My Mostly done dress!!!!

I say mostly because I did not get a chance to add the buttons or the letters.  As I have mentioned before, I recently got a new job, and at this new job, I am permitted to wear what I want (within reason) and when I told my boss I was making a dress, it was requested that I wear it to work.  Not sure if they will ask that again lol.  I honestly just might keep it the way it is.  There are some things that are off with it, but I still really love this dress!!!  I cannot wait to get started on the next two that I have plans for, but first I have a lot of skirts that are waiting to be made!

                                                                                                                                                                    
I do not remember if I mentioned this in previous posts or not, but this dress was used from an old top of mine and fabric that was left over from a friend!  Basically, the only thing on this dress I paid for was the top when I originally bought it, thread, zipper, and the lining.  The blue hat, in case you are wondering, I bought at the PA Fairy Festival.  You cannot see it, but there is a pleat in the back, just like in the front.  I took a picture but then discovered how wrinkled it was lol.  My plan was to put it back on my dress form, but throwing it on and having someone else take a picture was just easier, and I was already wearing it.

So, to keep with the recycling theme I seem to have going on, my next skirt I will be recycling a T-shirt for the cute yet morbid picture that is on it.  It was originally a gift, but the T-shirt is too big and I thought it would look really cute if put the picture on a skirt!  This will be my first Gothic Lolita piece.

Well, it is time for bed!  Night Pretties!
~LD11

Dress Update... from a while ago....

I think it is safe to say that I have hit the halfway mark on the dress.  I sadly do have to stop after I attach the sleeves because I do not have enough lining for the bottom half.  However the tough part is over and it was well worth all the effort that I put into the dress!  You have no idea how badly I want to post pictures of it now, but I want to wait until I have finished the dress.  Once this dress is done, I will be making another dress, only this time documenting each step.  I will also have a pattern made up so that you can make your own too!  A few select people have seen it (Mason... Ren) and I hope that everyone else likes it as much as they did too.

Now this is my first time lining anything... I think I might have said that before but I think it is needed that I say it again.  That being said, I might not have done it the correct way (but it still is coming out awesome so I am doing something right!).  Before I document the second dress, I will do research... I know, I know "Why didn't you do the research before you made the first dress?"  I guess it's that little bit of vindication I like to feed, and testing myself if I can figure it out on my own or not.  Personally I think this dress is coming out successful.  It's going to be my my afternoon tea dress :)

I am even putting my initials on the skirt of the dress, L. D.  I am so excited!  It's my frirst real dress that I designed and I am making it!  It looks a little different from the design since I found more materials for it, but for the most part it is staying true to the design.  Here is a picture so you can at least see the design and get an idea of what it will look like!



I am already making little hat design in my head to match the dress.  Speaking of my little hats, my job gave my permission to wear them at work (just not the OOT ones).  My one manager says to me "That little thing is a hat?!" sounding rather surprised lol  I got a lot of really good compliments about them, and it makes me want to make more of them.  I am just worried that soon I will have too many hats and then will need to start giving them away... if only I had loyal readers that were interested... Etsy didn't really work out well for me, and trying to sell on EGL... yeah, that didn't go so well either, so now I am just making everything for me and not worrying about trying to sell them, unless I leave Lolita or I really need to clean out my closet/hat boxes.

New Job

Hello everyone!

So I got a new job.  It is a shiny new job that will hopefully be paying me very well, very soon.  The only downside is that I am now finding a HUGE lack of time... really, it's sad..  My dress that I have been working on forever is almost done!  Just the little sleeves and then the zipper!  I did leak some pictures of it on my FB, but that was because at one point I got really stumped about what to do with this trim I had.

I am really proud of this dress.  I never thought I would be able to make something like this.  I am also looking forward in attempting to re-make this dress with other fabric in a larger size.  Eeeeee!  Well, sadly I have to once again leave you with a very short and boring post about nothing interesting.  Night!

Blogging via phone!

So, being without a laptop currently I have found other ways to keep in contact. I got a new phone and can now make posts! Hopefully I get the hang of this better. Still working on my dress. About half way done!

Dress = FAIL!!!

Ok... so I didn't mess up on how I cut the fabric, but I did forget something very important... I did not wash the fabric before cutting.  So now I have two options.  1.  Continue making the dress with the current fabric.  2.  start over again with new fabric that will be different from the original.

