More DIY...

 As I said in one of my last posts, I attempted to make a felt peter pan collar following this tutorial. It turned out pretty well! The tutorial is really easy to follow so it wasn't difficult at all!

(Purikura!)

I also had a go at making a fox tail charm as they seem to be getting pretty popular and personally I find them really cute! I really couldn't be bothered to spend money on one so I just bought fabric and made one myself. Didn't need to follow a tutorial this time... It was one of the easiest things I've ever made.

(Purikura!... Again!)

Japanese Maid Cafe Love Love Onee-chan Day!

Today was the day I took my beautiful Onee-chan on her birthday present extravaganza! We arrived in London at around 11am and as our booking for the Maid Cafe wasn't until 1pm we decided to go to the V&A because we'd heard about a Lolita exhibit there. I got a bit lost, but the show was in the Japan area of the V&A (of course it was, how silly of me!) and although they only displayed a small amount of outfits, it was enough for us!

As Onee-chan studies archeology we went to the Medieval & Renaissance area as well where we saw lots of really cool stuff!

Kitty and the Bulldog: Lolita fashion and the influence of Britain

Sweet Lolita:

 (My Favorite)

(The cute ickle wabbits! >.<)

(Baby The Stars Shine Bright!)

Gothic Lolita:

Punk Lolita:

Japanese Lolita:

Japanese Maid Café London

We were both very excited (and I was very nervous) and going to this Maid Cafe because the place where it was held was some run down greek restaurant and it looked a bit dodgy... But sure enough, after some exploration, the maids were downstairs setting up the place and all speaking japanese and we started to have a massive spazz of excitement where I couldn't control my body movements. They were all so cute in their little maid outfits! My favourite waitresses were Rico and Mai, because they were the cutest. Rico played the keyboard and she took requests from the customers whilst Mai was the leader and lead the para para dancing and dressed in a cute fairy dress! They were all so cute! Here are some secret pictures when we were there (because we weren't allowed to take pictures T_T )...

(We got our hands stamped)

(We sat at the 'Death Note' table!)

(Me being weird and a vampire with snacks >.<)

(What the maid did to Onee-chan's food with ketchup! Kawaiiii!)

(The cute maids and their outfits! Secret pictures...)

All in all it was an extremely lovely day with Onee-chan! I hope she had a lovely time as she was very happy on the train back home, but we were both very sad we couldn't spend any more time with the lovely maid waitresses.

(Picture of my lovely kawaii Onee-chan! <3 )

All of the Peter Collars!

Whilst I was spending lovely love love time with Onee-chan in Bournemouth, we discovered how to make peter pan collars. I know how to knit (admittedly a beginner), so once I found this tutorial on how to knit a peter pan collar you can imagine what my face looked like. The pattern was quite hard at first, but I tried another time and got the hang of it. The pictures below are my second try. The tutorial says to knit 13 rows for each strap, I tried this and thought that she must have a pretty skinny neck because it definitely didn't fit around mine (kind of strangled myself a bit). Instead I knitted 30 rows for each strap and cast off as she said in the tutorial. 

(And then I Purikura-d the picture o(>.<)o because I'm toats cool like that)

My next try will be to do this tutorial which is for a felt peter pan collar and looks far neater than the knitted one. Although the knitted one does look pretty spectacular in its own right.

Purikura...

Spending love love Onee-chan time has made me re-realise my love for cute, kawaii and japanese things. So we both downloaded Purikura apps on our phone and had lots and lots of fun. Here are the outcomes of our endeavours...

(This one was done on Onee-chan's iPhone with the "Charuca Purikura" app)

This one and the rest were done with SBY (Super Brilliant Yabai) Camera which we realised was the better app and so we kept using it! o(>.<)o