Dancing Teddy Bears JSK Progress

I am finally back after a long while! ♥

I was actually just being lazy the past few weeks and a 

lot has happened. I don't really like blogging about my personal life

but let's just say that last week was the most horrible week 

I had to go through. From unprofessional bosses to getting mugged to

a family secret that I wasn't really ready to find out about (and it

obviously broke my mom's heart. I hate it when my mom cries..).

So yeah, Most of the times I'm off from work, I just

want to treat them as, well, my day off -- from everything. I just want

to take my rests. Our workplace is the most stressful

environment I have to endure in my every graveyard shift.

But yesterday was different. I had to do something to

ease off the anger, sadness and every tiny bit of negative

energy in my system. And I know that sewing my own

dress will definitely do the trick. If my back could talk, it

would so lovingly throw a bunch of cuss words at me.

I decided to try to finish sewing a skirt or a dress out of my teddy

bear fabric. You can see my previous post about it here.

I was planning to just make a skirt out of the fabric. I ended up

making a JSK instead. And, wow I slacked off for almost 3 months! 

Now that's a long resting period lol!

Here's the JSK so far:

Sorry for the sucky photos, I took this earlier this morning right
after sewing and my hands were trembling lol, I was like, okay that's good enough. XD

It's far from done. It's missing a lot of elements, 

the sewing is still quite messy underneath.

I actually used raschel lace for the top part of the bodice. 

I do not like using raschel lace but it turned out nicely. What do you think? :)

I couldn't finish it 'cause I started at night up to 4 in the morning. My

back is, I think, developing rayuma (haha, kidding of course!) so I had to sleep. 

I wasn't able to finish it. I can't wait to, though. I swear I'm gonna get back on it

next weekend! ♥

Teddy Bear Skirt Progress

I will not be able to finish the skirt tonight, so I'll just be posting

photos of its progress.

I wanted to make a scalloped skirt. I found a tutorial here which

was really really useful.

look how messy:

They actually turned out nicely, I had to repeat the lines

to make sure the measurement doesn't go haywire.

Cut, cut~

So here's how it looks so far:

nom nom nom scalloped edges ♥

I basically lack a lot of things, hence, I can't finish it. I'm also out of

time. I need to sleep early or else my skin will get back at me and I can't

afford anymore break outs, I'm gonna be modelling for a friend this Tuesday. >_<

I can't wait to finish this, I find it so frustrating not being able to. I stay over at

my boyfriend's house every weekdays. I can't bring my sewing machine with me

'cause travelling with a huge bag, a heavy sewing machine with my tiny

body don't really add up nicely lol

So, yeah, 'til next week chocolate-blueberry-teddy-bear-skirt-thingy. >3<

Fabric Hunting~! ♥

Earlier, I went fabric hunting. I was only able to check two

stores 'cause the only place where there are whole lots of fabrics is 

too far and I only have so much time to make a skirt because tomorrow is office

day again. Do not waaant. ; . ;

Anyhooow, I only brought my cellphone with me so please forgive the low picture quality. |D

Here are two of the fabrics that, in my opinion, would look really nice

if made into lolita skirts or even lolita jumper skirts without using too much

ruffles because of their designs:

So Spring worthy. ♥

Here's a picture of what I bought:

I'm gonna make a skirt out of them. The bear fabric is

the base. Since I'm already waiting for blue tea party shoes

to come (yup, paid for it! 2-3 weeks before I can get 'em!) I have

to make the most of the shoes and make/buy as many blue stuff as I can. XD

I hope I can finish the skirt tonight! Now allow me to leave, run to my room, lock

the doors and sew sew sew~! ♥

Self-made Ribbon Jumper Skirt ♥

It's Crafty Camila Day hihihi. I started sewing yesterday morning 'til midnight. I really wanted to finish a lolita dress or jumper skirt so I can wear it for a January 8 gathering. 

I slept for atleast 4 hours and finished the jumper skirt today.

Here are the pictures~ 

Ribbon Dress! ♥

I made the skirt part really wide so it would look super fluffly when used with really thick petticoats. I used a half-body mannequin to hang the dress, making it look less wide on camera than it should be.

ribbons~ ribbons~ ribbons~~ 

    

This is the second time I'm able to make a jumper skirt.
The first one was back when my best friend and I still had an online shop
selling gothic and lolita items. I only followed whichever tutorial I can find useful
on youtube, egl (LJ), anywhere else. Thank you interwebs! XD

The ribbon/tie for the waist are lilac on the opposite side, also I added shirring 

so I don't have to sew a zipper on the dress. I don't like sewing on zippers. XD;

And as you can see, there's still so much space for a petticoat to make the

dress look super bell-shaped. I need a new petticoat~!

 

Oh, what exhausting yet fulfilling days, haha! I'm tired but I'm not cranky at all.

 I'm really really happy with how the dress turned out. ♥ ♥

Ribbon Fabric ☆ Divisoria Loot

Some of my friends, Meoki and Izhia, were able to get awesome stuff

from Divisoria so I decided to go shopping there, too. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to get to the place where they got the nail decals and deco den stuff 'cause I needed to look for a lavender polka-dot fabric which took forever until I just ended up buying something else and going to my favorite craft shop instead. Here are the stuff I got:

I really wanted to buy yards of lavender polka-dot fabric. I had it

planned already.. oh the pastel-y goodness. I had to give it up 'cause the market

was closing (as early as 6:30pm! >.<) But I was able to buy this cute ribbon fabric and

2 yards of lavender fabric to go with it.

There's just one thing I don't like about the ribbon fabric. The tiny green dots. They look

like they've been poked on the fabric using a marker pen. I'm gonna make a dress or a skirt out of them so I hope I can make the outcome look good. 

 I'll definitely post what I'll be able to finish. ♡

I also bought these really cute lace trimmings from my favorite craft shop:

So, so pretty! Soft tulle embroidered laces are my favorite, I absolutely adore

ribbons, so the fabric and these laces are love love love!

The other stuff are:

Small pastel ribbons! ♥

I love the heart one. Reminds me of Sailor Moon. XD  I'm actually gonna use these
for something else. 

lol hello camera shadow.

I'm so happy I was able to go shopping for laces and fabrics again after a long

while. (Long while = 2 years lol) I need to catch up! I'll be a Mera Mera Girl! 

(been reading Gokinjo Monogatari again lol) Fight fight fight! 彡☆