New collection: Moonlight Dance

Our new print collection is here and it is beautiful! :3 

Once again we collaborated with the amazing illustrator Minna Ainoa of Imagine and Do to create something spectacular! A print with moths, dragonflies, moons and other kinds of critters you don't typically see in lolita. 

Minna has a very unique soft touch in her pencil based illustrations, which in my opinion creates the perfect balance between these creepy critters and lolita fashion. The print is dream like, reminding us of summer nights, forests, spirits dancing around bonfire at the midsummer night...we wanted to give this collection a name that reminds us of those things and so we came up with Moonlight Dance.

The print comes in four colorways; pink, lavender, dark blue and dark red.

We decided to offer two kinds of jsk:s for this collection along with a skirt and a head bow. There is a high waist jsk with tulle lace that creates a softer look and a normal waist jsk for more sophisticated classic look. This time we also did another collaboration, wonderful Kuusade created matching jewelry for the new collection!

We wanted to give our customers the opportunity to ensure they can get the design and color in the size they need, so we opened the collection for reservations! 

The reservation period is open for two weeks, the last day for making a reservation is 15th of March.

If you wish to make a reservation check our facebook page  or storenvy for instructions, you don't have to have account for either of these sites, just send us an e-mail with your information, the type of dress, color and size you wish to reserve. This time we offer the dresses and skirts in 3 different sizes and we are happy to do custom sizing in case the offered sizes don't cater for your needs! Also for accessories, just drop us a line if you wish to have something different from the given options!

A special dress for La vie en Rose Fashion Show.

Heippa! Eli uusi printti mallisto on nyt ulkona! Printin on jälleen piirtänyt ihana Minna Ainoa, jonka kädenjälki on aina yhtä lumoavaa! Tällä kertaa hän loihti meille printin, jossa on sekalainen joukko hyönteisiä, kaloja ja kuutamo, printti tuo mieleen kesäyöt ja Juhannustaiat!

Suunnittelimme mallistoon tälläkertaa kaksi mekkoa, hameen sekä hiusrusetin. Lisäksi teemme myös yhteistyötä suomalaisen Kuusateen kanssa, joka suunnitteli printtiin sopivan upean korumalliston!

Kaikki tuotteet ovat nyt ennakkoon varattavissa Maaliskuun 15:sta päivään saakka. Varaamalla tuotteen ennakkoon saat varmasti haluamasi mallisen vaatteen haluamassasi värissä ja koossa. Mekot ja hameet ovat nyt tarjolla kolmessa koossa, mutta ennakkoon tilattuna myös mittatilaus on mahdollista! Valmiitakin mekkoja on siis myyntiin tulossa myöhemmin, mutta aivan kaikkia malleja kaikissa väreissä ja kokoisina ei ole tulossa, joten jos tiedät jo että haluat tietyn tuotteen se todellakin kannattaa ennakkoon tilata! Aluksi tarvitsee maksaa vain varausmaksu ja loppu summa maksetaan vasta sitten kun tuote on valmis, joten maksuaikaa on lähes pari kuukautta. :) 

Infot ennakkotilaukseen löytyy Cloudberry Ladyn facebookista tai storenvystä. Tilauksen voi (ja kannattaakin) tehdä sähköpostilla ja tietenkin myös lisäkysymyksiä saa meille lähettää: Cloudberry.Lady@gmail.com

Next event!

Heippa!

If you have been wondering if we are attending any events this year the answer is yes! Planning to participate many events this year and the first of them will be the amazing Street Fashion Europe event La vie en Rose in Paris!

The event is just few months away and I'm super busy with all the preparations! We will be bringing a lots of new  head wear, clothing and accessories with us and I hope you all are looking forward to meet us there! 

I'm also really excited with the looks we are preparing for the fashion show! It will be something really different! <3

The event itself sounds super awesome with all the amazing guests:

 Masumi Kanoh (Btssb), 

KAIE & BABI (Triple Fortune), 

Hitomi Nomura (Grimoire),

 Ayumi Watanabe (Syrup.) and

 GLB staff!

