While I know that for most people rainy overcast weather can be a hindrance to their moods, it’s nothing but a spirit lifter to mine. I absolutely adore how the rain sounds, looks, and feel against my skin. It has a beautiful soothing affect that makes me feel very peaceful, and I’m so happy that here we’ve been getting a steady influx of rain, as I usually have to contend with the bright sun and the heat, two things I do not enjoy. It also makes me feel at my most active! Today, I hope to accomplish many things such as:

• Cleaning my chambers
• Reading more into my book: Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
• Start a new sewing project
• Catch up on my DVDs I recently checked out from the library
• Read the books on Rococo Art I checked out, and hopefully get some drawing done

However, before all that, I do intend to make a nice cup of tea~
I hope you’re all experiencing which ever weather is the loveliest to you, and have a beautiful day!

“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” - Nena Ross, my hair dresser

I can’t believe this year is already coming to a close! It really does seem like only yesterday that it was summer and I was excited about going to animation conventions. This year has given me immeasurable memories, new friends, and lessons I shall never forget. I do not know exactly where the new year will take me, but I know where I want to be, and those are the things I will strive for diligently. With that being said here are just a few of my resolutions for the new year!

♔ To take better care of my skin and hair - This is particularly true of my hands. I was unfortunately born with very dry skin, which gives me terrible problems throughout winter. That is why I have resolved to carry a small moisturizer with me at all times to better care of myself. This is a seemingly small resolution, however the effects will be tremendously beneficial for not only my skin but myself as well.

♔ Input more effort into my maintenance -Believe it or not, on a normal day, I am usually very un-kept if I am in the comforts of my chambers. I would like to get into the routine of daily taking the time to keep myself as neat and tidy inside as if I were if I was going somewhere.

♔ Take time out to enjoy beauty - As much as I would love too, I usually hardly have any time to enjoy just simple natures and pleasures. Things have shifted lately and I feel I will have much more free time to devote to the arts and appreciation thereof. I would like to visit museums monthly, take up reading new books, expand my artistic talents more, mediate and simply just slow down to enjoy to everyday gifts.

♔ Better my nutritional habits - All my life I’ve constantly battled with a sweet tooth and the habit of over eating. Unfortunately it’s all caught up with me, but it’s never too late for change! I know as much as I would love to, I can’t make the entire leap all at once. I plan to gradually decrease my intake of artificial sugars and chemicals, and increase my intake of exercise via bike riding, and dancing, and eat better on the whole. When I feel like having a candy bar, I’ll take an apple instead.

♔ Look at the glass half full - I tend to have a terrible problem with being a pessimist in life when it comes to new things I’m afraid of. Luckily though for the most part I tend to prove myself wrong and find things that I enjoy about my new task. However I this year I want to save myself the trouble of all that, and just look forward to each new challenge as brightly as possible.

♔ Learn to plan ahead - I’m a deadly procrastinator, and I usually end up paying for it when it’s all said and done more so than not, and everything ends up coming together last minute. This year will be the year that things go as smoothly as possible due to my impeccable planning. I will always strive to have a back up plan, and give myself plenty of time before an event to be completely together.

These are just a few of the things I will be doing to make this year as lovely as possible. I hope all your New Year wishes come true, and that this one is the best yet! Wishing you and yours a wonderful, and bright season~

- Princess Abigail

Before I write this, I will acknowledge that this is somewhat of a combination between a disclaimer and a rant.

To the casual person who may stumble upon this place one of the first thoughts that pop into their head will more than likely be “Why is she doing this?”
And the answer to that is simple: Because it makes me happy.

I will be the first to admit that I come with many faults; over eating, a tendency toward verbal obscenities when in unfavorable situations, and moodiness, just to name a few. However with all these faults that I and everyone else are in ownership of, we do our best to shine through beyond them. I choose to not ignore my faults, but work harder to make my qualities out weigh them. I strive to carry myself with an air of a princess regardless. However this is not to be confused with an air of arrogance. My inner spirit of being a princess is reflected in many things such as my aesthetic choices, and my mannerism. I value polite and proper speech as a truly high quality in a person and work towards making mine as fine as I can.

I refrain from activities that I know would not sit well with me, such as drinking and smoking, however I hold nothing against people who do choose to engage in those activities.

It delights me to converse about antiques and dress making as much as it would delight someone else to converse over a new movie or clothing release.

These are the things that make me who I am and I am neither apologetic or ashamed of this.
The ways I choose to speak, and write and carry myself are nothing more than a harmless reflection of my soul and are in no way meant to be forced on anyone else.

I mean absolutely no harm to those who may not agree with my way of thinking and views here, and I will apologize for the fact our views do not coincide, but for nothing more.

I believe all girls have the ability to be wonderful, kind and lovely princesses regardless of outer appearance, social standing, or background, if they choose to be. I do choose to cultivate this ability the best that I can, for the simple reason that it makes me happy to be this way and for no other reason than that.

♥

Although my official birthday was on December 18th, my party did not take place until the 22nd. All that day I was in a right rush trying to get all the last minute things together. I was going to have my make up done professionally that day, so in the morning I made use of my various facial cleansers and made sure every ounce of dirt was gone. My hair was based off of this picture of Macoto Takahashi’s art. It had been done the day before and now the curls were falling softly into place. I’m afraid I ran the Queen’s carriage rather ragged from that Thursday up until the night of the party!