If I go with option 1 I will then need to get the dress dry cleaned, or at the least wash it and let it drip dry.  Option 2 gives me the chance to make this dress over again in a different color and this way I will know that the fabric will not shrink on me... I think I forgot to tell you that my main concern was that the fabric would shrink.

I think I am going to go ahead with option 1.  Worse thing that happens is that I make a second dress with the other fabric.  On the plus side, once I get this dress done I should feel more confident in making another.  I have a lot of fabric and a few dress ideas that I could use my fabric for.

Hopefully I will be posting new pictures soon!

Busy Bee

Buzzzzz buzzzzz.... ok, so that might be more annoying than cute.

So, I have been working on a few projects!  I just finished a pair of bloomers and they look really cute!  I have a picture of me wearing them... but I have no idea if it would be appropriate for me to post that... With the top I am wearing they just look like fluffy shorts...  and I look cute in the picture, but I don't want to offend anyone by posting it so I wont unless you really want to see them.

Bloomers aside, I am finally finishing that hat box!  I am not going to post pictures of it just yet because it is not done yet.  I have still painting the outside of it and then once that is done I will be making a lining for the inside.  If this continues to go well, I will make hat boxes for all my hats!... that is going to be a lot of boxes in my room.

So... now that I have made the bloomers... I am going to work on the dress that I said I was going to work on but only put it off...  Today is the day that I finally cut the fabric... I'm so nervous... really, what if this comes out looking like crap?  Or I make it too small?... well if I make it too small I am sure someone else will want it so long as it would fit them properly and I didn't make a massive piece of crappy-frill.

Well, I should go work on that since I am now being kicked off the computer.  Stay pretty and pray that I don't fudge this up...

-Lolita Doll 11

Overdue Vacation/Holiday Photos!

Ok, so I have been pretty bad about updating.  The goodnews is that I have actually been working on some craft projects.  I am currently working on two new hats, another hat box, bloomers, a Lolita skirt I can wear to work, and there is still my dress.

So here are the pictures that I promised before.  I sadly didn't get to wear Lolita every day, but thats ok.  I still had a lot of fun with Mason!

 These are pictures of Mason and I at the movies from the Lolita meet up.  We were going to make plans to see the American Pie movie, but sadly it didn't come out until the day AFTER Mason was leaving.  Still, we had fun at the movie we did see, and I am glad that Mason gave the movie a chance.

MASON AND I ARE IN A MOVIE TOGETHER! XD  The day the US has a movie out that is Lolita themed is the day that the world will be overrun by poofyness.... one day... one day...

And pictures from the Lolita meet!!!!  Yay!!!!












We are getting excited because we look so pretty and we are going to see a pretty movie! ^-^

I feel like I really stand out in this picture lol  Everyone looks so cute.  Thank you Mason for taking pictures!

More standing around and taking pictures!

 I think this was Mason and I's first day going out to the mall... we found some Forrest creatures.











Shame on you Mason, for not thinking that I wouldn't post this :P

Beer and purple Fire truck!  Because when we set fires in MD, our flames burn purple!... or something like that.

This is Mason and I out with our friends Quinn and Gabe.











Quin and Gabe!... as you can see Quinn is not a Lolita, but we forgive her because she has awesome hair!

 I met a Pirate!

 Cafe Hon











Inside Cafe Hon, I did not feel comfortable taking a lot of pictures... so this was all I got.  That and I was really hungry and Mason and I were making googly-eyes at each other for most of the trip... which explains the main reason why we don't have many pictures... and I kept forgetting to bring the camera and I hate taking pictures with my phone.

We went on a Haunted Pub Crawl in Fells.  This is our tour guide.  Say hello tour guide!

 And this is Josci and Josh, we are getting our drink on :D

 Mason's first time having a Naty Bo

Me in my Harry Potter themed Lolita outfit.  Which reminds me, I am going to do a plug for the RP site I am on.  If you like the Harry Potter world and online role plaything through message boards, here you go!
http://www.enterhogwarts.co.uk/forum/

And this is where we found a place where you can adopt your own water bubble child!  They entertain themselves pretty much on their own, but if your going to get one you might as well get a second one because when they try to play with each other, it is hilarious!