A Fairy in Tokyo ♪

Hello cuties! ♥

I'm BACK! Back with some news that may interest you~

The hiatus is over, at least for now!

Why?

Because I got quite some things I'd like to share with you, beginning with this post.
It's been quite a while and in all of this time I haven't been just busy with university, work and my general life but I was also lucky to spent the time of my life. The title might have already given you a little hint and those of you who are carefully following my tumblr and facebook have already heard the news.

I've been to Tokyo!

Thanks to Kawaii.i who have chosen me to be one of their 5 Kawaii Leaders, I got to see the city of my dreams. And even though I had to tone down my pastel business so much due to my daily schedule I was able to dress up in my favourite clothes every day over there. It was truly, truly, truly the best time I ever had and it was even better because of all the people I got to meet there.

So in the upcoming posts I will write more about my journey around the globe and will tell you all the stories I can tell you ♪

As for now, let me introduce this project to you a little more~

"Kawaii Leaders" is, like I already mentioned above, a project that was brought to life by Kawaii.i which produces the TV program "Kawaii International" on NHK International. They were looking for girls to represent Japanese kawaii culture and fashion from Japan to the world and vice versa. 

Our group consisted of Stella from Indonesia, Marie from France, Kaila from the Philippines, Eva from Hong Kong and me, Mio from Germany and while I'm at it I got to say I miss them so much, it's ridiculous. These four girls were really so much fun to be around and I'm so, so grateful for having been with them on this tour. But also being invited to be a part of this whole thing was the amazing and I wish I could just go back now. Because we experienced so many great thing but also since everyone on the team was plain wonderful and it was a fairly tearful farewell in the end.

However, and here comes the hopefully cool part for you, there is going to be a whole episode of Kawaii International on our adventures in Tokyo THIS WEEKEND! ♥

Yep! If you're interested in what we've been up to over there, please tune in!

Here's the schedule:

In Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) it's:

May 25, Saturday 15:10/19:10/23:10

May 26, Sunday 03:10/07:10/11:10

So please convert your accurate time and go to Kawaii.i's webpage to see our program!

In the meantime you can also check out their Facebook page to find looooots and lots of pictures from all the days we spent in that huge city and also for Kaila's Kawaii.i Giveaway!

Hope to see you again soon and I hope you will enjoy the show as well as my upcoming reports. Until then please take care ♪

Mio~

Kiss Me! Hug Me! Love Me! ♪ (+Hiatus)

It's been... a while. No, not just a while, it feels like an eternity.

Did you all have lovely holidays? I hope so, even though it seems odd and funny to ask that when it's almost February.

As you can read in the title, I'm going to officially announce my hiatus for Pastel Raindrops.

I'm terribly sorry for this, especially since there are lots of lovely peeps always coming back to this place, hoping for an update. I'm sorry for disappointing you once more but there are several reasons for this and I've thought about this for a very long time. There's also more things connected to this and possibly there will be more announcements in the future but as long as things are not thought through carefully and as long as I'm not 100% sure on everything there won't be any news.

Now, I have no idea how long this hiatus will be, I merely know that I need a break from all this and that this doesn't have any future at all if I don't do it now. Besides that, there are a lot of things going on in my life and my head right now that are very time consuming so you can be sure that this break will be well used.

In the meantime you can take a look over at my tumblr since I have a couple of things explained more carefully over there and you might get a better insight into my thoughts on many things (also concerning this and other connected issues), and I will likely update more often over there as well. Not regularly but if there are any news I write them down there first.

After the kind of, sort of bad news I also have a little something to show. 

Some pastels? YES!

In form of a little illustration!

It's nothing very new but I didn't post it here before and if you are not frequenting my instagram it's likely you didn't see it yet.

This was done for a little project and the topic was 'Lolita' but of course I had to give it a little Fairy twist (and you all know I love salopettes, right?). It was nice in general to some illustration works again at that time. In fact, I'd like to get back to it again right now but I lack the time for it and I'm afraid I just don't feel it either. Instead I'm filling my sketchbook up with random things and drawings of the people inhabiting my brain, which nobody ever sees.

And that's it for now.

We'll see when I'll be back, I hope you won't forget about me in the meantime.

Much love,

Mio ♥

Frozen Breath & Warm Thoughts ♪

Are you all ready for winter to come?

Up here it gets colder by the day and last weekend we this first snowflakes came down as well. It's almost crazy how quickly this year passed me by. Christmas is only around the corner and so it the new year! If -as it's popular believe- it won't end before all that.

For today I thought of showing you some of my latest gets to give you an idea of my winter's wardrobe and outfits. Sure there's plenty more but these here are my favourite pieces right now, as well as the warmest ones. Especially after the latest incidences I need a cosy, warm embrace even more - even if it only comes from a nice sweater.

Yes, you guessed it! Half my wardrobe is still Monki and so I don't think it's really a surprise this one has become the most favourite sweater I own right now. I'm not even sorry.

What certainly is a bit new though is the fact I started wearing pants again. Like, legit, actual pants with two legs, a zipper at the front and everything. It started this summer when I didn't know what to do with a Weekday giftcard, so I got a pair of Cheap Monday high waists. That's also my one condition about pants: They need to be high waist! And these ones? They are perfect! These two are from Monki as well.

