(looking a wee bit tired..)

Somebody had asked me to describe my fashion style.. and I had a hard time describing it other than “Kaila style”? : )))

I don’t know if it’s obvious but it was an effort to make everything go matchy-matchy : ))

I even draw a pokeball on a a canvas bag! Haha!!

I’m so happy that after a year, I can finally spend some quality time with my BIG family, crazy friends.. and of course, my かれし!

I’ll be sharing and introducing my beautiful country and its own good kind of bizarre in my next posts. Something new for my readers! 

Although I love Japan, a part of me will always be Filipino!  

じゃあ〜

Paalam (Goodbye) ~

カイラ

]]> http://the.rainbowholic.me/kawaii/pikachu-comes-home/feed/ 4 http://the.rainbowholic.me/kawaii/my-red-randoseru-backpack-x-meeting-peko-chan-at-fujiya-restaurant-in-x-shibuya-design-festa-art-and-fashion-haul/ http://the.rainbowholic.me/kawaii/my-red-randoseru-backpack-x-meeting-peko-chan-at-fujiya-restaurant-in-x-shibuya-design-festa-art-and-fashion-haul/#comments Thu, 17 May 2012 15:14:07 +0000 Kaila http://the.rainbowholic.me/?p=6558 Hello everyone! I just got home from a very exhausting day.. huhuhu. 

I had an agenda in Shibuya today so I dressed up in an outfit that tells so much about me. I didn’t go outside with the randoseru though.. Had to use a smaller and much convenient bag ~ 

My sky skirt looks raped in the photo. Forgot to fix since I was hurrying up…

Simple outfit for a sunny day! I designed the shirt, bow necklace and sky skirt!

Shoes from Swimmer!

Fujiya Restaurant in Shibuya, Tokyo!

After my quick appointment (the reason I am crossing all my fingers at once), I decided to rest and have my usual “Rainbowholic time”.. which ALWAYS include FOOD!!

Busy Shibuya

I found Peko-chan as I was strolling~

Rola-chan!

I wanted to take home this huge cuteness with me…

UWAAAAAAAA~ ICHIGOOOO!!!

Why am I posting this entry at night with an empty tummy.. ;__;

I wish I had all the points in the world…

I wanted to buy but my remaining money was for food! : ))

HUGE PLUSHIEEEEEEE

AND THE FLOWER GIRL OMG

He’s making my pancakes~ <3

*DIES*

YUMMIEST PANCAKE SET EVER! I think I’ve found another restaurant that could surpass Royal Host’s magical pancakes….

And the fruits~ <3 <3

Lonely Rainbowholic time with food. Haha! It’s hard to take a self-portrait trying to make the food and your face fit in a photo..

OMG why so fluffy-looking making my tummy growl in despair … :”(

I guess you can say that this is one of my “osusume” (recommendation) for Fujiya Restaurant! Their pancake set is a must-tryyy!!!

Design Festa Fashion & Art Haul

When you’re attending Design Festa.. it’s nearly impossible not to buy anything. Anyone who regularly attends this art event would say so as well!

Super cute CAMERA DRESS (i just call it like that, haha) I found at Design Festa! My Nikon D90 is HAPPY!!

Cute naked baby ring + flower headpiece!

I will try my best with this one. Hahaha

My brother’s present(s) for me.. which coincidentally tells a lot about me.

My brother sees me and calls me as a PIG (/forever in a sibling war).. In Filipino, the word pig’s equivalent is “Baboy”. And he calls me Babsie when he wants me to kill him..

I got an ichigo watch from Mcdo’s Happy Meal! : ))) And it was perfect for my ichigo lolita outfit! Haha

Awesome and cute art! I love collecting postcards by artists ^^v

GOT ALL OF THESE FOR FREE SO COOOOL

I really love SHU’s artwork style. It’s crazy and cute!

Spot the rainbow

I LOVE THIS

I think I will get this framed sooner or later! Haha!

I want my own little wall of art now. For these wonderful A3 sized posters!!

Sakura, Travelling, Bare-footed, Planes… and RAINBOWS!

Reminds me of my first HANABI~ I really love the nostalgic feel of this artwork!

Have a great weekend everyone!

I’ll be coming home tomorrow (home = Philippines!!!!) and I AM SO EXCITED!!!!

