Lolita 7-days challenge: Friday

Today I wanted a bit more discrete look and went for black, silver and white. 

JSK: HMHM

Everything else: Offbrand

Lolita 7-days challenge: Thursday

Back from a day at school. This JSK is so nice to wear, the fabric is soft and has such nice flow. 

Blouse: H&M

JSK: Baby, the stars shine bright

Hairbow: Bow from the JSK :)

Lolita 7-days challenge: Tuesday

Dressed for a day at home. 

Blouse: H&M

Skirt: Handmade

Lolita 7-days challenge: Monday

For this week I felt like challenge myself by wearing lolita the whole week. Usually I just dress in it whenever I feel like it, but I wanted to try it on whole time. So for the whole week I will try to post daily outfits when in lolita fashion.

And you might see the difference in my hair. I was aiming for blonde, but kind of ended up with orange as I have a lot of red pigments in my original hair as well as my previous dye. It ain't as orange as in the photos but closer to the Directions apricot colour.

But here is today's daily outfit:

JSK: Metamorphose - Gingham Cherry Highwaist
Alice bow: Handmade
Rest: Offbrand

This dress look so short after I altered the straps so it could fit me. Since I'm short most things are to big for my shoulders so on this dress it was so nice that the straps are attached with buttons at the back. So I fitted the straps and sewed on a couple of new buttons and now the dress fits me, which I love since this dress is one of my dreamdresses.

Daily Outfit: Think PINK!

Blurry but, at least it shows a bit of my think pink-theme. 

JSK: Baby, the Stars Shine Bright

Everything else: Offbrand

& a little lolita

A few days ago I started thinking. All I ever post here is about cosplay. To me it is not all that surprising as lolita is to me not a hobby but a style I dress in. Therefore I renamed the blog to DcastEye Cosplay, & a little lolita. That means I will still be posting about lolita, but this blog will mostly contain cosplay and sewing.

A little treat. The photo is one of those times when I first started to wear lolita. Me and my friend were doing commercial for a Japanese culture event and dressed up since we were going to be in the newspaper, me in lolita and she in my Haruhi Suzumiya-costume.

But now I have to write a paper for school so for now. Bye!

PS. Later in week I will treat you on a giveaway. :D

Book Fair Outfit

This Friday I was at the yearly book fair in Gothenburg. It was as it been all the other years full with people and much that I wanted to buy. 

Outfit rundown

JSK: HMHM

Blouse: H&M

Stockings & Shoes: Offbrand

High Waisted Skirt in Velvet

Yes, I couldn't make myself not post this. This is how the skirt turned out, but this is only one of many versions of the skirt that can be made. I will include some in the tutorial and that is one of the reason it takes time. 

It is made in cotton velvet and has shirring in the back and zipper in the side. It is a bit longer than the regular lolita-skirt but I like that, it won't be so cold in the winter then. I added a ruffle at the hem, cause I felt it needed that. 

And I have changed the system for the comments. I think it is much easier now. ^^

More for the closet

I got a package today, and it had a lovely dress in it. It's so cute and I can't wait to start using it. I think it will be perfect for the hot summer days that I hope will come soon.

I'm going for KodachiCon this weekend and will live-post what happens during the time when I remember. Otherwise you could check out my Twitter or my friend CarpeDentum.

Now I'm going to make the final touches on my cosplay, including my wig.

Daily Oufit: Casual Spring Lolita

Today I was out walking since I didn't want to pay for the bus. But since the weather was lovely I didn't mind. I also tried to take a daily outfit since I felt like it and had the camera with me.

Cardigan: secondhand
T-shirt: WARP
Skirt: DcastEye
Socks: Cubus
Shoes: Indiska

Upcoming: What happened at UppCon? and high waisted skirt-tutorial. :D

White Flower Blouse - Lolita

I've gotten one of my unfinished blouse done and here it is. It's made of embroidered cotton/poly mix. The patterns is based of a blouse in Gosu Rori vol. 6, but I've made my own changes like shirring only in the back and laying low on the laces. It also became a bit shorter than I expected, but since I manly use it to JSK it doesn't matter. Click on the image, to see the details.

News on the tutorial: don't expect it to be done until after I get back from UppCon, in three weeks. I've sewn the skirt, but seeing black details on black velvet is a bit tricky so I'm going to make another in a better fabric.

On the cosplayfront: I have two and a half cosplays to finish in the next two weeks. But my wig for Usagi has come and it's so cute.

Now I should go back to reading since I have a test for tomorrow. Bye!

Tutorial Sketch

So I've made up my mind about doing a tutorial for a skirt. The one I have in mind is the one on the sketch. Here's some details:

• High-waisted skirt in velvet
• Front: buttons
• Back: shirring and corsettlacing
• Pleats
  
• Zipper in side

It might not get exactly as the sketch, but similar to it. Let me know what you think about it.