Baby the Stars Shine Bright tea party

Here comes the second part of my adventures at Frill Fest 2015 - the Baby the Stars Shine Bright tea party! ( ^ ^ )

The tea party was held at Skansen Kronan in Gothenburg. The venue is an old fortress and we had the whole building booked for the tea party which was really cool.

Just arrived and getting ready

I didn't know anything about the table arrangements beforehand and was pleasantly surprised about the fact that I was given a place at the VIP table with our BABY guests. I must say that being the translator for this event was really awesome!! The other 3 vacant seats at our table were raffled to the VIP guests, which I think was a really great idea.

Food!

A bit sneaky picture of the food (which we already ate most of) and Misako/BABY's designer

Besides eating really nice food, drinking tea or coffee there was a raffle with LOTS of prizes! Everyone got a prize which was really fun. I won a pretty sticker sponsored by Hellocon. ( ^ u ^ ) After eating all the food and raffling we headed out to take photos. All the VIPs got to take a photo with the guests from BABY and then it was back in to the venue and the 2 best dressed guests were announced. There was a prize for best Baby the Stars Shine Bright coord and one for  the best Alice and the Pirates coord. I think it was a really difficult task to choose just 2 winners, there were so many really stunning coords! The last part was taking group pictures, separate pictures, selfies and even more pictures. (haha)

I tried to take pictures, but as always, in the end I didn't really get many pictures taken. Anyhow, here are some pictures I did manage to snap.

Me and all of the BABY guests <3

Not really the 'everyone in a group photo'... but a group photo nevertheless XD

This was my first tea party experience and I must say that I love it! I hope I can attend many tea parties in the future and hopefully be useful and help to arrange and translate too~

Frill Fest 2015

There are already many posts and photos out from the Swedish lolita event Frill Fest, but I thought that it's better to write and share my experience late then never. ( ^  ^ ) My journey towards participating in Frill Fest started simply from buying a ticket to the event. At that time I had just come back from Japan and I was really happy to hear that there was a lolita event and a tea party planned to be held in Sweden. Later I contacted Carolyn - one of the organizers to see if they needed some help and maybe a translator and luckily they did! So that's' basically the backstory of how I got to participate in the event, just sheer luck I'd say. 

The 4 days I was in Gothenburg were really busy! There was lots of running around, planning and organizing, fixing and re-scheduling and almost no time for food. (haha) Although it was really busy it was also really, really fun! I had the opportunity to meet Misako, the staff and designer of Baby the Stars Shine Bright and lots of awesome people from all over Scandinavia. I really wish we could hold events like this more often! 

The highlights of Frill Fest were of course the fashion shows, panels, mingle time, the shops and the Kawaii Ambassador nomination. At first I was scheduled to participate in 2 fashion shows, but decided later that I can just as well be in the community fashion show as well. I'd say that all the shows were a great success and all the models were really awesome! We definitely made the best effort we could and I think everyone from BABY and the indie designers were really happy with the outcome. Here are some photos from the Baby the Stars Shine Bright fashion show~ ( ^ w ^ ) 

All the beautiful models

Me and Misako ( // ^ ^ // )

BABY's designer, me, Misako and the Tokyo store shop staff

Everyone was really flawless on every occasion!

Sadly as I was running around translating och fixing stuff most of the time I didn't really get to mingle, buy things or listen to the panels much. But from the glimpses of what I had the time to see the indie fashion designers panel was really interesting, and I wish I had more time to listen and ask some questions. I also regret nor being able to thoroughly look at all the items Baby the Stars Shine Bright were selling at their booth. 

As for the Kawaii Ambassador nomination, the fact that I won really came as a huge surprise. I entered the competition because I felt that I could give something to the lolita community, both in Sweden and worldwide. I thought it would be so great to share my experience in lolita fashion with others, to help the community to grow and to spread the knowledge about lolita fashion. But with so many really talented lolitas also entering the competition I didn't even dream of actually winning. I am really great-full for everyone who voted for me and I sincerely hope I don't disappoint anyone in my role as a Kawaii Ambassador. 

Me and Misako just after I was announced as the winner. ( >w< )

I can probably go on writing about Frill Fest forever, as the time I spent there was packed with so many awesome events, but I don't want to bore anyone so I think its time to stop now. I will write about the Baby the Stars Shine Bright tea party in a separate post to not make this one overly-huge. I hope everyone who participated in Frill Fest enjoyed it as much as I did and I can't wait for more lolita events to go to!       

Outfit snap: Sweet Cream House

I really love my  Sweet Cream House OP! Sometimes I feel like the model of the dress makes me look a bit fat, but I still prefer the OP model of this print. My favorite part is the lace collar, it really gives this dress a vintage feeling.

I feel like this print and dress in particular is sweet, but a bit toned down with it's pale rose pink background and cream x brown details. <3

An introduction

Hello everyone~ 

Since I have just started up this blog I think an introduction is in order. (*^^*)

My name is Anastasia, but I use deadxsweetness as my internet alias. I live in a pretty small town called Lund in Sweden and am a proud owner of a big, fat cat. My two biggest passions in life are Japan and lolita fashion. I have loved Asian culture since I was a child and Japan in particular always fascinated me the most. I have studied Japanese since I was 14 and been to Japan on many occasions. I also lived in Japan between the years 2013-2015. 

Lolita fashion has been in my life for about 14 years now. I first discovered it trough Visual Kei music, as I liked bands like Malice Mizer, X Japan and Dir en Grey. I started dressing in lolita while in junior high school. Back then no Japanese brands would ship their products overseas, so I would sew my own dresses and search for vintage and second hand lolita-ble items. 

I don't really have one favourite lolita brand, right now my closet is a mixture of Innocent World, Baby the Stars Shine Bright and Angelic Pretty. I also like otome fashion and the brands Emily Temple Cute, Jane Marple and Milk. I don't stick to one lolita sub-stile as I like diversity and mixing and matching, but I would say that I wear mostly sweet lolita. Apart from sweet I really like classic lolita and gothic lolita styles. 

Some of my other hobbies are reading, sewing, making accessories, makeup (I especially like Japanese and Korean brands), hanging around doing nothing and games. 

If you have any questions feel free to ask! 
I hope to get this blog up and running soon enough~

Hello everyone this is deadxsweetness~

I have wanted to change from having blogg.se for quite a while and now finally decided to move and start anew on blogspot.com
This blog is still under construction but hopefully I'll get it up and running soon enough. ( ^ ^ )

I mostly blog about lolita fashion and cute things that inspire me.

My old blog's url is http://deadxsweetness.blogg.se