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Yesterday, I received a Baby dress from Mai that I won off of the Japanese auctions. She was lovely enough to send me some Juliette et Justin postcards with my package, and I am smitten with them! My birthday approaches quickly, and in only four more days I will come of age 18. I’m excited and I’m worried, not only with the party planning, and the fact my commissioned dress , but also once I turn 18 there will be so many responsibilities I will have to face.

I’ve recently discovered how to make Alice bows . This is my first one, so pardon its slightly “rugged” appearance. My next project is now a whitexblack floral print skirt, sometime before Christmas.  I am also currently working on putting up a gallery of all my treasured possessions, so please look forward to that!

Well for now we are! Hello everyone, sorry for my sporadic posting, but every thing’s been so hectic. However, in the good news I fixed the problem of those nasty text links which refused to match the rest of the layout! I hope the banners are pleasing to everyone. I recently got back from visiting Catalina island with my step mother and extended family. The island itself was so pleasant and quaint! My grandparents (my step-mother’s parents) are some of the most wonderful people, I’ve ever met, and they welcomed me to their family immediately. Unfortunately I forgot to bring my camera battery, so I wasn’t able to take any pictures but my step-mother did, and I’m waiting them from her.

While we on the island, I was exposed to my first dash of Michal Negrin! My grandfather r bought me some small calling cards, which I hope to put into use soon! I would have bought more, but I also forgot my wallet! >.<

My birthday is approaching soon! It will be my 18th, on December 18th, of this year. I want it to be really special and I’ve started talking to people about commissioning a special birthday outfit for me. If all goes well, I plan on having a sort of mix up between Marie Antoinette and Winter Wonderland.

My, it certainly has been the longest since I’ve posted something. Unfortunately due to the passing of my father things have been quite hectic, and I’ve haven’t been in the happiest mood to write. Tonight is one of those nights when I’m happily avoiding my lessons and busying myself with everything else there could possibly be!
*sighs* I will have to get on those soon however. . .
Tomorrow I am to go out with Lauren for a picnic and general frivolities.
Also, I have started a cliques column on the sidebar! Only a few for now, but many more to come.

 Today is an especially sad day for me. This morning my step-mother called from across the way sounding unsettled and wishing to speak to my mother, the queen. In the queen’s absence she refused to speak to me about the manner on hand, and asked me to direct her to any other way she could make contact with the queen, and I gave her the cell phone number. The queen called me to announce that my father, Rouge-King as he was, was now dead. The details of the death remain unclear to me, except that he was shot.

We must now prepare for the arrival of my stepmother with her baby by my father, in the coming months.

I am to have the urn with his ashes.

Wow, it’s certainly been a long time since I’ve posted! I apologize for that, but life has gotten hectic since my last entry. I was promoted to full time cashier at the market, so I’ve been getting all sorts of ludicrous hours, but I manage.
I’m excited about AX since it’s approaching quickly, but I’m also a little nervous as I’ve yet to receive my ticket in the mail, and I registered at least in March. We’ll see what happens though. There is a new addition to the palace grounds called “Por Toi!” this is just for you my lovely visitors so be sure to look at it! In observance of the upcoming event I went in on a group order from Fan Plus Friend with some fellow lolitas! (The dress I’ll be getting is the one pictured above, however mine will be in black with white accents.) I still have many more things to buy for my outfits since I’ll be doing Lolita all fours days, but I’ll do absolute best to get ready on time! (^.^Oh, I always wait last minute. . .)

I’m looking forward to this year’s AX as this will be the first time I’m going to roommate with another Lolita!
Speaking of Lolita, my wonderful friend Skye (From Princess Portal) and I have started a new community for hime lolis!

Hime Lolita is now open for business! I hope to have a small community link button and official icon soon! Please join if that type of community appeals to you. In other lolita related business, I will offically become a moderator for EGL soon! This makes me very happy as I’ve been a member of the community for some time and this will be a high honor for myself.

Today at work was rather rough because I ended up staying longer than my scheduled shift, due to another cashier calling in sick. (It must be going around because I fear I’m catching a cold!) My original shift was meant to be from 12:30 pm - 6:30 pm however it extended from 12:17 pm - 9:20 pm. Talk about a long day! It was not made any better by some rather rude customers that always seem to find their way through my line, and my manager Belinda who decided to take a less than encouraging and polite attitude with me. However that was all cured once I arrived home to find my new BTSSB jumper skirt had come!

I knew it would make it here today but I was completely convinced (and disappointed!) that I would miss the post due to being at work! Much to my surprise though the queen was home and accepted the package for me! (You may now find pictures of me wearing it in the gallery ^^. ) In addition to my jumper I received another lovely package (The Rococo Gods must have seen my very hard day!) from my beloved friend Princess Skye. A while back I had helped her out a bit by assisting her with buying a parasol from BTSSB. So in return she sent me the catalogue that came with her parasol, along with a darling letter. (A small snipet of both the catalogue and the sationary that she used is pictured above.) She has sweet handwriting in my opinion.