Visiting a temple with my Kimono club ♥ Neko in a Furisode Kimono

Hi there (^-^)v ~♪

On the 1st of January 2014 I visited the buddhist
Eko-Ji Temple in Düsseldorf with the Kimono club of my 

university in which I am. We had a really great time ♥
I hope all of you had a great start into this year !
My friend Bea who's currently living in Japan let me wear
her Furisode Kimono ! I love how it looks *-*
Our leader Becci helped everyone with the complicated
Obi tie-techniques. Thank's for always being so helpful and caring ! :3
It felt really nice to go out wearing Kimono again in such a big group.
These are some of our Kimono club members :

[ In the background of the photo you can see the temple ]

~♥~
If you want to wear a Kimono too you can get dressed
 and borrow a Kimono-Set for 1 Day here :
Kimono Rental : Hanabiraya
The service is only available in Düsseldorf and the area around it.
~♥~

I was really glad Becci let me wear one of their white stoles

for Kimono *-* I've always been wanting to wear one.
You also wear this on
♥ Seijin no Hi 成人の日 ♥
It's a Japanese holiday called coming of age day on which
you realize and celebrate that you have become an adult.
It is held anually on the second monday of January.
So my time finally comes next monday ! I'm really excited ♪
This day has been something really special to me since I learned
about it when I was 14. I think the outfits are really enchanting
and very appropriate for such an important event in your live.
Heer are some pictures from Seijin no Hi in Japan :

Oh gosh the pink Kimono on the very left is the prettiest ever !
I want to get a similar one soon ♥

The back of my outfit :

With Wiebke ~♥

A snapshot I took of Valeria *-*
I also did her hair ♪ I think she looked really elegant.

Our leader Becci ~ her Obi was just stunning ♥

~♥~

Us walking inside the Japanese garden in front of the temple :

~♥~

At the temple you could put some money in this box and then pray.

Inside :

After our visit at the temple we all cooked together with Becci at her home.
She translated some Japanese recipes for us ♥
I'm always happy to learn some new things to cook from her ! *-*
Her food always is so delicious. We had different kinds of Onigiri,
self-made Miso soup and some side dishes.

I cooked the sweet potatoes :

Neko's music:

A song by Kyary Pamyu Pamyu fitting to Seijin no hi:
can you hear her sing: "Hatachi 二十歳" ?
It means "being 20 years old" ♥ like I am.

English Lyrics :
Hatachi(=20 years old), hatachi, hatachi, hatachi!
I, hatachi, frisodation of hatachi!
Hatachi, hatachi, only hatachi?
You see, I'm hatachi, hurisodation of hatachi!

Hello,
on such an aniversary
I can say "thank you" from my heart
Though I'm always shy,
this is the important day, just onece in my life

The bitter part of chocolate...
Is it adult? Is is child?
I wanna dream forever, so 
get into this rhythm 

Thank you,
to meet you everyone,
I have had many kinds of adventure
This year, and even next year comes,
I won't forget this excitement!

I light the candle light
for you, who always love a love like
the sweet and sour part
in a short cake 

Is it happy to be an adult?
Is it sad to be an adult?
What to do?
What can I do?
Can I do only now?

Thank's for reading !
See you next time (^-^)v ~♥ nyan

CosDay 2013 in Frankfurt & our Kimono dressing fair stand ♥

Hi there (^-^)v

On the 13.-14.7.13 I went to the CosDay in Frankfurt.
It's a convention for Cosplay, Anime and Japanese Pop-culture.

I went there with the Kimono club of my university, we had

a fair stand and dressed up visitors in Kimono.

It was an extremely stressful weekend and we were all so busy but it

was also very exciting and fun. I also met some old friends, on the

picture above you can see Stephie and me ~♥
It was so nice meeting you again ! I visited her a long time ago
to go to the bookfair in Frankfurt with her ^^
I wrote about the fair in 2010 in this old entry .
Our fair stand : 

Our Kimono dressing service : Hanabira-ya.

On the image above  are only a few of the club members the
others were busy doing other things at the CosDay.
We mostly were always doing something and I had to go around
and give the visitors our flyers and do some promotion.
Luckily my boyfriend also spend the weekend with us as

he was our photographer.
Here are a few of our costumers :

Furisode ♥

~♥~

Bea Senpai and me ~♥

I only wore a Yukata that day as the pretty and more fancy

Kimono should remain for our costumers. But I also like this

Yukata a lot and it was very comfortable on that super
hot summer day. I did not have much time for my outfit that day

and I even did my hair in 5 minutes at the CosDay !
That weekend I mostly had to be dressed as 

practical as possible. I only did a simple bow with my

Hanhaba Obi ♥ I got the Obi as a birthday present from the club

leaders, who got it from Japan.

I also saw lots of great Cosplayers, my absolute

favourite outfit of the day was the one of Tine .

She is the cutest fairy I've ever seen !

