March Madness

Oh no, it's been over a month since I last posted! February was rather busy for me in general -- I got an official diagnosis for ADHD and a prescription for new medication, I finally got the last of my furniture out of my storage unit, and consistently worked almost forty hours a week. With all that going on, I had very little time to indulge in my favourite fashion hobby.

At the start of the month, I did get a chance to go all out in an outfit for a trip into Seattle with one of my best friends.

I wore my Holley Tea Time Rainbow Bat skater dress with my favourite tail coat and the Kate Spade platform flats I thrifted. I was so cute and I got so many compliments.

My friend and I hit up the International District first, wandering around Kinokuniya and Daiso for a little while. I picked up the fifth trade paperback of Saga while in Kinokuniya, and some more clip hangers for my skirts, a cute pen, and bobby pins from Daiso. Then we stopped by my favourite gyro shop by Pike Place for lunch and then headed over to one of the theaters downtown to finally see the new Star Wars. By the time the movie was over, my feet were killing me since I almost never wear shoes that aren't my well loved Docs, so I gave in and finally bought a pair of standard flats. I really like them, they're super comfy. It was a good decision.

So that day was really cool.

The other big fashion related thing that happened in February was that I found some great stuff at the thrift shop I work at. I found this awesome pair of amazingly comfortable Victorian style boots, a super adorable ruffly black vest, and two really comfy loliable blouses that I can wear to work when I want to frill it up.

March and April are going to be very eventful though. I've got a lot of things going on -- a lot of incoming purchases and three events I'm going to be wearing Lolita for. I spent most of February planning out my outfits for these events and I think I've got it mostly sorted out.

First off, my sister co-hosts these really cool monthly fetish nights at a club downtown, and March's theme is kowaii cuteness. I'm tentatively planning on going since I've been meaning to go to one of her events for a while now and this one is right up my alley. My plan for that event is to wear my Bunny and Black nurse print skirt. Though I haven't finalized the details yet, I'm probably going to go for a more ero leaning coord to reflect the nature of the event. It's going to be really fun.

Then, the last weekend of March is Sakuracon and two weekends after that is Emerald City Comic Con. I'm going to both because I am just that nerdy, and I've been planning out my outfits for both of them. I haven't decided what coord I'm going to be wearing which days, since I'm probably going to be working at least part of each weekend thanks to my store being host to a whole bunch of nerds also intending to go to these cons, but I've got a good combination of bordering-on-OTT and easy-to-change-out-o coordsf. I'm planning on posting flat lays of my completed coords when I've got them finalized (and have all the pieces for them) so I won't go into details here yet.

Finally, I have come to understand how so many Lolitas are able to buy so much stuff. I had been really confused by this because Lolita is such an expensive hobby but, after paying almost all my bills for the month, I found myself with a lot of money left over. Like, an entire paycheck worth of money. I've bought so much stuff in the last week; it's been both really crazy and really cool. I'll probably do a haul post mid April after I've recovered from the cons I'm going to.

So there you have it: an update in the life of Mochi. Tune in next time for a more picture heavy post.

Fremont With Friends

Yesterday my roommate Sam, her girlfriend Marty and I visited Fremont, a neighborhood of North Seattle, for their year round Sunday flea market. There were all sorts of vendors, from kitschy vintage clothing to handmade soaps and candles to artisan wood fire pizza and food trucks, and we had a great time looking around.

The market was a lot smaller than I anticipated, which was probably a good thing, because there ended up being a lot of stuff we wanted to buy. My roommate and her girlfriend are both steampunks and there was a bunch of really great stuff in line with that aesthetic, including a booth that was selling gorgeous jewelry made from watch parts and typewriter keys. Another booth had handmande jewelry made from reclaimed chandelier parts and old books. I absolutely fell in love with the ones that artisan made using medical texts and I'm pretty sure half the market heard me with how loud I got in my excitement.

My two big (lol) purchases were this nifty pair of sunglasses and a redbean taiyaki.

Taiyaki is basically a Japanese waffle sandwich shaped like a fish and it's super yummy. This food truck had a bunch of different flavours, including redbean (the one I got, pictured to the left), cinnamon sugar (the one Marty got), a peanut butter and banana one named The Elvis and one with spam and pineapple! I not so secretly actually really like spam so I was tempted to get that one, but Marty wanted to try the redbean after having the cinnamon sugar one and I love redbean a lot, so that's what I went with this time. It was super delicious >w< The taiyaki food truck is called BeanFish and you can visit their website here. If you're here in Seattle next weekend for SakuraCon 2015, look for them at Westlake park on Pine!

We also got shawarma, pizza, some delicious artisan truffles and organic honey! Can you tell we really like food?

Besides all the food, Marty bought a rose quarts orb and we each picked up handmade soap from a local artisan. I got myself a bathbomb to try after all the hype they've been getting on tumblr that I am super excited to try! After that, we had to hurry and leave the market before we spent any more money. We also wanted to check out a couple of interesting artwork a couple of blocks away before our parking ticket expired.

For some reason, Fremont has this huge bronze statue of Lenin that's actually from Soviet Russia as well as a rocket attached to a corner of one building and Saturn on top of the building next to it, all within a two block radius. It's a very strange collection of art, but still super neat.

Before we left Fremont for good, we went to see the troll under the bridge. Marty and I had never been before and Sam thought this was a travesty in need of fixing so she squeezed her car up the hill on Troll Lane (that is really the name of the street because Seattle is just that cool). Naturally, we took a selfie.