カイラ

Toothy me based from:

First day outfit for Design Festa Vol. 34

I love it so much that I decided to print it out asap (what I usually do whenever I receive fan art)… and use the spare A4 wooden frame I found from my brother’s stuff.

Sprinkling cuteness.. everywhere!

My mini toilet had a makeover today. Thank you 100 yen shop for the awesome finds!  I printed out the Cinnamoroll and My Melody photos btw~ 

Not bad, right? I love the heart mat as well! <3

カイラ

Drastic transformation from this..

I think I am in love with this wig.

DIY ichigo top hat!

I love my pink fur! I bought it at Design Festa as well. It was only 800 yen!!!

Then little ichigo me came as well! : )))

This girl is Ate Claire’s sister’s daughter. Many thought she was my kiddo because of the pink hair! Haha

She was having tantrums at first so it was hard to get photos with her : )))

With the fairies + lol @ the wig : )))

With the Ninja, Sexy Geisha and Pink-haired ball of cuteness…

: )))

Giving out LMP’s postcards which made everyone go “KAWAIIII~~~” 

Party party with Party Baby~ 

Photos courtesy of Mori-san

Her super cute friends

Too much win in this photo : ))　So happy to see my friends! 

カイラ

]]> http://the.rainbowholic.me/kawaii/sweet-strawberry-shortcake-lolita-at-design-festa-vol-35/feed/ 4 http://the.rainbowholic.me/photospam/japonista-first-day-at-design-festa-vol-35-and-fluffy-lemon-yellow-thing/ http://the.rainbowholic.me/photospam/japonista-first-day-at-design-festa-vol-35-and-fluffy-lemon-yellow-thing/#comments Mon, 14 May 2012 13:53:04 +0000 Kaila http://the.rainbowholic.me/?p=6408 After MONTHS of preparation and contacting people… Japonista Sole has made it in DESIGN FESTA! YATTTTTTAAAAAA! It was so much fun and overwhelming at the same time I cannot even fully express it… ;____;

Someday, my OWN booth right there! Have to save up lots of money first!  頑張ります！

How we showcased our items + our own image of Japan..

Brought my workplace with me.. : ))

Passerby looking at my design ;___; Thank you for appreciating!

Booth spontaneously designed by all of us- Ate Claire, Danny, and Kuya Eric.

Various photoshoot collaborations with models, fashionable people and ninjas.

Devil Afro Samurai, Lolita Geisha.. and Hiphop Ninja!

Free postcards. Artwork by the little miss paintbrush!

Hokkaido Jika Tabi!

Our sexy wa loli..

We brought our bonsai with us + ramen snack.. haha!

Quite crazy

Artwork by Anime Artist Kenta-san

My sexy bows : )))

I went around to take a rest and saw hairless chickens! : )))

Brought my rainbow pillow with me : ))

Casual look~!

THEN KUMA MIKI DROPPED BY!!

Spot the samurai who looks like he came out from a real Japanese film… : )))

So happy to see the pink fairy!

After millions of photos with astroboy, umaibo.. and Kaila’s Jika tabi… : ))

Got to chat with Japanese photographer, RAY OCHIAI!

I was blabbering in Japanese and he was so niceeee = )) Somebody understands my broken Japanese! : )))

My handmade recycled costume! 

Fresh from Okayama, new La Feet shoes had arrived!

My bow pillow! : ))

My brother looks handsome with the mask on .. hehehehehe 

Party Baby Booth + More Awesomeness~

Visited Miki-chan’s booth after getting lost (what’s new) for two times! : ))

SUPER CUTEEEEEE

Artworks by her friends :-)

And I wandered around…

I have been to two Design Festa events before and this booth is always an eye-catcher!

So AWESOME

SOMEDAY I’LL HAVE MY OWN RAINBOW RIGHT THERE

Haha~ so cute and CRAZYYY

SOOO CUTEEEEE ;__; I want those gingerbread biscuits and candies in my room ;__;

The second (last) day of our booth was much crazier! I was so happy that the press/media went looking for us! @___@ And we received a lot of positive feedback regarding our booth + Ninja / split-toe shoes~! I think I ran out of saliva that day :-)) And major nosebleed in Nihongo!! Hahaha~

Package from Ate Tracy~

This day has been too good to me! I received a very important phone call + a package from Ate Tracy courtesy of her boyfriend, Taka~!

And a few days ago.. I also received a wonderful package ;___; Thank you guys for being so thoughtful!

