◊ TOKYO MAYBE ◊

From Tokyo with love (?)

2014-10-29 in Allmänt. 0 comments. Post a comment →

So today, after a loooong trip to town, hunting a turquoise zipper for my Elsa dress without success I came home to a chubby parcel from Japan!
My friend C had sent me so many goodies, it's like my birthday came early!

There was a thing in high school when C put "Hesten", which basically means Horsie on her facebook name. I proceeded with calling her Hest, Hesten, Ponni and also Hestskrälle(basically a horse that's a drag..? It doesn't translate very well haha!), hence the horse signature!

So much goodies! I'm such a spoiled girl! ♥

Halloween Pocky! Basically hard bread sticks coated with something similar to white chocolate but in allll sorts of flavors. I got "Cookies & Cream", "Sweet Pumpkin" and "Strawberry". Even the bags inside the boxes has little witches on them! As expected of Japan, so cute ♥

I saw C using this when she came to Sweden this summer and it's absolutely mesmerizing how sparkly it is. Can't wait to try it out! It's the BR-2 palette from KATE.

Nana also took the opportunity to throw in my favorite sailor senshis that she got for me in a vending machine. So happy!

I also got these adorable earrings from WC! I made myself a smaller pair earlier this year when Jözz came to visit, but these are just perfect. So soft, it's like having lil bunnies cuddling my cheeks whenever I move.
Also a tshirt from the brand Merry Jenny! I got one for Christmas from the same brand, and they are so unbelieveably soft and cute! I do however get mad guilt feelings when looking at the print, even though I haven't done anything.. (Here in the background you can see only some fragments of how messy my room is right now. I've been working on cosplay all weekend and it looks like Elsa exploded in my room pretty much. eheh.)

She also sent me Royal Milk tea, my favorite beverage in the world I do believe, and also some Milky candies. So nostalgic flavors, they really bring me back to my highschool year way, way back in time now.

So now I'm off to enjoy some sweets and a cup of Milk Tea whilst studying some kaji and violently procrastinating the inevitable cleanup of my room ..

Until next time! ♥

My space

2014-10-28 in Diary. 0 comments. Post a comment →

So, I'm one of these people who's always a little messy.
I don't know how, or why I do it, but I rarely manage to keep my space neat and tidy. It's always clean - mind you, but none the less a little messy.
Until sometimes in a blue moon, when I go into cleaning frenzy and tidy my room as good as it gets.
Last time that happened, I took some photos~

My messy lil' beauty stand and even messier crafting corner.

The blue container with an anime girl on is Japanese rice wine that my friend left for me when he moved to Japan. Not all that tasty, but very cute! In the middle you have my collection of VIP/working/guest/performer badges to different cons I've been to with my AKBabes. Desucon has sooo cute badges! They're all precous memories and sort of trophies to me, proof of all our hard work up until now. ♥

My Panty and Stocking Galaxxxy version figurines! They're the only figurines I've bought for myself, and I love them so so much. Some day I hope to cosplay this version, it's so colorful and funky!

My collection of polaroid photos as well as a cutout from a newspaper that wrote about me and the girls' second performance at ConFusion 2013! Someday I hope I can get myself a polaroid camera of my own.

These lil' cuties are soooo dear to me! My friends surpried me with them when we were in Japan! I looove the anime Star Driver, and while these actually come in sealed boxes, my friends peeked inside(they were on sale so who gave a damn really) and made sure to get the whole available cast for us! Each and every one of us took our own characters with us home, but I got five instead of just one or two characters each. My friends are the sweetest. ♥

This wall is one of my fav things in my room. The painting in the middle is a graduation gift from my friend C. She is so annoyed that I put it up since it's not finished, but I just know that if I give it back to her now I'll never see it again. Sure, it doesn't have any background, but I really love it and how rough the bare canvas in the back looks. It's my favorite piece of art. I also have a photo from AKBabes first performance, one of me doing my sister's makeup before her wedding, one of me and some of my my fav girls at Tokyo Disneyland, photos of me and my japanese hostmother and sister, a cosplay print I got from my friend Tomasz, a minimalistic Satsuki print I bought at Desucon and yet another drawing by C to mention some. So many memories. ♥

Apart from a tidy room I have a very busy period of time ahead of me. School, work, organizing for ConFusion, cosplay and well - life. Wish me luck!
Until next time! ♥

Let it go, the Elsa chronicles - part 2

2014-10-22 in Cosplay. 0 comments. Post a comment →

So, after customizing my completely straight hairline lacefront wig into a widow's peak by weaving two-three strands of hair into the lace at a time, I could finally try it on to see how it'll look in the end!
I used this tutorial's needle method to do it.

Now I just have to finish cutting it, clean up stray hairs, get better lenses and tease the braid up a little thicker and I'm good in the wig department! Also my shipment of fabric is in town - so I can get started for reals now.

This costume means the world to me, so I really hope it goes my way!
Wish me luck. ♥

Until next time!

Birthday girl ♥

2014-10-19 in Allmänt. 0 comments. Post a comment →

A week ago I went to Stockholm for a photoshoot and some practice for me and my girls' next cosplay show performance in December and of course to spend some quality time with my friends.
I love my ever growing circle of friends in Stockholm, they always make me feel so very welcome and loved.
And on Monday, before I was leaving I got to celebrate my dear friend Elvina's birthday.
She's one of the sweetest souls I know. She's so hard working, kind, creative and beautiful, and I'm so happy that I was there to show her some love on her birthday. ♥

Me, Jözz and Johanna got her flowers, a gift voucher, some accessories and made pancake lunch. ♥

Once I left to catch my train, some more friends joined us and I got to experience the dramatical and filmish feeling of having a friend running trough all of Stockholm central train station just to catch me before I left. Two of my other friends left work slightly early to see me for a couple of minutes. Like always, I had the lovliest time and I feel so privileged to have such lovely friends there for me. ♥

There are some quite exciting things happening in my life right now, I really hope I'll be able to catch some photos to document what's happening.

Until next time! ♥

1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9!

2014-10-08 in Cosplay. 0 comments. Post a comment →

I looked trough my old photos in search for a full body shot of one of my cosplays from Närcon, but I came across these instead! I really love the half candid/spontaneous shots in which we just pose super quick and naturally, they always look like so much fun!

Almost our full μ's (muse) Love Live group! I love our Yume no Tobira costumes, the designs are so cute! ♥

Lovely Elvina as Eri, Joss as Kotori and myself as Maki! ♥

Today was such awful weather, it really made me miss the unusually hot summer we had in Sweden this year.
I love Autumn, but as I spend a large part of my days looking after 17+ kids outside, cold weather gets a little tiring at times.
Photo and edit by my friend Davy, thank you!

Can't wait to hug all my girls again, I'm going to Stockholm for four days tomorrow for dance practice and loving, I can't wait! ♥

Until next time! ♥