UPDATE! :P

Just letting ya'll know I'm working on a tutorial for the budget theme. I'll try to get it done tomorrow.

"... And That's a Strapless Backless Classical Little Black Dress"

WOOT, Shock Treatment ref in the title.

So, kicking off the two week budget fest is Polyvore Wednesday. I've been surprisingly busy these last few weeks, so that's why I haven't been updating too often. *bad blogger* :P

So, the idea of these coords is the thought of multiple styles and outfits using one JSK with lots of different accessories. A little black dress, so to say. I used what looks like a simple black JSK , but you could use any brand.

Most of these are summery co-ords. (It's so hot here~ I can;t do wintery coords right now. XD)

Little Black Dress #1 by lady-bealzabub featuring Dorothy Perkins tops

A casual Sweet Outfit

Little Black Dress #2 by lady-bealzabub featuring Roberto Cavalli jewelry

Punk! (Which has been a bit of a defunct style lately. When I first discovered lolita, I adored the Punk Coords.)

Little Black Dress #3 by lady-bealzabub featuring Valentino shoes

Gothic (What? I like masks. The idea is wearing it on the hat)

Little Black Dress #4 by lady-bealzabub featuring Chanel shoes

A casual outfit. Intentionally simple.

I get the feeling they all came along as too similar...

Mentionings and Loose Schedules

Random picture that has nothing to do with anything.

I'm sorry I missed the Wednesday co-ord post, but I'm thinking of shifting to every other Wednesday, so I simply don't flood this poor blog with my (obvious) adoration for Polyvore. To go with the theme in the main EGL Community, these next two weeks will focus on the theme "Lolita With a Budget." (I'll give some of my personal tips on how I spend fairly little on my Lolita closet... Considering I think some of Bodyline is pricey, let alone BtSSB and AP. :P I'm so cheap.) I've also been in a major nerdy mode lately and might showcase some prints I'm making for an upcoming con.

I also want to thourally reccomend going and seeing Toy Story 3. Multiple times. (I've seen it twice and want to go again.) I also have been told that Dispicable Me is a cute movie as well. But stick away from The Last Airbender. Mom's a big fan of the series (I'm familiar with it.) and was thourghally dissapointed.

I also want to showcase some of Mom's Steampunk art bracelets as well as my upcoming cosplay plans.

Lolita Review - The Isles Teashop in Reno, NV

The Isles Teashop
809 S. Center Street
Reno,NV 89501

Nearly every Lolita loves a tea party or just a good cup of tea. I recently discovered a place in Reno that has a High Tea every Sunday! Besides thinking that it would make a lovely meet-up spot, I also realized I've discovered a place to get my occasional meat pie or pasty fix. (I love English pastry pie things. I think it goes back to growing up doing booths at Ren Faires. :3 )

The place is known as "The Isles" and is in an old small house, like many businesses in the area. The main shop itself sells various Celtic kitschy things but also does Tea Service and lunch. Mom and I went there for lunch the other day.

The Tea Services are priced for two or four people, but can do larger parties given some advance warning. They use a very nice loose leaf tea in their pots, which is some of the best I've had. Mom and I are planning on trying their Tea Service with a group of friends. (Having a Tea Party, woo.)

But, I'm reviewing their lunch services. (Which we did manage to have tea at, thank you. ;) ) They have seating both inside the small house and out in a small, but very lovely English garden. The lunch was long and leisurely, starting with tea ($2.00), brown bread, and butter. (I will admit that when you say "brown bread" I think of New England Brown Bread, thanks to my Grandmother. This brown bread is Irish brown bread, which is very similar to soda bread and not at all heavy or sweet.)

Mom and I ordered Veggie Curry Pie ($7.25) and Scottish Meat Pie ($6.25) meals, which came with a cole slaw-like salad and a bag of crisps. (Which were awesome.) The meals usually come with beans, but as they'd just finished a festival this last weekend, they were out of stock for about half of their lunch menu. (Which meant no Irn Bru. I was pretty sad about that. XD But the Ginger Beer more than made up for it.)

It was a nice, long, leisurely meal with very good pies in a peaceful garden.

Rating: 4/5 Not perfect, but damn close.

GEEKY THINGS POST

When I started this blog, I mentioned that I would be mentioning geeky things in addition to Loli fashion. This is one of thoses posts. Some of this stuff is major Old News that I've only managed to recently learn about.



I heard there was a Dr. Andonuts door at the Nintendo booth at E3. No one is sure if it's an in-joke by an employee who likes the MOTHER series/EarthBound or if it's an actual hint at something to come. If it is something OMG-worthy, like MOTHER1+2+3/EarthBound 0+1+2 for the DS that's actually coming over to America you'll definitely hear from me about it. But it is also possible it’s just named that for no real reason.

Also some English-language dub audio has been released for Hetalia. It was played this last weekend at Anime Expo at a Funimation panel. The vid has official audio recored during the panel, but it's not an official video.



So, I'm pretty jazzed about the dub now.

Also, over on the Scott Pilgrim vs The World, the avatar maker has a interesting thing. You're given a title-lable-thing and among the list of things like "The Gay Best Friend" and "The Loner" is the label "Gothic Lolita". While there's nothing really... Lolita-worthy in the generator, that's still pretty damn cool.