How is it May Already?

[rainedragon]

As predicted, I promptly forgot that I was going to do informal status posts here. Merp.

I picked up some new old ETC catalogs and I started scanning them last week, but haven't posted them yet



I've also been scanning some other random things, I posted scans of a loose set of photosheets that Putumayo gave me at AWA back in 2015-ish? Putumayo / Putumayo Portfolio at Harajuku & Paris
Since my last post here I've also scanned / posted scans I already had of (in order of when it was posted):

• Emily Temple Cute / 2018 - Spring Collection (20th Anniversary)
• Emily Temple Cute / 2012 - April
• Emily Temple Cute / 2013 - Spring
• Emily Temple Cute / 2012 - November
• Emily Temple Cute / 2013 - Spring Collection 2
• Baby the Stars Shine Bright / Catalogs / 2015 - Sketch Catalogs
• Baby the Stars Shine Bright / Catalogs / 2008 - Autumn / Winter [WIP]
• Angelic Pretty / Catalogs / 2013 - Winter
• MILK / 2014 Summer
• Emily Temple Cute / 2018 - Autumn Collection
• Emily Temple Cute / 2012 - August Collection
• Emily Temple Cute / Postcards
• Emily Temple Cute / 2011 - January
• Emily Temple Cute / 2005 - Autumn Catalog I
• Emily Temple Cute / 2010 - October Winter Collection
• Emily Temple Cute / 2011 - February
• Emily Temple Cute / ???? - January Collection
• CUTiE / CUTiE 1991 - September [WIP] (additional images)
• Angelic Pretty / Catalogs / 2012 - Autumn / Winter
• Angelic Pretty / Catalogs / 2012 - Summer
• Angelic Pretty / Catalogs / 2015 - spring
• Angelic Pretty / Catalogs / 2011 - Autumn
• Angelic Pretty / Catalogs / 2012 - Spring

  
  

Over on Lolibrary, I've started adding the current Emily Temple Cute items (though anyone who wants to take over this is welcome. Posting "new" items is not my passion, I really prefer digging up old info). I've also added some 1999 Shirley Temple, some 2004 ETC and continued to enter 2007 era ETC. I put in some more Baby Secret Love, and just shy of two more pages worth of Cornet.

Over on my main blog I did a featurette post for the Gothic Lolita Market (and I ordered a few small things via their overseas live shopping):
Gothic Lolita Market: Livestream Shopping!
Posted a post about ETCs coord samples and the "substyle names" they gave them:
A Bucket of Substyles: Meta’s Coordinate Samples
A feature on the 2022 S/S Ap collection:

Angelic Pretty 2022S/S Collection
And the corresponding IW one:
Innocent World 2022S/S Collection
Did a review of my IW order:

Innocent World Mini Review
A throw back post for the LBC:
Lolita Blog Carnival – What Are Some Things You Feel Shouldn’t Be Asked Anymore? Which, I found really frustrating because even though I started off with "I’m a firm believer in there not being such a thing as a stupid question, after all, none of us are born knowing anything, and what is obvious to one person might not be obvious to another. That said, there are certainly a few questions that I think really shouldn’t be asked", I immediately got people commenting and telling me what "stupid newbie questions" annoy them. Like, no one likes being made fun of for not knowing things :(

I also finally published out this super old color guide I started YEARS ago:
Raine’s Guide: Color Names in Lolita Fashion

and those were all in April because apparently I was momentarily possessed by a blogging monster or something, lol

No, honestly, the truth is that I have a lot of half written stuff from the other months that I haven't pushed out yet, lol.