So this took a while, but here is the first and second outfit of my 10 items/7 outfits challenge! So without further ado... Here we go!

Here I was trying out a pretty casual and comfortable outfit that could work well for days with school and just a quick trip out to town. I was pretty lucky with this JSK as it came with removable bows and bib which make it very easy to dress both up and down! The hat is an old hat of mine from H&M that I refuse to leave the house without when I'm not in lolita. Necklace and bracelet are both bought from Etsy stores and the tights are off brand.

Would you look at that? Seems like the 14th have become the standard day of the month to upload outfit pictures! Now, I do wear lolita more often then that, but there's no way I'm bothering to take a picture every time I wear it. Since I got my new items, I've been wearing it about every time I have left the house and that makes me so happy! Anyway. Onto the outfit!
Rundown:
Blouse: Surface Spell
Corset: FanPlusFriend
Skirt: Handmade by me
Tights: Offbrand
Boots: Chilli
Necklace: Alchemy Empire

Can you guys tell I love those boots? I feel I don't really wear anything else but them with my lolita! Anyway, this is an outfit I threw together on a whim before I had to go to school today and actually I'm quite pleased with it! Nice and simple for a day in school, and I got a lot of compliments on my skirt and that made me very happy! I do need a new waist cincer, though...I love the one I have, but I have it completely tied in, and still it's actually too big on me. The top half of it sits losely around my underbust and that makes the rest of it slip up and out of place! But next time I will get a proper corset. No matter how pretty the F+F one looks, it's definatly not the best of quality. You get what you pay for I guess.

Anyway, it's Valentines today! ... Usually I draw anti Valentines pictures for this day, but since this is my first Valentines actually having a boyfriend, I thought I perhaps should let it go this year even if he lives far away... Oh well!

Hope you all have a nice day!

Toodles!

Today has been a long and very very boring day. I haven't had school and my best friend (in Stockholm) has been home sick, so the whole day have more or less passed with being lazy and talking and writing roleplays over MSN. Though after a good while we both came down with a pretty bad mood and she decided it was a good idea for us both to take a break and go take a walk. As the lazy person I am, I was against the idea at first, but after a little while I found my motivation to get up and away from the computer.

Instead of pulling on a jacket and a pair of sneakers I got properly dressed in full lolita attire, brought my camera with and decided to take a stroll through my town and see if I could snap some pictures. Even if I have stopped to realize it on regular days, the little town I study in is placed in a beautiful landscape. If any of you have heard of Norway's famous fjords (it is one of the nature phenomenom we pride ourself with), then there you have it. This little town is placed in the very end of one with mountains all around. The panorama image on the top I shot with my little digital camera from the town harbor.

One of the best places to see the beautiful scenery of the mountains is ironically enough from the school grounds. In winter, we usually end school just in time for sunset. If we're lucky enough to have a day without too much clouds, we can see the last rays of the sun over the mountain tops, piercing through some clouds and colouring them in bright orange and pink. It truly is a beautiful sight, but today I was a little too late out to catch this sight today. But when I tore my eyes away from the mountains and looked in the opposite direction I saw a beautiful play of light in the clouded sky. It's small sights like this that makes life worth living. Especially since not many even see such when they appear. Or they simply don't care... I have never quite understood how some people just don't care about beauty in nature. Or how they can simply avoid to see it.

On my little walk down to the harbor I also decided to walk through the cemetery since I have never really checked the church and the cemetery out properly until now. To my surprise it actually held more beautiful secrets then I thought it would. It is very small, but I guess I never looked on the right side to see all the iron cross tombstones with beautiful engravements and the angel sculptures spread around.

It's pretty stereotypical isn't it? A gothic lolita walking around on a cemetery and admiring the tomb stones. I actually find it pretty amusing, because I have always enjoyed cemeteries. They are so calm and peaceful, you can almost feel the calm of the spirits having found their rest there. Even if a cemetery might be a sad and avoidable place for some, I think it is a beautiful place. It's our friends' and relatives' final resting place after all. It's a place we can visit them and remember all the good times we had together.

Then, my final stop. The harbor. This is where I took the little panorama picture and also this little image of the dock. It was starting to get dark outside, and once again I liked how the light and shadow was
reflecting in the surface of the water.

As I stood by the water, getting the occational weird look from random people who passed by, I started thinking about how lonely I am in this fashion up here. In one way it's very lonely to not be able to share my love for the frills and gothic lifestyle with anyone face to face, but in another way it feels free. Since I'm alone about my interest in this area I am able to like the things I like without having to care what other people think. I know many of you probably will think "you can like what you like without caring about anyone else no matter what!". And well... Yes, that is true. But it is easier said then done.

I have realized over the past years that no one becomes who they are without influence from others what so ever. I was introduced to metal music and goth by some very dear friends of mine, and since they were the once who introduced it to me I have felt that I also needed to like what they liked, dress like they do and if I found something I liked and they didn't, I felt it was either bad or ugly and I needed to stop liking it.

