I have a new idea. How about I update more on this blog? Yes? Yes.
So this new idea involves writing some sort of review of my month. This way I force myself to at least update once a month. Lol, I am pathetic. :’] Who reads blogs that are only updated once a month?! ahaha. So hopefully I’ll update more than that, eh…

ANYWAY let’s start with this month!

In February 2010…

… I went to Ireland from the 1st til the 6th, where I went to the North [Donegal] and back to Dublin,
… where I met Irish lolitas! Which was a lot of fun ^_^!!
… I was together with Muffin for 54 months on the 6th as well, and that day was a lot of travel [from Dublin to Charleroi to Antwerp to Rotterdam] and seeing people…
… such as Yori who celebrated his birthday!
… Back home in Gent, I received one of my dream dresses in the mail, Angelic Pretty’s Marionette Girl
… and I bought really bad ass shoes from H&M which I just feel the need to mention.
… My school started again, and we moved buildings. The new building is very empty and cold and odd, but I think it’s okay actually.
… It still snowed in Belgium [on the 10th], which was annoying and very slippery instead of fun and beautiful.
… I spent time with Camille! We’re following a new TV series called Life Unexpected, and it’s very fun.
… My family and Muffin and I went to a play on the 12th, some sort of CSI-adventure.
… I sent and received a Lolita Valentine’s Card, even though I don’t really celebrate Valentine’s Day [duh!]
… Muffin and I had dinner at Rotown, with Tessa and Tijmen [also happy birthday to Tijmen] and the food was delicious.
… IT WAS DAVEY HAVOK DAY obviously on the 14th!
… I was free of school for two days and didn’t know ¬_¬ haha.
… Annso and I went to pick up our Innocent World order, after a month of waiting and insecurities and horrible tax fees. [The clothes are absolutely gorgeous though.]
… Camille gave us delicious cookies in exchange for our old DVD player.
… Annso brought a PS3 to Gent, so we spent time playing Buzz and Guitar Hero. [Which Muffin is playing as I write, and he got to the end :'D haha]
… I spent time in the studio for a whole day and got locked out :/
… We had a Cupcakes meet on the 20th, where we were just 4 of us, but it was a lot of fun anyway
… we saw Disney’s new animation movie, The Princess and the Frog, which I enjoyed very much!
… The week before the Emilie Autumn concert, I was very frustrated with sewing our outfits xD and thankfully everything worked out, pffff.
… it was the Emilie Autumn concert on the 26th! YAY! Which was a lot of fun, I met lots of awesome people, the show was great, thankfully our outfits got compliments ^_^ and I had a good time!
… I GOT MY PERFECT ATTENDANCE AT PUPE!
… and Muffin and I are catching up on Lost… Eeeee!!

A very eventful February, sadly it’s over now. A new month arrives, with more daily Pupe snapshots awaiting, and a trip to London, a big Cupcakes meet with the new Alice in Wonderland film on the brink of being boycotted [which pisses me off, so much!] and also the first March in years where I won’t be going to the Rotterdamse Museumnacht! How sad is that u_u – but in return, I’ll be spending a weekend with my big big Dutch family, which is always fun.

YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

I have perfect attendance at Pupe once again WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

This warrants its own post. I don’t care. HEEHEE.

~perfect attendance~

– if you have no idea what I’m going on about, you should check out this post.

And by the way, there is a new system in Pupe now where you buy Jewels and get Ribbons, so now when I got perfect attendance I didn’t get 100 free ribbons, but 200! YESSSS.

Pink suit. Amazing.
(March 13, 2009 – Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images North America)

SOOOO I brought home some roze koeken and we watched I Heard A Voice and had fun with a little Baby tissue bunny thing, who is now named Davey.

Annso jumping like Hunter

After watching Hunter jump like a total jumpmaster, Annso decided to jump just like him to celebrate Davey day.

Vief posing like Davey

and I was posing dramatically like Davey

Happy Davey Havok Day 2010

Annso & Vief having lolz

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AND NOW FOR SOME MORE PINK-DAVEY-GOODNESS

[those pink shirt Davey pics are from Getty Images [Bryan Bedder/Getty Images North America] by the way. Totally took them from some other website – found through Google images, anyway don’t sue me ok, also some photos I don’t know who to credit.]

Old school Davey with very amazing hot-pink-and-black combo. JUST THE WAY WE LIKE IT ON DAVEY DAY.

and some not-so-pink-yet-still-glorious-Davey-celebratory pics

And last but not least, here’s us together, hoping you had a marvelous day:

Annso, Vief and pink bunny Davey

Annso & Vief and Davey the bunny hope you had a most fabulous DAVEY HAVOK DAAAAAY!

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And that time was last weekend. Wow! We looked forward to this event for months and months, stressed out about it for weeks, and then it came and went… now it’s over! It was my first time selling things, and also my first [and probably last] time having to “document” it for a school assignment. As a result, I have 612 photos. I won’t show them all on here but I’ll try and upload some, anyway.

