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♥ Friday, 23 March 2012 @ 10:24
`Dolly Pink Will Be Returning to Anime North 2012~!
YAAAY~! So if you guys follow Dolly Pink's blog, my application for Crafters' Corner has been accepted!
I really haven't been working on my accessories this past few months but coming April, I hope to be a very busy bee creating new items for everyone to enjoy. I already bought a few things for the table to help display the items but I need to make more stock to make the display useful. Lol.
Since last year I didn't really have much fun, I told myself that if I returned for the 2nd year I would definately make it worth while for me to meet new people and take cosplay pictures. I missed out on this chance last year so my goal is to take 50 pictures of cosplayers. :) If you plan to cosplay this year please let me know what you want to cosplay as --- I've always wanted to cosplay but I'm not confident enough to represent any anime character yet... Lol.
This is a pretty short update but thank you for reading and I'll update with pictures of the contact lenses soon~!
Love,
AyaLabels: Anime North, Dolly Pink, Update
♥ Saturday, 17 September 2011 @ 01:00
`Atomic Lollipop 2011 - A Carnival Convention
**This event happened in July... sorry to make you guys wait so long but here it is!**
Atomic Lollipop took place on Saturday July 30 and ended on Sunday July 31. It was Toronto's first convention dedicated to anime and music which had taken place at Anime North's Sheraton Conference Centre. Tickets were priced a little high considering that it was it's first year -- $35 [early bird] and $45 [paid at the door] but even though it was pricy, it was still well worth it for most attendees because of all the fun-packed schedule. There was a lot of rave parties going on inside the hotel hallways and outside the hotel including a rave/electro concert in the Kyandi panel room featuring "BESPA KUMAMERO"! Bespa Kumamero is an electro-duo from Japan who came to Toronto to launch it's first Canadian tour and let me say, their music was very up-lifting and enjoyable as it made me forget about my stresses and dance. If you have no idea who Bespa Kumamero is, their music is similar to Perfume and Aural Vampire.
For more details regarding Dolly Pink's experience at Atomic Lollipop; please visit Dolly Pink's Blog.
So what did I do on the first day of Atomic Lollipop? I help ran a Lolita fashion contest for the convention in which Joyce and I were hand-picked judges from the main coordinators. The fashion show went by really quick because the entries were capped at 20 people. There were 3 segments during the show; first being the models getting interviewed by the judges --- asking questions like where they got their inspiration(s) from, what their favorite brands were, etc. Second was where all the models walked out on the stage one by one posing and third was having their picture of a 2nd coordination up on the projector for bonus points. The show was short but sweet as everyone that participated had fun and enjoyed walking on stage with full confidence. On Sunday the winners were announced: Cadney [Best Lolita Overall], Whitney [Best Classic Lolita], Jackie [Best Sweet Lolita] and Gen [Best Gothic Lolita]. During the show, my favorite model that walked out on that stage was Gen! Her pose and style was so bold that when she walked out on stage, it brought tears to my eyes. Her coordinate was perfect as she added little accents like lace around her eyes to make her face pop.
After the contest, I had to help Cadney and Joyce set up the Lolita fashion panel. There was a lot of technical difficulties but in the end, everyone learned a lot about the fashion and seemed interested. I also donated a lot of Dolly Pink goods as prizes for people who participated in the panel which were a popular pick! **YAY!!**
Meanwhile as the panel was taking place, I went back to the Artist Alley to chill with Baby Pinku [Pinkly Ever After] and Bel and Eli [Atomic Ami]. Gen had to leave early so I didn't get much time to talk to her but I did the next day as Sunday I didn't have to help run anything except the Artist Alley table! It was a little boring to sit there and do nothing so I went around the convention collecting a lot of the balloons to get ready for a photo shoot I had planned with my Lolita friends. However... all of our dreams were crushed when they got confiscated for no reason by a mean old lady, which sort of ruined our day but we still took photos nonetheless.
After an action-packed weekend, Atomic Lollipop was ready for its' first closing ceremony in which they announced that it would come back the following year! With a successful premier, there will be a lot of anticipation from con-goers in 2012. Overall, I had a lot of fun at Atomic Lollipop -- there was a lot of excitement, parties, beautiful people and most of all I got to spend it with my friends [Gen, Cadney, Joyce, Lanii, and Jackie]. What fun would it be without your fellow Lolita fashionistas?
Thank you for reading lovelies~!
Love,
Aya
Here are some Atomic Lollipop pictures I managed to take of friends and cosplayers:
[Please click on the pictures to view the full image]
Cadney, Lanii, Me & Meek
Ciara and Me! Ciara is cosplaying Madoka *hopefully that's the right character >__<;*
Quick faceshot of me
Joyce and all of the epic balloons I collected *___*
Me, Cadney & Joyce Photo Credit: Cadney
Me and my boyfriend Kyu He was only able to hang out for 1 day and then went to work. :(
Kyu and I again
A sneaky shot of Lanii taking pictures of Cadney & Joyce
Joyce and I This was what we both wore on Saturday when we were judging contestants. Photo Credit: Cadney
Kyu as Vampire Knight Kaname-sama Photo Credit: Cadney
Bespa Kumamero @ their concert
Gen and I
Gen at the Artist Alley table: Dolly Pink & After Alice
Kyu and I Photo Credit: Cadney Labels: Atomic Lollipop, Dolly Pink, Lolita
♥ 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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♥ Friday, 23 March 2012 @ 10:24
`Dolly Pink Will Be Returning to Anime North 2012~!
