I'm back from my hiatus, with an old story. My best friend and I had been planning this photo shoot since forever. Ever since I was in elementary school (when the movie came out) there was lots of hype for Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper . My favorite was always Erika, mainly because in school, everyone loved Anneliese to death and there wasn't much love for Erika. So the initial plan was I would be Erika, but the friend who was supposed to Anneliese ditched the plan. I was overjoyed when my best friend Nehreen said that she wanted to do the cosplay with me. But she wanted me to be Anneliese, because she felt that a Princess would suit me better. However, I had already prepared my Erika dress, so we had to have our fingers crossed for the Erika dress to fit Nehreen. It was September 2018. I packed our costumes, accessories and makeup and headed over to Nehreen's house by car. Then she came downstairs and the three of us, including my mother, went to my aunt's hou
The truth is, I'm the only one among my friends who likes sailor moon. So instead of having a cupcake tasting party (which really made no sense) I decided to have a sailor moon tea instead. I recently started with the manga and I have a long way to go! Firstly, I scoured the web for decorations but was kind of disappointed. I found an origami tutorial on YouTube but my origami skills suck. So I thought there should be papercraft patterns for compacts and what not. However, I found nothing related to compacts. There are amazing (and difficult!) patterns for moon sticks, lip rods and star wands though. http://aiko-chan14.deviantart.com The moon of the stick I made was more of a banana so it was thrown away. I did, however, make the inner senshi star wands and they came out great! Sadly I didn't have time for the outers' lip rods (I'm biased towards the outers). In the end, the compacts were made. I printed out various pictures of the compacts and glued them to paper