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My aim with Black History Month posts is to boost creators and influencers in whatever way I can in my corner of the internet, and also to keep reiterating this website as a place of learning and support especially for minorities because there is so little courage out there in the face of oppression and …
I went to the Twice concert in my city this past weekend and had an amazing and magical time seeing the queens of k-pop live! A lot of stars had to align for me to make it, but I’m so glad everything worked out, it was absolutely worth it. Here is my Instagram summary because …
Yesterday was the first Saturday of December which is winter International Lolita Day! I didn’t get to a coord done that day because I was busy running errands on Saturday afternoon and then I spent the whole evening at my friend’s house watching playthrough of Disco Elysium and that’s a lengthy process. So I made …
This is the long-awaited follow-up from previous posts about slow-fashion, mending, upcycling and thrift-flipping (link here!). I present to you, T-shirt upcycling featuring my large hoard of t-shirts I can’t really donate or sell due to bad condition or nostalgia. I basically have 35 t-shirts reserved that I almost never wear, either too small, stained, …
Here is another handmade lolita/otome top, made from Otome no Swing volume 19. I just wanted to sew something from the latest volume to be on trend, using this print remnant cotton I think I got at Michaels. It was at most 1.5 yards, a thin cotton with a repeating small pattern of Disney’s Bambi …
Happy Halloween! I’d been in a vampires and Castlevania mood, so I also put together a Japanese fashion gothic/aristocratic coord from stuff I already had, not making anything new, like I was Wisdom K or something lol. I was particularly inspired by Ayami Kojima’s artwork of Dracula for Castlevania Symphony of the Night, see the …
In a previous post, I listed two sets of Japanese fashion items on Etsy/Ko-fi for anyone interested, just so my shop can truly be called an atelier. The beige/white lolita skirt and bonnet set was actually sewn quite a few years ago and meant for a variety of sizes, but I never pulled off that …
This is a just a quick shop opening announcement for the holidays, I am releasing a bunch of cute new handmade items on my Etsy so it can actually be called an atelier lol. Be sure to get them before the last week of November. Currently only shipping to the USA. Most of these printed …
For Labor Day weekend the last weekend of August, I made the drive to San Antonio for San Japan and the Okashi-con events there, including their Japanese fashion mixer. This year’s theme was Sweet Roulette with a casino cards theme, so I wore an Alice in Wonderland coord that I bought from Metamorphose because I …
How can I be confident wearing Japanese fashion or other alternative, non-mainstream fashion? Here’s a tip from someone wearing weird fashion for years… you don’t! If you aren’t confident at first, you won’t magically become confident when you put those clothes on, and for some people, you may never be confident wearing alt fashion no …