Once upon a time, there was FACTS 2009.

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]