makes me want to vomit, it's so bad! Just look at how cute this scene is in Japanese <3








Oh, and I've not really been online much recently... I've been busy being ill again (thought I had flu again but really it was just tonsillitis ~ really bad though like I could barely move, had a tempurature about 39 and was sick a couple of times) but I'm completely better now :D Also got lots of summer project work to do for uni... mostly it's print, cut, stick etc like normal sketchbook work but also got lots of painting, drawing, observations to do and I haven't really got much reference for one part of the project but I haven't got the research for the other part now!!! D: I just have to really buckle down I guess! I can't believe that August is nearly over... It's dissapeared seriously quickly.

I'm soooooo excited today :D Reasons?

*AP dot logo bag is soon to be on it's way! I'm hoping it will be sent next week, but I just paid for the shipping so it feels that little bit closer! X3
*I could be going to New York in February! It's a trip with Yarmouth College so it's educational, but I've sent my first payment so now I just have to hope that enough students have signed up for it... And that there will be some free time allocated so I can shop... I'm thinking of saving about a grand for it :P even if it's just an afternoon that we can go shopping in, I could easily spend that on like four to ten things. Lol I know I'm bad, but I probably wouldn't spend like that XD

That's enough reason to be excited right?


Other stuff going on... I might be having my contract changed at work to have a flexible contract like a 4 hour flexi contract would mean I get at least 4 hours a week and then a whole load more as overtime on whatever days I'll be free to work :) If you choose not to get this new type of contract then you'll get no overtime at all so it's better this way really. Rachel said the only times there wont be overtime on this contract is 10 weeks a year MAX so I think it might be good to earn a bit more and know about having said overtime in advance rather than an hour before they want you to come in...


Is anyone else a little confused about the new stuff on poupee? They say you can only make 20 comments a day, so does that mean they've taken away the 3 reset times and wittled it down to midnight? And how does the new dress up bonus work? I don't know... I'll have to see on the poupee_girl lj comm. I like the new login bonus though ^^ and that you get 2 ribbons per comment and can exchange Jewels for more ribbons than the money bought you before. I have to get taking sme new photos for poupee too, I've bought so much stuff since I last had a photo taking session XP lol


Tomorrow is a cupcake club day! I'm staying over at Anna's too so we're going to make dinner aswell! Love cooking :D I really want to make white chocolate and ginger cheesecake... like the one you get at wagamama... just to kill the craving :D It's like THE most lush cheesecake in the world! But I've also been aching to make these really yummy looking marbled brownies that are in my big cookie book... Me and Anna have two books that are identical so she knows what ones I'm talking about :3 The walnut brownies we made were so good... they could have prolly done with a little less time in the oven though.
Oh and I'll charge up th camera and get a picture of the make up bag I made her!!! It's actually pretty good!

Speaking of sewing, I have a pair of bloomers sitting in my room half sewn and a gosurori that's shouting at me to use! I'm so nervous about this fashion degree... but at least now I know what I want to do and I'm 100% sure that I'm going to complete this course!! I'm aiming to get the best grades really ^^ lol which I know is going to be tough but I'm determined to only produce garments that I would pay for and actually wear - as in brand quality. My bloomers that I made are now my most worn pairs! Even more than all my cute little swimmer bloomers! (Well except for when I wear really short skirts lol then I need to wear my swimmer ones! lololol) I would definantly pay money for them! Even more if they were actually overlocked. Now I've done lining and topstitching before too on Anna's make up bag so I'm not so nervous about doing that. But I am about pattern cutting, draping, and actually making a fitted garment, so I plan on sewing at least one dress from gosurori before starting uni.

Gah I've got so much drawing and stuff to do for the summer project! Our first brief was the classic pick a word and work with it. I picked clash and I've brainstormed it down to subversive fashion.... see where this is going?? LOLITA!!!! Yey!! Lol basically, I'm going to take all of my research from critical studies last year and do some more like brand profiles, concentrate on themes, imagery and motifs for observations, etc... The second part is natural forms... I have no idea about that yet. There's only really a month left now so I should probably really crack down on working XP



Blog more soon, will I? Lol yeah with that make up bag and cookies and stuff :D

I actually got motivated yesterday to do some art!

