It's been a while!

Wow. I haven't posted in about 2 months but I have been saving pictures and projects and footage the whole time I swear haha. Anyway, I'm just glad i'm starting this year off on a good start one blog post at a time! I've been working hard in my studies and at work and I'll tell you right now, IT'S PAYING OFF! Not only do I have a B average, but my bank account is poppin' even with my Sephora addiction going rampant. SOOOOO here's what I've been doing lately in a nutshell!

End of October

Halloween I went to school as Baby Spice which strangely was a hard decision because I was NOT in the Halloween spirit so I couldn't make up my minnndddd. But it was between Scary or Baby spice and I probably could have pulled off Mel's look better but I still felt really cute. For ACTUAL Halloween, I was Bulma from Dragon Ball Z and I was so happy cause the security guards and my co-workers knew who I was. ^u^ I might re-do the dress and wear it to a con but idk bout that...

Best outfit + face of the month

November
I spent some time working hard and rewarding myself by spending time with my hs mains and my inkling babe Selena for ramen for Black Friday and on free days from work. I also went to a casual lolita swap meet at a friend's house sadly I came SUPER late so I didn't get to do much but I did stay long enough for my friend Kiara to give me some cute knee highs and the white cat dress which fits like a god damn glove <3 I also love the look I did in the Chinese button up and slightly geisha inspired hair. For thanksgiving, I spent time at Sammy's and slept over for like 3 days and I took a glamor shot in my onesie ☺️

December

All of December my makeup was poppin something fierce?! Ohh Yess and I have spending alarming amounts of money on makeup to point where I'm only 2-4 trips away from the highest rewards card at Sephora, VIB ROUGE. Anyway December is more of a selfie dump 😅

This year has been a interesting roller coaster and a half man. It definitely feels like there were 2 parts to this year and it got a bit crazy in my personal life but I'm moving into the new year on better notes. 

Bye bye 2015. 

See you on my next post 😘 -Erica 

Making a Salopette: Tutorial

Hey guys, so I have been looking into some more sewing projects I could do to advance my style since it is hard shopping for cutesy things at the moment. In the next week or two there is going to be a lolita swap meet again and I haven't been to one since the end of last summer so I'm really excited. This is the moment I realized that I don't wear lolita for anything but conventions and special occasions which is sad but I don't have the wardrobe for it. The dresses I do have are for the winter so I wanted to make something for the summer like A SALOPETTE! lol so I started to sketch out my idea on my sketchbook. 

I started off with this sketch and tried to figure out the measurements and how I wanted it to look on me and then got to making the patterns on some gift wrap. Once that was all done I made sure to go around and mark the seam allowance and where I wanted to cut my fabric on the fold. 

After I cut out all of my pieces I placed it on my mannaquin so I could see how it would fit and it was a little too big so I took 3inchs off the straps and the back panel. 

I decided that I wouldn't use the waist band I had draw in the picture. I started sewing the top first under the arm holes and the sides of the skirt. I actually played with the straps a bit since it was going to be plain straps but I used old belt parts to make the straps adjustable. Then I cut out the patterns and started sewing.

I attached the top to the bottom and then it was basically done! I made some bias tape out of the fabric that was leftover and went around the top portion because I didn't want to hem it.

Originally I wanted more ruffles but I realized that might mean having to unstitch the top and skirt to make the ruffles look better and start higher + it couldn't have pockets! So I chose to leave it as is

And it's done! I hope you enjoyed watching me make this cute pinnafore / salopette <3

Fixed and Ready to go!

Hey it's been a while! I was finally able to get the new charger for my computer <3 Well I'm back and with brand new hair! About a month ago I had to dye my hair back brown for work since it's a job where I have to work with people. BUTTT  I hate having natural colored hair now. It's not that it looks "bad" I just hate looking normal now. So I was actually supposed to dye it blue, purple, or a mix of the two but I came out with this wonderful color that's kind of pastel ash blonde with a little bit of leftover color in it and i love it. (even better my mom and boss like it too!)

I also made a video showing some of the process of how I got it this way!

 

Have a beautiful day!