[39.] ❄ Merry Christmas ❄

❄ Merry Christmas ❄

I hope you were able to spend it with your loved ones!

I celebrated Christmas with my boyfriend and his family on the 24th.

We had a traditional Polish Christmas with 12 dishes of food on the table!

Needless to say, we were all pretty stuffed by the end of it :3

Before the meal started, we all had a piece of opłatek.

It's a Christmas wafer baked from pure wheat flour and water.

The opłatki wafers are embossed with Christmas related religious images, varying from the nativity scene, Virgin Mary with baby Jesus, to the Star of Bethlehem.

The eldest member holds a large wafer and breaks off a piece to begin the ritual.

The remaining wafer is passed on to another member while a prayer for loved ones is said. 

This continues until everyone at the table has a piece of the wafer. 

Finally, everyone eats their share.

This was the first time I did this and I thought it was a really nice idea.

Made Christmas a little bit different.

The Christmas meal consisted of the following 12 foods:

1. Herring & onion in sauce

2. Grilled Salmon with Herbs

3. Grilled Salmon with Lemon

4. Smoked Salmon

5. Greek Style fish

6. Pierogi with cheese filling

7. Pierogi with sauerkraut filling

8. Filled egg halves

9. Salad

10. Barszcz

11. Croquettes

12. Bread

As you can see, there is no meat involved.

Polish people will still be fasting from meat until Christmas Day.

~•* Outfit Rundown *•~

Christmas Headband - Claire's Accessories

Shoes - Vivienne Westwood x Melissa

Cardigan - New Look

Dress - Primark

Tights - M&S

I didn't feel like dressing up in lolita for Christmas this year.

I feel like every year, I'm using the same dress for it so it gets a bit boring...

This dress does the job alright, I think. It's very simple, yet cute and I like that.

Thanks for reading!

❄ Season's Greetings ❄

x Chrissii x

[38.] ☆ Innocent World Tea Party ☆

Hello dear readers (^-^)

Better late than never, right?

Today I want to tell you about my time at the Innocent World Tea Party in Vienna, Austria.

I stayed at my dear friend Mimi's house for about a week.

It was my last holiday from work for the whole year (;____;)

So, I thought I might as well make the most of it!

Mimi was a great hostess, as always, and she took me & the bf to see loads of things.

Firstly we went to the Naschmarkt, a big market full of sweets & foods.

Naschmarkt - look at all the deliciousness

After visiting the Naschmarkt in the morning, we spent our afternoon at the Zoo!

Tiergarten Schönbrunn is apparently the best zoo in Europe.

And OMG, it was beautiful!

This panda was such a prick, he didn't wanna turn around!

During my stay I have eaten many great things, for example:

Goat's cheese ice cream, several buffets and amazing sushi!

Of course there are many food pictures, but I'll leave them for now....

I'm sure if you're reading this, you must be more interested in the: 

☆ Innocent World Tea Party ☆

It was a really awesome day!

Super well organised & even the weather was good!

I wonder how they got the weather to play along...

I had a Super VIP Ticket, which meant that I got early entry,

a goodie bag and we were greeted with a glass of champagne!

There were many stalls and a huge buffet.

After the buffet was opened, the fashion show started.

It was beautiful to watch and the models did the routine really well!

Even the hotel staff was looking at the fashion show and taking photos, haha!

Delicious buffet things <3 nom nom nom

My fashion show pictures turned out rubbish, so none of them here... Sorry!

After the fashion show, we had some browsing time and you could make use of

the professional photographer who had been hired for the whole day.

Lolita KompleX did an unplugged live set, which was awesome!

The previous night, I had seen them live with Mimi, which was so much fun <3

At the Lolita KompleX concert

Lolita KompleX at the Innocent World Tea Party

Before the Q&A with Yumi Fujiwara, the Innocent World designer, I managed

to grab a picture with her together. She is such a sweet & gentile person!

I'm very happy I met her.

Yumi Fujiwara & I

After the Q&A, there was a raffle and I got super lucky!

I won an Innocent World bonnet D:

With the raffle over, it was time to announce the outfit contest winners.

Yumi Fujiwara handpicked the 3 girls who she taught represented Innocent World the best.

Congrats if you were one of the winners!

The outfit contest winners!

Here are pictures from the rest of the day :3

I hope you enjoy them!

For the first time ever, I had a twin <3 Love ya!

Eve & Nana from Lolita KompleX

My hostess Mimi <3

With Sylvia, who looked like an Autumn Fairy!

Being naughty with The Flat Fat Cat ;)

With Duplica, who you may remember from my Foreign Lolita's series!

With fellow girls from the UK

With fellow Dutchies & Belgians

Everything from the goodie bag, incl. Innocent World socks & hair ties!

I bought some Innocent World tights and a brooch / hair clip!

My raffle prize, an Innocent World bonnet!

Pictures from the professional photographer: M.E. Fotografie

With my twinsie <3

Mimi & I being our usual selves... I'm not sure if our behaviour should be encouraged...

My outfit shot :)

~•* Outfit Rundown *•~

Headgear - Various Roses

Golden Key - Now Voyager

Necklace - H&M

Blouse - Moi-même-Moitié

Skirt - Innocent World

Socks - River Island

Shoes - Jeffrey Campbell

I hope you enjoyed reading this post / looking at the pictures!

This event happened 2 months ago, but I have been so busy with life

that I hardly have time to blog.... 

Keep looking for the next post, because I have some more things to share :)

x Chrissii x

[32.] Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone (^-^)

Hope you all had a lovely time!

I've spent Easter with my boyfriend's family,

as all of my family lives abroad.

I had a great time!

We arrived at 10 o'clock on Easter Sunday for breakfast.

This wasn't just any breakfast, but a traditional Polish Easter breakfast!

~•* Here is some foodporn for your enjoyment *•~

ALL THE FOOD

Barszcz Biały - traditional Easter soup

A selection of ham

Fresh herring

Sałatka - a vegetable salad

Filled eggs with mayonnaise

Kabanas - a type of Polish sausage

Galaretka - chicken & vegetables jelly stuff

Well it's needless to say, after all that, I was pretty stuffed!

I absolutely love Polish cuisine, it's very similar to the food I grew up with.

Plus it helps that my boyfriend's parents are amazing chefs <3

You'd think this would be all the food you can eat for breakfast...

WRONG! Not in a Polish house. Eating kind of never stops.

But hey! You don't hear me complaining ;)

A selection of delicious cakes

MOAR CAKE - this cheesecake was amazing!

Of course, because I hadn't worn lolita properly since January,

I took this opportunity to wear something nice...

Here's my Easter outfit & greetings!

Happy Easter to all my Dutch readers <3

I'm a bunny...

~•* Outfit *•~

Bunny Ears - Supermarket

Rose Wreath - Primark

Blouse - New Look

JSK - Angelic Pretty

Tights - Accessorize

Shoes - Vivienne Westwood x Melissa

For the first time in ages, I've used my natural hair...

I still think it doesn't go very well with lolita,

and I should just keep wearing a wig!

I've only just noticed how horribly short this dress is on me D:

Does anyone know where to get an underskirt?

Maybe I should just sell it (;_____;)

Opinions?

Hope you all had a lovely Easter!

Thanks for reading (^-^)..

x Chrissii x