I really wish to build such wings myself as well. I hope

I can manage to do that soon.

 ~♥~

Sadly I looked really tired that day as it was the 2nd day

and I did not wear any make-up only a little bit of mascara.

But I really wanted to have some pictures with her as she

looked so stunning ~♥ Great Cosplay !

And some snapshots my boyfriend took of me while working :

 ~♥~

Our fair stand :

~♥~

~♥~

Some other fair stands :

The CosDay took place in the NordWestZentrum, a huge shopping mall

and also a big place outside and in another building with a stage and
lots of shops for anime and Japan related items.

The whole area was huge. It was a great thing that some stands 

were in the mall as we were able to buy lots of iced smoothies

and other refreshing things.

 Neko's music : 

• SeeU- Fantasy 

All in all it was a super awesome weekend as I could

spend it with my friends from the Kimono club and

did lots of exciting things, but it was also very 

exhausting. Luckily we could stay at the farm of

my Senpai Becci's Parents ! We could relax there,

enjoy the nature and even had a huge barbecue (vegetarian for me)

in the evening ~♥ Her parents and grand parents were super nice

and to me it felt like short holidays ♥

We also spend the evenings with the kittens & other animals

on the farm *O* I will write about that in my next entry.

Thanks for reading !

Bye bye (^-^)v nyan ~♪

My Japan Day 2013 in Düsseldorf ♥

Hi there (^-^)v

Last weekend I went to the Japan Day 2013 in Düsseldorf ♥
I met so many new people & old friends it was really

exciting and is still one of my favourite events of the year.

I went there with my boyfriend and spend the day with some friends.

I had 2 outfits for the day.
• Outfit 1 on the picture above :

Dress : Liz Lisa
Poncho : Cherié ( from Japan )
Shoes : Body Line
Cat ears : Necomimi Neuro wear
Bag : My Melody
Umbrella : Primark

Tights : Primark
• Outfit 2 Furisode Kimono 

My Senpai Bea lended me the Kimono and also the

Liz Lisa dress and poncho, she is so kind ♥ *-*
She  dressed me and did this awesome ribbon at

the back of the Obi :

It was the first time she did this kind of ribbon and she

used a Japanese manual for it, like every time when she

does a new ribbon etc. I think she did very well, didn't she ? ♥
( I hope I can read more Japanese &
fashion instructions in the future as well ;D )

★'.･.LOVE~(^▽^(^▽^*)~LOVE.･.･:☆ 

Of course my boyfriend went with me that day.

He took most of the photos, hihi ♥

Like I said I met lots of people \(^-^)/

I was very happy I also met Sui Princess again ♥

I just love her style, she's a great inspiration for me *-*

With the Diadem Twinz ♥

 I was so happy to see you guys, we need to meet soon again ♥

With Momoko and Ai  :

Lots of love to you all ! You looked so cute ^-^

With the lovely Jasmin Hawkeye ~♥

I spent lots of time with my Senpai Bea and Simon, who's

also in the Kimono club (as there are Kimonos for men as well)

With my Senpai \(^-^)/ ~♥

And with Sophia La Faye

I was so super happy to meet you again *o*
Your such a lovely girl and I really love your style and personality ~♥

I hope you see this :3 ♥♥♥

Look at her boat ! I wish I had a headband like this as well ^^

I also went to the Okinii with some friends
 All you can eat ! I just love this place ♥

This image was for a newspaper called express Düsseldorf :

[ but they made lots of mistakes in their report ! 

They said I was wereing a wig, they just assumed that. But as most of you know

that is my real hair ! They also said I was 19 and not 20...]

With Chiara ♥

It's been so long since the last time I saw you,

you're so sweet I was happy to get a photo with you :3
I wish we could have talked longer ^^

 And a picture she took :

Chi Photography by Chiara Jung

Later on I was really happy my Senpai Bea lended me

this Poncho as it got quite cold while we were waiting

for the Japanese Fireworks display ~♥
It's just so fluffy and warm *-*

Luckily I brought a large pink bedspread

which I use as picnic blanket. We also had a second

blanked as it got really cold and this was the

3rd Japanese fireworks display I saw at the Japan day,

so I knew it's was going to get cold.
But we were totally fine ♥ It was so cozy ~♪
We saw the display with our old good friends Max & Michi ^^

~♥~

And the Kimono Sensei Yoko Sawa who joined us

at the Dokimi ( read more here ) even was in the 

newspaper of Düsseldorf as she helped at the 

Kimono fitting stall of the Japan Day.
I also met her after the fireworks display when my boyfriend

and I went home. I was glad I could talk to her again ^^

Neko's music :

• Perfume - Spring of life 

• Perfume - Spending all my time 

• Vocaloid IA- Nihonbashi Koukashita R Plan ♥

Thank's for reading ♥
See you next time! Nyan (^-^)v ~♪

*awkward elevator picture* :D ♥ CHU ;3