I can't wait to be able to meet all these amazing people and all of my friends in Paris! 

Website

Facebook event

Tickets -get them before it's too late! :D 

This is an amazing opportunity for all japanese street fashion lovers to meet your idols!

Hei hei! See you in Paris! <3

Reflector rosette tutorial!

Heippa ja mukavaa Joulun odotusta!

Tein suomalaisen lolita foorumin Enfantterriblen joulukalenteriin pienen tutoriaalin Cloudberry Ladyn heijastin kunniamerkeistä. Vaikka kyseinen tuote löytyy myös meiltä myynnistä halusin antaa myös askartelusta kiinnostuneille mahdollisuuden tehdä itse oman heijastimensa!
Me suomalaiset kyllä aika hyvin muistamme heijastimia käyttää, mutta joskus kaupunkialueen katulamppujen loisteessa tekisi mieli jättää se heijastin kotiin kun eihän se sovi edes asuun. ;) Tällä tutoriaalilla voit tehdä todella loli sopivan heijastimen, joka mätsää täydellisesti omaan talvitakkiisi! Tutoriaali löytyy kalenterin luukusta 8. ja mikäli askartelu ei ole sinun juttusi voit ostaa omasi Storenvystämme

Hello!

I wanted to share a tutorial for our reflector rosettes!

This kind of reflector rosettes are also available at our Storenvy but we didn't want to keep the instructions for making these a secret! We want to give every lolita an opportunity to make one for themselves!

It's important to wear a reflector during the dark time of the year and we know how annoying it is to try to find one that doesn't completely ruin your outfit. Well this one doesn't, in fact it can make the outfit even better! :)

So lets get started!

Materials:

Piece of fabric

40cm of reflector ribbon (width: 2cm)

50cm of thin satin ribbon

30cm of lace or other decorative ribbon

4,5cm long safety pin

1 pretty button

You will also need scissors, needle, thread, glue and a sewing machine.

Working instructions:

Ribbon part:

1. Cut a 18 x 6cm square piece from the fabric.

2. Cut two pieces of 10cm from the lace and sew them next to each other on the center of the fabric.

3. Cut a 10cm piece from the reflector ribbon and stitch it on top of the lace.

4. Fold the fabric and cut triangles out of the corners. Iron seam allowances (1cm) of the long sides to the back side of the fabric. 

5.Fold the fabric's back side on top and stitch the head of the ribbon together, leave the sides open!

6. Turn the fabric and make sure that both sides are neatly on top of each other. Put the safety pin trough the top edge and sew the long sides neatly. I like to start next to the safety pin and stitch along the edges.

Preparing the rosette:

1. Cut three 10cm pieces from the reflector ribbon. Cut one of them half vertically.

2. Glue pieces of the satin ribbon on the centers of the wider reflector ribbons.

3. Glue one of the wider ribbons first to circle and then glue it to it self from the center.

4.Glue the other wider ribbon across the first one.

5.Glue the thinner ribbons crossing the wider ones.

6. Sew by hand trough the whole thing, the glue might not be enough to hold it together. If you don't like using glue you can just sew the rosette together. 

7. Gather a 10cm piece of the lace to a circle and sew it on the center of the rosette. 

8. Sew a button on top.

Joining the pieces:

1. Sew the ribbon you made earlier and the rosette together by hand. Sew the rosette from one of the thinner loops. 

2.Put the thin satin ribbon trough the loop and glue it on top of the stitching of the reflector on the ribbon part. Burn the raw edges.

3.Make a little bow from the excess satin ribbon and glue it on the top of the ribbon part.

Done!

Sorry about the poor translation! Hope you can manage and don't hesitate to ask if something is unclear!

Are you going to make one? I would love to see your creations! <3

Uusi nettikauppa!

Heippa!

