Summer time 1

Soooo, I kind of have some long due post to do right now. Let's start first by the early summer events, right ?

I went to Japan Expo on the 3rd of July. It was kind of a last moment decision, because I discovered two days before that they had three geishas coming ! I couldn't make it to the master class but I was lucky enought to see their show, and it was awesome ! I spend most of my day in the traditionnal corner of the con and took a lot of pictures of artists, tasted tea, spoke japanese etc. It was pretty funny, and I got a lot of compliments for my kimono styling. I've appeared on Kera! facebook page too, even if I don't like the picture they took that much.

I finally didn't got to wear my furisode because my zori didn't arrive on time, too bad.

OOTD

Swarovski cristals sakura embroided kimono

 Doll maker

Clothes made out old kimono/kimono fabric

Ukiyo-e style glued fabric pictures (It has a special name, totally forgot it)

 Another doll-maker, loved the rabbits !

Burn wood geta

Tea ceremony teacher

Carved jewel eggs. It was really beautiful and light-weight, it must be so hard to work on that.

The two geishas and their okiya-san in New Year attire

Ikebana booth

Handpainted japanese fans

Kera! booth

Hina matsuri dolls

Wonderful jewelry

Some musician in (really meh) maiko-henshin (fake maiko outfit) playing koto and rockin' hard

Delicious, favorite japanese food : Takoyaki ! I like them so much, Naoya-sensei even nicknamed me 'takoyaki Marie'

Kaga-loli booth, and the dress that Midori wore for the Kaga-loli catwalk on its first presentation.

Haul of the day : favourite japanese candies (watapachi and nerunerune) and some tabi and fan to wear on more formal settings.

 I was super happy to see a whole lot of people I didn't see in a while, and to hang out with Pauline (your outfit was absolutly wonderful !), Morgane, Louise and plenty of others I don't want to forget. I had a super nice day thanks to you gals.

Some outfits and some pretty pictures

I'm so not ready for the incoming lolita events that it start to quite bother me. In fact I don't really want to go anymore, I'm too tired to enjoy it properly and their is a bunch of people I don't want to see but hey, I paid for it so I'll do my best and enjoy all of that as much as I can with all my friends.

I didn't dress up a lot these day because it's too fricking hot and I don't go out that much, but here are a few of my last outfits.

Blouse :IW
Skirt : MM

Blouse : IW
JSK : VM
Headdress : MM

Kimono, nagajuban, obi : vintage
Bag : Axes Femme

Kimono, obi : vintage
Blouse : Axes Femme
Hat : H&M
Socks : AatP

Sweater and otk : H&M
Shoes : Tokyo Bopper (borrowed from Tzadkiel)
Bag : Thierry Mugler

I seem to be pretty unlucky these days, half the things I bought on sales didn't fit and I can't seem to find anything on my shopping list right now (I need long dresses and cute sandals for my trip to Thailand this summer).

I've been walking around Paris quite a bit these last weeks, so I have a few pictures for you. I think I'll post them in two blog post, here is the first part, les Buttes-Chaumont.

My favourite spot

I definitly need to learn how to photoshop, most of these pictures do need a little bit of colour ehancement, they are way too harshly lighted.

And yummy dessert just for you :

At L'oisive'thé

Hope you enjoyed these pictures.
I don't think I'll blog again until the summer lolita events so see you !

Edit : I'll be at Japan Expo on the 3d of July. I didn't plan to go but they have guest geishas so I'm pretty much bound to try to see them. I'll be wearing my furisode and I'll mostly hang out in the cultural part of the festival (they have some cha no yû activities this year !) so if you spot me come by and say hi. I hope I can make it to the geisha masterclass !