My latest Fairy Kei outfit & Japanese plushies ♥ Neko's Fashion Haul

Hi there ! (^-^)v ~ ♪
I'm almost shocked at how busy I've become over the
last few months! I'm so thankful to my dear faithful readers
who still found their way back here ♥♥♥ Lots of love to you !
Currently I spent most of my time doing tons of
work for my Japanese studies at university. The little free time I
have I spend attending 2 Kimono clubs and practising my Kimono dressing
skills which is called Kitsuke • 着付け。
I also had a Kimono dressing stall at several conventions in Germany
with my university's club, last weekend we were at the Dokomi
for example. Thank's to everyone who's been to our stall ♪
It feels nice to finally blog again and I'm really willing to keep it
up and post more often as I have so many new and exiting things
considering my Japanese studies and Tokyo-fashion to share with you.
Now I have 2 updates for you:

• First, I've started working in a Japanese book store \(^-^)/
It's called "Takagi - books & more"
I really love it and I'm so happy I can work there to save up
some money for my next trip to Japan.
• Second, I started getting lessons for a Japanese instrument 
since october last year ♫ I'm so excited to show you guys !

But for today I have something else to show you first.
One of my latest oufits inspired by
~♥ Fairy Kei ♥~
I've also already written a long and informative entry about this fashion,
more here : Neko in Tokyo- Spank! 

Outfit : 

Wig: ebay
Deer Antlers: dawanda.com

Flower acessories: H&M
Baby bottle hairpin: Spank!
Hair Bow: Closet Child
Shell Necklace: Sweetspirits
Baby bottle necklace: 6%DokoDoki
Dress: Angelic Pretty Dreamy Dollhouse Salopette
Bunny key-chain : Pote Usa Loppy
Garter: Creepyyeha - Clear Dolly Garter
Socks: Liz Lisa
Overknees: ebay
Shoes: dollydynamite

I also have to show you the latest new member of my plushie family ♥
It's Poro from League of Legends. But my boyfriend Valentin and I call it "Bäähh !"
It's the german onomatopoeia (sound) for sticking out your tongue.

I think it's super adorable *o*
 I bought it in march at the book fair in Leipzig - LBM.
I went there to work at the book stall of the Takagi's.

Bäääh ! (￣▼￣)ノ＿彡☆

And this is Bunny Ruby-chan from Pote Usa Loppy • ぽてうさろっぴー♥
You can get her here: otakumode.com

Ruby-chan : 

Another new member of the family is this little
Somniam ♥
It's definitely one of the cutest Pokémon !
My boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday, along with
all the cards that were released for it *o*

♪~Are you a pastel girl too ?! ~♪

Rings for the outfit :

• 6% Dokidoki
• Glow-in-the-dark wing ring: Selfmade by my dear friend Bea
• Neko & Bat : gift from my boyfriend

~♥~

 Choker : Creepyyeha - Clear Dolly Choker
Shell necklace: SweetSpirits
Pacifier necklace: 6%DokiDoki
Heart brooch: Handmade by my friend Bea ♥

♪ Creepyyeha  Dolly ♪

~♥~

 This also fits really nicely for Pastel Goth ♥
To me the borders between styles are always kinda blurry,
it's more fun and freedom that way.

 Closeup of the best shoes I ever found *_*
I bought the socks in the Liz Lisa store in Kyoto.

 Thank god I finally found cute shoes that fit my size.
I'm quite tall with my 1,78 cm so of course my feet are also
not really tiny. This is a European size 41,
which is an 8 in the U.S. and 26 in Japan.

I hope you liked my outfit & thanks for visiting my blog today ♪
Have you also created a Fairy Kei outfit before ?
It's really fun !
I'll see you next time ♥ Stay tuned for more information
about the japanese instrument I'm practising now & new Kimono photos
(^-^)v Bye bye ~♫ じゃ、またね！

Miss Neko in Kyoto: The Kinkaku-ji ♥ Temple of the Golden Pavilion

Hi there (^-^)v
Today I'll show you my trip to the Kinkaku-ji 金閣寺
("Temple of the Golden Pavilion") in Kyoto ♥
It's a quite famous Zen Buddhist temple.

It's one of my favourite places in Japan and is surrounded by
a stunning garden. For my other entry about Kyoto click here:
Kimono & Kiyomizu-dera

My outfit 
Dress: Liz Lisa
Necklace: Liz Lisa
Bag: Candy Sugar

Here's a map of Kyoto. I've circled the Kinkaku-ji red.
It's on the upper left:

I went to the temple together with my friend Bea ♥

We saw lots of different temples and shrines in Kyoto that day.
She wore one of her Kimono outfits:

It was an extremely hot day, that's why she took the umbrella with her.
I also always carried a black one with me to protect my skin
from the sun. We also made sure to drink enough.
I had this cute My Melody & Hello Kitty peach drink ♥
It tasted really great !

I love My Melody \(^-^)/

This was at another temple area in Kyoto :

A small waterfall *-* It felt so great being surrounded by
such beautiful nature all the time. It really calmed me a lot.

~♥~

A Shinto Shrine :

♪ Bea :

Here you could pray for beauty I think, so of course I also had
to do that :D

~♥~

When I recognized Bea was taking pictures ^o^

I absolutely love the gardens and nature which surround Japanese
temple & shrine areas ♥

The entrance to the Kinkaku-ji area :

You could see the reflection of the temple in the water surrounding it
so well ! The pond is called Kyōko-chi (鏡湖池 Mirror Pond).

There's a Phoenix ornament on top of the roof :

And of course there's also a Kinkaku-ji Hello Kitty :

In Japan every region and tourist attraction has it's own Hello Kitty version. ♥
This is one of the many cute and small things about Japan that make me
appreciate it so much.
At the Kinkaku-ji there is, like at most temples, also a place
at which you can wish for love, luck and more.

My friend Bea got an enmusubi lucky charm there for
my boyfriend Valentin and and me *-* Thanks so much again ♥
That was so sweet :3 For everyone who doesn't know, Enmusubi means 

"love knot". My boyfriend has a similar looking one in pastel blue.

I also lit a candle for our relationship ♥
We're together since 3 and a half years now and want to
spend our future together ^^ 
The second candle from the bottom right is ours:

More photos I took from the garden area :

One time we even saw this cute turtle ♥
I think it was a Chinese soft shell trutle. It's head looked quite different to
other turtles I've seen before. I thought it looked really pretty.

~♥~

On our way back :

There were also lots of shops with typical souveniers from Kyoto :

Usagi ♥ I've got one of these as a pink cat.

And we saw these cool umbrellas. They get sweet patterns
when they're hit by rain.

They would be a good reason for me to like rain a bit more.
Sadly I couldn't take one of these home with me, they were too big.

Geisha (Maiko) doll :

~♥~

~♥~

Look at how tall these trees are ! It felt really enchanting when I stood there.

~♥~

I hope I'm not too obsessed but I can't state enough
how much I like Japanese nature. I even took lots of pictures of the
ground which was covered by moss. (I'll spare you this time and
won't show you my floor photos ;D ). But to me it was
really interesting that even the ground looked so very different than
it does in German forests/gardens.

That's it for today ♥
I hope you enjoyed reading, feel free to ask me any question
you might have now.
See you next time (^-^)v nyan ~♪