2014 Kimono style

Hello dear Kimono friends! (・ω・)/

Even though my blog was on hiatus during 2014 and 2015, that doesn't mean I was totally inactive in the world of Kimono at this time. 2015 was a quite Kimono-free year for me, but during 2014 there were a few occasions when I could wear Kimono.

To be honest, I have to admit that I somehow regret it that my blog was on a break for such a long time which caused a huge gap in my blog archive.

However, I want to fill this gap now with an entry about which Kimono from my collection I wore during 2014. Let's start:

From May 3rd to the 4th, I visited the annual convention called 'Hanami' which takes place in Ludwigshafen, Germany. This convention is one of the few bigger ones that isn´t soo far away from where I live. Of course, I took advantage of the opportunity to wear Kimono again in public.

But before I come to what I wore during those two days, here are a some impressions of what kind of stuff they sold and what I bought ;-)

Cute pandas ♥

Pokemon plush toys

more Pokemon plush toys and some from Studio Ghibli ♥

the figure on the left side is from the Anime called

'Another' which I really like. Her name is Mei Misaki :-)

Unfortunately I couldn´t afford buying her :(

Pusheen shirts :3

Sailor Moon stuff *-*

There even was a band called 'Unsayn' playing. They weren´t that bad and the German Cosplay Championship also took place, but I don´t want to start a pic spam here right now. Plus, the pics of that weren´t that great either *haha*

Now let´s come to my purchases which weren´t that much actually ~

'Vampire Knight' manga vol.08, Washi tape and a memo pad

Japanese exerxise book (mainly for Kanji) and 3 beautiful fans

and a super cute Alpacasso ^_^ That also was the most expensive thing I bought there *lol*

Last but not least, my Kimono ouftits! On the 1st day, I wore the Furisode I got for Christmas 2014:

I tied my Obi in the Tateya style but wasn´t really

satisfied with how it turned out in the end ... and pls ignore my derp face ;-)

This pic was made by the photographer AngelRei from the KWICK! Community (http://www.kwick.de/AngelRei/portrait/)

This pic also was made by the photographer AngelRei from the KWICK! Community (http://www.kwick.de/AngelRei/portrait/)

My outfit for the second day was the following:

A rather casual style with one of my Komon Kimono

and a creme-beige Tsuke-Obi (for the lazy Kimono fans *haha*) ~

Here you also can see the whole motiv on my Tsuke-Obi ~

Which outfit do you like the most? Would be nice to read your opinion ♥

Japantag 013 Düsseldorf Part 2 (Saturday 25th)

Hello and 今日は (konnichi wa) dear followers!

First I want to thank you all for the nice comments I got to my two previous entries. Always makes me happy to read them, 本当にありがとうございます。

Today I want to continue with the Japantag (Japan-day) event. This entry will be about the actual Japantag which was on Saturday.

I woke up around 9:30 am to get ready in time. It always takes around 45 minutes only for getting dressed up in Kimono (+ 1 hour for makeup etc. ). After my boyfriend and me were ready we took a taxi to drive to the Nikko hotel. My friend Laura wanted to make my hair =) Here is the final result and the whole Kimono ensemble for Saturday:

ready to go ~

 We also made a few group pictures in front of the hotel Nikko, here is one of them:

boyfriend, friends and me xD

First we went to several shops:

the Kyoto shop had many beautiful and traditional stuff, even for Kimono and Yukata. But all was very expensive :(

Yukata ♥

Geta ~

rabbit fan >_< ♥

super expensive but cute owl ♥

lovely fans for traditional dance ♥

the Nippon bookstore had mainly Japanese learning books, not very interesting since I already have such books - and tons of magazines:

the OCS store was also open again, but for the last time and had a mega sale. I bought cute rice- and soup bowls there and a mobile phone charm (see on the other pics):

tsuki no usagi ♥ moon rabbit ♥

kingyo - goldfish ♥

After our shopping trip we all went to the Bolkerstraße (Bolkerstreet). I´ve never been to this part of Düsseldorf before *lol* This street it full of restaurants and bars. I mean, in my hometown there are also a lot ... but this place OMG - FOOD HEAVEN! o.o

In the end we found a bar called "Sweet Heart" and ordered some cocktails; mine was without alcohol tho ~

my drink ♥

To get to the Rheinufer (Rhine) where the actual festival takes place, you have to walk through the city:

exclusive shops *money, where are you? *haha*

mega fan xD

Funnily enough this year a lot more people took pictures of me. A man came to me with a professional camera and made a few pics directly in the city. I wish that I can find them someday online but a friend of mine made a pic while I posed ^^"

and a few more stalker pics from my friends *haha*

Finally we arrived at the Rhine promenade ^_^

cloudy but no rain ♥

Rhine promenade ♥

many Cosplayers

The first thing I did was ordering Sobanoodle-soup which was very delicious *o*

Impressive Cosplay:

Disney *w*

... and me again:

Like every year there are tons of stalls which sell anime/manga merchandise, display traditional stuff and much more:

lovely Ikebana ♥

Origami

Chiba information stall

furin - windbells ♥

Nya Nya ~

many Maneki-Neko O(=^_^=)O

the most visited stall xD

You really can get a lot of cute and lovely stuff, but most of it is often super expensive, you cannot imagine *sighs*

amazing live painting *o*

Here you can see my shopping haul of Saturday:

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cute Hello Kitty envelopes ♥

postcards with trad. motives for my collection ~

art books for my book collection

finally I have Kiharu´s book ^-^ and another Ukiyo-e book

cute wallet ~

Around 20:30 pm we went back to the hotel, I changed my clothes (and already packed most of my stuff into the luggage) to go back to the Rhine promenade for the firework which started aroun 23:00 pm.

It was a good idea that I had changed into normal clothes cause the weather changed and it rained literally cat and dogs ...

Hope you enjoyed the pics and would be nice if you´d leave a comment. THANKS ♥