But now that I have had some distance to others with the same interests I have realized that I don't like all the music they do. I obsess over other things as they also obsess over their personal things. By coming away from my best friends I have also learned more about being myself and I love it. I hope none of my friends will take this in a wrong way, because I love you all, and it was you who introduced me to what I now how grown to love aspects of and I do miss you all. But this freedom that comes when being alone is an amazing one, and even when I see you guys again I will hold on to this freedom because I know I'm happiest when I embrace the things I truly love. Thanks to this freedom I have found out who I really am and I hope that everyone who struggles with that question out there will be able to find themselves to.

Good night.

So I ran over this post on EGL... It was about a challenge. The challenge was to pick 10 different items and put together 7 vastly different coords only using those ten items. I thought this sounded awesome! So I'm going to give it a go as I don't have too much to play with yet and want to have a large variety of options with what I have. Here's the challenge post: 10 Items/7 Outfits Challenge!

And here are the copy-pasted rules:

1. Choose 10 items from your wardrobe. Shoes are part of this list.
2. These items should not include: accessories such as socks, jewellery, bags or headgear.
3. Label each item from A - J.
4. Put together 7 significantly different outfits from your 10 items.
5. You may choose to wait until you want to go out in lolita, or just wear all 7 straight away in your room!
6. Take pictures, and label the different components.
7. Share it with us in the comments! Throw us links to your album/blog/posts and I'll put up a link list here.

I won't be starting with an outfit today since it's way too late (3am) to start with such now. But I will post the ten items I have chosen. So here goes!

I am a very very happy girl today! Guess three times why? *pokes title* ... *pokes title again* ... I got my package from Innocent World today! I ordered it some weeks ago, but thanks to some e-mails back and forth about combining shipping and all (I did two orders with a day between them, and they were kind enough to offer combined shipping!) it took a little longer then usual to get it shipped of. But today I got my package note in the mail. So I headed down to the post office, paid up another 1800NOK (300USD) to get it out (yes I know our customs and handling fees are insane.) and brought my lovely package back home. I was going to take a lot of pictures for a detailed review, but I got way too excited. In other words, I dressed up the moment I opened the package, and this is the result:

Rundown:
Headdress: Innocent World
Necklace: London's Gate
Bolero: Innocent World
JSK: Innocent World
Petticoat: Innocent World
Socks: Innocent World
Shoes: An*tai*na

That's a lot of Innocent World in one outfit, isn't it? <3 Since I was home all day and only dressed up for fun, I didn't do any makeup. It's not any fun when I'm not going outside anyway. Anyway! I didn't get all this from the package today. The headdress and socks I already had. So what did I buy? A lot of lovely things.

Haha! For anyone not knowing what on earth the title is shortened for it can be pretty cryptic, can't it? But I guess most of you know what I'm talking about. Ball joint dolls and jumperskirts! Yes, I am a sucker for BJDs. First time I saw one was a white haired one dressed in a blue lolita dress that was being carried around by a gothic lolita on my very first anime convention. It freaked the hell out of me, and I vowed to myself never to let one of those dolls into my room. Well... That went well, concidering I now have two of my own! Not that I regret it though... Not. At. All. I love them both to pieces and wouldn't trade them for the world! Not only because they're awesome, but because they both were a gift from my best friend.


Say hello to Ebi and Clovis! Ebi is the little shrimp and Clovis is the redhead. Oh how I love them. As soon as I get some fixating spray, I'll do a face up and body make up for Ebi and I'll also make a kodona outfit for my dear Clovis as soon as I can!

But this post wasn't really made to show of my BJDs... It was more to show of my best friend's BJD. When she was at my place last summer she brought her doll Ana with her, and even though her doll is a boy, I just couldn't help myself. So I made a small JSK for him! I found this picture in my dA gallery, and felt the need to post it again. Hehe...


As if the poor little guy didn't look enough like a girl already, I had to make it worse for him. Oh well. Now I'm heading of to start on the skull dress I mentioned some few posts ago! Wish me luck! *snuggles all the pretty fabric that's lying spread over her table*

Toodles!

UPDATE: Got this link from EGL: http://www.babyssb.co.jp/reserve/kuroneko-no-dance/index.html

If only I was sure if I had the money or not for this when it was released... No matter what I will fight to get it! Especially when the JSK actually would fit me! =D /UPDATE

I think I just, for the first time ever, seriously fell in love with a print from Alice and the Pirates. Sure I do love a lot of their prints and they have a lot of wonderful items (they are my second fave brand after all), but when I saw their Black Cat's Dance (no idea if it's the right name (kuroneko no dance.. Black cat's dance. Most logical.) print I fell hard. This must be the first time I feel I really NEED something from a lolita brand. I mean... This features french horns, piano, violins, trumpets and flutes. Piano, french horn and violin are three of my five favorite instruments (where drums and banjo are the two other on that list) so of COURSE this made me squeal! My room mate gave me a little weird look as I really only was going to show her the shop and some items I liked...

I saw the print as the background image on the Alice and the Pirates webshop, but didn't see any items with the print, so I checked out the blogs on their page instead. What I found seriously made my day (and made me reconsider what to spend next months allowance on).