This morning we set out to the craft store for sewing materials. The store we used to go too has closed so we had to drive a little farther but it wasn’t too bad. I spent ages trying to find the perfect pink fabric for a headbow:bow: and had to settle for something a little thinner than I wanted. I also bought some nice cotton lace threaded with ribbon, and some pink and purple heart shaped jewels:hearttwo:

After the craft store we went to the nearby shopping centre where Mirai bought icecream and I had a cinnamon donut. We looked through the various accessories stores and I bought headbands (for my bow) and a tiara shaped ring! I was so happy that it fit:sparkle: We also picked up a Lady Bug bag for Mirai-chan, which is utterly adorable and I bought some new Coathangers. They’re pink padded satin with gold hooks and big bows. They look so pretty in my wardrobe, and they’re much nicer on my clothes too. I only bought 10 though, I think I will need more ^^; Before we left we had to see the cute little kittens at the pet store, they were so young! I think their eyes had just opened. I wanted to take one home:cat:

When we got home I started work on my Headdress, which was very frustrating, but its nearly finished. I will post pics tomorrow. We also played some DDR and I picked my Charmmy kitty phone strap up from the post office, pom poms!

We had a lovely Valentines date tonight:hearttwo: It was sweet and fun, and not too fancy. First we had dinner at this american-style diner, I had Nachos and he had a burger and half my nachos. It was yummy and we got to sit in cute a little booth.

The Prince really likes arcade games so we spent a good few hours there, playing shooting games, and DDR (which I’m dreadful at!) and Mario cart. He let me win at Daytona and I let him win at Air Hockey ^^; When we got tired we went for Milkshakes:icecream: I tried a new flavour today, Hazelnut Chocolat, it was delicious! My mouth still tastes of hazelnuts. My Prince had lime and spearmint flavour.

Before heading home (we had to have an early night because he starts work at 4:30am) we took some Purikura, you can see Éclair got in the photos too! He also tried to win me a Marie plushie on the UFO machines, but once again luck was not with us, it almost picked it up but dropped it before it reached the chute. I don’t mind though, I had lots of kisses and cuddles to make up for it:heartarrow:

This is Éclair, and she would like to wish you a :heartsmall:Happy Valentines Day:heartsmall: She arrived yesterday in a giant box from BABY that included Clara’s and my new outfits for the Picnic this sunday! Its an Alice and Wonderland themed Picnic, so she bought an Alice style coordinate, and I chose a Pink Swan Lake Jsk I’ve been wanting for some time. I also got a Pink furtrimmed capelet, which is so adorable! I feel like Little Pink Riding Hood in it ^^. Now I can’t wait for winter even more, winter clothes are just too cute!

My Macoto’s Princess Artbook also arrived yesterday, its beautiful I’ll take photo’s of everything later today, so keep an eye on my gallery! Tonight the Prince is taking me out for Milkshakes at my favourite Milk bar. We decided to have a fairly casual Valentines this year, but we might play games in the arcade and take Purikura too.

Today we decided to replant our little garden bed:flower: Mirai-chan and I got up early to head to the garden center, we’d already chosen our plants on a previous visit, and brought a camera this time because the nursery is so pretty:hearttwo: It didn’t take long to collect the pretty flowering shrubs we’d chosen and put them in the carriage, so we spent some time exploring the place and taking cute photos. There are more in the gallery:star:

Two special parcels arrived today! My Tea Party shoes (I’m wearing them in the photos) and my Candy Chan coat! Its so adorable I don’t want to take it off, but its not cold enough to wear it yet. I can’t wait for winter when I may wear fluffly warm clothes :winter:The only problem with the coat is that its a little too short to wear over BABY skirts, so I think I’ll need a BABY coat too.

Tonight I am going to visit the Prince

My new shoes from Rose Chocolat arrived today! They’re so cute, I love the big bows :bow:(and I can clip them at the back too!) It took sooo long for them to ship, nearly two months but I’m glad they’re finally here. They fit quite well too, and Rose Chocolat sent me some socks and these hair bows as gifts. Unfortunately they forgot to ship my drawers with the shoes, so hopefully they’ll send them now.

