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♥ Sunday 5 June 2011 @ 04:32
`My Long Awaited Anime North Post [Dolly Pink and Overall Experience]
Hey there dolls!
I know I haven't been updating my personal blog often... but I hope to make it up to you guys now with a bunch of picture posts!
First off, I'm going to talk about my overall Anime North experience. I already made 2 big posts about it on Dolly Pink's blog but I guess I can talk about my personal experience with Anime North's convention. As you may have noticed from Dolly Pink's blog, I was part of the Anime North's Crafter's Corner section to promote my upcoming brand Dolly Pink. This left me with little to no time to explore the convention itself even though I worked along side Pinkly Ever After. The designers who were in charged of P.E.A. were hardly there and that was because they were mostly busy promoting Pinku Project, a J-pop idol group. When the crafter's corner closed, that's when I had 1-2 hours to roam about in the Doubletree Hotel which I also reserved a room there. Every year, I try my best to attend a lot of panels because that's where all the fun is. I get to meet new people, learn interesting things [anime or cultural related] and share my thought on whatever topic is present.
Even though I am a shy person at heart, I try my best to talk to as many people as I can so I can feel comfortable just talking. Talking a lot is a skill and it is something I need if I ever decide to go into the business field. Anyways... back to Anime North. I noticed that a lot of people that attended this year who were not in cosplay wore lolita or other Japanese fashions. I never knew lolita was going to grow so popular here in Toronto but it did! I did take some pictures but most of them were taken by my boyfriend, Kyu. I saw a lot of pokemon cosplays, Vocaloid, and a lot of lolita cloning. If you don't know what lolita cloning is, it's basically just more than 1 girl wearing the same lolita outfit/coordinate. My friends did an Angelic Pretty cloning with Milky Planet and Sugary Carnival; the 2 most rare and popular AP prints! Again.. since I was too busy with my crafter's table, I didn't get the chance to clone with them as I do own both of these prints as well. T_______T I haven't clone with anyone before so it would have been soo much fun if I did participate in their group.
For Friday and Saturday, I tried to eat healthy as much as possible to keep my energy levels high and alert. For both lunches, I ate mostly sandwiches like egg salad and cold cuts while drinking only water to keep myself hydrated. If you are to survive any con, you need to have a big bottle of water. I lost my voice a couple ANs back because I didn't drink any water so now I know that drinking water is super important!!! Despite the heathly lunch, Kyu really wanted to eat MEAT so I had Harvey's for dinner on Friday and Korean food on Saturday. >__<; Harvey's chicken burger was ok... [I prefer their original hamburger better] the Korean food we ate was horrific! Kyu's kalbi [priced at about $17] tasted really decent while my beef stew [priced at about $13] was fail... We did order some sashimi but thank God we cancelled it after eating the Korean food because could you imagine eating rotten sushi and getting sick from that?! No thanks~! I already got food poisoned from Kelsey's 2 years back and I do not want to contract that sickness again...
On Sunday, that's when Kyu and I did our last minute shopping before Anime North officially closes. I took a quick 5 min walk around in dealer's room and another 10 min walk around in artist alley. Nothing really interested me in dealer's room but I wanted to get so many artwork from the artists there. Kyu managed to get a few Final Fantasy art posters [which were absolutely stunning imo] and a cute amigurumi bear from Atomic Ami! I remembered I bought an orange bear from them a few years back so when I got another bear from their new collection I was super excited~!! They really changed their game plan this year with the new table theme for their bears and fashion outlook that even I couldn't recognize them. Lol. I really have to hand it to them for the vast changes they made over the years from table display, amigurumi designs to outfit coordinations! If you can, please go to their site and support them for their hardwork. ^___^
Before leaving, please remember to sign my guestbook by clicking on "GUEST BOOK" on the top menu and I will visit you right back.
Thank you for reading.
Love,
Aya~
Okay.. now here comes the part everyone has been waiting for... PICTURES!!! To view the full image, just click on the image to enlarge. Please note that these are the same pictures I posted on Dolly Pink's blog. Thanks.
Labels: Anime North, Dolly Pink
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♥ Getting to Know Me
Name: Aya I
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Interests: Lolita/Gyaru fashion, movies, music and dance, karaoke and crafting.
Favorite Foods: Kim chi chiggae, Sashimi, Any exotic fruits and Sweets!
Hello and welcome to my first personal blog!
I am a girl trying to live a 'dolly' life and I love wearing gyaru-inspi and lolita-inspi clothes. I also make and design my own jewellery and accessories under the line "Dolly Pink."
Aya's Web Platforms:
EMAIL: Raspberry.doll [at] gmail.com
TWITTER: @ Happy_kyss
Aya's Brand/Designer Blog:
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♥ Aya's Agenda For February - May 2012
TO LOLITA Valentine's Meet-up
When: February 11, 2012 @ 1pm
Link: N/A
Note: A lolita meet-up that I plan to host for TO LOLITA. The plans for this are still in construction but the date has been finalized.
Aya's Lolita Birthday Meet-up
When: ---
Link: n/a.
Note: Date and details are still not finalized as it's still under thought.