YAAAY~! So if you guys follow Dolly Pink's blog, my application for Crafters' Corner has been accepted!
I really haven't been working on my accessories this past few months but coming April, I hope to be a very busy bee creating new items for everyone to enjoy. I already bought a few things for the table to help display the items but I need to make more stock to make the display useful. Lol.
Since last year I didn't really have much fun, I told myself that if I returned for the 2nd year I would definately make it worth while for me to meet new people and take cosplay pictures. I missed out on this chance last year so my goal is to take 50 pictures of cosplayers. :) If you plan to cosplay this year please let me know what you want to cosplay as --- I've always wanted to cosplay but I'm not confident enough to represent any anime character yet... Lol.
This is a pretty short update but thank you for reading and I'll update with pictures of the contact lenses soon~!
Love,
AyaLabels: Anime North, Dolly Pink, Update
♥ Saturday, 17 September 2011 @ 01:00
`Atomic Lollipop 2011 - A Carnival Convention
**This event happened in July... sorry to make you guys wait so long but here it is!**
Atomic Lollipop took place on Saturday July 30 and ended on Sunday July 31. It was Toronto's first convention dedicated to anime and music which had taken place at Anime North's Sheraton Conference Centre. Tickets were priced a little high considering that it was it's first year -- $35 [early bird] and $45 [paid at the door] but even though it was pricy, it was still well worth it for most attendees because of all the fun-packed schedule. There was a lot of rave parties going on inside the hotel hallways and outside the hotel including a rave/electro concert in the Kyandi panel room featuring "BESPA KUMAMERO"! Bespa Kumamero is an electro-duo from Japan who came to Toronto to launch it's first Canadian tour and let me say, their music was very up-lifting and enjoyable as it made me forget about my stresses and dance. If you have no idea who Bespa Kumamero is, their music is similar to Perfume and Aural Vampire.
For more details regarding Dolly Pink's experience at Atomic Lollipop; please visit Dolly Pink's Blog.
So what did I do on the first day of Atomic Lollipop? I help ran a Lolita fashion contest for the convention in which Joyce and I were hand-picked judges from the main coordinators. The fashion show went by really quick because the entries were capped at 20 people. There were 3 segments during the show; first being the models getting interviewed by the judges --- asking questions like where they got their inspiration(s) from, what their favorite brands were, etc. Second was where all the models walked out on the stage one by one posing and third was having their picture of a 2nd coordination up on the projector for bonus points. The show was short but sweet as everyone that participated had fun and enjoyed walking on stage with full confidence. On Sunday the winners were announced: Cadney [Best Lolita Overall], Whitney [Best Classic Lolita], Jackie [Best Sweet Lolita] and Gen [Best Gothic Lolita]. During the show, my favorite model that walked out on that stage was Gen! Her pose and style was so bold that when she walked out on stage, it brought tears to my eyes. Her coordinate was perfect as she added little accents like lace around her eyes to make her face pop.
After the contest, I had to help Cadney and Joyce set up the Lolita fashion panel. There was a lot of technical difficulties but in the end, everyone learned a lot about the fashion and seemed interested. I also donated a lot of Dolly Pink goods as prizes for people who participated in the panel which were a popular pick! **YAY!!**
Meanwhile as the panel was taking place, I went back to the Artist Alley to chill with Baby Pinku [Pinkly Ever After] and Bel and Eli [Atomic Ami]. Gen had to leave early so I didn't get much time to talk to her but I did the next day as Sunday I didn't have to help run anything except the Artist Alley table! It was a little boring to sit there and do nothing so I went around the convention collecting a lot of the balloons to get ready for a photo shoot I had planned with my Lolita friends. However... all of our dreams were crushed when they got confiscated for no reason by a mean old lady, which sort of ruined our day but we still took photos nonetheless.
After an action-packed weekend, Atomic Lollipop was ready for its' first closing ceremony in which they announced that it would come back the following year! With a successful premier, there will be a lot of anticipation from con-goers in 2012. Overall, I had a lot of fun at Atomic Lollipop -- there was a lot of excitement, parties, beautiful people and most of all I got to spend it with my friends [Gen, Cadney, Joyce, Lanii, and Jackie]. What fun would it be without your fellow Lolita fashionistas?
Thank you for reading lovelies~!
Love,
Aya
Here are some Atomic Lollipop pictures I managed to take of friends and cosplayers:
[Please click on the pictures to view the full image]
Cadney, Lanii, Me & Meek
Ciara and Me! Ciara is cosplaying Madoka *hopefully that's the right character >__<;*
Quick faceshot of me
Joyce and all of the epic balloons I collected *___*
Me, Cadney & Joyce Photo Credit: Cadney
Me and my boyfriend Kyu He was only able to hang out for 1 day and then went to work. :(
Kyu and I again
A sneaky shot of Lanii taking pictures of Cadney & Joyce
Joyce and I This was what we both wore on Saturday when we were judging contestants. Photo Credit: Cadney
Kyu as Vampire Knight Kaname-sama Photo Credit: Cadney
Bespa Kumamero @ their concert
Gen and I
Gen at the Artist Alley table: Dolly Pink & After Alice
Kyu and I Photo Credit: Cadney Labels: Atomic Lollipop, Dolly Pink, Lolita
♥ 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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2. Do not swear in the cbox.
3. Any spam found will be deleted and an ip ban will be in effect.
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5. Lastly, enjoy signing the guest book.
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