New Bag!

I've been on the look out for a new bag :3  As the one I have has been showing it is overworked :p


I maintained patience in waiting to find a bag I was truly happy with and at only a glance out the store after a purchase from Juicy, I noticed their Country Club Miss Daydreamer bag *.*

Ohh I wanted it right away!  But we were on our way to watch Beauty & the Beast in 3D before I could get a look at it :(


As soon as I got home, I searched for it on their site.  I decided that it would be my birthday present to myself ^.^


I wasn't sure on the velvet, if I'd like it, or if I was even okay with the color, since I was so set on navy--but I didn't like their navy version, and it was mainly the bows that tugged on my heart strings x3


So here it is, on the day of my birthday, immediately after work, I set on my way to the store and purchased my very first costly Juicy Couture bag *-*

*Note: For some time I was not a person to spend so much on a bag.


I love it so much and I'm so amazingly happy with it :D  I feel quite special with it--like I'm on par with other women who fancy expensive designer bags.


Either way, it's so cute and looks particularly regal with Lolita ^.^

Dream Come True: Innocent World Lotta JSK (Nordic Blue)

My dream came true~
After two years, and with the help of Trilainna's searching habits xD  I finally got my ultimate number one dream dress *-*

This dress set was a set worth waiting for~


It came with:

• The head bow
• Matching blouse
• JSK
• Limited edition picnic set
• & Mirror

:O!

I ran around frantically--returning merchandise I had purchased, to make back the funds I had to get it O_o

One thing I'll say I miss were these~

 

;~;

Jeffery Campbell's Zip 2 Snake Skin Shoes *~*

I also posted like crazy--all the best ticket items I could sell and make the most money off of :O

Considering what was included in the set, it was a good deal for what I was getting :)

I was actually sad the morning it came to my door--and there it was when it rang, to pick me up, along with the rest of the day:

A gift from Victoria's Secret :3

and support and encouragement from a post office worker I've befriend there who told me I was going places, that I'm gonna be someone, because I've got a good head on my shoulders ;~; <3

I was lucky to have included in the set, my first Lolita blouse xD  And it goes with the set! :O  The lace matches it exactly!

It came just in time for PMX :)  And I wore it along side my other valued pieces: Metamorphose's Twinkle Journey & Baby the Stars Shine Bright Bunny Milk Snow Strawberry :)

Photo credit: Mike Rollerson

I never made a post on obtaining this piece :<  Shame on me >.>  But it was a piece I wanted very much as well @~@  We were all there, a group of us girls at a tea party meet, and as this tends to follow, we all gathered online and were starstruck over Meta's new Twinkle Journey release @_@  Ugh, how could we not want it? :O  Its practically a print of The Last Unicorn! *~*  I swooned over the page daily, and debated and worked over in my head how to get it, or which one would I even get O.O  Until one day of fortune, my good friend sold it to me *~*

I received a precious experience that this was what they meant by being patient; what you're wishing for is coming to you in perfect timing~


Speaking of which, I also purchased Innocent World's British Bear's JSK in cafe au lait at an INCREDIBLE PRICE! :O  And in perfect timing too!  I was fortunate enough to come across it while casually browsing the comm_sales and find it at its third and final reduction! :O


I had been meaning to seek this print out and buy it in general, but now to wear in theme for my family Christmas :) Plaid.  And how perfectly fitting to make the theme more lovely in Lolita :3

Isn't the cord I've created for it wonderful?! :D

I already had the socks for some time now, and now here it is complete with its matching dress :)

The Juicy Couture Experience

The Best Lolita Rain Boots In The World

My first Juicy Couture purchase~ :3

I was pretty excited xD

Its just one of those things where it's partially because it's a pricey brand, and if the purchase experience is as royally fitting as the store set up and image of the collection is xD

--I even took a picture of the store to commemorate my first time xD

How it all came about was a simple shopping-hang-out-day with a girlfriend of mine. Browsing the shops, I came upon their pair of rain boots . . . InCREdiBLy CUTE rain boots! >~<

Now, from time to time, there are a few specific things I am looking for that I don't easily find to my liking :| And therefore becomes a prolonged search for the one.

There was one other time before these, when I was looking for a specific sweat pant style; I literally COULD NOT FIND this style of sweat pants! O_O Then one casual browsing day in Victoria's Secret--I FIND IT! :D

--$40

"$40 for sweatpants! >:O" Well, because I've been looking for these for such a long time ._. I'll get them--

~And me and the sweat pants lived happily ever after xD

These were a must have.

$130

$130, is quite a price tag for a pair of rain boots... But we know this is brand pricing--and for me, it wasn't too bad of a price I was willing to pay :3

It was a couple of weeks of diligently holding onto the money I made from my sales before I could make the amount I needed to buy them :3

Once the shopping day came, a sales associate and I both gushed with each other like girlfriends over how cute these boots were, previous shopping experiences, and precautions for avoiding regrets on missed purchases in the future ;) I loved her; she ~made~ my experience (`-`)

I not only left with my very own Juicy Couture rain boots, but the shopping bag that is now an added souvenir ^_^

Royally packaged as the label entails ^_^

The Drip Diamond Necklace

People don't realize the extent of my collection...

