Our trip to Paris in February, Rosa Nitida customer review, outfits, "friend art"

Hello there!

First of all, thank you for following my blog and for all the interest towards my work. It's more than enough for me to hear that the people I have made items to have liked the results of my work. Please feel free to read a very good review about a pirae lolita hat that I made as a commission for Anne: CLICK HERE
Thank you Anne for this sweet and very detailed review and for giving me the permission to link it on Rosa Nitida! <3

Me and my boyfriend had a short trip to Paris a while ago although I'm having a trip there again next weekend to see Kaya performing live. I can't wait! Not to mention that I will meet with some of my friends and visit several places such as "Princess Crepe", Harajuku store and BABY's store during the trip again.

Our trip was mainly for relaxation, so I asked if Heylika would be able to arrange a small meeting with couple of people. She was so kind that asked few people to participate for lunch and a trip to the beautiful Paris Aquarium! We had a lot of fun and it was really nice to make new friends again. <3
I also got this beautiful heartshaped box full of chocolate and colourful fruit shaped almond paste sweets as a gift from the girls. I took photos of these, but can't upload them from the camera yet. I'll post the photos later, for sure - btw, I ate all the chocolates and almond paste already, haha. Omnom!~

Unfortunately, our camera stopped working for a reason or another during the trip, so the amount of photos ended up being less than I planned. However, I have couple of nice shots to share with you once again.

I will also post couple of photos of my daily outfits that I was supposed to share with you a long time ago already although most of the friends of mine must have seen these on my Facebook already.

Plus, here's the original version of the drawing that was made by a lovely artist "anka" who is currently located in New York. I wish I was that pretty in real life, haha. :'D Thank you very much for this lovely gift! We framed it and put it on the wall - it's absolutely beautiful.



So, here are the photos that we took during our trip. Thank you for Camille Tkm for taking some of the photos!

(If you were wondering where I got the idea for the hair accessory, please feel free to check out the traditional Chinese Han Dynasty hair accessory: CLICK HERE and Lord of the Rings' Elves: CLICK HERE)








(I absolutely hate cars. As I have stated before, they aren't only an environmental threat, but they also keep ruining the beautiful scenery and my pics! >:E)


We very rarely take any photos with my boyfriend although I have these great ideas of a bit more "artistic" photos that we could take together sometime. He doesn't seem to be very excited about those, though, haha. As you can see, I'm a lot taller than my boyfriend and bigger in every way too as he is the skinniest person I have ever met in my life, really. However, it's not the looks or age that matter (yes, he is a lot older than I), but I love and respect him for being the kind and caring person that he is. And as you can imagine, he doesn't love me because of my looks either. There aren't that many men that would have the balls to date a women that are over 10cm taller than they are. Not to mention that my head is bigger than his, LOL.


The travel outfit - I wish I took more photos of it as it was so warm and comfortable.


And because in France food is so good that I almost cried when eating the snail soup. It was beyond this world, believe me. <3 *drools at the thought of the soup*



Scorpions covered with chocolate, anyone? <3


Or how about Tequila lollipops with real worms inside? O.o


And here are some of the outfits that I had the chance to take photos of. I wear lolita and aristocrat very often, but I rarely have the time to take any good quality photos although we have a good camera, so I need to apologize for the horrible cellphone quality. Notice that there are some photos of more than casual outfits.

This was my more or less horrible Halloween outfit. I must say that I don't prefer cutesy colours on myself. And you know, just lately it seems like people are getting into this really EXTREMELY girly and colourful styles while my own personal style gets more masculine. O.o



This photo was taken by one of my dearest friends that I have had the honor to know ever since we were on third grade in elementary school. <3 Thank you, Ninni!


I finally found myself good quality and comfortable shoes that I can wear while travelling: New Rocks (and yes, I'm wearing PVC pants... xD)





At my favourite cafeteria, Cafe Chappel, in Helsinki:


Okay, well, that was it, I guess. Please feel free to comment, give constructive critisism and ask me about anything. I try my best to find the time to answer all the comments as soon as possible. :)

For now, off to do commissions that is!

Many hugs,
Iira

Blog update, sewings, casual pics and a lot more

Because I'm a baby face.

Hello again,

My updates come very randomly, don't they? Well, atleast there are some updates and even video tutorials planned to be online soon, so no worries. Me is just busy (especially if Mom is wondering about this: yes, your daughter is busy with studies, work and creative hobbies - you better be proud, haha). And now it feels like I keep repeating this same song time after time although all of my friends do most likely know that I'm busy. So, I stop it here, I promise.

• I added more items on the Sales page (still no items made by me, sorry).
• I also added more information on the FAQ page surrounding the question that I got on formspring: "Where do I recognize what is good quality and what is bad quality when it comes to aristocratic clothing? Especially when it comes to buying online?" (I will fix the links to the pics soon)

What the future entries will include:

• video make up and hair tutorials (again, no voice because my boyfriend was sleeping, and a bad web cam quality)
• pictures of sewings
• outfit posts
• a video about how to build up an aristocratic outfit
• sewing tutorials
• DOs and DON'Ts
• in the name of saving time in general, make mostly video diaries and start speaking in them. However, I might need a better quality web cam or a video camera for that...
• online portfolio with proper pics
• and many others

One problem though... Where do I find time for all this?

(my new necklace that many people on Facebook described to look something like "the Heart of the Ocean" in Titanic movie - my skin is really bluish white like in the pic, depending on the day)

You can buy the necklace/ring in blue and many other colours on eBay.com by searching with keywords such as "crystal pendant", "crystal charm" and choosing the free shipping option from the left side of the page. I myself bought these with few euros only (including the shipping).

