Victorian Romance - Fly Away Fashion Official Tea Party

Hello ^__^

Long time no see! It feels like ages since I blogged for the last time. I went to Fly Away Fashion tea party last Sunday. For weeks I was too busy to do anything fun and I also went through a very hard time. I'm working things out now, hopefully everything will be okay in the end.

So... the Fly Away Fashion Tea Party. Fly Away Fashion is a Dutch lolita shop with handmade clothes, accessory and kawaii goods. Click for the website ~~
There is a lolita tea party for their costumers every half year. It's always theme tea party, this time it was Victorian Romance. I don't have a complete Victorian lolita outfit, that's why have had to improvise. I wore my Rococo dress from 4 O'clock, with a blue bonnet which was an amazing gift from my friend Dieuwke, Moitie socks and my new lolita shoes from An*tai*na. I went with Ellis to the tea party.It's always fun to attend lolita meeting with her. ^__^ We are probably going to Summer Darkness again, that's another story, only I'm really looking forward to it. At the train station we met up with Roos and Josine and we traveled together to Fly Away Fashion.

Food!!

Group pictures ~~

When we arrived Katie (the shop owner) started the high tea with a talk. It was about Fly Away Fashion in general, the program of the tea party, about future events and reservations. Then she showed us the wonderful new collection. She wore a beautiful handmade dress with dots. The high tea was delicious, there were all kinds of sweets, sandwiches and even strawberries. Then it was time to visit the shop and pick up my Alpacasso which I bought a few days before the tea party. Many new lolitas attended the tea party, it was for the first time in years seeing more lolitas I haven't met before than my lolita friends. It was nice to see many new lolitas, only I was also a little bit shy. There where so many people which I never met before... Although I'm happy to see there are many people interested in lolita fashion. 

Pictures ~~

My silhouette 

Picture with Josine

She looked wonderful! And look at that coord. *_*

Picture with Jannike

It was so nice to see her again! It was a surprise to see her wearing pink. This outfit suits her so well! ^__^

Alpacassos ♥

Then it was time for the outfit contest. Everyone has put so much effort in making and creating beautiful outfits. Maybe I will participate with the contest next time...

I'm still not sure because I'm really scared to participate, what if nobody likes my outfit?

After that it was time for the last event, the lottery. This time I didn't lose my ticket, I'm so proud of myself! And that's not the most remarkable... I won the first prize in the lottery!

Letters from Paris skirts ♥
I won the red skirt. ^_^

This is what I bought at the tea party:

A super cute Alpacasso from the Eden series. Look at his face it's so cute! *_* And Katie wrote a small notice for me which was attached at the packing of the Alpacasso. She also gave the Alpacasso an extra ribbon and I Jetoy card.

Translated it means as much as: Dear Anne, thank you for your purchase. Have fun with you new little friend. It made me so happy. ^___^

A new pencil & a cute box. What do you think it's mend for?

Look it's a box to store contacts! 

And at last...my prize. I'm so happy that I won! I must be a lucky person, because last time I won the third prize. It's a skirt from Fly Away Fashion with a beautiful print. It's called letters from Paris. Look at all those details, there are cute ribbons in the lace and look at the small texts in French. I made me think of the great time I had in Paris this Winter. 
Thanks again Katie! I'm so happy with my new skirt.

Rococo Lolita meeting

Last Sunday I organized a meeting with my friend Josine. I'm a huge fan of themed meetings unfortunately my community doesn't organize many of them. Such a shame of course, the Dutch community needs more themed meetings because it's nice to wear a special outfit for a certain meeting. A few months ago I told Josine that I wanted to attend more themed meeting especially a Rococo Lolita meeting. That's why we decided to organize one. ~~

We went to a lovely restaurant in Utrecht, I loved the ambiance of the restaurant. The restaurant had a Victorian look, not really Rococo but well, it looked amazing and the food was amazing. It was nice to be back, it was the same restaurant were I had my first lolita meeting. And one of my best friend went with me to the meeting, she didn't attend a lolita meetings for a long time. 

What did we do? We went to the restaurant to do an afternoon tea (high tea) and we talked a lot about lolita and other things. The Afternoon tea was very delicious like I said before, it was one of the best I've ever had. Sandwiches, scones, muffins, pancakes and much more...

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ FOOD ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

After the high tea we went to visit a beautiful church which I never visited before.

It was hidden between other buildings, the church is not outstanding and I first thought it would be a small chapel. I was really surprised, it wasn't a small chapel but a big church with the most amazing colors and decoration. It's the St. Willibrordkerk, (kerk = Dutch for church) the church is located near the Domkerk (Domchurch) and it's really worth to take a look if you are close.