ありがとうございます！

I love Ate Tracy’s handwriting… @_@ (the little things that I notice, haha!)

I feel so special to receive this lemon yellow bow from Tiara by Tracy Dizon!

Can’t wait to wear it for a fashion coordinate ;-)

Our silly purikuras before…

<3 <3 <3 Someday, we’ll abuse the purikura machinese again together!

Fluffy fluffy thing~ 

So happy to receive immense amount of blessings lately… ;___; Thank You!

カイラ

AND SO…

The day before our huge event for Design Festa, I was packing boxes and boxes.. until a silver package arrived!

Alyssa had forgotten the package (the reason why we also met up, haha! : )) ) so she had it sent to me through a family member here in Japan..

This is the sweetest ever! WILD THING! : )) HOT!! : ))

How many Candy Mag / Seventeen pages did you sacrifice for this? : )) Super TOUCHING and I haven’t even opened it!

So the package was almost literally from the end of the rainbow… : ))

Rainbow stickers and postcard from KOREAAAAA!

OH MY GOD.. the unicorn sent ponies : (((

 I was meaning to buy tons of ponies when I go home to the Philippines (i couldn’t find ponies here for some reason, the ones in “sets”)…

and she gave me my first two ponies!!

BOWS made with love huhuhu so cute! I will make an outfit for this! Hehe~

She collected stuff for my package ;__;

More snivel-inducing letters..

HELLO KITTY STICKERS + artwork by Zaira!

AND a mustache!!

SUPERRR CUTEEEEEEEE

/DIES

Bicycle…wheel! : ))

Brb crying

Sweet letter from Alyssa + Purple lucky charm omiyage!!!

I was so happy that it came when I needed it the most! And I was so surprised because the package had so many items she had collected… huhuhu ;___;

Thank you so much Celine for this. I hope to see you forreals with Alyssa again as well! <3

カイラ

Harajuku’s Fairy Princess Kuma Miki even wears Japonista Sole!

If you haven’t seen my Design Festa entry last November.. you just missed one of my favorite photospam entries! Click here and feast your eyes on colorful art, playful fashion.. and pure awesomeness!

Scroll down as I give you a glimpse of what will be happening at our booth…

Image of Japan and everything “POP COOLTURE”… we will SHOWCASE it.

Special collaborations with creative minds..

Remake by Leen

Photography wall by our team..

Tuxedo Team x Japonista

Jin, one of the best international cosplayers, has partnered with Japonista.

Her photographs and her team’s contributions will be exhibited in our crazy booth.

Vector art postcards and posters…

By Little Miss Paintbrush & ミシー

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………..

And let me give you an idea how BIG THIS IS..

JUST the first floor of the whole event.

The second floor of the event (technically 4th Floor)..

Just a part of many preparations I have done for this event. I will be wearing this coordinate during the first day (May 12).

A vintage “musha nobori” (Children’s Day flag canvas) turned into a short yukata. Designed and sewn by yours truly.

Giving 100% for this dream-come-true event.

I sincerely hope that it will turn out  as a big success! And of course, a huge portion of FUN should be included as well!

I will be needing your prayers and well-wishes… since this would be a true test of my leadership and advertising background. I am after all.. the organizer for this event! 

We were supposed to have this event last November 2011, but the slots ran out so fast! And there was a time I thought it wouldn’t push through.. since funds were running out. 

But what the hell, we made it THIS FAR. Many thanks to the people who have collaborated with our little company .. and to those who have shown support by simply promoting! 

I cannot believe how Japonista Sole has evolved from rough sketches on papers.. to realizing the Design Festa dream.  ;__;

In some way, I would have not graduated college + reached my Japanese dream without these jika tabi shoes! I can’t fully explain it but that’s really how it was.

Anywayy~~

That would be all for now…  just wait for weekend’s massive blog update about the booth participation! 

カイラ

My brother and I applied for a US Visa today so we had to dress up in a semi-formal attire. We went to Roppongi at 7:00 in the morning! 

The one and only branded bag I have from Samantha Vega. I call this as my “power” bag because carrying it makes me feel like a superstar : )))

The rest  of my bags are Totoro-like bags : )))  I’d still choose a super cute original Rilakkuma bag over a Gucci one in a heartbeat! No joke! 

Celebratory breakfast in Roppongi since we got approveeed!!! 

