Irasshaimase, Goshujin-sama!

 Hey yo!

I decided to tell you about something I'm really excited about and what's partially been keeping me very busy lately:

I started working as a maid in Amai Manga Café, in Helsinki.

The Manga Café in Helsinki is, as it states, actually a manga cafe, not a maid cafe but recently they've been holding maid events every Monday and as soon as I heard about them looking for maids I applied!

Here's some maid outfit pictures of my in-work-look!

Click for quality

Dress&apron: Bodyline

Headdress: Bodyline

Gloves: mom's wedding gloves ♥

Socks: D.I.Y.

Shoes: Dinsko

The requirements for the job were a positive and social attitude and a maid outfit and since I was only lacking the the latter one I ordered this from Bodyline's Rakuten shop via a shopping service. I fell in love with this one because of this really classic Japanese maid look combined with that heart-shaped apron, love! 

I also like the dress I'm wearing in the pictures ahead, it's one I borrowed from my boss before my own dress arrived. It's a lot longer than the Bodyline one but I think that's exactly what makes it so attractive in a Touhou-sorta way, and Touhou is always good obviously ヽ( ゜∀゜)ノ

Irasshaimase n' shit

The event is called Maid Monday and it's usually held at Manga Café every Monday from 4 P.M. to 8 P.M.

Basically what it means is that employees dressed as Japanese maids serve as waitresses and general entertainers for customers, presenting them the menu, serving their orders and playing games, drawing and talking with them, all according to the customers wishes!

Yes, my co-workers and customers are all nyanpires. Pic by Yu Andou.

The first Maid Monday was more popular than what we were prepared for and we actually ran out of seats to sit on so half-way through the day we were assembling chairs with a screwdriver and bloody IKEA instructions at the back of the café to fit in all the people... It was such a hassle since it was the first time doing anything like this outside a convention in Finland（゜A゜;）

Picture courtesy of Jussi Vehkasalo.

Also something really awesome happened on the first day and I gotta hype about it a bit! *insert brag here*

A Japanese guy called Yu Andou showed up at the café to make an article about us to a major Japanese anime, manga and games news site you might know called Kotaku! We were also interviewed for a Finnish newspaper called Helsingin Uutiset and apparently Tokyo Otaku Mode is going to make an article about our upcoming Butler Nights for the ladies too!

The Kotaku article can be found here in case you're interested.

The first Butler Night is to be held on April 1st (no that's not an April Fool's troll) with sinfully handsome butlers such as Prince Karakuri and the next Maid Monday is held again on April 8th, so feel free to show up if you are interested!

I guess that's all for now, so here, have some panda strawberry pancake!

Mata ne! ヾ( ´･ω･`)ノ

Alice in Winter Wonderland

Hi ya!

First of all:

ermahgerd I have over 100 readers! Sweeeet!

A big cheers for you all! ✧

Anyway, this is a rather pointless post about January's activities! 

Mostly I've been up to some rather no-life activities such playing games (mostly TERA but also some other stuff like L4D2, Natural Selection 2 and Assassin's Creed III), but as I mentioned before we also met up with a guild mate from Britain which was a load of fun!

As you might've noticed I also got sick of looking at my own face so I made this little pixel art profile avatar for the side-bar! ´w`

Close up on eye make-up for once!

Tried the Dollywink Vivid Pop lower falsies with the Dolly Sweet ones, I think they get along pretty well! I like how they work with lighter make-up on the lower lid.

Took this in the morning before school, the sky was so pretty! *-*

I also reeally appreciate the fact that it's getting lighter outside and it isn't an absolute pitch black abyss everyday after I get home from school. No sign of the permafrost giving up yet tho, but I'm ok with this!

Speaking about permafrost; we took James from Britain to familiarize himself with some traditional Finnish winter activities. Tbh I don't even remember when's the last time I would've done this stuff myself, my winter activities usually involve my PC.

Perilous adventure no.1:

Ice Skating

Stole these pics from Ryu's blog.

Because one person just isn't enough to keep Ryu on his feet.

But hey, we're doing good, no one died in contrary to our expectations.

Perilous adventure no.2:

Sledding

Just.... James trying to kill me?

BUT CHECK OUT THAT SKILLFUL STEERING OF MINE. 

Nice save, huh?

Decided to have a rolling competition with Ryu.

I think I should be disqualified.....

Basically this started off as a lan party with our Tera team of Ida, Ryu and James. But after a night of intensive gaming, eating, alcohol and energy drinks someone remembered that I promised to take James sledding. That's when we climbed to our attic to get the sleds and headed to a nearby forest and then this shit just happened at like 11 A.M on a random Sunday. 

That might explain these videos.

Faceless Ryu and James cutting the wedding cake tomato.

We also spontaneously bought Dungeons & Dragons and played it for a night or so. After that in the morning Ryu went to buy groceries with a pillow tied to his ass with a pair of stockings. This is when I decided it might be the time to go to sleep.

I'm not entirely sure if I regret not taking pictures on New Years eve since it's probably the best for there to not be any evidence of what happened. In short: we might have been drunk, we might have been wrestling and we might have had scantily clad snow-fights, all in all; good fun!

Random school-look.

I'll just end this post with some eye candy from the Alice's Lover Takarazuka DVD I ordered, dayuuum!

☆ Thanks for reading! ☆