kokusyoku sumire, Gothic Lolita music

Planning to go to Sumire No Tenmado (sumires attic window) Goth Loli cafe/bar, and see these cuties perform in January.

accessories by snowskinmooncakes

Are you the type of person who likes to prance about with cakes on their head?! I know I am...







Some new cute hair and brooch cakes/accessories that I made for the Art Snack Shack mobile gallery (art cart on the back of a bicycle) at the Village Festival
in Edinburgh Gardens, North Fitzroy, November 4th -7th 2010
www.thevillagefestival.com.au/ and will also be available at HOOFKAKE hoofkakeworld.blogspot.com/ and also eventually on my etsy www.etsy.com/shop/snowskinmooncakes
I made the PomPom hair tie, purple puff pod cream hair cake with fluro yellow pompom, light blue layer birthday hair cake with hearts, translucent filled with goodies hair bow, cherry cream layer hair cake clip and light blue heart cream cake pearl ruffle brooch I'm wearing here and those other hand sewn goods on my permanent tea party table.. blue satin handband not by me, bought at a asian $2 store and spooky reflector ghosts with batwings earrings are wine glass charms from the reject shop.

Coco Rosie and Hallows Eve

Listening to Coco Rosie and making Halloween/Samhain/All Hallows Even trinkets...planning costumes (bought a huge bag of luxurious fabrics, silky sheets, various pieces of sherbety satin clothing to cut up and reconstruct a spooky outfit from a local op shop for a couple of dollars, best cheapest oppy! in Ferntree Gully, Mountain Gate shopping strip)




http://vintageholidaycrafts.com/vintage-halloween-women/

jewels by Snowskinmooncakes Lauren Pitt

"Sunshine Mountains" Ring
Solid Sterling silver
Top cast by hand
Claw set in band
Faceted Lemon quartz stone, Bearing Bezel set
Hidden filigree underneath
Granulation on sides of band


Please note:The purple one is made by me the hologram one is not.

The Holy Mountain 1973

I love Avant Garde films, I'm downloading this right now, can't wait.

Rainbow Ice-cream Soda snow skin mooncake

Every packet of snow skin mooncakes I've ever read the ingredients of in asian grocery stores seems to not be vegan (often they contain yolks from salted duck eggs in the centre) so unfortunately I've never had the pleasure of eating them but arent they gorgeous! The ones pictured above have a recipe that is vegan (as long as you used vegetable shortening rather then animal fat) it can be found here: http://auntyyochana.blogspot.com/2006/09/rainbow-ice-cream-soda-snow-skin.html
So in case in you didnt know this is the chinese dessert that I took my username from a long time ago, though when I first heard of it I saw it has snowskinmooncake flavoured ice-cream featured on a asian travel blog many many years ago, how lovely. But it wasn't until I read more about them that they really interested me.

From Wikipedia: "Mooncakes are Chinese pastries traditionally eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival / Zhongqiu Festival. The festival is for lunar worship and moon watching; moon cakes are regarded as an indispensable delicacy on this occasion. Mooncakes are offered between friends or on family gatherings while celebrating the festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the three most important Chinese festivals."

Also the legend about mooncakes with secret messages in them is really cool..

Also from Wiki : "There is a folk tale about the overthrow of Mongol rule facilitated by messages smuggled in moon cakes.
Mooncakes were used as a medium by the Ming revolutionaries in their espionage effort to secretly distribute letters in order to overthrow the Mongolian rulers of China in the Yuan dynasty. The idea is said to be conceived by Zhu Yuanzhang (朱元璋) and his advisor Liu Bowen (劉伯溫), who circulated a rumor that a deadly plague was spreading and the only way to prevent it was to eat special mooncakes. This prompted the quick distribution of mooncakes, which were used to hide a secret message coordinating the Han Chinese revolt on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Another method of hiding the message was printed in the surface of mooncakes as a simple puzzle or mosaic. In order to read the encrypted message, each of the four mooncakes packaged together must be cut into four parts each. The 16 pieces of mooncake, must then be pieced together in such a fashion that the secret messages can be read. The pieces of mooncake are then eaten to destroy the message."

To learn more about mooncakes look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake

cakes, hearts and warm necks

Some cakes and mini heart pillows I made a year ago, some are now for sale at Hoofkake, near the corner of Sydney Rd and Albert St Brunswick Melbourne.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hoofkake/118020041577829

YUM

Also some snuggily soft pastel/neon scarves I knitted recently are available there too in various colours. Very similar to this one I'm wearing in the photo above taken in the forest in Byron Bay year ago... I also made the tassle bumbag and crystal necklace I'm wearing in that pic too.