I actually got the inspiration to do something... Thanks to ~aisu posting this lineart on egl!! I just really got the urge to colour it ^________^ I love killer lolis




Blood Dolls, lineart by aisu.. by *decora-rockstar on deviantART



Let me know what you think of it!

Proof that I blog too much; this is my 500th journal entry!

Ah, to be a dork...





Anyway. It's Anna's birtday next Wednesday and I haven't got her anything yet. The plan was to make her a make up bag (an learn how to sew a zip at the same time) but I haven't even finished my "mock-up" yet. Lol I was just making one from a GLB pattern and wasn't sure how it would turn out first time and such so I decided to do one with left over fabric scraps from my bloomers but yeah... the dining room table has been out of commission all this time that I haven't even been able to get the sewing machine set up to sew that one.

I think I'm going to scrap the idea of using a pattern and just do one with rectangles folded over and stiched down to make pockets ^^ And do a bow to go on the front with a section in the lid/flap/thing for make up brushes and an extra pocket in the inside... some lace would be cute too! But what lace to use? I might go to craftmania tomorrow after work and get a couple of meters of the cute cluny they have ^^ it has ribbon going through it too and comes in a few colours... So what I'm going to use is black floral printed fabric on the outside, black broderie anglaise for lining (shall be cute!!) with antique white lace and black gingham ribbon details! I'm not so sure yet how deep to make the bag, or what sort of closure to use on the lid/flap/thing... mabe a tad bit of black velcro? urgh velcro is so tacky though :( are there poppers that you can sew on instead of the ones that are hammered in? I'm sure you can get them! Yeah I'm sure I've seen them in either the craft shop or gorleston's fabric shop... I think that's the way I'll close it.

I'll start work on it now.



Apart from thaaaaaat... no more news, really. Um.. Prettygraffitti hasn't got my bag yet, but it's still in stock so no worries there. Oh and I was trying to order some stuff directly from AP's English site but they have't sent me any emails yet! I got the confirmations from their shop host but nothing from AP about payment or confirmation at all!

How normal is that? How long have you had to wait before AP contacted you when you tried to make an order with them? *is confused*



Oh and I also got everyone in Kit's house sick except for mum ^^;;; Heh Callum and dad have been the biggest babies about it! Guys always are... I'm supprised Kit hasn't been complaining as much as them though! I think he was trying to make a point that not all guys play up being sick. He still complained well loads though XP

Lol yes it's my third post today, but I should be studying so you know I have to procrastinate! Point being, I've decided which bag is going to replace my dieing SWIMMER bag and it's...



The Angelic Pretty logo dot boston bag in black!!


Nothing could really replace that bag though... I love it so much! The pink bow helps to tie it in with so many outfits! But I'm hoping the polka dots on this one will do the same.

I've emailed prettygraffitti to see if she can get it from me but no reply yet. I know she's busy with school and life though, so she's forgiven ^^ as long as it doesn't sell out or anything. lol

This ruins everything I thought I knew about the world!!!! D:





I don't think she wears it that badly though... I know in the second clip they were spacking out that she was wearing ganguro panda eyes and mixing the styles, but I give her kudos for that! It takes guts to mix styles like that and she chose the right dress to do it as well. Though carrying around a massive HK doll is quite fail, no matter what you are wearing. If any mainstream celebrity was going to pick up lolita style, I knew it would be her and I saw it only as a matter of time before this happened.

But I really do have issues with Lady Gaga wearing lolita... just because she is herself. It's like now if someone at work/in the general public has seen that and (I think that by wearing it every day) they all know I rock the frillies myself, they're going to think I'm following some sort of a trend. URGH. How am I supposed to explain that it's not got anything to do with her?? How are all lolitas supposed to explain that? I guess some people may find comfort in it that they can use it to explain their clothes like "Oh, it's not because of her but, Lady Gaga also wears clothes like this occasionally... It's just a fun and quirky fashion etc"

Luckily, with further google-fu, I don't think that this has spread that much so far. Except for a couple of posts on Perez Hilton

Her music is shit though... so I'm still annoyed to have my clothes associated with shit music.


