A new decade ahead

Leaving the double zero decade behind us now, I still remember what it was like at the end of 1999 with all the hysterics and novelty gadgets, hard to think it has alredy been ten years. I must be getting old. My new years resolution this year is basicly the same I gave in secret last year, I usualy don't go official with my resolutions since then I won't be the only one to notice when I mess up but I will try my best to take better care of relationships to friends and family that I love and try to eat healthier.

How will you try to improve yourself this year?

Happy new years to everyone, I hope you have a wonderfull last night of 2009!

Spoony

This years favourite Christmasgift might be the one I got for myself, I really love this dress! The print is so adoreble, I'm thinking about turning one of my antique teaspoons into a necklace for this outfit.

Good morning world

Jetlag, or something like it, causes me to wake up, fully rested at about 03:15. "Who am I to fight nature?" I think and get out of bed to clean my room and organize my closet. At 07:15 I have a double ham sandwich and half a liter of Julmust for breakfast whilst everyone else is still asleep. I love being home again.

Merry christmas greetings from Sweden

I'm finaly home after a long journey wich was full of adversities but right now I'm too happy to be at home with my family on Christmas to complain about it, maybe later.

Merry Christmas everybody, let's hope it's extra frilly this year!

Holiday sweets giveaway

Time to get into the giving holiday spirit and have a Christmas giveaway! It's no secret I got a bit of a sweet tooth and all autumn I'v been rubbing that in your faces with posts of fun and delicious japanese candy but enough of that! I'm now giving away one package of all my favourites, and also the absolute worst one as an add on bonus, just because I know you are too curious not to want to taste carrot and apple chocolate.

Standard rules apply, what you need to do to have a shot at winning is leave a comment with your name and mail adress. Give yourself an extra chance by spreading the word on your blog and send me the link. Contest ends at 10/1 2010 and is open for anyone in this gallaxy.

Good luck and have a sweet Christmas everyone!

In the pot:
KitKat Sparkeling strawberry
KitKat Royal milk tea
KitKat Ginger ale
KitKat Apple and carrot
Look Caffé a la mode
Look Strawberry cream
Look a la mode

Starry, starry night

Slightly drunk on a school night again, thought I promised myself not to do that but todays Christmasparty was really enjoyable! I tried new kinds of food, drank alot and got to know peopel at the guesthouse a little bit more. I also just came back to my room to notice that I won the auctions I was bidding on and that I'm now, finaly, the happy owner of Angelic Pretty's Milky Way and a matching cardigan as an add on bonus.

It's a perfect day atleast

From the window of my second floor room I can reach out and pick this autumns last kaki from the withering tree in the garden.

Parafait A La School

I had my final exam for this semester today, there has been alot of tests and homework latley but now it's over atleast. I hope I did well enough to proceed to the next level in january but you never know I suppose. We'll get ouer results on monday and untill then I will sleep and celebrate the lack of schoolwork with chocolate.

Biscuit

My new favourite thing: Wooden biscuit shaped accessories.

Cream

Creamcolour and fur, could this be the first small step towards natural-kei?

Maybe but maybe not since it is topped of with an Angelic Pretty purchase.

Roberto and his Umeshu

Such a fun, lovable and seemingly carefree guy.

I want to be inspiered and try to be more like that...

Banao

Elite Banana

Sweets paradise

One houer and all the cake, ice creme and other sweets you can stuff your face with. I think I have found the reason the babydoll dress was invented.

Sparkeling strawberry

Not only is it pink, it's delicious!

The food I crave

No.1: Tortellini in garlic sauce
No.2: Italian tomato soup with chunky garlic croutons
No.3: Pancakes drenched in maple syrup
No.4: Swedish Christmas food
No.5: Eggy in a basket

Suffix

Peopel around me here in Japan are slowly switching from calling me Josephinesan to Josephinechan, shouldn't it be the other way around as I'm not getting younger?

Objects & emotions

Jag känner väldigt mycket på sistone, alldeles för mycket för att jag skall förstå det, kanske är det något att återkomma till vid senare tillfälle, kanske inte. En klarhet i kaoset är känslan av att jag är mycket starkare än vad jag någonsin trott att jag var. Det och glädjen över att jag vann Rose toile halsbandet på auktion.
Translation:
I'm feeling alot latley, too much for my brain to comprehend, I may or may not get back to that point later. The one feeling that I can make out for sure is that I'm way stronger then I ever gave myself credit to be. That and I'm happy I won the Rose toile necklace on auction.

