Getting away from my internet obsession - mild success?

I'm graaadually getting rid of my internet obsession (I used to be online like... 16 hours a day if I could, only offline to go to bed), which means I'm being a lot less active here than I wanted to be.

I'm going to buy a new camera soon - 'spiegelreflexcamera' as they call it in Dutch (basically, one of those fancy ones that professional photographers carry around, also with HD filming so I can start vlogging). Got quite a bit of vacation cash saved up, so I had to get one~!

I also bought two things from Bodyline I've been dying to get, and some bloomers, since I haven't got any of those yet. Here's what I ordered (blouse in white, though):

I'm planning on wearing the JSK with pink. So I can wear it with some pink shoes I'm planning on buying for my Teatime skirt. ^^

Anyway, I reckon I'll be off again!

Long abs..absyn... absce... GONE TOO LONG

Soooo, as you mayyyy have noticed, I haven't updated this thing in a while. Thing is, I honestly don't have a whole lot to update on. Well, unless I think about it.

I got a brand new skirt in the mail a few days ago (handmade by the lovely Boeru from the Dutch EGL Forum), however... I seemed to have ripped through it. Plus it's a little bit on the slender side compared to my Bodyline dress in the 'poof' department (aka my thighs are HUGE), so I'm waiting a while before putting it on. I couldn't help fooling around with a 'co-ordination attempt', though - the only thing I have that matches the skirt is a My Little Pony bag... hopefully there'll be tons of nice accesories in London.

Uh. Sorry for the awful quality, but... I was just messing around. xD

My Bodyline petti has seemed to have lost all of it's poof, so I know not to order from there again (even though I already did, but still) in terms of petticoats. Will be buying some bloomers there, though, since I don't even have one. I'm also thinking of putting my first ~burando~ order - a Baby the Stars Shine Bright skirt, Chained berry memoir, either in sax or cream. It's going to completely defy my whole 'no food on Lolita clothing' rule, but I am working on losing weight so it should be fine in the long run.

Also, as said before, going to London soon for a Lolita shopping spree~! ♥ There's this little shop in Camden Town that I've walked past before, but didn't have the courage to walk into because I'm not at the average side, but this May I'm going to say boo to that and just walk in for some bags, hopefully shoes and even more hopefully a dress, JSK or skirt. Or a blouse or two, but I'm not sure of the sizes in there (I'd need something with shirring anyway).
(updated later)

Mini update

I've got two items ordered from Taobao thanks to a very helpful person on an EGL forum~.

Hoping to get a brand new super good petticoat soon, as well as a lovely blouse.

First great co-ord!

I knooow I'm a bit late with posting this, but last Friday I went out to my mom's home to visit (I rarely do because I live many miles away, kinda a pity), and I wore Lolita outside for the first time! Well, not counting a convention, but everyone's dressed a little bit differently out there.

Sadly, the whole effect kinda died when it was a sort of mardi gras out in my old city...

However! I did love the co-ord I wore!

The last picture was more done as a sort of before-and-after for make-up and hairstyling... though the make-up is pretty natural (I hate going over the top with make-up... even now I felt like I wore way too much concealer).

Loved going out in this though. My mom went all emotional on text message when I left, saying I was growing into such a beautiful girl~.

For the rest, I bought Pokémon Black & White (can't run behind! I've got a Pokémon collection I'm working on!), the blouse that's in my co-ord, a book (Terry Pratchett's Soul Music), manga (Venus versus Virus) and today I bought two new games (Pokémon FireRed for the collection and Lufia! Which is a pretty awesome game!).

I'm saving up for my dream dress now - I want to buy it as soon as I've got new glasses. So expect a new co-ord pretty soon!

Lots of love,
Minty.

Chocolate fantasy

So, I just saw the Baby, the Stars Shine Bright spring fashion show on Youtube, and I have to say... I'm in love.

Perhaps it's because my biggest love in colour for Lolita is mint, followed by brown, but I'm so going to follow this little thing that I know is going to be a trend!

What am I talking about? Why, brown (chocolate) blouses under JSKs of course!

Not only does this mean I get to spice up my planned mint buys towards chocolate mint, but it also means I don't have to always look for a white underlay (because I just don't like black with mint, y'know? Unless someone has a very very veeeery nice example of it so I can see, but I'd never go for it on my own...).

It also means I'd be able to look for brown shoes to go under my co-ords! Since I usually prefer white tights, though I might look for some brown ones and get white shoes as well. I'm not sure; brown tights seem a little silly to me compared to white... it's worth a shot though!

Here's the show if you haven't seen it yet;

Want want want...

Whoo it's been a long time since I posted here - sorry about that. I've been kinda busy with my new job, moving, a convention, starting up a doujinshi circle and what not, and... it kinda ended up with me finding nothing to post about while I had so much going on. @,@'

ANYWAY.

Good part before the wants! I got accepted to the Dutch Elegant Gothic Lolita forum - yaayy! Though I still think the name is a little silly since the forum works for all styles and it's in bright pink (why not mint!? I'm gonna see if I can manually edit...). I'm known as Minty there, and you'll probably notice why I refer to myself as Minty when you see my do wants.

Do want in mint.

Also do want.

In mint - for under those two faboo dresses above! :3

For under classic dresses. *-* I know, bell shaped and classic, BUT I THINK IT'S SO GORGEOUS.











Well, that was me for the moment. I'll update my weight loss blog soon, as I haven't had the chance to weigh in, but I've been sick and lazy so I'm afraid I've gone up again... :c

See you next time!

Photoshoot

Just got home from a photoshoot with my boyfriend - had to put his Magenta Magenta (JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) on camera, and it was freezing but we had tons of pictures taken~. Took us about 45 minutes of photo taking in the end. Mainly preparing for tomorrow, since tomorrow I've got at least 4 photoshoots, let alone from pictures of random cosplayers etc.

Hoping to work on some poses as well tonight to work with my Lolita dress, but I'm sure that'll work out fine!