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Yesterday we held a casual craft meet and I finally went about making some simple beaded bracelets and necklaces because for someone who makes accessories, I have very little jewellery - oops? After meeting Hana at the station, we went and got some bubble tea for the journey - I got Peachberry and she got Rose Milk! We were also distracted after coming across a great flower arch en route to John Lewis. We were exactly one minute late after taking pictures there xD Bonus! I don't know which of the 'Classy' Meitu filters Hana used when taking this selfie but we look great and somehow, very old school street snap? With everyone's contributions, I got a range of beads in loli-able colours and we got down to business! You were also welcome to bring your own crafts if you had a work in progress. Overall it was a really nice, chilled out meet spend beading, chatting and maybe a tiiiiny bit of tea spilling? A really lovely Sunday that left my ...

Gosh, I don't know how I only just got to it but here we are, I'm finally writing a post for our International Pink day meet on 23rd June! The last time I went to a meet for International Pink Day was a whooping 6 years ago in York (*我的天啊!) and we still joke that someone secretly changed the theme because everyone but the host was Asian xD This year I decided to host it in York again with plans to have lunch in Ippuku Teahouse (a firm favourite of mine at this point), take some nice photos in the Museum Gardens on my SLR and finish off with some casual cocktails should anyone fancy! To mark the occasion, I even decided to wear the same dress I wore 6 years ago! Sweet Mana, talk about travel issues! The trains were doing their troublesome thing and mine was delayed without any indication of when or if it would turn up. Just under 40 minutes later it decided to show up and I was finally on my way and late to my own meet. *** internal screaming *** F...