Cotton Cloud Summer Debut + Busy Days~

Oh gawd~ I apologize for not blogging for almost a month now. Ugh things had been hectic during internship... And I got a bonus on my first day in ICU, my CPC (Clinical Placement Co-ordinator - they are the people who guide us and look after us in the hospital since there are no teachers there. So basically they're like "teachers" note the open/close quote) looked like as if she wanted to eat me for basically not knowing what was going on... Well hell, how would I?! It was my frickin first day! I didn't even get a chance to look at the patient properly... Jeez~ I hate her really, whenever I see her face a dark dark cloud just suddenly appears above my head... (=_=)

Moving on to a better topic! I've been wanting to announce since forever that Nozomi was going to open her own fashion line called "Cotton Cloud". I just never got to it, I kept on forgetting plus with my schedule I never had a chance. You know the way how Nozomi loves her Maron-chan and Luna-chan so much~ Cotton Cloud are clothes for ladies and clothes + accessories for your little baby doggies that are designed by Nozomi herself. At the moment it seems to be geared more so towards your pups, but she does have some for us (ladies) but there's not much choices compared to the pups.

Nozomi has been advertising her Line in her blog since last month. To everyone who idolizes her like me~ her Cotton Cloud is now open! Cotton Cloud's summer debut started today via Internet Shopping! You can go here for the official website: www.cottoncloud.jp and here for the shop: www.cottoncloud.net

She modeled her own clothes for the advertisements in both Mina and Non-no this of June's Issue~

Cotton Cloud featured in Minna~

I've decided that she designed clothes better for dogs~ Maron chan and Luna chan!

A few more clothes from Cotton Cloud's Summer Debut~

In her blog she complained about how the spelling in Non-no "Cotton Clowd" was wrong it should've been spelt as "Cotton Cloud" (^A^)

笑っていいとも! Guest Nozomi~

Yesterday, Nozomi was featured in 笑っていいとも!(Waratte Iitomo!) wearing her designed dress and hat which are both up for sale now online! It's simple and lovely but really expensive though I have to say. I love her style and I did visit her online shop and looked at things that were available.

Here are a few pics of the dresses that I love from her shop~

Yep it's what she wore in 笑っていいとも!

It's costs 14,490円 when converted into euro it was around 100 euros (=.=)

The white dress that she modeled to debu cotton cloud in both magazines Non-no and Mina

This costs 16,590円 and when converted it's around 130 euros~

This costs 9,975円 and when converted it's around 80 euros...

The back is low cut~

So at the moment those are the three dresses that captivate me right away when I visited her shop. I love dresses, laces, and ribbons! She has all of those elements in most of her dresses and style there for I love it~

Now with regards to her design, it's simple and pretty casual, light and easy on the eyes. It's really really simple and casual which is good for people who don't want to stand out too much but want to remain in style. However, when it comes down to the price. I don't think I'll be spending 100 euros for a dress that simple... Really it's too ordinary for a 100 euro...

I know that she's famous and all that jazz but really you can buy something that simple half price in either zara or h&m. I LOVE HER DESIGNS and everything I applaud her for that but the price was really disappointing and shocking. It's just too much for those kinds of designs...

But then again everyone has their own opinions right? So tell me what you guys think!

If anyone wants to have a look around Nozomi's designs I'll leave the link below:

Official website of Cotton Cloud: www.cottoncloud.jp

Internet shop of Cotton Cloud: www.cottoncloud.net

Disclaimer: All photos are copyrighted from Cotton Cloud and from Nozomi's blog.

Fighting Calories with Cake Boutique~

I already have the scans of Non-no for May and I already have the scans for this month as well. Same goes with a few Magazines~ I just don't have time to upload them this week since it seems like I'm going to be hectic this week and last week that's why no Blog updates.

But I did have a time to relax yesterday. I met up with a friend of mine just to go around and catch up with each other. It was good! We had this bad bad sugar rush after a while though, we had ice cream + milkshake + cake from the cake boutique which really really did not help with my diet at all~ (=.=)

Vanilla Roll and Tiramisu~

Micha had this mad craving for Tiramisu therefore us landing at the Cake Boutique. I have to say their Tiramisu was very well done! It was great!!! The moment you place it in your mouth you'll just feel it melt and it's just great for people with sweet tooth like me! Although I have to say their Vanilla roll was the down fall though and they claim it to be their best selling cake~

(-.-")

After my "no chocolate for lent"; once that was all over I had this mad mad catching up with Chocolate for the whole day... Seriously it left me feeling guilty... I couldn't even fathom the idea how many chocolate I just gobbled up in my mouth...

Plus I gained 2 kilos in a week! (T.T) that's just not good enough... Therefore, I've decided to go on a strict diet this week and loose all that additional 2 kilos!!!

I know it looks disgusting but it tastes good and it's healthy to boot!~ Strawberries + Vanilla Yogurt + Honey!

Like I mentioned above I am mad about sweets~ and if given a chance I would like to taste all the sweet specialties in the world~ Well not all... But anyways I had a craving for sweets today while typing out this blog.

I decided to settle for this low fat dessert that my mom invented the other day in substitute with Strawberries + Condense milk~ Seriously that combination is pure heaven!!! But evil with calories... Therefore, today I had Strawberries + Vanilla Yogurt + Honey~! It is lovely!!! Now not as good as Strawberries + Condense BUT it is good enough to substitute with that bad evil calorie dessert!

