Lolita Giveaways, Sales, and Pre-orders!!

Ok, so sadly this week's post is a little small.  I'm going to try Hard to keep up with the posts, just I have started overtime at work which means I get up early to go to work, work late and then I am home in time to eat dinner and go to bed.

I want to go on about a Lolita Giveaway I have seen online and to talk about the Brand a bit.

Belladonna

https://www.facebook.com/fashionsbybelladonna

Belladonna is a independent Brand, owned and designed By Michelle S. Ramon and Rachel M Decker.
They are based in Richmond Virginia and have become successfully popular, with over 1,000 likes on their Facebook page!  

Belladonna's Giveaway includes a free skirt with a matching Head Bow in either Amelia's Locket (there are three color choices to choose from), or their Twilight/Rainbow Twinkle Jelly.

If you are interested in purchasing Amelia's Locket, Belladonna currently has pre-ordering available for the Skirt, JSK, and the OP.  The pre-order ends on 8/4/13, so you better place your order quickly!  Each pre-order will also come with a Free Head Bow to match with the garment of choice.  Belladonna also provides custom sizing for an additional fee.  

Twilight/Rainbow Twinkle Jelly will be available for Pre-order this Fall!  Pre-order for Grace Valentines and Fanciful Siren Walts will start at Otakon.  If you plan on attending the convention on August 9th-11th, find them at the Artist Alley to Pre-order.  Pre-ordering online will commence after the convention.

Make sure to check out their Storenvy, and to follow them on Facebook, Twitter to find out more about their Preorders, Giveaways, and whats going to be coming soon!

Belladonna

twitter.com/BelladonnaRandM

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The Snow Field

Another Brand worth mentioning is The Snow Field, who focus on the Classic Lolita Style and are based in Georgia.  The Snow Field will also be attending Otakon this year in the Artist Alley.  Their customer focus is on ladies from their mid twenties and older, providing clothing for the Lolita Life Style and even providing clothing you could feel comfortable to wear to work.  

They have both an Etsy store and a Storenvy.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/snowfield

http://thesnowfield.storenvy.com/

On their Storenvy, pre-order for their T-shirts are available.  You do only get the T-shirt, however a lot of time and detail go into them.  I personally am a fan of the Mermaid t-shirt (but that's no surprise).  They also have petticoats and bags for sale on their Storenvy, and skirts and accessories for sale on their Etsy.

I think I will be purchasing a petticoat myself.  Keep a look out for updates on their shop pages, because they do sell more.  In the past they have sold OP's, JSKs, and other garments in these beautiful prints, and everything looks so elegant.  To see some of their past items, check out their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/bysnowfield

The Mini Watch

This Brand is is not advertised as Lolita accessories, but if you look at these I am sure you are going to find a watch for one of your favorite Coords.

Mini Watches are "Hand-made, hand-painted, original 3D watches Brand Mini."  Watches come with a one year international guarantee, and honestly that great, because if the watch doesn't work you don't get stuck with it.  However for the amount of work that probably went into these watches I think I would still keep it around if I bought one because they are so pretty!  You even get a certificate of authenticity with your purchase!  I love the secret garden Mini Watch.

http://www.theminiwatch.com/en/

I wish I had time to include more stuff.  Basically after this post, I am not working on the next one.  Please let me know if you are interested in certain topics, or if there is a certain brand or indi-brand that you really like!

Fabric Shopping

 Hey everyone!

So I just got back from Joann Fabrics and I bought fabric for both my niece and I.  While I am making 'Doll Clothing for Adults' as some of my friends who are not into Lolita would say, my niece is making actual doll clothes and bedding.  We came up with a pretty haul at the store, mainly sticking to their red tag fabrics which had an additional 50% off on top of the sale.  What should have been well over $100, was only $44 for the both of us!

