Updating!

So I am supposed to be working today, but thanks to Hurricane SANDY, I can't... I am missing out on money and I am very upset.  When I go to the office tomorrow, I will double check with my boss if I would get paid for today or not since I tried to work from home, but since my work laptop crapped out and for some reason the other computers within my home cannot get access to what I need to get to.

On the plus side, I now have time to update my blog!  YAY!

As you know, we have a winner for the contest, she is very excited and I am excited to be making this garment for her.  Admittedly, I sketched out the design and I had a moment of "This is really cute... I could make this for myself and make her something else."  But I mentally slapped myself, because that is not cool!  So iSaunter is going to get this really cute garment I designed.  Hopefully it comes out as nice as my drawing.  I will warn, this is going to need a pettie coat... and that is the only hint you are getting my from! Aside from that my lips are sealed.... Maybe two pettie coats, I cannot tell until it's completed.

So, this Saturday coming up, there is a Baltimore Lolita meet up to see the Silent hill movie.  As of right now, there are only 2 girls and myself going...  I am possibly going to drag my friend out... and they will drag their own friends out too... so it will not be as big as I hoped but we are still going to have a good time.  I know there are some other Lolita Meet ups happening and if I can go to them and take pictures or the possible video, I will.

I also realized that I have titled this Blog as a Lolita Fashion and Crafts blog.  Is it just me or do I just seem to talk more about what is going on with me other than what this blog was originally for?  Oh, that reminds me, I was supposed to show you my Color Book I made for class.  I will hopefully get that done today since I now have the time and energy.

Well Ladies and Gents, I am going to end this post here for now.  Please let me know what you would like to see or read about on this blog.  Like if there is a new AATP JSK or something that is out and you want my opinion on it, or if there is a tutorial you would like to see done.  I think I am going to document iSautner's garment as I make it, but I will not post pictures up until she actually gets her prize.

Stay Pretty Everyone!

Hugs and Kisses

PLV

The Winner Is...

iSaunter

Congradulation iSaunter, and thank you for your wonderful submission!


Thank you all to also submitted your entries, it was so hard to choose only one winner!  I look forward to seeing your future submissions!

Until next time, Lovelys

~PLV

Officially Closing the Contest...

Tomorrow I will announce the winner of the contest.  Thank you so much everyone for your submissions and patience!  There were really good entries and it was hard to decide the winner.  The Winner will receive an email from me, and I will make a blog post.

Now don't think this is the end Ruffle-butts!  I will have another contest in the future :) 

Love and kisses,

PLV

Tea Time...

So for my project that I am redoing, I came up with a theme for my color inspiration book.  Tea.  I have created a Lady Grey Dress, and a Longjing Green Tea dress (Chinese Green Tea) dress design, and will make designs inspired by Chai, Camomile, Darjeeling, and Assam .  I will be making an Earl Grey to go with Lady Grey as well (He counts as his own tea!).  I really want to create the Longjing Tea Dress, the design is simple, but the print is crazy.  Most likely I will have to paint the design on because I do not have the money to have fabric costum made!

So as I said before, what I am making is a Color Book.  It's a book that has the colors I want to use and what inspired me to use them.  Tea has inspired me, and not just tea, but tea from other cultures.  In our project we could either do magazine clippings, or we could sketch designs.  I first did clippings, but decided that since I am doing my project over, I am going to sketch this time.  The only thing that makes me nervous is someone possibly stealing my designs, but I really want to impress my instructor since the project is coming in late and I need to make up for that!

For others who are interested in starting your own line or going into Fashion and design, I would recommend making these.  It's basically your ideas in a book that you would present to a distributor or someone who would possibly be interested in selling your line.  It's an easy way to make a collection as well, so long as you are staying with a certain theme.  Will I post pictures?  I don't know, I say that I will do a lot of things :P  So lets just see how this goes!

Well, my break is up and I still haven't worked on my project yet today... Kinda need to get a move on that.  Don't forget to submit for the contest! Take advantage of the extension!

Hugs and Kisses,

PLV

A Little Late...

I am so sorry my Ruffle-butts, but I am now back!

I still do not have a computer sadly, but now that I have more free time, there will be hopefully more updates from me!

So, I am sure you are all wondering who has won the contest... Actually, so am I.  I have been on vacation and also a lot of personal stuff has happened so I haven't been near a computer or gotten a chance to check email.  I am going to go over all applications today.  I know I said that you can only submit once, however if you do not think that I received your submission to the contest, go ahead and resubmit!  I understand that email does not always work the way we want it to.  When I receive the email, I will email you back, letting you know that I got your submission.  Since the contest was supposed to be ended on the first, but it turns out there has been some issues, I am giving everyone a chance to resubmit until Oct. 14th.  That is one week :)  I would like to say that the submissions I have gotten so far, thank you for participating, and that I wish I could make something for everyone!...  Well I could, but shipping might kill me.  But anyways, contest is extended, resubmit if you need to, and a Winner will be chosen... eventually... I promise...

Anyway, I started back up school and we have a color book project.  I really liked what my classmates submitted.  I choose to redo mine, I am going to lose 10 points, but I rather lose 10 points and get a better grade than what I would have gotten.  I will post pictures once it's done!  I am also working on a mask for Art History... and that isn't really Lolita related, but it looks like something out of Silent Hill! I wanna see the new movie so bad!!!  Maybe if there are other Lolitas in the Area that are interested in seeing the Movie, I might make a Lolita Meet...

Well my Pretties, going to try and get some work done and hopefully, you will be hearing from my again soon!  Bye!