Lolita Goals & End of Year Review 2016-17

2017

I'm saving!

 No spending for Eighteen months!!!

• My Lolita goals will be to get creative with what I have, which is a lot. My wardrobe room is jammed with gorgeous clothes I barely touch as the bins get to go out more than I do, so perhaps dressing up more should be a goal of mine also.
• I started a #100daysoflolita last September but life got in the way, perhaps I can start that up again. I took it to another level of 100 co-ords which was killing me a bit to keep up, I think I made it into the thirties before I became too busy to continue, although I love the idea of having a huuuuge folder of creative coordinates to look back on.
• My partner is a photographer but I am really fussy about photo's and I hate looking at myself but maybe when the weather is warmer it's time to get frilled up and take some ootd's in my favourite places such as the boyne valley, loughcrew, killykeen park and the cavan burren. We have such great natural landscapes and archaeological sites here.
• I also hope to create a hitlist of remaining wishlist items, I saw one in a thread on Rufflechat and I thought it was a great idea. The idea was to have wishlist items pasted on a board with the dresses bought crossed out boldly with an X - which I am sure serves as great inspiration & motivation to it's owner. I am slowly adding to my wishlist here https://www.pinterest.com/hareinthehills/
•  I think my small little Lolita Journal is deserving an overhaul, it's a bit messy right now. There are crossed out procured items everywhere and reams of lists of things I wanted then fell out of love with, also I ended up with so many items I didn't leave enough pages in between so my jsks start on one page, then begin again 10 pages on. I might try to scrapbook it. I think it's a bit much to transfer to pinterest, but who knows, maybe I will find the time.
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  

  2016 

  End of year review

  I tend to keep a slow steady stream of fun money to spend on Lolita it's not much:40 euro's a week, an early bird dinner out to some or a cinema date with popcorn but it adds up as I keep everything I buy. I've added quite a bit this year to my wardrobe. I discovered Japanese fashion selling apps and truly did a lot of bargain hunting.
  
  
  main pieces 169-
  28 OP's
  65 Jsk's
  54 bought skirts, 23 handmade Skirts.
  
  
  I bought a looooot of florals. They are my new favourite thing. 
  It's a bit shameful, the excess of it, but that dichotomy is at the heart of my personality.
  In my daily wear, I went another direction and tried project 333, employing a capsule wardrobe. I also streamlined my beauty routine in the same way, leaving me with 9 items that I use daily. It has not hindered me one bit. I don't miss having boxes of beauty products I never use or that don't suit me.
  I urge you to try the capsule wardrobe, it works well for my daily wear as it's just for around the house with my mr & dogs or going for messages. If I am going anywhere else I make an effort and dress in Lolita. I am sure project 333 would be very doable for a daily lolita if you picked mostly versatile, plainer items.
  I think I could just as happily live out of a suitcase as well as a carefully curated large closet,so I feel I have the best of both worlds - A beautiful opulent lolita closet brimming with prints that makes my heart sing & a practical, if unmemorable useful small daily closet.

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Recent Coords

I recently started a 100 days of lolita challenge, here are my outfits for the first couple of weeks. I am hoping it will help me pick out new combinations.

Wardrobe

Liefs Gardenberry Bunny four ways

It's the little things that make an outfit: Adorable Accessories

I recently bought this bunny ring from enchantlic enchantilly and am in love.

Nine times out of ten I will lean towards wanting to add more but try to keep it simple, like here 

Happy International Lolita Day

 

I am spending the day in my frills with the pugs reading a good book!

pink x chocolate coords

I am rather fond of this combination; 

Goals for the new year

 Goals 2016

 

 

1. Stock up the basics- It's always good to have more basics. I tend to wear skirts a lot so I have the most of them but what surprised me when I was tallying up my wardrobe for the year was how few Lolita specific basic tops I have. I have enough frilly, ornate, impractical blouses that are not everyday wear but have been using the same plain ones to death in outfits. My aim for this is to buy a blouse & bolero, underdress or underskirt a month.  I am aiming for having very plain cardigans, turtlenecks & blouses that can match anything and then some pretty boleros & underskirts, possibly an infanta underdress or two. 

2. Build up my handmade wardrobe, sew, design, craft anything! I have a decent wardrobe already but I've gotten the most pleasure out of making my own things. Recently I've taken a design course and am busy designing any print that takes my fancy. Rabbits & Royal Doulton, why not?  It helps to have a photographer in the house but I am most excited for when I get on to illustrator & can use my own art to make dresses out of. I was enjoying embroidery when I was ill so it can be as simple as embroidering something cute on a plain beret or crafting some matching jewellery for a print.

3. Wear my hair in upstyles daily. I have a u shaped hem at about waist length, it always gets thicker at the ends and looks healthier if I wear it up more. Every year I say that I want to grow it to classic length and then do nothing more about it. I'm also taking multivitamins for hair & nails & eating lots of protein.

4. Get back into Dance. I've not danced seriously since 2011 with my group, or taught since 2013 when I had a relapse of my spinal issues. I know from bitter tears of frustration that I can't move as well as I could and at the time just thought I would be better off forgetting about it if I couldn't excel. But if it's something I could do, even a few times a week in front of a tutorial dvd, that would lift my mood & energy levels and I would benefit from it daily. 

Wardrobe

End of year wardrobe post 2015

This years tally comes to

23 OPS

30 JSKS

54 Skirts (11 self designed prints)

 12 Coats

29 Shoes

31 Bags

21 Blouses

20 Bolero's/Cardi's 

A whole lot of accessories

& a partridge in a pear tree

I have a room of clothes rails & storage boxes since the move 6 months ago that I had promised myself I would make a pretty boudoir/dressing room out of then I turned around and bought 10 dresses on mbok/yahoo japan out of the $ instead. No regrets! Although I am going to have to save up again if I want to make that room nice.

I am looking forward to the wardrobe posts on egl.

 

Blackberry picking

Blackberry-Picking

By Seamus Heaney

 

Late August, given heavy rain and sun

For a full week, the blackberries would ripen.

At first, just one, a glossy purple clot

Among others, red, green, hard as a knot.

You ate that first one and its flesh was sweet

Like thickened wine: summer's blood was in it

Leaving stains upon the tongue and lust for

Picking. Then red ones inked up and that hunger

Sent us out with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots

Where briars scratched and wet grass bleached our boots.

Round hayfields, cornfields and potato-drills

We trekked and picked until the cans were full,

Until the tinkling bottom had been covered

With green ones, and on top big dark blobs burned

Like a plate of eyes. Our hands were peppered

With thorn pricks, our palms sticky as Bluebeard's. 

We hoarded the fresh berries in the byre.

But when the bath was filled we found a fur,

A rat-grey fungus, glutting on our cache.

The juice was stinking too. Once off the bush

The fruit fermented, the sweet flesh would turn sour.

I always felt like crying. It wasn't fair

That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot.

Each year I hoped they'd keep, knew they would not.