#LolitaChristmasChallenge

Me and Mari from New vogue Children decided to have a bit of fun this Christmas. From 1st of December to 24th we'll be posting coordinates to our instagrams  under the #LolitaChristmasChallenge hashtag.

1. Pick a theme - it doesn't have to be Christmas related. It could be anything: your favourite season, colour, pattern, animal, place, food...

 2. Create a coordination around that theme from 1st to 24th of December.

 3. Take a picture of your coordinate (either worn, on a dummy or simply laid out) and post it to Instagram.

 4. Remember to tag all your coordinations with #LolitaChristmasChallenge.

5. Be creative & have fun!

I've decided to do a tartan theme since it seems I keep collecting tartan and plaid dresses. Those interested  on what I'll come up with you can follow my instagram @mimiparapluie

Mari chose Bunnies as her theme and you can follow her coordinates at @caranette

Hope to see you in the challenge! 

Madame Parapluie

Tea in the Apple tree garden

Some time ago I attended the teaparty Sanni hosted at her home. Her Garden is so whimsical and lovely. The party was wonderful. She had put so much thought to making everything perfect. I had so much fun. 

I wore: 

Hat: Redecorated vintage

Blouse: Modified fanplusfriend

Capelet: Twin flowers

Dress: Handmade by me

Gloves and stockings: Random.

Shoes: Second hand

Necklace: From my grandmother

The dark colours group. Everybody looked so amazing. 

Thank you again for Sanni for organizing this. It was amazing.

Madame Parapluie

Celebrating her royal bunniness

On Saturday I went to Mari's place to celebrate her bunny's birthday. Mari had done a lot to make everything very bunny friendly and the theme for outfits was bunnies. 

I wore:

Bonnet: Handmade

Blouse: Fan plus friend modified

Dress: Innocent world

Shoes: Offbrand

Bunny Bear: Baby the stars shine bright

Our queen and her minions plotting world domination.

All the bunny bears. 

Madame Parapluie

What are teaparties made of?

A little bit of cake...

A splash of sparkling wine...

Touch of scandal...

A good amount of dignity...

And plenty of fun!

Thank all of you lovely ladies for being my guests! I hope we can do this again.

Madame Parapluie

Ps. Photos by Sanni Siira so no using without permission. 

Scenes from Hellocon.

This year Hellocon was like falling through a rabbit hole to whole new world of magic and circus. Gloria was decorated with gold and red and white and everything felt like we had actually stepped into a circus. 

Myrre was our official master of ceremonies. Here she is presenting the guests of honour, Maki and Asuka from Angelic Pretty.

Adorable table of Sweet and tiny. Everything looked absolutely gorgeous.

The owner of Miss Danger shop.

Table of Lorina Liddel

And the personnel of the same brand.

The lovely Maki from Angelic pretty. She looked really cute.

A swedish lolita who's outfit was mind blowingly pretty. 

Carmilla looked amazing on stage.

And so did Lydia.

Mandatory backstage selfie.

Mari did a post about our fashion show right here and I will try to get the Tricks of the trade post up as soon as possible. 

Madame Parapluie

Afternoon tea at Mari's.

Oh what lovely phone quality, also note the "I am Hollywood diva"-pose

I wore: 

Headthingy: From a wedding fair

Blouse: Modified fan plus friend

Necklace and purse: Vintage

Dress and bracelets: Hand made by yours truly

Stockings: H&M

Shoes: From Zalando but I can't recall the brand

I am so happy about my new (old) hair cut. I just feel so much more like myself with a bob cut. 

For tea with had some very traditional treats. Scones and muffins such. Mari had even made cucumber sandwiches.

Hems so much hems...

Great thanks to Mari for organizing this! It was really fun.

Madame Parapluie

Halloween teaparty at Kata's

Last saturday I took part on Halloween party at Kata's The theme was dolls and everybody had created awesome doll outfits! The food was delicious as usual and we had a lot of fun.

Kata has such cute teacups.

Kata and me

Sanni, me and Lauren

The Bonnet brigade.

And now we shall commence the epic Chili spam as Kata's little kitten Chili absolutely stole everyone's heart by being utterly adorable.

I guess she wanted some treats too. 

I wore

Bonnet, dress: Handmade by me
Blouse: Dear celine
Bonnet decorations: From here and there.

Wristcuffs: Atelier pierrot

Ring: Lahden Kultasepän talo (My wedding ring :p)
Shoes: Wonders

Thank you to Kata for hosting the teaparty! I had such nice time and hope to meet all of the girls again soon.

Madame Parapluie

Teaparty time!

The girls came over yesterday to have a nice little tea party and to add their pages to the scrap book we are collecting to Misako Aoki. We had so much fun. Thank you for everyone who came. 

I wore:

Headdress: Baby the stars shine bright
Blouse: Vintage

Necklace: Kalevala koru
Dress: Alice and the pirates
Stockings: Sokos
Shoes: Barbara Pucci

Madame Parapluie

Daily outfit vol. I don't even care

Tiia visited today so naturally I dressed up.

I wore:

Blouse: Fan+Friend modified by me

Dress: Innocent world

Shoes: Cloudberry lady

I also tried a new hairstyle. I quite like and might do it again even though it's a pain to keep it from my face. 

Madame Parapluie

When life becomes film noir

Yesterday I met with the girls for lunch and tea at the ounce. We had such fun again and great big thanks to Mari from organizing this! I don't think we have seen each other since Creme de La Garderobe. 

We took over The Ounce. 

I wore:

Hat: Vintage
Blouse: Customized fan plus friend
Dress and bag: Innocent world
Necklace: Juliette & Justine
Parasol: Lumiebre

Shoes: John Fluevog

Madame Parapluie

Secret heart

Sometime ago I helped Sanni with her project. It was quite fun and as usual Sanni's work is amazing!

I wore:

Hat: Little hat shop here in Lahti
Blouse: Fan+friend

Dress: Atelier Pierrot
Bag: Longchamp
Necklace: Emily temple cute
Bracelets: Handmade by me.

Madame Parapluie