Cute pastries and yummy lemonade.

On Thursday my friend Emma took me to The Grounds of Alexandria for a cute lunch because I've never heard of it before. It's actually a knocked down warehouse in the middle of an industrial area that's been all prettied up with flowers, trees, vines, a fountain and a petting zoo. They're famous for their coffee and their little secret garden area and of course the food there.

I wore just a casual coordinate because we were going out shopping afterwards and it was warm sunny day which was so nice for the middle of winter !!

Coordinate rundown:

Dress: Angelic Pretty, Petite Patisserie tiered JSK

Cardigan: Emily Temple Cute, Chocolate Bar series

Necklace: Angelic Pretty, Melty Cream Donut series

Shoes: Melissa M Dreams ballet style flats

Bag: San-X, Rilakkuma

Emma showed me around and I got to see all of the flower store which also had amazing dyed coloured cactuses and roses, as well as organic homemade jams and granola mixes which is on my list of things to buy next time I go !! Their ATM machine was located inside an old telephone box which was so cute. 

The pastries, tarts and breads were all so amazing, and my favourite part was the lemonade stands where they had rose flavour and tea flavour. Emma and I got one of each and then shared because we couldn't choose which flavour we liked better. Because it was school holidays it was really busy and the wait for the restaurant was an hour long we ended up just getting the garden BBQ food which was just as amazing. We had the most amazing burgers ever.

I really wanna go again already it was just that nice. Everywhere you looked people were relaxing, sketching, chatting, eating and just having a really awesome time and it's definitely on my list of places to go on a regular basis !! Afterwards Emma and I went on a huge shopping spree in the city and I got a lot of cute things that I'll be posting about soon !!

Fancy Dinner Party at Victoria's!

Last weekend a few of my close friends and I went to a dinner party at Victoria's house and it was beautiful. The night was spent playing pool, chatting and eating the delicious food she had put so much effort into and I can tell you my stomach has never been happier.

I also got to wear one of my new Angelic Pretty dresses that I recently got which ended up being a good choice because it's really roomy and I could fit so much more in my stomach, he he he he.

Coordinate rundown:

Dress: Angelic Pretty, Royal Unicorn Gobelin OP

Headbow: Angelic Pretty, Royal Unicorn Gobelin

Tights: Angelic Pretty, Musee du Chocolat series

Accessories: Angelic Pretty spoon necklace, taobao bows and brooch

Bag: Angelic Pretty three way bag replica from Taobao

Shoes: Offbrand

Also yes I do look like a midget in my outfit shots because my derpy brother doesn't understand camera but that's okay !!

From left down, then across: Victoria, Cathal, Laura, Holly, Goldie, Sophia, Maya, Jess and Elyse.

Most of my night was honestly spent taking stupid selfies with everybody in between meals and filling my wine glass maybe a little too much... I didn't even get a photo of the meal so I've stolen this picture from Goldie's instagram (@vysanthe) of all of the courses + the table setting.

Victoria took a lot of care to make sure that each dish was edible by everybody because we have a lot of people with dietary requirements in our group - so it was all organic, lactose, nut and gluten free (unless you wanted to add it in yourself once it was served).

We had pumpkin soup with greek yoghurt, slow roast with the most amazing vegetable selection ever as well as edible flowers, and then Goldie made us all chocolate fondant for dessert because she's our star dessert wizard.

From left across, and then down: Group photo, Annette, Dan and Mel, Elliot, silly photos in the middle, April, Meg, Elyse and Nicole, and then some signs we had too much wine.

At the end of the night we gave both Victoria and Goldie little gifts as a thank you for having us, and also a big thank you to Victoria's sisters who helped out with cooking and serving food for the night too !!

Everybody looked so lovely and classy, I can't wait to see them all again at the huge picnic meet up our community is having soon.

Easter scavenger hunt!

Last weekend I organised an Easter scavenger hunt for the Sydney Lolita community!

I had groups running around the city frantically taking photos of things and ticking them off their activity lists in order to win first place to get all the goodies (while I sat there and guarded *cough* ate *cough* all the picnic food ~not really just the cheese~).

It took a whole week of prepping, and I was also busy running around finalising plans that morning so I didn't have the most extravagant coordinate of the day but it was chocolate themed to match my diet over the easter period !! Here are some photos (including a selfie with Laura)♥♥♥ ~

Coordinate rundown:

Beret: Angelic Pretty - Musee du Chocolat series

Hair accessories: Angelic Pretty, Offbrand

Blouse: Amavel "Tea Party"

Dress: Angelic Pretty Chess Chocolate "Jabot style" JSK

Socks: Angelic Pretty Royal Queen OTKs

Shoes: Antaina tea parties

Accessories: Swimmer, offbrand

When everybody arrived I put them all into groups, explained the rules and then gave them their maps and scavenger activity lists so they could figure out a game plan for the next two and a half hours !! I did this meet as a team and friendship building activity and it definitely worked - it was really nice to see everybody getting along and having so much fun being silly around the city.

Here are some of my lovely groups with their amazing team names:

"Phallus and the Pirates"

"HORREEEEEEH!!!!! (must be yelled) ..... and friends"

"Glitterotica"

"Metamorphallus"

I didn't get a photo of all of the groups on the day because we had a few latecomers and then had to rush around to stay on schedule, but they also looked lovely and were too busy thinking of a game plan to get a photo taken! (Plus I was probably off somewhere having a stress attack as per usual, hahahaha)

Here were the amazingly made lists and map that everybody had on the day! Click the images for a larger version to see the activities they had to do ♥♥♥~

Bonus unplanned Chess Chocolate twinning photo:

After the scavenge everybody sat down to have a picnic lunch, enter the raffles and play lolita trivia. It was really awesome watching everybody play "name the print" and "who am i?" with famous lolita faces as well as thinking really hard about lolita related facts and knowledge. Up for raffle we had a handmade biker jacket by Grimm Sugar, two vouchers for Rouge Aerie Designs, and a Lief Regimental OP and beret set !! I wanted everything for myself ahhhhhhhh~

Of course group photos (normal and derp mode):

All the minor winners got a whole bag of cadbury chocolates and either a swimmer or a chocomint accessory from Electric Alice (Meg)- it was kinda a big lucky dip but also a thank you for participating.

For the major winners I was lucky enough to have donations from Electric Alice again, Artificial Sweetener Cosmetics (Kylie), Honey Flavour (Jess), Max Brenner chocolate (Sharon), art books featuring art by Jinberry (Regine), Lucie Tea (Lucie) and Lapin Fou Fou (Aurelia) !! Also included were chocolates and cute trinkets like eyelash cases, tea cups and stickers.

The raffle donators were Rouge Aerie Designs (Kate), Lief (Sora & JiEun) and Grimm Sugar Designs (April)!

*please click all their names to check out their stores and artwork*

A picture of the prizes, and our winning team - Glitterotica!

I would also like to say a big thank you to Holly for designing the map and activity list, Laura for helping organise the raffle and carrying heavy things, Maya for helping me with the planning of the meet, Sophia for being on picnic crew duty with me, Meg and Jess for keeping my stress levels down and bringing me coffee, Goldie for not noticing me eating half of the food she made, and everybody that came along and got involved making this one of the best meets ever.

I made everybody upload all of their scavenger photos into a group album on our community Facebook page and they're absolutely hilarious. There are so many amazing and cute photos as well as funny ones that make up some awesome memories from the day. I really wish I could of been there with them! 

It was such a success I've been asked to do it as an annual meet which is gonna be so fun! I'm looking forward to next year !!