Telling Tales

On the 13th and 14th of February there was an event in the capital city of my neighbour country. So I traveled on the 12th of February to Madrid Spain where the event would therefore take place.
Once I arrived there I contacted my friend Isa who organized the event and she met me soon after. I ate donuts and a taco because there's none of that in my country haha which was kinda odd and we just chatted a lot.

We then walked around in the rain for a while, had lunch at a super cute japanese restaurant and then waited for my roomate to arrive. Yes because I decided to stay with someone I did not even know just because I thought it would be more interesting than being alone.

After I met with Daniela Isa left and we went to explore the flat. Once we arrived we realised it was actually not a flat but just a room and that it had only a double bed which could have been embarassing if either of us had issues with that. haha it was a bit of a shock to be honest but it was fine. I ended up rather liking the room anyway, it was confortable.

A couple of hours later we met Isa for dinner, for amazing Spanish food (at last).
We went around the area for a bit because it was raining a bit less but went back after that, we had to get up early the next day and Isa even earlier. I had a really good time that night.

Saturday 13th of February

We woke up and just got ready for the event. We got ready fairly quick both days but especially that day. Having nothing to wear other than is in one's bag is pretty much what does it get easier and faster, not like I can hesitate and stuff, right? Anyway since I was wearing my "lazy but elegant hairdo" this outfit was really confortable. A shame the dress is so oddly cut, we fought a bit with the straps at some point :P Thanks Daniela for the help!

We finally left and tried getting a place to have breakfast since we had some time... but that did not work out. We ended up going to the hotel where the event was taking place and we found that Merkades and Cristina were both there already and we all ended up having breakfast in the hotel restaurant. It was pretty much the lazy ppl option but I think we did the right thing ahah, it was cold out to boot. At some point Merkades took me to an atm and we met another girl on the way back, she was a bit lost and looked adorable in the Ap university gettup. <3



The event started later than announced but at some point finally we were allowed in. 
The Hotel looked very plain from the outside and even in the first flood but once we went up the stairs we found that it was far cooler there, Fabulous ceillings and this stained glass window area that made me elect it as nº1 spot for photos. I loved it.



First thing I did was get in the vendors room which has a couple of very cool things: Otome Dream, Must, Happy goth, Souffle’s Song, Ania de Oz, Violet Fane & Madame Chocolat anda non-lolita acessory store, Bahban. There was also a small Bring and Buy section. 
Unfortunately I am so bad with shopping that my first priority items were all sold out before I could get to them and I even got excited about something from Soufflesong but I tried it on and it did not fit which is never a good feeling but I still got some very nice things.

Vendors room

Violet Fane

Happy Goth

 
Otome Dream

Bring and Buy + Soufflesong

During the afternoon we also could attend a literary contest event with prizes, there was the fashion show, there was an afternoon tea service with delicious treats and of course a great raffle full of prizes. 

Food! Tea selection, milk, coffee, orange juice, water, sandwiches, donuts, cake variety, fruits selection. 

Everyone looking forward for the raffle prizes, crossing fingers!

And I chatted with a lot of people, took some photos and had fun trying to fit into the group photo. It was a very nice event. 

Ania de Oz

 Last but not least I leave you some photos of the attendees, some of my favorites but not necessarily all of them since I am too shy to ask people to pose for my camera. <3 Everyone looked amazing!

Lovely Maria & Diego

My beloved Cristina who is an amazing lolita and friend

My roomate Daniela who was amazing all weekend.

And because I have no photos of Merkades who was the queen that day (look at that hair acessory!) I will post this one of me, cris and her. <3 

 And this is what I was wearing. My theme was sort of a gothic lolita with spanish influences sort of thing. I was happy one person kinda said that it reminded her of that too because that means someone got it on their end. The cape had been a gift from a spanish lolita that went to the event so I really wanted to incorporate it to an outfit for this weekend. I like how confortable it was and how it looks in the end although the place was dark.

My beloved stained glass photo location. How grand is that?

Can you see the details on the capelet thing? Its see through chiffon ish material with velvet details. It is stunning <3

Other than the shirt from Millefleurs it is all offbrand. Soufflesong dress, the handmade cape, a necklace from china, tights from calzedonia and boots from bordello.

My Telling Tales haul:
-Soufflesong red heart bag
- Spanish lolita community calendar (raffle prize)
- Indrolita skirt (raffle prize)
Violet Fane pen, tights and 3 necklaces. 

After the event we all went "home" to freshen up and then gathered together for dinner at a pizza place and then also a small bar where I had portuguese beer which is amusing. It was a lot of fun! 

Sunday 14th of February
The next day we had to be at a designated place early but we still managed to get there on time despite kinda having to ask around because we were a bit on the lost side. hehe

The Tea Party event was hosted in a japanese pattiserie / restaurant called Panda. Basically we had to sort of pick a menu composed of a hot and a cold drink and two desserts, one of macarons and another one of our choice. I pretty much had matcha everything because of my matcha craze and the food was divine. 

We sat and chatted, ate, wrote valentine notes which was adorable and also took some photos. There was also another raffle in which someone won a fabulous pair of socks I really drooled over hehe. They really had nice prizes!

The lovely valentines notes the girls wrote me. <3 I will always treasure them. 

It was a lot of fun but unfortunately my camera did not take photos very well. Please excuse the quality of the photos.

After this some of the participants had to leave but the rest decided to go to yet another tea house, a place that they kept talking about called Sugar Factory.
When we arrived I understood why, it really was beautiful, like out of another era. It was ridiculously small but the colors and every detail was precious.

We wandered around waiting for a table, took photos, got asked by customers about our clothes and just hanged out. Me and Daniela fell in love with the display cake boxes and ended up buying some, yes, card cake takout boxes, I kid you not!

I was not really hungry but still ordered some Jasmin tea and a spinach tart. I wasn't feeling like having more sweet stuff after having eaten at Panda.

Anyway I wore my newest dress by Angelic Pretty, Chess Emblem. I forgot bloomers and was wearing socks that were too short because the dress is too short as always with Angelic Pretty so it became annoying after a while but I love this dress. 

My outfit: Ap dress and socks, shoes from china, axes femme shirt and triple fortune hat. 

Finally the time for my flight was approaching and I still had to change and pack so some of us left by cab (Merk and Cris gave us a ride in their cab!).
I left with Daniela, stressfully packed everything, said my goodbyes and left to the airport.
I arrived at my place late at night and had to wake up early to go to work the next morning. I was thrilled to kiss my sleeping daughter. I missed her.

And this was my weekend. I really hope I can attend more of these in the future even though it ends up being expensive and stressful. I wish these things would fall right in my holidays but they never do! Everything ends up right in the middle of a work week or some deadline. I am not very lucky in that department.

Hope you liked reading! Love, Jo