        So, I got some great pieces to make some skirts , dresses, and accessories.  I even found a roll of fabric that looked as though it has girls dressed in Lolita on it!  I couldn't believe I found it, so I bought the whole thing!  So, I am going to be making some sketches of the dresses and skirts that I would like to make with each fabric.  Looking forward to seeing how this all comes out, as well as seeing how my niece's dresses for her dolls look too.

I am also going to be changing how my blog currently looks with the help of a friend.  Just need to make some sketches of that too and we should be ready to go with our alterations!

Here are some Sketches I have done so far.  Hopefully I will be getting started on them soon!

Until next time!

-Lolita Doll 11

Happy New Year!

Seasons greetings everyone!

I hope that everyone has had a wonderful Holiday and looking forward to the New Year!  Now that all the crazyness of shopping and wrapping presents is over, in 6 days it is going to be a whole new year, and I have decided what my New Year Resolution will be.  This year I plan on making more things instead of buying (unless it is materials).  I plan on saving more money, not only for myself but to help others as well.  I will learn something new, be it to do with sewing, learning a new language or maybe something about history that I didn’t know before.

Aside from that, I would like to share with everyone a few things that I have made over the past year.  It is not as much as I would have liked, but by doing this I hope that I can use this to help myself in my goal to make even more beautiful things in 2012 (it is going to be the last year on earth supposedly).

In most of these pictures you will notice the same fabric has been used.  It was a few years ago I saw this Music note fabric.  I kept waiting and waiting until I had money to buy it.  Well the day that I did, there was only 1 yard left and was told that they were not making anymore of it, so I bought all that I could, as well as buy some fabric I found online (of course I ended up paying too much for it).  It sat in my drawer for a while until I figured out what I wanted to do with it.  Then I met the designer for BruteForceStudios.com.  His name is Thomas Willeford.  I modeled for him a few times and he made me my own corset with the music note fabric that I had bought.  After that I made a skirt with the remaining piece and then a hat.

After that I made a few more hats (there are about 4 of them on my Etsy account right now).  Discovered that I still had some Music note fabric, and a friend of mine made a large donation to my lack of fabric, and so I made another skirt and a cravat to go with it.  It’s a shame that I don’t really have anymore left, I would love to make some more pieces.  For now I plan on making more items with the fabric that I have.

For the Holiday I found this adorable fabric that I knew I wanted to make for Christmas.  Red with white poke-a-dots and Christmas themed cupcakes.  I was worried that I didn’t have enough fabric for it to be long enough, so I made a white hem with some red stitching.  As it turns out I wouldn’t have needed it, but I think the little white ruffle really pulled it together.  It was my first time doing an elastic waist (normally I use zippers), and I made it a tiny bit loose.  I wanted to have something for my hair that matched my skirt so I made this really cute hairclip.  After my pieces were made I realized that I made a Sweet Lolita outfit (at least it looks Sweet to me).  I normally would never wear Sweet (nothing against it, I just normally don’t wear it).  When my family came over I was expecting all sorts of questions like “What are you wearing?” but I was surprised when everyone kept saying how cute I looked and then were shocked when I said I made what I was wearing.  It was a great feeling, my one aunt ended up inspecting my skirt and told me I did very well on it and should sell online.  I don’t think I will be selling clothing anytime soon, because even though I can, I don’t know if I could keep up with the orders, but it is a thought for the future.

So that is all that I have made so far that really screams Lolita.  As I said before, I want to make more things for 2012.  Keep an eye out on my Etsy, I just might post up a skirt or two.

Speaking of Lolita clothing for sale, a friend of mine has posted some of her clothes on the egl livejournal.  Take a look at it, there is a beautiful AATP (Alice and The Pirates) dress that I want but sadly I need to save money for my trip to Wales.  If you’re not a member of http://egl-comm-sales.livejournal.com/ I suggest that you fix that.  It’s a great place to find some great pieces (or to just look at them as I always do).  Have a happy New Year!

PS.  Still getting used to posting pictures.