I suggest everyone to try!!! *(^o^)*

Anyways~ it's my dad's birthday this Thursday!!! He's turning 50 what we call "Golden Age". We couldn't throw him a big big birthday bash since he wanted to go back home and celebrate my Grandfather's birthday since it might be his last due to him having lung cancer. So really that's what he wished for his birthday. A plane ticket to go back home~

And we do understand his frustration; therefore we will buy him a ticket. Although mom and I are staying here due to work and my internship. It's alright for dad to go, I guess he's anxious over the whole thing since even if he wanted to take care of granddad. He couldn't because this is where he works right now. I know you might think, "then why not just quit his job and go home then take care of your granddad?" It's not all that easy though; with this whole recession and everything it's a very risky to just decide up and go. Dad's taking everything into consideration and this is the only one he can come up with right now.

I hope everything goes well in his favor though~ it's kinda Ironic. I started to feel this attachment with my Granddad when I was home only when I found out that he was sick. But back then when he was up and about. We had a connection but not as strong as we do now. It really is disheartening.

Sorry for letting you hear all these depressive things going on in my life! (~.~) I shall return sometime this week with good news and more magazine scans hopefully? But for now, this little peak of my life will suffice~

Ciao~

Happy Easter!!!~

Happy Easter to everyone!!! *"*~\(^o^)/~"**"

Easter Eggs that I bought for my mommy and daddy~ I was really irritated with the spelling of "Mom" but I guess I couldn't argue with them since it is how they spelt it here...

I saw a few kids knocking on stores to ask for easter eggs~ It was a very lively sight, it made me remember of my easter egg hunting days back home. I thought though at the start how come they started asking for eggs it was still saturday. But then I figured today since it's easter sunday. Shops and department stores are closed...

I used to love easter~ as a child I would go egg hunting with friends back home, the adults in my home town would always set up an event for us kids. Then whoever gets a red egg or a golden egg could bring home a free living bunny rabbit. At the thought of that, I would always get fired up and hunt for eggs and eventually get to bring home one bunny! I even remember at some point of my easter day life. I won a bunny as usual, but then on our way home I had to stop by the dentist and she wanted to pull one of my tooth out. But being the stubborn child I was (mind you I'm scared of dentists) I refused. But my dad made a deal with me; that was if I would let the dentist pull my teeth I could bring the bunny home but if not then I would have to leave and give the bunny away.

I remember looking at the hazel colored bunny with a teary eye only to agree in the end so I could bring him home~ of course not forgetting to thrash around while the dentist tried to pull my tooth that resulted to a few adults holding me down. (-.-") it wasn't one of the best memories but I did get to bring the bunny home...

Anyways~ I finally got to buy a few things I want the other day! SO I decided to cross a few things out from the list of things I needed to buy. I am generally and actually quite happy with what I bought. Plus they were all on sale~ (*o*) I just couldn't say no...

Flower Dress~ "\(*o*)/" Finally!

So I bought this flowery print dress from Arnotts the other day~ along with this flowery waist belt~ I was actually deciding on wether to get this dress or buy short one piece in Zara~ but I ended up buying this one for 20 euros.

On closer Inspection~

The one from Zara was 29 euros almost 30~ And knowing me I opted for the cheaper one! But it's good quality since it is from Arnotts; it used to be 35 euros but it was on sale! So I'm quite happy~

Flower Buckle Waist belt~ I bought it for one of my dresses!

The belt used to be 20 euros and it was on 50% sale so it's 10 euros when I bought it! It's lovely! I've been looking for this kind of belt. Back home I was tempted to buy and outfit that had the belt with it. The sales lady didn't want me to buy the belt separately claiming that the belt and the dress went together... But I thought if I did buy the dress just for the belt... What happens with the dress then~ it would be a waste... I was tempted though... Luckily I didn't!

One of Nozomi's love item! Jean Dress shirt!!!

Yes!~ I was finally pushed to my limit after thinking of either buying the Jean dress shirt or not... Lena was wearing it in Vivi with a white dress... And that also gave me a shove to buy it; plus the fact that I have a whole lot of white lacy dresses started to make cave into buying it... But Nozomi's style gave me the final blast into definitely buying it! I so could not resist when I saw this photo of hers~ Ugh I'm such a total looser (-.-")

Plus this Jean dress shirt (polo). Was originally 20 euros which was reduced to 5 euros!!! Seriously bargain much!? At least I got the prioritized ones that I wanted~so I'll be laying off spending for a while... Since I don't want to spend much this year ("-3-)

The belt wasn't supposed to be with this outfit BUT I decided to give it a go with a belt and I think it looks better with a belt~

In all fact I saw a belt that would suit this outfit~ but they didn't have it in brown color... SO I'm still thinking about it~

Oh and before I went home I decided to stop by the Asian Market to check if they had the tsubutsubu ichigo pocky that I loved. They rarely sold them and if they do their always out of stock right away~ Luckily when I went there they had 4 left and I could not resist to buy them! I LOVE THEM! ABSOLUTELY LOVE THEM! You guys should try this flavor~ seriously it's addicting! I was tempted to buy the whole 4 left but I thought... It would make me gain weight...

Tsubutsubu Ichigo Pocky~!!!

So I left the shop with two boxes...