Custom Wedding Dress & Kimono Upcycled Clothes | オーダーメイドウェディングドレス&着物ドレス
Images via Red Reiding Hood
About a month ago, I asked Rowan of Red Reiding Hood to style one of my dresses. She gladly agreed and put together the post..you can read it here. I think it is so stylish how she wore the sweet pastel dress with all black accessories and studs. You can check out more about her in her FAQ page (love the ISSUU slides!), lookbook.nu, or Chictopia.
5/30 Top: Refashioned by me, Skirt: thrifted, Bracelets: some gifts, and some made by me
This top is so old. I think I have had it in my closet since the 90’s. It was a hand-me-down from my mom’s friend, but since it is sheer, I wasn’t sure how to wear it as an elementary school kid. Now I wear this often with a white bikini underneath. It was very long, so I cut it short to make it a top. It’s more versatile this way and it matches with pretty much every skirts I have in my closet:)
5/31 Dress: Made by me, Sandals: bought in Japan.
I wore this dress a lot when I was a pregnant. At that time I felt like it was the only dress that made me look slim! The black tight bottom did the trick 😛 But after I was done with pregnancy, I lost the motivation to wear this dress. I don’t know why..maybe because I wore it too many times! But this MMM challenge made me pull out this old dress again!
I recently went to a nail salon to get gel nails put on. I LOVE them! I ordered pink color gradation with sparkles in the middle, and they are so shinny and fun. It’s supposed to last for about 3 weeks, and so far they have not chipped at all (it’s been one week).
The sandals are recent find at a mall here in Japan. They were only 1000 yen and comfortable to walk around in.
Sometimes I try to imagine my life 10 years from now, having maybe four kids. I will constantly be sick. This year, I’ve gotten sick four times already. I’ve gotten the rota virus, a flu, and the good ol’ regular cold twice. All of which came from Kiko! Before having her I never really got sick. Occasionally, I would catch something of course but not with the consistency I have this year
Kiko got sick last week and after three days, her fever did not go away and she had strange red spots all over her face. She had a lot of eye discharge and runny nose so we took her to the doctor. Since our regular doctor was closed on this particular day, we took her to a different one nearby. As soon as I went in I got a bit nervous since the doctor was let us say quite aged. But, considering the circumstance, I told myself, she should be very experienced and it’ll be fine. She started to examine Kiko and told me that she might have measles. She said the zits on her face made her to believe it might be measles, but just told me to watch her for a few days and come back. When I told this to Andy he was furious because the doctor did not do further tests to determine whether she had measles and if she did, she should be separated from others since she could spread the virus. Since our regular doctor was closed, we spent that day and night anxious to find out whether she did in fact have measles.
We took her to our regular doctor the next day and it turned out that she just has a bad cold plus a weird reaction from some strange bug bite. I was relieved but then went on to yell at this doctor and told him “Don’t you think it was irresponsible of the doctor (the one we took the day before) to give me a premature diagnosis without testing and send us home?!”. He was like, “Don’t yell at me for it!” . I realize it wasn’t his fault but I was frustrated although relieved!
Today we got her vaccinated for MMR. Oh the wonderful things a child can bring to our family…
