Hello lovelies,

I am super late, as always, with my posts about our lolita Teekränzchen. At the moment there are no "big" meet-ups planned and no tea party, therefore our small monthly meet ups are the only regular events.
In this post I will combine the November and December Teekränzchen to catch up a bit.

November

We went to the Hard Rock cafe but we were so disappointed. The quality and quantity of the food has massively decreased. The cocktail I ordered tasted ok  but I had better for a cheaper price. The burger was also much smaller than before, the only thing that stayed massive was the dessert.


The other girls were not thrilled either, E. even said she ate the most expensive cheesecake ever.

I wore my new dress I got earlier at the bring and buy. It is a bit too big for me and I am thinking about inserting some ribbons to tighten it at the back.
The dress is from Lady sloth, the rest is offbrand.

December

This Teekränzchen was at Campus, it is actually near Little Britain at the outskirts of Vienna but smack in the middle of the new economic department of Vienna University.
Even though it was Sunday, the place was packed with Students and there were only a few waiters and waitresses. The constantly kept forgetting our order or brought the wrong order.

I had a burger, which was good, and a cheesecake which was meh. It had a weird texture, not soft and fluffy but more like a sponge cake, and it was not sweet enough. At least for my preference.


I had an eye infection and couldn't wear the circle lenses. Therefore my face and eyes look really tiny. It is so weird how a few milimeters of coloured contacts can change the complete look.

I wore my Metamorphose dress with the bolero I made. (See here). I also made the choker myself, it was one of my first choker projects. I later found out that Liz Lisa almost made the same.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

last year I took another interesting class, this time joined by M. We learned book binding, and let me tell you, part one was pretty as it was mostly sewing together the pages. Part two, doing the binding was a super annoying. I didn't like it as much as part one and in class I grew super grumpy when I had to re-do the binding as the first try was crooked.

 We had about 10 pages of folded paper and had to sew the pages together with these brown ribbons.

  As you can see on the left edge, I managed to rip some pages because I didn't pull up but to the side. Oops.

 The front and the back had both these brown pages at the fron and back.

 The back was one of the hardest to do, even though it looks pretty easy, doesn't it?
But as mentioned before, I somehow managed to glue it on super weirdly and had to redo the whole step. And the worst part of it was the stupid glue. It didn't look and feel like it could hold together a whole book but after five minutes you were not able to separate it anymore without damaging the book.

 I always thought the paper would go over the book and the leather on top of it, I was wrong.

Tadah. The bloody steak.
I am not sure if I every do another book again but let's see. At least now I kinda know how to do this if I ever wanted to do a book.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

a few weeks ago I visited the Italian Tea party Vitae Essentia in Rome with a few girls from the Austrian lolita fashion club (no joke, we really are an official club here, although not every lolita is a member).
It was held in the St. Regis hotel, which actually was right around the corner of our hotel and the main train station.
The location was marvelous but our event was not very large. We had a separate room for tea and sandwiches which opened up after we satisfied our thirst for shopping and the fashion show. The fashion show was actually in the room with most of the sellers and only separated by a few chairs.

The stage from the fashion show

The other side

Quite a few Lolitas had to stand during the raffle and the fashion shows.

There were fashion shows from My inspiration,  AmaStacia, and two others but I forgot which ones :(. After a small break, we even had a special fashion show from Angelic Pretty.


At the raffle I won a small swan brooch from le petite four.
M. bought so many brooches, but I would have too if I'd wear them. There were so many cute accessoires. In the end I only bought an Angelic Pretty Tops Lucky bag.









My only big critique was that we didn't have any drinks for hours before we were led to the separate room for tea. I was so damn thirsty by the time we were served tea, I had my cup refilled a few times before I felt better. The waiters were already super annoyed because the whole table ordered tea and water so many times.
The ladies from Team Austria and I sat on one big table together and it was super fun. We had three plate of sandwiches and three of sweet treats, we were stuffed afterwards.

The mask is not part of the table decoration

After the food, there was no program and the other lolitas and I made some more pictures before leaving.
Thank you for the great event!

Here are some more picture from the event:

The frescoes were amazing

Team Austria

I wore the dress from Angelic Pretty I bought last year called le jardin des anges in purple and an Angelic Pretty blouse I bought just for this occasion. The sleeves were enormous, I didn't realize that until I wore the blouse the first time. The shoes are from Taobao and were also bought for this event. I tried to stay in the colour scheme white/purple/silver.
I made the head dress myself from polymer clay. At first, I thought I made the stripes too thin and already saw them go all over the place, but they didn't. Hooray. With the cross and the angels the crown had a good stability.
The plan was to wear a stocking with little angels, but they didn't arrive in time, therefore I just wore my favourite ankle socks.

Yes, my fingernails had small angels on them.

All the best,

Auris Lothol

Hello lovelies,

in January I wanted to go to a 1920s party and suddenly remembered to my horror, that I never made a dress or bought one. The 1920s are not my preferred type of look, the sack-like dresses only look good if you are tall and have tiny hips (which was also the popular figure at that time). And I am small and have enormous hips. I looked up some extant garment and chose to make one out of a light pink velvet and embroidery it with black beads. It doesn't really make me taller or slimmer or gives me the 20's figure but all in all it was super comfy and definitely a nice party.
The following was my inspiration from the Met Museum. I didn't do the ribbon though which can be seen on the right hand side, because I ran out of fabric :(.
And here was the inspiration for the embroidery:



I started cutting out the velvet after a quick mock up. The pattern is from my dress block but without any tucks, front and back.
Then the front part was embroidered.

My light is so bad. See the next picture for a proper colour.

It actually didn't take long for the front part. But the skirt part took ages because I had too much skirt fabric.


But apart from the time consuming embroidery, the making of was a pretty quick job.
The lining was made from a thin white cotton fabric which was partly my mock up.
The dress is super wrinkled but I made this dress in less than two weeks and had no time to steam it.

The head band was literally made 30mins before I left the house. Phew.



But I liked the outcome and for a very hasty project it definitely looks okay. It could have been much worse.
All the best,

Auris Lothol