I’ve now paid for all my orders and all but one of them have been shipped. I love EMS shipping, its so fast and I can track my items and the postman actually bothers bringing them to my door rather than leaving a note in the mail box saying “Sorry we missed you..” even when I’m home >.<

I have to work tonight, but I shall be thinking about all the pretty parcels arriving next week and it shan’t be so bad

Today the Princess had an adventure. I left home in the morning, wearing my favourite poodle shirt and caught a bus to meet Clara in Belmont. The weather was lovely, although the sun was hot there was a nice cool breeze In Belmont we went to the bank to send our money to BABY:heart: I hope they ship our order soon, I’m so excited about it! I shall finally have some winter clothes.

After this I went to the Belmont Library, which has lovely gardens and fountains, to pick up a copy of “The Queen of Diamonds” by Jean Plaidy (Its about the Affair of the Necklace) I took a nice stroll in the park. As I was passing by one of the small lakes I saw a group of three swans swimming around the fountain! Now west australian swans are special because they are all black, my city is one of the few places in the world you will find them. As I approached, one of the swans broke away from the group and came to greet me. She came right to the edge of the pond and I had to resist the urge to reach out and stroke her shiny black feathers. I did take some nice photos of her though, there are more in my gallery:sparkle:

I then made the long journey up to the Hills where my parents live. I had tea and fruit scones with my mother and played with the neighbour’s gorgeous Cocker Spaniel and then had a delicious dinner at my Father’s where the prince joined me. My Father also gave me some camera advice which should help my photos turn out less blurry

Oh My! This movie was amazing. I had heard so much about it, both good and bad that I decided to go in with no expectations whatsoever and make up my own mind. I also took the Historian’s advice to “Go along for the ride” and what a ride it was! I shall start with what I loved about the film, then its downfalls and a summary:sparkle:

The first thing that struck me about the movie was its rawness, although it is visually very beautiful there is a certain reality to it. The colours and textures and sounds sort of brought it down to earth. Every other film and anime I have seen about the subject has been dreamy and fairy-tale like, but this one was very bright and close and real. Although the acting was far from fantastic I like that they all acted very “modern” because it made it easy to identify with the characters, they all seemed like people we know. I also enjoyed the few little historic bits they did include, like Marie signing the marriage certificate with a hasty scrawl and an ink blot. The clothes and food and shoes were, of course, stunning. I really really want a full length rococo gown.. in pink crepe silk. And I want the silk and fur cape she wears out in the gardens on her birthday party. The music was nowhere near as bad as I expected, there was a lot of classical and opera in there with the 80’s pop. As for Marie Antoinette herself, the only thing I can say is that I liked how they portrayed her artistic temperament. Especially during the hamlet scenes. The best actor of the lot was Rose Byrne, who played the Duchesse du Polignac superbly! She was the most entertaining dazzling creature there and I think she upstaged Kirsten Dunst quite a bit. I want to find a book on Polignac now and learn more about her.

There were several things that irked me, though they didn’t stop me from enjoying the film. The first was, as I have already mentioned, the cruel treatment of Madame Du Barry who was not ugly, old, crude and wicked but rather a sweet young thing who was trained perfectly in court ettiquette and behaved far more like a princess than a lot of the other court ladies. I suppose they wanted to have a villian to make us sympathise with Marie.. but still, it was overdone. I also found the relationship with Count Fersen very poorly done, it was briefly skimmed over with no depth or respect for the Count’s noble character and all the good he did for the monarchy. I think it was just used as an excuse to put a sex scene in. Kirsten Dunst really was not the best actress for the role of Marie Antoinette, she played the queen in her late teens (party days) fairly well but did a dreadful job of representing the younger Marie and then failed to impress apon us the dignity of the elder. I think they could have at least had a second actress for 14 yr old Marie, there is no way Dunst can pass for a 14 year old.

