~England in November-December~

I just have to tell everybody that 31th of October I'm going to travel to England. To a place called Christchurch near Bournemouth. And this is where I'll live for 6 weeks while I study English there with some of my classmates from the school I'm attending right now. So I will be there until around 12th of December! Which means that I will be in the UK for the winter international Lolita day, 4th of December! So if anyone from around that area happens to be a Lolita, I would love to attend a Lolita meetup there with you. ^^ I can probably travel to London for a Lolita meet up as well. ^^

I've never been outside of Sweden and I've never traveled by an airplane, so this will be both scary and exiting. But I think that I will have a great time overthere. ^^ I'm looking forward to it. ^^

Edit:
I'll attend a school called CELC (Christian English Language Centre). Where I will improve my english skills. ^^v

//Risa-chan

~Lolita meet-up, 28th of August 2010.~

This is what I wore at the small Lolita gathering we had this Saturday. ^^
Necklace: Baby the stars shine bright
Dress: Made by my mum
the rest: offbrand.~

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The pretty girl in the pink angelic pretty dress is Louise, she's the one who decided we all should meet this day. ^^

Anton, the only boy who showed up this time, in a lovely Kodona outfit. ^^

Emelie and Emma.
This was Emmas first try at Lolita. (Emma is the girl in Pink bodyline jsk) She looks absolutly stunning! ^^

Me and my tasty lemon cheesecake and irishcream latte.~

Louise and my sister Sanna. ^^

Me.~

We were 6 persons who showed up for the meetup. ^^
I had a great time, we all got to talk more than usual so that was really nice. ^^
We talked about things like dreams, nostalgic childhood tv-shows/movies and ofcourse about Lolita.
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After the meetup, me, Sanna and my other sister Anette went to a chinese resturant. (my niece Enika was also there.~)

//Risa-chan

~22 July 2010, at Andrea's cabin~

21-22 July I was at Andrea's place.
We took pictures of our dolls:

Pandora and Yuki! ^^
Andrea had just made that pink turtleneck shirt for Yuki when we took the pictures. ^^

They are really cute. ^^
The bonnet that Pandora is wearing is made by my sister Anette. she made it by tatting.

//Risa-chan

~17 July 2010, BJD meet-up, my first BJD!~

My outfit:
Cardigan/Bolero: Halens (swedish mailorder shop)
Necklace: Baby the stars shine bright.
JSK: Bodyline
The rest: offbrand.

At the BJD meet-up I got to open the box with my first BJD! ^^
Here are some pictures of the box opening:

Happy doll owner! ^_^

It was alot of fun opening the doll box for the first time at a local bjd meet-up since they are all really nice and supporting there. ^^ But it was also really funny that while I was opening the box everybody went totaly silent, so I got a bit nervous since noone said anything and just watched what I was doing. XD
I had already decided a name for her before I got her, and that name is:
Pandora!

Yuki and Pandora.
Yuki is Andrea's doll, Imperial Fiddlesticks.

Pandora in her "real" wig. ^^v
Pandora is a Bambicrony - Elf Charity.
She's about 27cm tall.

18 July my mum made a dress for my doll:

20 July my sister, Sanna, got to do a new face-up on Pandora,
since her old one was broken:

//Risa-chan

~Wishlist - mostly wristcuffs!~

Wishlist from Angelic Pretty:

These two wristcuffs from AP are really pretty and I would love to own them. ^^v
Pink/White is never wrong with my wardrobe and the Mint coloured ones would go very well with my mint coloured cardigan/bolero. ^^

Wishlist from Innocent World:

A pair of lovely white wristcuffs from IW would be absolutly wonderful. ^^v

And I really really want this bag, you can have things in A4 size in it so it's great. I would love to be the owner of this one as well. ^^v

//Risa-chan.

~Local Market, 10 July 2010.~

This day I went to a local market, which is in the area I live, three days in a row, once a year.

This year I looked like this:

Outfit:

Blouse: Made by my mum
JSK: Baby the stars shine bright
Bag: Bodyline
The rest: offbrand

This year I met up with Andrea. (author of Imperial Fiddlesticks)
I guess it's become a little bit of a tradition, or begining to be a tradition, to meet up with her at this specific Local Market every year. ^^ It's a very nice traditon in my opinion. ^^v

Neither of us bought much at the market except for lunch and water/fanta.
However this year the weather was much better, last year it rained so much we had to run and take cover at the apartment I lived in at the time. This year it only came a few drops falling from the sky, and only for a little while. ^^v

Andrea, stunningly pretty as usual. ^^ Her metamorphose dress was also wonderful, and suited her perfectly. ^^
I'm really looking forward meeting her some more this summer. We will meet again at the BJD-meet up we're having 17th of July. (when I will take home my first BJD! Yay! ^^)

//Risa-chan

~BJD - Ball Jointed Dolls~

I've said before that I really adore BJDs, so I'll give you a small explaination about it.
BJDs are Ball Jointed Dolls, really pretty. You can mostly buy them from asian countrys such as Korea, China, Japan and so on. There are all different kinds of shapes and sizes of them, but most normal sizes are: YOSD = aproxomently 27cm, MSD = ~ 45cm, and SD = ~ 50-60cm.

