Sweet tips + art update

Hey!

Today I wanted to make a small update with some art I have made recently, 

and also a recommendation for you all! ^0^

I´ve quickly mentioned it before, but recently I have been reeeeeally into reading a manga called 

Yumeiro Patissiere

It´s about a girl named Ichigo, who loves eating cakes and sweet treats, and she has a very refined taste for them. One day she is picked out to start at a school for confections and baking, 

so she can learn more about making cakes! ^^

There she meets others who likes baking, and she also meets the sweets spirits. The sweets spirits are small, fairy-like creatures that has been sent to earth from the sweets kingdom to learn about making sweets and cakes! So, they have to choose a human to be their partner. 

Ichigo meets a sweets spirit called "Vanilla" (whose speciality is vanilla flavoured things)

 and they become great friends <3

After a while she figures out some of the others also have sweets spirits, and they all have specialities they are good at (and their names usually give them away ;-3 ) 

I love this manga because it features gorgeous shoujo art, and tons of details just drowned in cuteness ;v; Seriously, even though either Ichigo or any of the others are lolitas, 

they dress in super frilly clothing with tons of adorable alice-like details, 

bows, buttons, frills, lace, pintucks and sparkly little gems all over the place. So If, you are looking for a cute comic to read, that can fit with your sweet image, or just to please your kawaii-craving soul, look no further, this is it! It is an incredibly cute story, filled with all the most delicious and dreamy treats you could ever imagine ( new ones in every chapter!),  combined with adorable fashion and wonderfully sweet shoujo faces (enormous glittery eyes anyone???) and elaborate cute hairstyles. Forever a favourite in my heart, now that I´ve found it. I wish to purchase the actual manga books as soon as I can afford it, and I will try to watch the anime series as well. For now, I´ve just got to settle with reading it online as it updates >.<"

Since I completely fell in love with this series, I couldn´t stand not making any kind of fan art to show my appreciation of it, and thus.... these two pictures where made :3 

This drawing I made about 1-2 weeks ago, using paint tool sai ^^ I am very pleased with the result, and I think it is the prettiest digital drawing I´ve ever made ;v; 

So I am actually quite proud of it, and not afraid to say so! 

It is Vanilla-chan, Ichigos sweets spirit! ^0^ I really love her design, so I just had to draw her! She has the cutest hairstyle, don´t you think? I had no idea what to put in the background, so I made some bows, and cakes (first time drawing digital food like this!).... I am sorry the cherry pie looks a bit derp, it´s my first time drawing it >.< I like how the cookie came out though! It looks like it has actual texture and everything :D yay!

 I also find it hard to draw gold, so the spoon might look a bit funny :-/... All in all though, I am really happy with it! ^0^ I hope you guys like it also! Please let me know what you think <3 

The second fanart picture I made, I finished only today! 

I have promised myself to draw more male characters this year, because I am quite bad at male anatomy and such >.< But I really like how (some of) this came out! I only used my own hands as reference, live-acting the poses, not even taking pictures while I drew ^0^

This is Kashino! One of the "sweets princes" that Ichigo befriends at the school. He is actually not the kind of guy to smile, but I wanted to make him look happy for once ^^ His sweets spirit is called Chocolate, so you can guess her speciality ;-3 hehe... 

The story of this picture is that Kashino just made that delicious café latte, mocca and physalis cake (with pocky topping) and he is letting us know that he couldn´t have done it without the help of his wonderful fairy friend, Chocolate ^^ hihi <333 

I made this only using photoshop for the colouring, so I know it´s not as good as the previous one... I really wanna become good at using photoshop also though, 

so I need to practice even though it´s kinda tedious at times >.<"""""

The one thing I see that is really off in this picture, is his shoulders... but I find it very hard drawing shoulders underneath clothing like that, so I guess that´s just something I´ll have to practice... 

Please let me know what you think of this one also!

So yeah, If you feel as enchanted about this adorable manga series as I do,

 and just wanna get to reading it straight away you can do so 

HERE

I, for one, can´t wait for the next updated chapter ;v;

 It fills me with fuzzy warm feelings when I read it.