Off topic...
A great quote from a comment I just read regarding gothic lolita: there's no context like that in japan, so the look is purely visual. I've never really been able to articulate that there isn't any cultural context in lolita fashion (like goth=satanism, lolita=child prostitute etc) and that it's purely *visual* VISUAL IS THE WORD! XD

Somehow I managed to recycle the bloody 50 ribbon headdress my poupee was *supposed* to be wearing... URGH.


I was wondering where all those shells were coming from.


Didn't even get anything good out the spring.

I haven't posted on there for well long! hehe remember ages ago I said I'd been taking photos but hadnt had the time for such frivolous things as posting them...? Well I posted them just now and my pc says I took the photos in October! lol :D

(Go and see my outfits!)

I just read in a daily_lolita post that there is a new brand on the scene...





Pink Macaroon has just sent out their first reservation orders for a unicorn print skirt. Which is really cute and all, but I remember this unicorn thing from somewhere before...

I believe the fabric was printed with spoonflower since I have amazing detective skillz :P lolzerz but no, really, I know because I asked pinksweetlolita a while back about a dress or skirt she was showing off in one of her outfit posts which had a unicorn theme as far as I remember. So I type in her lj to find that she's changed her username to mint-cake and has launched her own brand! SHIIIIIIT! SHE'S DOING WHAT I WANT TO DO!!!! FIZZZZZ BITCH!!!!


Yet another idol to add to my list. here's an interview with her... Do you see how my plan fits exactly with how she's doing it? Third I start developing clothes for a season and sell on a pre-order basis. That's where she's at now XD She's got a degree in Fashion, so I'm a few years behind her since I'm starting my degree in Sept.


So excited!!!


The degree fashion show is tonight and I can't wait to see what I'm going to be doing for the next two years! (And I know the musics going to be great tonight since Joe's playing and their gig the other week was amazing!)

I really have to get sewing some more... All I have is a small collection of patterns but I've only used one (the bloomers, obviously)... Well I can't really sew at home atm since we've got a builder in and the living room is a mess and I don't have anywhere else around here that I can set up the sewing machine. I just wanna make loads of stuuuuuuffff!!! XD

I'm still ill, it hurts my throat to breath.

I still am ill.

I still am going to the fashion show tomorrow, no matter what.


I really don't want to go to work feeling like this. I don't think I would cope too well with running around and pretending to be hyper and shit. Besides that it's prolly best not to get everyone else sick too.



Today my back aches too.



I'm sleepy. Can't have night nurse till half 10 though...

Fuuuucking hell. I think I have the flu.

I'm pretty sure I have a tempurature~ I can't really feel it properly though since my whole body is really warm. But yeah, my throat and head feel like hell and my entire body is aching, like it feels really tired. Lemsip is perking me up a little.


I thought I wouldn't get the flu since it hasn't really been around here but it has been in Lowestoft and I'm always on the Lowestoft buses, and I know you all know how disgusting buses are. You usually see some disgusting person spluttering all over the place and in their hands getting everywhere germy and then without even a thought they'll go and press the buttonto stop and grope the railings and fall over on top of you because they're probably a bit special... Or drunk. Urgh, and then I work in a really busy shop and you don't know how many people you come in contact with and what germs they have.


So yeah. Kit's prolly going to get sick now too since we're pretty much attached at the hip. Not that I super glue us together or anything :P I really miss him. It's only been an afternoon since I saw him but I feel so lonely here. I don't really know how safe it would be for my brother if I stay here though. He's got kidney problems so the flu could lead to stuff that would make him worse or kill him...


And what the fuck is tamiflu? You always hear them going on about it on the news and shit but if there's a new strain of a virus, is it really going to help? Does it only target flu viruses that it knows how to deal with or does it work in some way that it targets all flu viruses? *shrug* I don't think I'm going to the doctors anyway since I'm not that bad ~ it's just like a bad cold really lol and there's a fashion show on Thursday and I must go! hehe


It could always be a cold anyway since it seems this year I just keep getting colds...