Autumn colours

On saturday we decided to go out and take some pictures to capture this superbly colourful time of the year. Blazing tones of red, gold and orange with a brilliant blue sky was the perfect backdrop!

 My outfit rundown

JSK: BtSSB
Hooded faux fur bunny capelet: AP
 Faux fur cufflets: AP
 Headband: OB
 Cardigan: OB
 Pantyhose: OB
 Shoes: OB

Clothes Swap-meetup vol #2

Last saturday, Ilona hosted another clothes swap meetup, mainly for lolitas, but there were other friends present as well. Everyone brought some food, so we had a  multitude of it, and there was an abundance of clothes to browse through. Here's some pictures I took of the event!

Day on the town with friends

This saturday I and some of my friends headed off to the center of Helsinki to do a little shopping and nomming. We had a bite to eat at I <3 Food, and then visited Tokyokan, a store specializing in Japanese dishwear and groceries. After that, nothing could've kept us from the cakes at Cake Gallery! We also went to a few more places, as described in the captions. What an absolutely awesome day.

I chose some Japan Sencha green tea, a small slice of mango cake and passion fruit cheesecake. Mmm!

Ilona's manic expression digging into that pastry is priceless.

Jone's looking silly and slightly ruffled. <3

Weehee, it's me and my loot!

Mikko just had "Gunpowder" green tea.

Less than sophisticated Ilona and super chic "devil may care" -habitus by Kaisa...

(Despite bad lighting)...and...ehh...the other way around.

We visited the small and cute candy store Sweetheart and got some cavity-makers!

:3

Just because we had the whim, we went to tiki-theme bar Kokomo for awesome Hawaii-coctails! They were so good and refreshing on a hot day.

Kaisa poses etherically in front of an exotic-looking mini-jungle

A closer look at her cool outfit.

Also ran into Katja, damn I managed to burn this picture. :'3 She looked pretty, as always, and shared with me a thing I had NEVER known (oh the shame): ALL AP DRESSES HAVE A POCKET. 8O

I'll soon make a mini-post on the things I got from our journey around town.

Camera-shy

You may have noticed how few pictures of myself I've posted on this blog. That's probably partially the reason why it isn't particularly popular. People like to look at pictures and outfit photos, I get that. I'm just really bad at being there when pictures are being taken, and I tend to get super figety and awkward in front of the camera, since the situation requires me to hold the same pose and facial expression for a whopping few seconds. That's REALLY challenging for me.

If there's an inofficial meetup, I don't go to the people with cameras to ask for photos, I also don't carry my camera around to give to other people to take photos of me. The most likely way to get a snapshot of me (apart from being a smudged red-black blotch in the background of someone else's picture) is at a larger meetup where there's an actual moment reserved for photos, and I can't really escape. I don't think I photograph too badly, really, I just find the whole situation really intimidating. I never know what to do with my hands and which expression to have, so I'm all over the place, usually goofing around.

I don't think my outfits and coordinations are so immensely amazing that they have to be caught on camera - old school and toned-down gothic just aren't very popular right now, and people would rather get 10000 pictures of someone's super-complicated construction, which is understandable. I just can't get into a mindset where I think I NEED to be photographed.

Maybe I should. I used to be in plenty of photos, and used to be very proud of my coordinations. Still, I don't think I'll ever be a "mirror photo of my daily outfit" -kinda blogger.

But I can try and promise you to post at least more pictures, when they do get taken.