Yes, I own this--

You must know that when it comes to me and jewelry, I want the kind that royalty would wear O.O Really fancy, elaborate, neck covering pieces XD

A couple years ago, I went to the San Diego Comic Convention and there was a booth filled with the most stunning jewelry *0*

Oh I wanted one~

The one I wanted was actually different from this, bigger, gaudier, and of course, more expensive x.x

I still wanted to have one o.o So I settled on this piece. It was the most expensive piece of jewelry I had ever bought, and the first time I had ever accomplished finding and procuring the kind that I like :D

Of course you must note that this was put on credit--which I am now trying to get myself out of x(

I don't remember the exact cost, and I wish I still had the receipt :/ But I know it was well over $100 if not close to $200 @_@ But I could be exaggerating at $200. Which is why I really wish I remembered what it cost and that I had kept the receipt :(

I am now actually thinking to sell this piece...

Thinking over my situation and my goals, I really can't keep any of these things anymore :( In all fairness, I bought them when I didn't have the money to pay for them--I put it all on credit. And to get myself out, I reasonably have to sell back the things I bought.

The positive to this that makes me feel a bit better is now someone else gets to find joy from my collection :3 Most of them I don't get to use often, so they don't get to be fully appreciated...

Not So Pretty Anymore...

I received my dress today...

My first Angelic Pretty dress~

It's beautiful and I love it, but my joy for its beauty is shadowed by some ugliness and darkness of the day (._.)

We, (my local Lolita community), often discuss our fears and scary stories of what part of the Lolita community can be like here in the US--and I've gotten my first taste of it at the start of my morning (>w<) I tried very hard to keep it from getting to me, that I had more important priorities to attend to, that I couldn't let these thoughts and feelings affect me during my first week of school, but I had already been having a shit week, so it just piled on top and I can't wait for the weekend to hide away from the world (>_>) I've had my fill of people for one week~

Because of this taste of ugliness, it makes me have less of an appreciation for Lolita fashion... (._.) Which makes me sad I can't admire my dress simply for my own personal love for the fashion. I forgot that there is a difference between people who love fashion and people who only love a fashion. And this is not a topic that is openly discussed in a fashion specific community.

I don't know why I even have a blog now, one that is open to the public; I'm not a journalist who wants the criticism and can take the comment bashing on what I felt like saying just to express it :/

Which is why I tend to go on hibernation a lot and keep to myself. Because even though they say, "You learn more about yourself through people", I actually keep to myself because I don't want people to change what I already feel and know I like.

I'll have to post on my dress another time. Not in this post where it is tainted with sadness (>.>)

Ghasp! :O

This shit is beautiful D:

Skirt @ Etsy.com: http://www.etsy.com/listing/54113079/carolina-hand-dyed-ombre-skirt?ref=fp_feat_6

I love "gradi-ated" things XD Uhh~ and lavender to purple~violet x3 so deliciously striking.

I've wanted to do gradients to clothing but never got around to it, as many of my other ideas and projects (>.>) Beautiful things are made with a gradient :D

Must do this for a petticoat :3

The First Check Mark Ever :O

I first saw the BTSSB Bunny Milk & Snow Strawberry print in San Francisco, on my first trip there in the beginning of the year, visiting my honey bunny ^~^ And I fell in love~

Ugh, but for $230 for a skirt @_@ That was just not happening x_x I wanted the skirt in white. I wouldn't even have had the money at the time to buy it on the spot while I was up there @_@ But I put it on my wishlist with all my hopes of having it *~*

The only one I had found online at the time I first came upon it was a JSK and a large. On top of that she too was looking for the skirt and only wanted to trade ;___;

During July, I began to wonder if the the store might still happen to have it and if it would be on sale this time since quite some time has passed. I meant for any of my friends who would be there on the way to check for me, which by the time became August, I learned that they would be having a lucky pack sale for their one year anniversary. Ooooo *o* they might have it in there! :O I thought. And they did. I came across it through a post on ca_egl.

Bianca had already moved up there and I happen to be able to have a chat with her and brought up the lucky packs going on sale. It wasn't a guarantee that she would be able to make it there to get me one, which wasn't a big deal to me since Christina was going up there in a week. But the concern was the possibility of them selling out by the time she got there x_x

I maintained watch over the comm sales for two weeks; for postings on the skirt I wanted. I even posted a want ad along with my sales post--no response to that concerning the skirt >.>

Only a little bit here and there, would sales posts come up for the print I wanted, but neither in the color I wanted nor the size =_=

The JSK in brown though became a combination I started falling for though *~*

Christina was leaving for her trip and I gave her the money for my lucky pack. While she was up there, I kept tabs on a sales post that was auctioning the print in white as a JSK and a medium. It would have to be my last resort.

Saturday came and she had called me to tell me they had sold out. No worries, because I was now on my back-up.

Ending on Sunday night, I was scared of having to fight for it--jacking up the price x_x But there ended up being only 3 bidders including me, ending at a decent price too :3

Oh I was excited because I knew I was getting it that week! :D Because she lived in California too, I knew by the time she shipped it, I would receive it within two days :D

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh~ Here it is, my first Baby dress and the print I've been wanting for the longest time *w* Prominently displayed on my mannequin, and complimented with a gold strawberry locket I already owned! :D

It feels so good because, I'm so proud of myself that I actually stuck to the goal I had planned out for myself and saw it through :D I searched that community looking only for Baby, and anytime something pretty came across me, or I could've spent my money on small indulgent snacks to please me that very moment, I'd remind myself, "No, I have a goal!" XD

It certainly has brought back my confidence for the other things I want in my life, reminding me how to use the Secret again in my life ^_^