I think I really need to watch the film again. The volume in the cinema was a bit low so I missed some of the whispered conversation and the audience insisted in laughing through the whole thing, which was a bit unneccesary so I think I shall buy the dvd when it is available. It was a truely stunning movie and a very unique treatment of the subject. I’m quite glad they ended it where they did, it was a perfect slice of the Queen’s life, and I enjoyed it thoroughly.

Four stars :star::star::star::star:

Last night I went to see the movie :bow:Marie Antoinette:bow: with some friends. We went to the Cinema Paradiso for a special screening with a talk by a historian. We arrived early to get our tickets and line up for seats. There were so many people there! I think the cinema was nearly full, and it was quite a large one. Luckily we got very good seats! We were a couple of rows down from the middle, and had a good central view of the screen Before the movie started, the Historian (Who’s name was Deborah, she’s australian but runs tours of Versailles) introduced the film by saying that at first she didn’t like it, because she’d been to see it originally with her “history hat” on, and of course a lot of it is not historically correct. However after watching it a few more times she began to see why the director had made it that way, and now she likes the film for what it was. Apparantly it was quite well recieved in France, because the French “got it” in a way the critics can’t understand.

I enjoyed the movie thoroughly I’ll post a full review shortly. After the film we had the chance to ask questions of the presenter. There were a few obvious ones, and some interesting ones (I was interested to learn exactly how much her clothing allowance was) and I asked a question myself. I asked “Do you think Madame du Barry was over villianised in the film?” and she said yes, and went on to describe the beautiful, sweet, well mannered creature Du Barry really was. I’m glad she agreed with me on this, because I was quite upset by how they portrayed her Du Barry is a figure who interests me quite a lot.

After the question session, we prepared to leave, but as we were going the Historian and the organizers of the event came up to us and asked if we wouldn’t mind having our photo’s taken with the presenter. Mirai and I were dressed in sweet lolita, so we posed with her for a bit. Afterwards I talked to her a little more about Du Barry and Marie Antoinette and she said she loved our clothing and that “She [marie antoinette] would be proud of you!”

The movie finished early enough that we decided to go to the gaming arcade for a bit. My darling Prince tried very hard to win me a plushie on the UFO machines, but I think they were rigged We did take some cute Purikura though, and played DDR for a while (Steph is so good at DDR!). On our way home we stopped for Gelato and I made the Prince try the Lemon Lime and Bitters flavour I liked It was a truely wonderful evening.

:heart:Miss Charlotte:heart: and I were having a bit of an argument this morning. She says I’ve been ignoring her and just buying things for myself. Its true that she hasn’t recieved any new clothes in over a month. However I think she has more than enough, infact she probably has more clothes than I do To proove my point I laid them all out on the bed and counted them.

Miss Charlotte’s wardrobe contains; 10 dresses, 3 skirts, 4 blouses, 1 vest, 3 petticoats, 1 nightgown, 1 chemise, 3 drawers, 1 pair of panties, 3 bonnets, 4 hats, 1 wreath, 1 tiara, 1 raincoat, 7 hair bows, 5 pairs of stockings/socks, 2 capelets, 6 pairs of shoes and an umbrella. Thats a total of 58 items

She has to be one of the most spoilt little dolls there is! But I love her very much and will probably buy her something soon to surprise her. I need to get a little cabinet to store these properly, at the moment they’re all shoved in a cardboard box

I just found an artbook I’ve been searching for for ages! Its called “Macoto’s Princess” by my favourite artist Mocoto Takahashi! Macoto’s Princess is a compilation of fairy tales (Japanese text) and accompanying illustrations by Macoto, some of which date back to the 70’s. The book is a gem for those who appreciate Macoto’s artwork. It has 112 pages!

Macoto’s art is the most beautiful perfect ideal of the Ingenue, it is Shoujo manga style in its oldest, purest form. I have a print of his “Swan Lake” on my wall I really want to get it framed.

I have so many parcels on their way to me now! I hope my Rose Chocolat order arrives today so I can wear my new shoes to see Marie Antoinette tonight, rather than suffering in the Shoes of Death I haven’t even decided what to wear yet… and I must write those questions so I don’t forget :star:so excited