I wanted to write today something about my latest sewings and some entries and pictures that I have added on my blog. I'm also building up a real web site once I have got some good quality stock pics and such taken. However, I still live in a basement and I have nowhere to do sewing in (unless it comes to smaller pieces that I can sew basically anywhere - not if I need bigger amounts of fabric) not to mention to take pictures (there's no light). So, basically my plans have been delayed with couple of months as I need to work at the practice where my bf needs help. I have been now "helping" for many months and getting literally tired of it...

However, hopefully during Christmas I have the chance to do more sewing as I'm visiting Finland and my mother's place. I have so much to do with all the sewing and such.

Here are few links to the pics that I would like to share with you:

New cutomer pics

New sewings on sewing gallery

Any people who would like to participate in developing Rosa Nitida and working with me in the future?

For now I cannot promise any money to be given out as I myself don't earn much (for now I'm just investing into fabrics etc, so I basically lose money at the moment), but in the future that might be possible if things start going smoothly for now on. :) So, if you would consider this all something fun to do and think that you would enjoy being part of developing Rosa Nitida (there will be crideits for you too later on, of course), please let me know by sending me an e-mail to rosanitida@hotmail.com

And, please feel free to check out About Rosa Nitida page for more info about media and future goals and plans. My brother will hopefully be able to do modelling for me somewhere around Christmas, so if you were wondering, here's one pic of him (he is slightly taller than I - more than 6"1' and more or less a masculine version of me with pale skin, blonde hair, blue eyes and a narrow, but a lot stronger, body structure - we look so similar that it's almost creepy. We were born both in March - me in 13th and he in 14th, but he is seven years older. I'm really very proud of him. <3):

And more casual pics that I just feel like dumping here as I don't feel like doing it later. What do you think of the brown wig/red wig? Good or bad? They both cost me only few euros - not bad, huh?

My casual hairdo and make up almost every day - so, SO boring. -_-

Something extra - A dream:

I have also had this silly dream for a long time where I buy a small cottage on a countryside forest in Finland (close to Helsinki - like Kirkkonummi) or somewhere else in the world. I would decorate the house in a beautiful way, dedicate one room for sewing etc. and have a bed & breakfast type of company that also offers outdoor activities like horse riding, camping, wintery activities when there's a lot of snow and trips to Helsinki/to the big city etc. The cottage would have a fireplace that would be on in the evenings when it gets dark and the guest(s) have the chance to enjoy coffee/tea/hot chocolate infront of it after exploring the wintery lake (skating on the ice of the lake!) and forest with horses/by skiing/by walking. And during summer go to sauna, swimming to the lake and build a fireplace where we grill the self-caught fish after fishing and just relax. There are so many things to do, like eating berries straight from the forest as fresh as they can be or baking them into a pie, and later eat the pie with vanilla custard and cinnamon. And during Autumn I could teach people a lot about different kinds of mushrooms. And and.. I would grow the most basic things myself in my own garden and just be there with the people I really care about. And... Back to the nature basically.

Yeah, well, a dream is a dream...

So, yes, I really miss the forest I have lived for my whole life.

Here in Holland you have only human made forests and the nature lacks so many things that I feel almost sad. In a big city like Amsterdam, I'm never alone, I can't walk barefeet outside and there's this constant noise around me that I can't get rid of - the prolems of big cities, I know. Otherwise this city is very clean and beautiful and has so many things that I love about it that I cannot find anywhere else. I just need my forest in Finland occasionally as it is so big part of me, I noticed. Maybe I'll take a video at the wintery forest of mine this Christmas. Maybe I'll go there with granny and my brother's children and play snow war with them. :3

To give more credits to Natalie Shau for her great work at the beginning of this year. Thank you!

Thank you for reading again and I hope you all spend a wonderful week!

Many hugs,

Iira

Sewings

There's a lot of information about commissions on the Commissions page of Rosa Nitida. If you are interested in having one, please feel free to send me a message to rosanitida@hotmail.com by following the instructions on the particular page.

Check out for pictures on Gallery or come to me with your own idea/design. :)

There will be more tutorials and better quality pictures coming soon as well.

(It's the cellphone quality again...)

Hello sweethearts!

I will quickly post here some of my latest sewings from which most of them are commissions. I hope you like them and will follow the changes on my blog as the pages, header and background aren't finished yet. Thank you for all the commissions and support that I have got. It really gives me a lot of energy to keep going and to do what I love. I'm now going for a trip to Germany, so I don't have time to do sewing for a while - I also work with a lot of other things at the same time. I'll update my blog again once we have got safely back from Berlin to Amsterdam. I'll take loads of photos, I promise.

There are a lot more photos to be uploaded. Thank you for all the lovely comments on Facebook as well.

So, for now, Drop Dead festival: "Here we come! :3"

Here is one casual outfit that never got proper pictures taken:

P.S. I really wish that someone could take my pictures even when I'm not wearing lolita - I just recently got myself a proper mirror as well. I would love to post more pictures that aren't taken either with web cam or cellphone quality... Oh well, but I try to take more photos in the future. I just work and study 24/7, but maybe at some point I have the chance to dress up again. Would be nice if my boyfriend liked lolita or me doing sewing at all... *a very, VERY sad face*

Notice that most of these pictures were taken while the items weren't finished yet. I will upload the finished versions online soon as well.

And before I forget: Thank you for reading and answering to the poll! I will come up with a new one later this evening. However, now I need to run! There's a lot to do and prepare.

I hope to see you on Rosa Nitida later again!

Many hugs,

Iira

Only some of the commissions (more coming soon):