A red blazer and some pearls to boost a girl’s confidence during interviews!

I miss wearing semi-formal / corporate attires! I used to wear corporate attire often back in college because my course (advertising management) required me to do so! I miss doing campaign pitches.. all dressed-up!

Since it was early, we decided to go to Harajuku to buy stuff for our event this Saturday and Sunday at Design Festa!

More details about it SOON!

SAW THESE CUTE BUBBLEFLOP FLIPFLOPS OMG Y U EXPENSIVE

Reminds me of Vivienne Westwood!

We could dream, right? Someday, Paris!

カイラ

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I actually had our tickets booked ONE MONTH EARLIER ! It was hard to reserve tickets so by hook or by crook, I/we had to go there! And it was the last day of Golden Week so.. consider me lucky for having those tickets.

To those who are interested to buy tickets (you cannot buy tix there directly),  I’ll write about how to buy tickets through Lawson’s Loppi later/sometime. Don’t worry, I think that it just so happened that it was Golden Week and April/May is a vacation month for everyone so weekends are unsurprisingly booked in Ghibli Museum.

Okay, let’s move to our narration now.. shall we? 

I originally wanted to go with those awesome CCS-inspired rocking horse shoes from Bodyline but I just brought those with me…  and wore something more comfortable for commuting.

That’s a DIY Totoro shirt + 100 yen pair of plastic binoculars to spice up my not-so-rainbowholic coordinate!

My golden tickets

When we got to Mitaka station (via Chuo Sobu Rapid Line in Shinjuku Station), we went to the bus stop for faster access.

Ghibli Museum is probably the most famous tourist spot in Mitaka so they decided to allot a bus solely for the museum.

We bought a discounted set of tickets for going and coming back home.

It would have been so cute if a CAT BUS (NEKO BASUUUU) fetched us!!

OMG OMG

My eyes went @___@ when we arrived there! FINAAAAALLYYY!!

Got a free ticket for a short movie viewing! So happy it was a Totoro-related movie~

Could not take photos so “blatantly” so I took photos of their interesting powder room~~

What I loved about Ghibli: DETAAAAILS

And then we went up.

It was actually a not-so-big museum. No wonder they don’t accommodate a lot of tourists and tickets are on reservation. I think Ghibli Museum is 1/4 of Sanrio Puroland?

And the famous robot from Laputa (which I personally think is horribly named : ))) )

Here’s my companion, the colorful pinkysaurus / Dino Kurisu~

She brought Harajuku to Mitaka all by herself + her sharkie~

Stealing photos because Ghibli attendants were everywhere! : )) I’m such a horrible/bad tourist… (along with other sneaky ones, haha)

TOTORO PLUSHIES I WANTED

..but were too expensive : (((

Nonetheless, I still bought little somethingsss. The paper bag is a lie : ))) The omiyage I bought only took 1/3 of the whole space.. haha.

I was SO hungry! Had to eat at their cafe area..

I ordered hotdog + peach juice~ <3

The Cafe was so packed and many people were reserving as well. We were looking for a huge TOTORO somewhere but it was non-existing.. : ((((

I still managed to take some photos outside! The kibishii 厳しい (strict) rule only applies inside the museum~ Yay!

a pack of kurosuke huhuhuhuhu so cuteeee!

And after enjoying the museum for two hours, we decided to end our Ghibli tour!

BTW, there’s a huge and fluffy neko bus inside.. but photos weren’t allowed. It was so cooool!!

We were wishing to be transformed into children so we could play inside the bus ;__;

Pu-ri-ku-ra!

Since it was already a perfect sunny day, we figured to take purikura at Shinjuku!

Thanks for the awesome time, KURISUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU 

We had the perfect timing that day (Sunday)! When we had our purikura taken, there was a squall + surprising rainfall after! 

At least, we had everything done before the weather decided to be a kill-joy..

Omiyage~ YAY!!

When I got home, I received omiyage (souvenir) from Ate Claire’s family! They went to Atami to spend their 2-day Golden Week vacation ^^v

Thanks Ate JL!

And then when I was going home, I went inside “RANKING QUEEN” store. Decided to try these out : )))

No judging.. please! : )))))))

100 yen mini camera pouch bag for my baby Nikon J1

And Purikura prints~ 

♫ ♪ ♫ Bai~ bai~ ♫ ♪ ♫

カイラ

Can anyone guess where I went today? 

カイラ

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