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♥ Sunday 5 June 2011 @ 04:32
`My Long Awaited Anime North Post [Dolly Pink and Overall Experience]
Hey there dolls!
I know I haven't been updating my personal blog often... but I hope to make it up to you guys now with a bunch of picture posts!
First off, I'm going to talk about my overall Anime North experience. I already made 2 big posts about it on Dolly Pink's blog but I guess I can talk about my personal experience with Anime North's convention. As you may have noticed from Dolly Pink's blog, I was part of the Anime North's Crafter's Corner section to promote my upcoming brand Dolly Pink. This left me with little to no time to explore the convention itself even though I worked along side Pinkly Ever After. The designers who were in charged of P.E.A. were hardly there and that was because they were mostly busy promoting Pinku Project, a J-pop idol group. When the crafter's corner closed, that's when I had 1-2 hours to roam about in the Doubletree Hotel which I also reserved a room there. Every year, I try my best to attend a lot of panels because that's where all the fun is. I get to meet new people, learn interesting things [anime or cultural related] and share my thought on whatever topic is present.
Even though I am a shy person at heart, I try my best to talk to as many people as I can so I can feel comfortable just talking. Talking a lot is a skill and it is something I need if I ever decide to go into the business field. Anyways... back to Anime North. I noticed that a lot of people that attended this year who were not in cosplay wore lolita or other Japanese fashions. I never knew lolita was going to grow so popular here in Toronto but it did! I did take some pictures but most of them were taken by my boyfriend, Kyu. I saw a lot of pokemon cosplays, Vocaloid, and a lot of lolita cloning. If you don't know what lolita cloning is, it's basically just more than 1 girl wearing the same lolita outfit/coordinate. My friends did an Angelic Pretty cloning with Milky Planet and Sugary Carnival; the 2 most rare and popular AP prints! Again.. since I was too busy with my crafter's table, I didn't get the chance to clone with them as I do own both of these prints as well. T_______T I haven't clone with anyone before so it would have been soo much fun if I did participate in their group.
For Friday and Saturday, I tried to eat healthy as much as possible to keep my energy levels high and alert. For both lunches, I ate mostly sandwiches like egg salad and cold cuts while drinking only water to keep myself hydrated. If you are to survive any con, you need to have a big bottle of water. I lost my voice a couple ANs back because I didn't drink any water so now I know that drinking water is super important!!! Despite the heathly lunch, Kyu really wanted to eat MEAT so I had Harvey's for dinner on Friday and Korean food on Saturday. >__<; Harvey's chicken burger was ok... [I prefer their original hamburger better] the Korean food we ate was horrific! Kyu's kalbi [priced at about $17] tasted really decent while my beef stew [priced at about $13] was fail... We did order some sashimi but thank God we cancelled it after eating the Korean food because could you imagine eating rotten sushi and getting sick from that?! No thanks~! I already got food poisoned from Kelsey's 2 years back and I do not want to contract that sickness again...
On Sunday, that's when Kyu and I did our last minute shopping before Anime North officially closes. I took a quick 5 min walk around in dealer's room and another 10 min walk around in artist alley. Nothing really interested me in dealer's room but I wanted to get so many artwork from the artists there. Kyu managed to get a few Final Fantasy art posters [which were absolutely stunning imo] and a cute amigurumi bear from Atomic Ami! I remembered I bought an orange bear from them a few years back so when I got another bear from their new collection I was super excited~!! They really changed their game plan this year with the new table theme for their bears and fashion outlook that even I couldn't recognize them. Lol. I really have to hand it to them for the vast changes they made over the years from table display, amigurumi designs to outfit coordinations! If you can, please go to their site and support them for their hardwork. ^___^
Before leaving, please remember to sign my guestbook by clicking on "GUEST BOOK" on the top menu and I will visit you right back.
Thank you for reading.
Love,
Aya~
Okay.. now here comes the part everyone has been waiting for... PICTURES!!! To view the full image, just click on the image to enlarge. Please note that these are the same pictures I posted on Dolly Pink's blog. Thanks.
Labels: Anime North, Dolly Pink
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♥ Cbox & Etiquette
Cbox Etiquette
1. Please show common courtesy and respect one another.
2. Do not swear in the cbox.
3. Any spam found will be deleted and an ip ban will be in effect.
4. Strictly no advertising! If you want me to advertise your shop(s) or website(s) please contact me at: Raspberry.Doll [at] gmail.com and I will work something out.
5. Lastly, enjoy signing the guest book.
Thank you,
Aya
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♥ Disclaimer
All the images used in any of Raspberry Day's contents are copyrighted to their respective owners/artitsts unless otherwise stated. R.D. does not claim those as her own and credit is given to the source(s)' site.
The credited urls are listed right under this disclaimer and R.D. would like to give a BIG thanks to the following sites listed. If the urls do not work, it means that the source's site is no longer available or can not be found.
♥ Credits
Layout/Graphics
 Layout Designer : Aya
Basic Coder : Nicole
Brushes Used
Angelic - Trust
Hybrid - Genesis
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Angelic Pretty/Kira Imai
Love Candied
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