Garden meet, photo heavy!

At long last we had a summer meetup! It's been a long while since I've been to a meetup that's not a get-together at someone's house, I think it was February. We used to have more active meets but we've all been busy lately, but hope to resume monthly meets!

We also have a new face to our meets! We met her at HelLoCon and she lives nearby, so naturally we welcomed her to our silly gatherings :D 

I hope we'll soon have a meetup where all of us "locals" can participate ^^

As I said it's been a while since I've been "out" in lolita, so I wanted to wear something fancy. I wanted to properly wear make-up for the longest of time, but since we were at a botanical garden and I'm allergic to pretty much anything that blooms, I didn't want to hurt my face any more than what the plants would do. So I just wore lipstick and hoped that my glasses would somewhat hide my eyes... I don't usually wear lipstick even though it's the only thing I can use, because I think it kind of needs at least some mascara as a friend to look nicer.

The garden was ever so pretty!

So naturally I took a bunch of photos...

So there's quite a few here. I'm used to having one or two good ones (since I'm still so awkward before a camera and don't know what to do = I don't usually have that many photos of myself), I had a hard time choosing! 

I saw the field of cute little flowers and had the urge to sit in the middle of them. These were not planted for-show flowers, fear not!

I also realized you haven't seen this wig before. I wore it to Animecon, but I haven't uploaded those photos yet :D Lazy? Perhaps. I've sorted out most of the photos and will write about it soon ~ 

What is this? Do I look... cute? 

There was also an indoor greenhouse with a cafe, so we had a bite to eat and wondered on. In the warm and humid rooms it was a bit hard for me to breathe and I had a massive head ache in the evening (even though I took allergy medication), but the cooler rooms were better to roam ^^

Spot the monkey!

I actually like this coord better that I thought I would! So far my tries of non-gothic have turned out quite well, even though I don't know what category this one falls in to :D Dress is AatP, rest is offbrand or hand-made. I really love those green x black shoes, better seen on the shoe photo at the beginning: I want to make more coords around them ^^

And of course the company is what made it fun <3 Medli looks so adorable in her pink Baby dress ^^