Crimson Reflections

When I first heard about this book I was excited and expected it to be a nice little reference for Japanese words for different terms

This bimonthly theme for bibliotheca is “Baggage”, both in the physical sense of travel and in the metaphorical sense. While I could write a travel

January & February were very busy for me because of Katsucon and all the other stuff we had going on… and then I caught COVID

This post was inspired by a comment on my last post (thank you!). For those of you who don’t know my partner Michelle opened a

I’m still not really traveling but COVID derailed our Christmas which led to having a tea party with 3 generations of my family a couple hours from my house, so that’s going to have to count.

This year, after 9 years of blogging, I passed the 200 post mark.

The first part of a 3-part series looking lightly into the history of the teddy bear and where bears have popped up in specific Japanese street fashions.

Shirley Temple is a brand that was highly influential on lolita fashion. They currently focus more on Children’s clothing, though they do have a teen

Japanese Brand BETTY’s BLUE, founded in 1985, pops up in a lot of the same magazines as early lolita brands, like CUTiE and Kera. The

A lot of people struggle when buying shoes from Chinese indie brands because they look at sizing conversion charts, and pick a size that way