Another pair of cord pants (so, so comfy!) and socks by Monki. Also, a shirt from Illustrated People (hurry up, it's still on sale!)

I actually found that old Lacoste cardigan at the flea market just a few weeks ago and it's absolutely lovely, especially because it's so big. Yes, oversize everything for me as always. The skater skirt is from Sparkle & Fade at Urban Outfitters and I really love wearing it with my good, old, Underground creepers!

This Acne cardigan is probably the most amazing thing ever. Yes, it's Acne and to be honest I always wanted to have one of their amazing things but it's also very warm and lovely. The cute velveteen shorts are from Miracle Eye and the shirt is from H&M. A cute hair bow is always a go, obviously!

This Monki cardigan is SO HUGE! But also just SO great for this cold weather (especially since I don't have a warm coat yet) and best about is that I got it 50% off ♥ Old Martens are always lovely, too, of course and one can always use a cool shirt, Illustrated People again in this case.

What you see above is the first pair of pants I talked about earlier, the Cheap Monday pair. A simple cardigan from H&M's Men's department is also nice to have and one of my two Illustrated People sweatshirts I love so much ♥

OH NO! THE SHIRT THAT FITS MY SOCKS! Hell yeah! Yes, of course from Monki! The skirt, which has almost turned into a daily-wear-skirt for me is from Miracle Eye and the cardigan is from H&M Divided. Here are also my absolute favourite heels right now. They are from last year's Akira collection and incredibly comfortable. I call them my witch booties, they are just magical ♥


Now then, I better hurry to bed now, still need to pack my 'school bag ' ♪

Hope you enjoyed this little insight to my closet and that you could get a little idea about my very own winter.
Stay warm & much love!
Mio ♥

Shine on ♪

Pardon my long absence but these crazy, new times I'm working my way through right now don't exactly allow me much time to dedicate to blogging and internet things in general. To be honest, I've actually thought of closing PR♪ in this time but the thought of abandoning it saddens me too much. Leaving it for so long makes me feel weird already as it is.

Just to outline some of the past events in short: 

University started about three weeks ago and before that there were a couple of other things to take care of, as well as me being pretty ill once again. Now things slowly regain some sort of normality and I try to adjust to my new schedules as well as I can. Which is fairly tight, including my working hours, so it's not all so easy.

Nevertheless, I'm currently very well balanced and happy with how things are going and how my days at the university are. I must say, it's a really nice place with nice people and I like how it's not so big, yet leaves you so many possibilities. 

But that is that and we'll see how it all continues ♥

Guess I could tell you all a million things about all what's happening in more detail but like I said - I'd like to keep it short.

So just for this blog to make some sense again and to show something new to you all I got around editing some photographs of a past 'shooting' I did with Nechan and Anni. There are still like a million pictures to edit and a million other ones but I don't have the time and mind for that at all, sadly. On the other hand I'm much more inspired again and put my sketchbook to some more use but more of that maybe some other day.

Instead some pictures:

Salopette, Headbows, OTKs - Angelic Pretty; Platforms - Superga; Shirt - Banana Fish; Backpack - ManiaQ

That day I also took photographs of my friend's Kuragehime Cosplays so while we were at it I decided to dress up as well and try on my -then- new salopette. Hopefully I can find some time to edit the other photographs as well since I think some of them turned out rather nice.

Also as a stupid extra:

I'm not even sorry.

Hopefully I can be back without such a long break and soon as I can. And I also hope you didn't forget me after all the days and weeks.

Marie ♥

Can too much glitter kill you? ♪

I say it can't!

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But I didn't get a complete diagnosis of this matter yet, so there's no way I could guarantee this for you.

The above picture may already be a hint and if you didn't guess it already (or seen it elsewhere), I've been quite crafty again! Once more with shoes - creepers to be even more specific.

Within the past weeks I simply couldn't keep my hands still, even drawing is a piece of cake these days, how weird! Is this a sign? Did aliens visit me to inject me creative energy? So far there is no answer to this but the results make me happy.

Painting a pair of creepers was actually a thing that has been haunting my mind for quite some time but I never found the right pair for this as I already saw the finished shoes right in front of me, I knew exactly how they were supposed to look. Then a few months ago I finally found a proper pair on eBay (which is now out of stock, sadly - but maybe the keywords can help to find a similar one) to get it started.

Almost half a year ago I already made a cheap Photoshop edit with my old creepers to visualise about what I had in mind:

Of course they didn't turn out exactly like this - after all my exact idea was slightly different.

So here is the final result of them:

This is what I meant when I called 'death by glitter'!

In person they are even more shimmery and glimmery, I love it so much. And I was surely very much content with how they turned out in the end.

For these I basically followed all the steps from my recent tutorial, just in case you were wondering. The only thing that's different here was the glimmery topcoat I made by mixing transparent fabric paint with loose glitter.

And since I felt like pictures weren't really enough to show just how much they sparkle, I prepared two gifs as well as a short video for you to show you the shoes in motion. Please bear with me, though, I'm by no means good at filming or editing videos but I tried my best.

Hope you enjoyed this sparkly journey!

See you soon~

Mio ♥