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.

First Package of 2016

My first new thing this year is actually something I ordered back at Halloween. I took advantage of the sale Holley Tea Time was having on their clothing in October to buy their Rainbow Spooky Bats skater dress in purple. I think it was for 30% off so I got it for 80.50USD instead of the usual 115USD, which was super exciting. I've been wanting one of their skater dresses for years and as of now, I have one :D

This is one of their made to order items, so there was quite a bit of time between when I ordered and when I received the dress. I ordered on October 30th of 2015 and I received the shipping notice on December 29th, making it almost two months between ordering and shipping. However, once it shipped, it came very quickly. It arrived only four days later, on January 2nd.

The package itself was a surprisingly small poly mailer. Inside, the dress was sealed inside a cello bag with business cards and a sticker sealed in a separate cello bag. The dress is so cute in person and it fits me like a glove. The material is very stretchy but the print doesn't distort in a weird way even at max stretch. The print is super crisp and the construction is very nice. It wasn't even very wrinkly coming out of the packaging!

I'm super excited to wear this dress. I'm already coming up with coords for it. Thank you Holley Tea Time for the wonderful dress <3