Tea Party Club's 2013 extravaganza: Frock On!

Hey guys!
As some of you may remember Tea Party Club last year organised the epic JetJ event. Well, this year (somehow) was bigger and better! Here are my Frock On! Photos!

The hotel was suitably epic. The 3rd photo is 1/3 of the ladies bathroom btw...

I was in the fashion show so I went Friday night for rehearsals. This was when all of the clothes arrived to be sorted! 

Saturday morning, models making sure we know what we need to do!

The attendees waiting to get in!

I modelled for Lief! It was so exciting and I loved the dress!

The main dealers room.

I was also a volunteer. My job was to help Grimoire's Hitomi with her shop for a few hours. She was so lovely! I hope I can visit her shop in Shinjuku whilst I am in Japan!

Each attendee recieved a chocolate! Volunteers also received a small gift. I got a TPC necklace! (not pictured)

Final goodbyes at the station.

It was so much fun! I met so many wonderful lolitas from the UK, Europe and even further! It was also a great honour to meet Hitomi-san. I'm really happy everyone liked my outfit, it was all handmade so I was a bit nervous that it would just fall apart when I wore it XD

 Thank you so much TPC for continuing to put on these events!!

ナル姫

So sorry!

Wow. I haven't updated in ages. Sorry guys D':

I've passed all my modules this year and will be studying in Tokyo come October!! Yayy! I will be keeping posts here about life in Japan and a daily photo tumblr here. So whatever will float your boat really, daily snippets or more wordy less frequent catch up posts.
This summer I made my first lolita dress, which I shall be wearing to Frock On! At the end of this month! I am really looking forward to it :3

I shall update with photos again come Frock On!
ナル姫

New Tumblr blogs

Hey guys!
I shall be doing more visual based posts on tumblr from now on, but I shall try to keep this blog going too.
Empty atm, but this shall be my sewing and cosplay tumblr http://laanotetofollowsew.tumblr.com/ I am hoping to sew a lot over the summer so hopefully it'll be very active!
And this shall be my travel/photography blog. http://captainnaru.tumblr.com/ atm I am just blogging photosets from the millions of photos I have of travels and art shoots I have done in the past. This shall also be my general daily Japan blog when I move to Yokohama in September. However I shall try to write bits here too!
ナル姫

Picnics, books and run up to revision.

Hey all!
Last Bank Holiday Monday I went to Bath to meet some of the local lolis. Had a lovely picnic in front of the Royal Crescent. I enjoyed Bath immensely, its such a beautiful city.

 It was so hot I was dying to wear a hat most of the day, then struck lucky in a charity shop!

I took some pictures of Cardiff whilst it was still pretty! Its now just reverted back to rain.

As part of my Japanese revision motivation recently I've been finding my favourite book quotes and stuff in Japanese. You can do this in a variety of ways including the internet or if you can just get your hands on the translated book then do that! I have a small collection of Japanese books including Alice in Wonderland/Alice Through the Looking Glass, Harry Potter and some Beatrix Potter too.

(Photo is my own)

Looking at Japanese wiki pages can also be insightful into how your favourite literature is translated. For example I hadn't realised till recently that the way movie titles and book titles are translated are very different. e.g. The Lord of the Rings books are known as 指輪物語（ゆびわものがたり）whereas the movie titles are ロード・オブ・ザ・リング. Literally 'Lord of the Rings' in katakana. This is part of the reason why I find culture and linguistics so interesting. Why do they differentiate in its use like this? I can understand the logic behind both because one is a translation for literature and the other a translation for a movie franchise, but I still don't get 100% why they can't use the book title for the movie too. Its definitely something for me to investigate further.

I highly recommend getting copies of your favourite books translated even if you don't think you'll be able to read them yet. It gives you something to compare and you can try to glean information and grammar out and try to push yourself further with your reading. I also find it interesting to try and glean what I feel has been lost in translation, but also that because the languages express things in different ways it gives you a new perspective on something that you maybe already familiar with.

Now I have exams for the next month or so and providing I pass everything I shall be off to Japan in September. And that is sort of terrifying. If you have exams too, good luck!

ナル姫

Exciting weekend!

Hey all!
Just a quick update about what I've been up to.

Friday I went to see Northern Ballet's version of The Great Gatsby! It was awesome and they still have a few dates left so if you have the chance to go I highly recommend it. Last year I saw their production of Beauty and the Beast and that was amazing too. I try get every opportunity I can to go to the ballet, I love it.

On Sunday I went to Bristol to a lolita meet! We went to M Shed's Chocolate! Exhibition. It was so much fun seeing everyone! Here are a few choice pics.

 Making chocolate boxes.

 I loved this hat so much! The little Sylvanian families were such a cute touch!

 Lolis with lollies!

 Grumpy cat!

 I look a little derp in this pic because it was so windy!

Everybody looked so elegant!
This article was also just publishes on Intrinsically Florrie. Its a very good read, I always think Florrie has a great down to earth way of telling it how it is!

Thats all I have for now. I am in the middle of writing a review for Iron Man 3. I saw it on Thursday, but I can't quite find a good way to articulate my thoughts on it yet...
ナル姫