I just want to say it was a looooot of fun! I can’t wait until next year, when I’ll hopefully have more things to sell [for lower prices] and a generally better plan, haha. Oh well. Maybe all the chaos was a part of all the fun I had. Thank you to all the people who were there, new friends I made and old friends who’ve now officially been my friends for a year! You all made my weekend a very great one!

Speaking of FACTS and the Belgian Cupcakes… Can’t believe it’s only been a year! One year ago [give or take a few days] I met Niek and Kate for the first time, and now it feels like we’ve known each other forever. Read last year’s entry on my LiveJournal. The Belgian Lolitas have grown so much, so many things have happened. Wow. Lots of love for all the girls ^_____^

But enough cheesyness. Let’s look at some photos!

[Pro-tip: if you click on a photo, you can see it in a bigger size and it will open a sort of 'gallery' ^_^]

DAY ONE

All-nighter-work

The night before day one, I decided to work deep into the night to finish a few more things to sell. Kate came to crash at our place [since she's from Antwerp and the convention was at Flanders Expo in Gent] and decided to work on her nail art as well. As a result, we only slept two hours! But it was fun having someone there to get me through the night, haha.

Kate on the tram

We took the tram to get there before everyone came in, because I still had to set up my stand.

long long line

The line was craaaaazy!

makeup time!

Getting ready for the long long day!

Stormtroopers!

These guys were AWESOME! They had voice-transformers, wooooow. ^____^

Kate's nail art

Niek

More customers for Niek

This is life behind the stands… we had a lot of fun ^_^
Yet I also went ‘away’ from time to time to document the rest of the event.

Lego man!

Happy lego man

This “Lego man” got a lot of attention, haha. I thought he was very cool for walking around with this huge suit!

Free hugs

New friends

More free hugs

Rebecca

Rebecca's tail

I also ran into people from the Belgian Cupcakes forum ^__^ Not in Lolita, but still cute!

Yaoi pride

Robocop

I don't know!

This was happening around the other stands. A lot of very friendly and creative people, I really liked the atmosphere at FACTS. Everyone was just happy and in a very good mood. Nobody said no to have their photo taken. I liked just walking around and looking at everything and everyone. Next was the cosplay competition, and I hung around there for a while.

Audience

Dino baby!

After the cosplay competition [I really liked baby Darth Vader and Jack Sparrow], I came back to the stand… I had sold something without even knowing!! Haha.

Niek

Cuteeee

This woman was really really sweet! And cute, haha.

Niek & Vief

Niek & Vief

Niek & Vief

Niek & Kami & Vief

Finally Muffin came!

Niek & Rob

Vief's stand

I went to walk around with Muffin a little bit more, to check out some of the stands and get some food [very important] even though it was pretttty expensive. It was also pretty needed! We just looked at a lot of very nice stands but I didn’t buy anything, he bought a print from the Marvel Zombies illustrator. There were quite a few artists. Normally I don’t know any of them, but this year it was alright even for a noob like me!

Free hugs couple

Awww

Posing

FACTS day one was coming to an end, there were more photographers than customers anymore.

Sweet lolita

Zombie Wolverine

After Muffin got his print and signature, I packed my stuff and it was time to go home!

pac man chair

[Check out DAY TWO]

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Finally, here it is. THE BIG UPDATE ON HOW I WENT TO SEE ANTI-FLAG TWICE. As you may or may not know, I am a huuuuuuuuuge fan of Anti-Flag. Maybe I can illustrate it best with my last.fm profile – as of this writing, Anti-Flag has been played 7,524 times on my computer. This does not include all the times I listen to them in the shower, or while doing the dishes in my old house, or when I used to be able to listen to music on my phone. So yes, I kind of dig their music

The first time I saw Anti-Flag was in 2006, I got into them kind of late. It was the birthday of a friend of mine, who didn’t even show up. Muffin already knew A-F because he was into lots of cool music way before I was, but had never seen them live, so we went to Waterfront in Rotterdam. I had only heard one song by them then, ever. That night… changed my life. 2006 was a very Anti-Flag-filled year. I got hooked on them, I went to all their shows in the neighbourhood and wanted to never miss them again if they ever got near. The bad part is, I’ve missed out on 3 shows [due to circumstances such as being broke, a gig being far away, not having a tent]. The good part is, apart from those 3 shows, I have seen Anti-Flag the eight times they got near me so far This year isn’t over: if all goes well I’m going to see them three more times! Whoooo.

So anyway, May 26th, 2009. Anti-Flag was playing in Brussels! I could NOT miss that for the life of me. I had decided I *had* to go, since it was very very near me, and I could get a press pass. It didn’t even matter that I had an exam the next day. “I rock at art history, I can study in the train,” I told myself life would sort itself out, I just HAD to go to this concert. And so I went. And it was magical.

I’m going to post the photos one by one on the next page, with text on how amazing it was, because I think that’s just the best way to look at photos. [I know, I keep changing my mind on how I want to do this blog! Aahh! haha.] Yet if you’re lazy, here’s some thumbnails that you can also click on to see the photos anyway. Enjoy