Hello lovelies,

I always had a dust mite allergy and every morning I would wake up and sneeze. It gradually grew worse and then suddenly, a few years ago I also had to sneeze when I was out of the house. It turned out I also developed an allergy to grass, pollen and birch. Fantastic.
My use of tissues got out of hand and usually I go through a pack in a few days. Sustainable? Not really. But what to do? I need tissues.
I remembered that my grandparents used fabric tissues and actually before the paper tissue industry everybody used fabric tissues. If I could just make myself a few or buy some, I could stop buying paper tissues and maybe help the environment a bit. And because I would need a fancy tissue, why not also add some lace? Usually that is only optional but this is the best way to look fancy and let's be honest, sneezing into a lace tissue while wearing your fancy lolita outfit just looks better than the plain old paper tissue.

I have a wonderful lace crocheting book from Japan and followed the instructions with a few alterations.

It also didn't really take me long, I sat in a Cafe around the corner and crocheted away with good cake and coffee.

After I finished the lace I pinned it to a cork board.

I then realized that this tissue will be a very tiny one as I measured out the sides (which were about 14cm). I cut out some linen from my leftover stash and inserted it. Or rather pinned the lace over it.


In the last step I hand sewed the lace onto the tissue with a whip stitch so that it will also keep the fabric from fraying on the backside.

And that was it. It didn't even take me a full day to do this and I am very proud of my tiny tissue, even though M. made fun of it's size.



All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,


late but better than never, here are my coordinates for March.

 My outfit for the lolita teekränzchen, the separate post about this monthly event is here.
Dress: Quaint Lass
Shoes: Rosemarie Seoir

Otome Kei/Casual Lolita for my birthday lunch with my mother.
Dress: AA
Shoes: DreamV
Blouse: Ank Rouge

This is actually one of my favourite casual dresses because it has Disney princesses on them. I bought it in Tokyo and it was on sale. It was a super lucky find.
Dress and blouse: Secret Honey
Shoes: Liz lisa
Hairbow: Jesus Diamante

I tried a ballerina-ish coordinate because it is quite invisible on the picture but the dress actually has a ballet shoes print.
Jsk: Taobao brand (I think they already closed)
Shoes: Rosemarie seoir
Peignoir: Vintage

 The dress is perfect for a hot no blouse weather. The shoulders are warm but there is no blouse and no second layer of fabbric.
Dress: Taobao
Shoes: Rosemarie seoir
Which outfit is your favourite for this month?

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

I turned 30 this year (I almost typed 20...oops) and decided to celebrate it like an adult.....in Disneyland. 
I got a super cheap offer I found on urlaubshamster.at that included the park entry and one night at a disneyhotel for only 70€. I wanted to stay another night as to not have to check out and go back to Paris on my birthday and another night was also 70€. So all in all I paid 140€ for the park entry and two nights at the Disney hotel. The flight was another 70€ and we had a taxi from the airport to the Disneyland hotel for 23€. Which makes it about 233€ (without food and the transfer to Paris) for stay and transfer per Person which is a super good price.

I brought two of my friends and my partner along and we flew to Paris on the 3rd of March. We only brought hand luggage and everything went quite smoothly. We arrived at the hotel at about 6pm and went for dinner in the hotel restaurant which was an all you can eat.





On the 4th of March we entered Disneyland in pouring rain.



It stopped around 12pm and there were occasional showers but we almost always were waiting in lines inside and therefore didn't mind as much.
What can I say about the whole day? It was amazing.


I had a lot of fun with my friends and on the rides, snacked a lot and for dinner we ate at the Garden place, another all you can eat.











The illumination show at the end was a great finale to an even better day and in the end we fell dead into our beds.




The next day we checked out and took the train to Paris.


It had started to rain again and we roamed through little Tokyo. I visited the Angelic Pretty store where I bought a new hair bow and a pair of cream coloured ankle socks.



 
Afterwards we went for Takoyaki and Okontomiyaki in the little tokyo of Paris, near the AP store.


The food at the restaurant we chose was very good but then I saw one guest and a waitress not washing their hands after visiting the bathroom and was grossed out. Then the most funniest thing happened after we left the restaurant, in the next shop, a closed restaurant, we saw a rat in the window. I at first thought it was a rat plushie but then it moved. My friend P. almost got a heart attack and wanted to leave asap. The rest of the journey until today we still tell her that Remy (from the movie Ratatouille) made our food. She still doesn't think it is funny.

We walked past Louvre and made some pictures, the museum was closed for the public anyway.


Our flight from Charles de Gaulles was on time and the plane was almost empty. We even arrived earlier than expected in Vienna.


Once again, thank you again R, P and M for the good time.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

here are my coordinates from February in June because I am a lazy bum.

The first coord is an Infanta JSK with a magic tea party blouse and dream V shoes. If you look closely you can see the ribbons in my hair.


All in pink, what a shock. The dress is from Baby the stars shine bright worn with Rosemarie seoir shoes and an offbrand bonnet. 



A more casual himekaji coord with a Liz lisa dress and a red hairbow. The dress is really warm and perfect for cold temperatures. 

The following is my non-lolita valentines coord, I showed it off already in another post. The skirt is from Swankiss, the top from H&M.

 And this is my lolita Valentines coord for our Lolita Teekränzchen in February. The jsk is from Metamorphose and I added all the roses to it. The red blouse is hand-made and made out of chiffon.


Another softer coordinate with my Innocent world jsk and dreamV shoes and a lockshop wig. My hair was super messy, luckily this wig fits almost every outfit.

All in all, 6 coords that month. Not bad! Usually I only make it to 3 to 4 per month (about one each weekend). It is such a shame that I can not wear lolita at work.

All the best,

Auris Lothol