If you want to know more about it, you can probably just google it. ;D

Now to the dolls I'm waiting for:

Ange Ai - Hani from Custom House.
However I've been waiting for her 20 weeks allready. >.<>.< (I made my order on 14th of February this year)
But they have said that they will try to send our(me, my sister and my friend) order before 1st of August.. I really hope that's true! Beacuse I'm really sick of waiting. >.<
But I'm really looking forward her coming home. ^^
The name I've decided for her is Tiara. ^^

Ciao Bella - Charity Elf from Bambicrony.
I'm buying her second-hand from a friend, and I will be able to take her home 17th of July. That's just 8 days away. And that's great, knowing exactly when I'll have her at home. ^^
The name I've decided for her is Pandora. ^^

I also have a wishlist:
Minifee - Karsh (Fairyland)
Minifee - Ryeon (Fairyland)
Littlefee - Ante (Fairyland)
Honey Delf - Choux (Luts)
Honey Delf - Lolly (Luts)

//Risa-chan

~3 July 2010, Lolita picnic, Princess themed.~

3rd of July I went to a Lolita picnic with Princess/Hime theme. ^^

My sister Anette made a Hime-hairdo on me, and curled the rest of my hair. ^^
Outfit:
Tiara: offbrand
Necklace: Baby the stars shine bright.
Cardigan: Halens (swedish mailorder clothing store)

JSK: Angelic Pretty
Bag: Metamorphose
Tights/Leggings: Offbrand.

Me, Sister Anette, Neice Enika and Sister Sanna. ^^v
As you, maybe can se, Sanna is wearing the Baby the stars shine bright JSK I bought awhile ago, she got to buy it from me, since I figured out it was a bit to tight for my bust. I kind of like to breathe, so. :P But she looks really cute in it so I'm glad I sold it. ^_^

L0uise and Tsuyu at the picnic. ^^

My sister Sanna (and a better look at her dress.), my sister Anette and Mia. ^^

Tove (in the background), Me and my neice Enika. ^^
Tove arranged the meetup, since it's the last one she can attend, she's going to move away from Umeå, she's moving down south here in Sweden. ^^ Good luck wishes to her. ^^v

A picture of everyone (exept two who went home early, and me who took the picture.)

Another picture with everyone, but with me in it, and Sanna out of it, since she took this picture. ^^v

After a day in Hime-puff and curls, my hair looked like this. ^^ I think it's awesome, wish my hair would look like that more often. ;D

//Risa-chan

~19 June 2010, Victorian era picnic~

I know I've been crazy late with my updates, but I guess when the summer weather comes you just want to be outside and do more fun stuff than just sit by your computer all day. ^^v

But now for the (very late) update:
19th of June I went to a Victorian era picnic, it was alot of fun, allthough the weather could definatly have been better. ^^v

I think the only brand (or sort of brand) things I wore were:
My Baby the stars shine bright necklace
and Bodyline bag, which is a replica of IWs house-bag. ^^

Me and my sisters, and my neice. ^^

My mum made my dress for me, I'm really pleased with it, it's so pretty. ^^

Everyone who showed up. ^^ (exept for my sister Sanna who took the picture.)

Typical english-weather? ;D just kidding. ^^v
At first we sat on the floor inside a house, beacuse of the horrid weather, then we found a dining-room in that house, where we sat for a few hours. Then we went outside to take pictures, then some people left and the rest of us took the picnic outside and after awhile the rain returned, ergo the umbrellas. ^^v

I had a lot of fun, and it was fun with another themed picnic. ^^
We also got to know about an victorian era game called "poor pussy", which was that they sat in a ring/circle, and then one got to be "poor pussy", crawling on all four on the floor, sounding like a sad cat, when that person the "poor pussy" stopped infrot of a person, that person had to say "poor pussy", with a straight face and pat the "poor pussy" on the head. If that person sucseeded with that task, the "poor pussy" had to crawl to a new person, but if the person didn't sucseed and laughed/didn't have a straight face, that person became the new "poor pussy", and so the game continued. ~ It was just some fun facts Tsuyu told us about. ^^

//Risa-chan

~Rose Cherubim Lolita Half Bonnet~

I've fallen in love with OphanimGothique's Rose Cherubim Lolita Half Bonnet:

It's absolutly stunning. ^^
It's the writer of F*** yeah lolita who makes these incredible creations. ^^
Unfortunatly I can't afford it right now, but a girl can dream. ^^ and also unfortunatly, I don't own a bonnet at all, so I don't know if it would suit me. ~ But I guess sometime in the future I'll get to try/buy one. ^^v

Ophanim blog: http://ophanimgothique.blogspot.com/

//Risa-chan.

~Thanks and Edit~

I would just like to say thank you to everyone who participated in my questionary for school. I've allready finished my paper, so I don't need anymore answers, but if you feel like answering them anyways, I don't mind getting them sent to my mail. ^^v

And I have to edit my secondhand shopping post, since I didn't buy the heart ribbon bag. My extern harddrive started sounding and acting really wierd so I couldn't buy such an expensive bag then. ^^ but that's Okey, I've allready bought two dresses so I'm happy. My Angelic Pretty jsk which you've all seen and I'm waiting for my Baby the stars shine bright dress which I'm also buying second hand. ^^v
the Baby dress I'm talking about:

//Risa-chan