Source: Google

We had to leave the church because of preparations for the mass later in the evening. I'm sure I'm going back it's such an unique church! Then we went to the Domtuin for taking some nice pictures of the group. Everyone wore lovely outfits, I'm so happy people have put so much effort in their outfits. ^^

The Group

Lany and I

with Yvette

Me & Josine

Lory, Lany & I

I had a great day! Thank you so much everyone. ^__^

It's looks like a lot of fun to organize meetings only it's also hard work. I'm glad everything went well... I was worrying too much, I think!

My outfit

Dress: 4 O'Clock
Gloves: Vintage
Necklace: offbrand

Stockings: Fly Away fashion

Shoes: Fly away fashion

When I wrote this I realized that the outfit is completely Dutch.

All the items are from Dutch shops, I never thought about it.
I guess we have some amazing shops! ^_~

Thanks for watching <3
See you next time with the Fairy Tale meeting!!! (more information about that soon) Pictures by: Yvette, Lory and myself.

Gift Swap Meeting

Hello everyone! 

I have new followers, yay I'm so happy! Thank you ^___^
About the lolita blog carnival from last week.. I fell ill again so I couldn't answer or read any of your comments/posts.
I'm glad I feel better again. Next time when I join a LBC post I will read the other posts too. 

Yesterday I went to the Gift Swap meeting, an annual lolita meeting of our lolita community. 

The idea of the meeting is that you make or buy some gifts for another lolita and another lolita makes or buys something for you. It's all random and you can't tell anyone which person you have for the gift swap. It was the first time that I went to this meeting because I'm a little bit afraid that the other person won't like my gifts... I know it's silly.. >.< 

So.. I decided to surmount my fears and join the gift swap meeting. And it was a good thing.. it was so much fun! I also decided to wear sweet lolita, which was the first time in the winter. I never felt like wearing it in the winter, only last Saturday I thought why not? Let's give it a try ^_~ 

Why shouldn't I wear sweet lolita in the winter?

This was my outfit:

OP: Angelic Pretty
Cardigan: Maxicimam
Hat: Angelic Pretty

Fake fur: Fly away fashion
Wig: Fly away fashion
Socks: Metamorphose
Shoes: Bodyline

I hope you like my outfit! ^___^
I was wearing my Angelic Pretty hat, I really love that hat.
I still think every outfit needs a hat.

Video

Recently I saw a blog post of my friend Damien about his outfits in the year 2011 and I really liked that. I also want to have a sort of memorial outfit movie of the year. I never remember what I wear if I don't make pictures or movies, hahaha.
Enough talking about myself and my outfit because this meeting wasn't about me
It's about giving presents to lolita friends. (and also receiving presents!!)

I got Catherine for the gift swap and I was really happy about that. She is such a nice person and we both wear sweet and gothic lolita, there aren't many lolitas who wear both of these styles. I made a cute box for her and I have given her a mirror, a bunny wallet, strawberry socks, cute little cards and a hello kitty phone strap. I really hope she liked it. ^__^

Dieuwke gave me presents.

She bought a bonnet and special tea for me.  I really love those presents because I always drink tea when I'm at home. And about the bonnet, I totally love it! It's so perfect! *_*

It was so strange because on my way to the meet-up place I talked with my friend Rosy about me wanting to buy or make a bonnet. Coincidence right?

The presents:

It was so a great day, I met some new lolitas and it was great to see my friends again.
I really liked to see everyone so happy because of the presents. Now I think it's one of the most amazing meetings of the year. At last I really want to thank Dieuwke, thank you very much for the nice presents I really love them. ^____^

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And this morning I saw that I got a Valentine!
I don't know who you are but thank you very much it's so nice! <3

Fly Away Fashion Sparkly Winter Night Tea party

I went to the Fly Away Fashion tea party last week. I was really looking forward to it,tea parties are always so much fun and I love food! The trip to the Fly Away Fashion shop was also fun because I traveled together with 3 friends. ^__^

The tea party was a theme meetup this time, the theme was Sparkly Winter Night. We were all supposed to dress up in our favorite winter outfits. Sounds nice right? This was my first idea of a coord:

JSK: Moi-même-Moitié

Pullover: H&M

Fake fur collar: Fly Away Fashion

Tights: Taobao

Shoes: offbrand

Only when I tried the clothes on it looked awful! The white fur color and the tights really mismatched, I had to make a new coord. >.< I didn't wear a wig the weather was very windy that's why I was too afraid to lose my wig.

When we arrived we met up with Katie the shop owner and designer of Fly Away Fashion and we were told to go upstairs. Upstairs we were welcomed by Katie and she told us about the high tea, the new collection and about other topics related to the meetup. Katie wore a wonderful dress, she looked so great, the dress was also part of the new collection.