Pahoittelut taas pitkästä tauosta postauksissa, viimeaiakoina on taas ollut liikaa kiirettä.
Käytämme nykyään Tumblr -blogia sekä Facebook-sivuamme uusimpien juttujen jakamiseen. Tännekin kyllä tulee aina silloin tällöin vähän pitempiä juttuja joten emme aivan ole tätä blogiakaan hylkäämässä. :)

Sorry for the long time sine the last pots! For more posts we recommend following our Tumblr or Facebook-page. We will continue to use this blog for some longer posts and picture posts. :)

Verna half-bonnet

Ursula bonnet (sample)

Halusin nyt kertoa uudesta nettikaupastamme!
Kuten monet tietävät tuotteemme olivat aiemmin myynnissä omalla nettisivullamme ja ne täytyi tilata sähköpostin kautta. Halusimme tilaamisen kuitenkin olevan entistä helpompaa, joten päätimme nyt perustaa Cloudberry Ladyn Storenvy kaupan!

Kaupasta voi nyt tilata ostoskoria käyttäen, kunhan ensin kirjautuu sivustolle! Mikäli et syystä tai toisesta halua käyttää kyseistä sivustoa otamme kyllä edelleen vastaan tilauksia vastaan sähköpostin välityksellä. Lähetä vain haluamasi tuotteen nimi, koko, väri sekä osoitteesi sähköpostitse meille osoitteeseen Cloudberry.Lady@gmail.com  ja saat vastaukessa tiedon tuotteen varaamisesta sinulle sekä maksuohjeet. Valitettavasti on mahdollista, että joku ostaa haluamasi tuotteen suoraan Storenvyn kautta ennenkuin ehdimme sen sinulle varaamaan. Jos näin käy yritämme mahdollisuuksien mukaan tehdä uuden tuotteen ja ilmoitamme sinulle tilanteesta.

Näkymätön Ninni onepiece dress

Aliisa skirt 

This time I wanted to share new about our new webshop!
Like many of you know we used to sell our items trough our own website and you had to send us e-mail to place your order.
We wanted to make things a little bit easier and decided to start our own Storenvy store!

Once you have registered to Storenvy it's possible to order the products using the shopping cart!
But if you don't wish to use this site we are still happy to accept orders trough e-mail. Simply send e-mail to Cloudberry.Lady@gmail.com and tell the product name, size, color and your address. In the reply we will let you know that the product is reserved for you and the payment instructions. Please note that it might happen that someone buys the product trough storenvy before we manage to reserve it for you. If it happens we will try to make a new product if we have materials left and we will message you of the situation righ a way.

Mint reflector rosette

Raspberry reflector rosette

I chose pictures of some of the products we have currently available at our webstore, but do go check it out for many more products!

Kuvissa on esimerkkejä tuotteista joita löytyy tällähetkellä nettikaupastamme, Kaupasta löytyy paljon muutakin joten kannattaa käydä vilkaisemassa! :3

Cloudberry Lady Sample Sale Dessert Party!

Heippa!

So we held a Cloudberry Lady Sample Sale Dessert Party a few weeks back. Cloudberry Lady is going trough a transformation so we wanted to create this event to clear our stock and also to give our beloved customers a chance to have a lovely afternoon with some tasty desserts. ;)

Here's a picture of the table decorations.

Here are some of the treats and welcoming drinks waiting for the guests to arrive:

Everybody got come yoghurt-icecream, fruitsallad and couple of macaroons. We also had welcoming drinks and coffee or tea served. 

We were really happy to have so many dear customers to attend the event, all the tickets got sold out! The place got a bit jammed with all the frills but hopefully that just helped to create a more cozy atmosphere. ;)

I guess this is from the opening ceremony.

What do you think of our new hangers?

 

We didn't only have Cloudberry Lady items available. Finnish grafting company Imagine & Do and jewelry maker Kuusade displayed a small selection of their items at the event.

There was some time to do shopping, enjoy the food, a small Cloudberry Lady Quiz and a bingo!

Here are the attendees focusing on their bingo sheets!

Thank you so much for everyone who attended! I hope you all had a great time! <3

PS. here's a nice blogpost Kaichi made of the event: Dailyfuckery