Welcome to another year's Tora Con recap! This year's convention was held on March 23/24. Unfortunately right between two warm weeks. So, as usual it was snowy going for us attendees, nothing new there. The weekend started out with a blizzard as we were driving to the con, luckily it didn't follow us the whole … Continue reading Tora Con 2024 Recap
Category: coords
Recreating My Cringe Coords: Sugary Carnival
If you read my blog regularly, you know I used to own a really awful, crunchy replica of Angelic Pretty's Sugary Carnival skirt in black. I wore one coord with that replica, to an anime convention in 2014. I bought the Dream of Lolita branded replica skirt in 2013 from a lolita on Tumblr of … Continue reading Recreating My Cringe Coords: Sugary Carnival
2023 Coordinate Recap
This year I wore lolita 15 times. That's three more than last year. Let's take a look back at this years coords and see which one is my favorite for 2023. Winter During the winter months I wore lolita three times. First, I got to check an item off my 2023 goals list by attending … Continue reading 2023 Coordinate Recap
Winter ILD 2023 Recap
This year for December International Lolita Day I hosted a meet up with my regional comm. I was worried I'd have to cancel the meet after several people got sick and it seemed no one would be able to come but we managed to get a small group together.We started the day with some lovely … Continue reading Winter ILD 2023 Recap
Spooky Swap Meet Recap
At the end of October I hosted a swap meet with my comm and the neighboring Buffalo comm. We were super fortunate to get this corporate space for free thanks to Joanna and her husband. We all showed up at 1pm to set up our things to sell as well as the treats we brought … Continue reading Spooky Swap Meet Recap
Highland Park 2023
If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that every May I try to make it to the Lilacs at Highland Park. Last year, we got rained out and were unable to attend - in addition I was having a bad mental health day so it just wasn't a good time. This year … Continue reading Highland Park 2023
2022 Coordinate Recap
Last year I wore lolita more than every other year in the fashion combined and frankly it was a bit too much. I find wearing lolita to be a bit physically exhausting even if emotionally, it makes me happy. So this year I decided to bring it down a little bit. That mindset, and money … Continue reading 2022 Coordinate Recap
2021 Coordinate Recap
At the start of 2021 I made it a goal of mine to wear lolita more often, even if I needed to create my own reasons to want to dress up and I have absolutely achieved this goal. Prior to 2021, I was only wearing lolita to conventions and then later on, to ILD meets … Continue reading 2021 Coordinate Recap
ILD Winter 2021 Mini Meetup
for ILD winter this year I planned to attend a dinner and holiday tour with my regional comm on actual ILD. And then my boyfriend got COVID 😦 So despite myself never contracting COVID from him (a miracle) I did not attend because I did not want to risk exposing anyone. To make up for … Continue reading ILD Winter 2021 Mini Meetup
Bibliotheca: Halloween
This months Bibliotheca theme is of course Halloween! I am doing a number of small things for Halloween this year so I thought this would be a great place to just share all my spooky antics. To kick off the season, me and my friend Tiff decided to venture to Rochester for the Sweet Poison … Continue reading Bibliotheca: Halloween