 

This is one of the new dresses from Fly away fashions new collection.

Then we could enjoy our tea and sweets or visit the shop downstairs. I talked with some friends first while I ate a lot of delicious food like cake, sandwiches and brownies.

The Food <3

There were also many people which I haven't met before, it was nice to meet them. Unfortunately I couldn't talk with everyone there were so many people! After that I visited the shop where I ordered new shoes. ^__^ I haven't bought anything else because I'm waiting for a dress already... At last we all had to go upstairs for the outfit competition and the lottery. The outfit competition was a winter themed just like the meetup, 5 beautiful girls participated the competition. They all looked wonderful! <3 Josine was the winner of the competition. Let me show you all of  them!

This was my outfit, it's slightly different to the coord I showed you first.

JSK: Moi-même-Moitié

Pullover: H&M

Fake fur collar: Fly Away Fashion

Tights: offbrand

Shoes: offbrand

The group

In the end there was a lottery, there were three prices. I was so lucky I won the second price! ^__^

I won a tights and strawberry socks. I can't wait to wear those...

In the evening we went with a some girls to a Chinese restaurant and then it was already time to go home.Thanks everyone for the nice day especially Katie, you did a great job organizing the sparkly winter night tea party. Next time I will definitely go again, I can't wait!

Are you interested in a blog post about Fly Away Fashion? I'm thinking about writing a post about Fly Away Fashion. Oh, I will also write a post about the Fly Away Fashion fashion show at Nishicon in Haarlem.

The medievel castle & the lolitas

                Hello princes and princesses! <3

I went to Muiderslot yesterday, that's a castle in a cute little villathere I can't imagine that it's only 15 minutes to the busy centre of Amsterdam.ge called Muiden. It's not far away from Amsterdam, it's so quiet 

About Muiderslot:
The Muiderslot is a castle in the Netherlands, located at the mouth of the river Vecht, some 15 kilometers southeast of Amsterdam, in Muiden, where it flows into what used to be the Zuiderzee. It's one of the better known castles in the Netherlands and has been featured in many television shows set in the Middle Ages.
The history of the Muiderslot (Castle Muiden, where muiden means rivermouth) begins with Count Floris V who built a stone castle at the mouth of the river back in 1280, when he gained command over an area that used to be part of the See of Utrecht. The River Vecht was the trade route to Utrecht, one of the most important trade towns of that age. The castle was used to enforce a toll on the traders. It is a relatively small castle, measuring 32 by 35 metres with brick walls well over 1.5 metres thick. A large moat surrounded the castle.
A hundred years later, in 1370, the castle was rebuilt on the same spot based on the same plan, by Albrecht, Duke of Bavaria, who at that time was also the Count of Holland and Zeeland.
The next famous owner of the castle shows up in the 16th century, when P.C. Hooft (1581-1647), a famous author, poet and historian took over sheriff and bailiff duties for the area (Het Gooiland). For 39 years he spent his summers in the castle and invited friends, scholars, poets and painters such as Vondel, Huygens, Bredero and Maria Tesselschade Visscher, over for visits. This group became known as the Muiderkring. He also extended the garden and the plum orchard, while at the same time an outer earthworks defense system was put into place.
At the end of the 18th century, the castle was first used as a prison, then abandoned and became derelict. Further neglect caused it to be offered for sale in 1825, with the purpose of it being demolished. Only intervention by King William I prevented this. Another 70 years went by until enough money was gathered to restore the castle in its former glory.
The Muiderslot is currently a national museum (Rijksmuseum). The insides of the castle, its rooms and kitchens, have been restored to look like they did in the 17th century and several of the rooms now house a good collection of arms and armour.

                                                               Photo's by Roos
Yes, yes... I thought that would be interesting?! Now I'm going to tell about the lolita meeting. ^__^
I went with my two friends Ellis and Rosy with the train to far, far, far away (Amsterdam)
After a long time in the train, we were at the meeting point in Amsterdam Amstel.
Then we went with the bus to Muiden and we walked to the castle.
The castle was very lovely and I really liked the gardens.

I was lovely day a so nice to see my lolita friends again, we talked a lot and it was the group was fun. I spent most of the day in the garden, enjoying the sun.

We talked,walked around the gardens and visited the castle untill the parc closed.

Then we went to a nice Italian restaurant, I loved to food there.
After that it was already time to go home :(

Trolling with Lory in the Museum shop xD

We were ready to fight for the castle!

It was a lovely day, thanks everyone! <3

I can't wait to see you all again. ^__^

*Other pictures by Lory and Leilanie*