Do you make fanart of things you like?

I hope you enjoyed todays cuteness tip, and artupdate!
Tuning out from kawaii-land, until next time, with more cute everyday life

Live a happy life with Rilakkuma + trade package + art

Hallooooooh!

Today I have loads of fun things to tell you guys about! :D 

We have the day off tomorrow, and I was going to write this entry then, but since we got off so early from school today, I decided to do it now! ^^

I got two new fantastic packages this week <3 ( I just love getting stuff in the mail >w< )

The first package was a long–awaited one from taobao! As you guys might remember, I am in a seamingly never–ending process of redecorating my bedroom, and therefore, when I remember it (^^"), I buy new stuff to fill it with cuteness.

I want my life to be emerged in kawaii * v*

This time, I ordered a bedspread, a small carpet to have on my ever so boring and empty floor, and a couple of lovely blankets (I didn´t bother to take any pictures of those!) for cold nights, or just for snuggling up with a movie  >w< 

....and the theme was Rilakkuma strawberries! ^^

 I just love how this looks in my bedroom! *v* Everyday, I just rush up to my room when I come home from school to see this >v< ❤❤❤

Seriously, this carpet is the softest thing in the world! It´s almost like you want to lie down and sleep on it, instead of the bed xD haha. Also, It was super cheap (12$ or so) so it was definitely a warp!

Now, the other package I got, was the first package I have gotten from the trade–package deal that I did last month! ^^ If you don´t follow me on tumblr, you might not know the story behind this, so I will tell you about it here also :) 

Basically, one month ago, I was reeeally sick of Norwegian candies and treats, and wished to try something new and different, and therefore I sendt out a request on tumblr if someone wanted to do a trade with me! The idea was to take a certain amount of money (in this case 25$) and buy sweets, treats and other nicknack from your own country, and send it to the other person! ^^ so many people wanted to do it, so I decided to trade with two people <3

  I was super hyped when the first package arrived a few days ago, finally being able to see what I got.

The first thing that hit me when I saw the box was that it was so huge! O.o I felt a bit ashamed that my box didn´t measure up to the size of this one =_= but then again, one has to think of that it is cheaper in America for these kind of things than it is in Norway... still...

 I traded with a lovely girl called Czessie from America. 

In my trade request, I stated a few things that I particularily wanted in my package, and that was poptarts, kitkats, and different flavoured oreos :)

 And here is my loooooot! ^0^

Will you just look at all of that goodness *v* 

Ok, so there is Mint Oreos, peanutbutter Oreos, regular kitkats, Nutella <3, PopTarts with strawberry, Brown Sugar Cinnamon, Hot Fudge Sundae and Confetti cake flavours >w<, And there is two chocolate covered oreos, something called a "peanut brittle" (which unfortunately broke Czessie, but tastes good still ^^) and white chocolate balls! :D 

I can´t wait to try out everything <333 It looks so amazing and great *V* I am definitely doing this kind of thing again, so many sweets <333 awwwwwww

 

 Lastly...

 to end this post, I wanted to put in some info about my new artbook, that I briefly showed you in my last post ^^ This time, I will show you some of my favourite pictures!

(so much detaaaails >A<)

The front page is acctually one of my absolute favourites <3 It holds most of the characters in the various seasons ^_^

 Magical girl outfits, are the best outfits! *V*

 

Really, I can´t even begin to describe how inspirational this book is *A* Look at the amazing outfits, details, hair, everything! I really reccomend getting this book if you are interested in cute shoujo things like magical girls! Also, it has over 100 pages! If you wanna get it, you can easily be find it at Ebay.

Other than that, I don´t really have much else to say :P I am really busy at school, now that christmas is closing in, and the half terms and interim reports are pouring in.

 I am really excited for the second trade package to arrive here, and I hope it does so soon ^^

This weekend I will relax, watch movies and just have fun with the new treats I have gotten.

 I hope you enjoyed reading this entry as much as I did writing it! <3

Would you want to do a trade–package with someone? What would you like to be the trade items? 

See you later, Alligator!