さよなら友達！

Today was the last day for my most charming brazilian classmate, Roberto, who will be returning back home for work. I think it will feel quite empty in the classroom after he's gone and it brought me back to the reality of how fleeting the friendships I make here are. I will probably remember all of them for more or less all of my life due to the circumstances we got to know each other, alone, far away from ouer families in a country where we don't speak the language, extraordinary circumstances. But in little more then three months I will return back home, probably for good, and I wonder how many of the peopel I meet will I ever see again?

Shinjuku, sparkeling in the morning sun

How to develop a midlife crisis at ten

I know the whole thing with emphasis on youth is a worldwide phenomenon and hardly something exclusive for Japan but I still feel like babies marketing my lipgloss is a little extreme.

La maison

My friends at home are having a lolita brunch meetup in Stockholm this weekend and I of course couldn't be there in person but I shared their spirit by eating a silly amount of food today.

Smoked duck sallad.

Tender beef with owen roasted vegetables and grilled asparagus.

Afternoon tea set with milky tea, caramel and pistache macarons, cheddar cheese croissants, tosca and a mixed berry cake.

Non-japanese food, how I have missed thee.

New layout!

I'm sorry if the blogg has been a little bit messy this week but I'm done now! I really like the three column look alot better since it feels more balanced and I hope the new colour scheme is warmer and more welcoming.

Maybe I'll tinker around with the colours of the text a little bit more since it seems hard to read in places but other then that this is the new look, do you like it?

Layton bread

Awsome! It even comes complete with a little puzzle on the back to ponder on whilst you are eating.

School style

Remember last autumns jawdropper from Metamorphose? That cool, cute and ridicilously expensive school bag that worked as a briefcase and a backpack? Everyone wanted it and no one could afford it and it still managed to sell out. Well I got one. I know it might seem like a bit unnecessary since I not that long ago got a similar schoolbag from Angelic pretty but it is not.
It was totally necessary sine the Metamorphose bag still has it's tags on, telling me the whopping store price of this beauty without me having to pay it. I got mine for an unbeliveble 7000yen at the Closet Child shop in Ikebukuro, best purchase ever!

The definition of OTT

Angelic Prettys latest, ridicilously decked out velvet creation reminds me of the kind of birthday cards I made when I was a youngster where I would just pour glue on a piece of coloured paper and stick glitter and ribbons and shit on like there was no tomorrow and then go crazy with crayons all over the place... And not in a good way.

All I want for christmas?

1. Limited and signed print of "Autumn rot" by Vania Zouravliov.

2. Dreamy dollhouse mintcoloured Alice bow.

3. Lyrical bunny plushie.

This years wishlist for christmas is rather short (for me atleast), most of all I just want to come home, sleep in my comfortable bed in my warm room, eat my dads deliciously unhealthy cooking, play videogames with my brothers and hug my mom untill I have to go back to Japan again.

And I don't even like mango...

Latest find, much better then I would have expected!

Gothic Lolita bible vol.35

Angel and Deamon fashion special, a look into the rooms of japanese lolitas, The Lady of Habsburg fashion story and a peek at the new prints from Innocent World and Angelic Pretty's "Dessert collection".

Minty dreamy

En dag ska jag rata ett Angelic Pretty print utan att ändra mig och köpa det i alla fall, men inte idag. Idag ska jag njuta av ytterligare ett tillskott av mint till min garderob.

Translation:
Someday, I will say I don't like an Angelic Pretty print and not change my mind and buy it anyways, but not today. Today I will enjoy yet another addition of mint to my closet.

Fruit on a stick

Varför slår inte dethär igenom i västvärlden?

Translation:
Why is this not a hit in the west?

Dreamy parade

I think this is the colourpallet I want for my entire closet.

Nutritious breakfast

KitKat on the road

We stoped by a souvenir shop whilst on ouer class trip, of course I bought KitKat! The right one tasted just like the cold tea you get at Sukiya, what?!

The cat's miaow

Det är tidig morgon, kallt och jag vill inte gå upp ur sängen så jag grubblar över sånadär viktiga saker som ifall jag borde köpa ETC's nya katt print. Jag älskar motivet och den lila färgen men vilken modell av klänningen ska köpa? Jag gillar babydoll men den är 2 cm kortare. Mitt liv är fullt av svåra och viktiga val.

Translation:
It's early morning, cold and I don't want to get out of bed so I'm thinking about getting the new ETC print, I like the motif and the colour of the lavender one, but wich style of dress? I like babydoll but it's about 2 cm shorter. My life is full of important and difficult choices.

Momiji ~ The red leaves of autumn