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For those in the US, have a Happy Thanksgiving today! Links in this post: The Fairfield House: New Wheels Share this:FacebookEmailDiggStumbleUponReddit

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If you live in the San Francisco area, you’re in luck. The last few days have uncovered a few exciting, and bittersweet, pieces of news. Starting with the good news, h.Naoto will open a U.S. flagship store at the NEW PEOPLE building in San Francisco on October 7th. In the meantime, an h.Naoto pop-up shop [...]

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Tags: Angelic Pretty, black peace now, bpn, celebrities, Events, gothic lolita, h.Naoto, Harajuku Hearts, j-pop summit, japanese brands, new people, san francisco
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Hello all. Both Lydia and I are attending San Diego Comic-Con this weekend. For that reason, there will be no new Furniture Friday feature this week, but we will be bringing new some new sights and sounds from around the yearly pop culture festival. For example, we took a spin around the exhibit hall today [...]

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A week ago, we launched a new giveaway to thank the 100+ folks that are following Carousel of Crowns on Google Friend Connect. Folks had until 10 AM PDT today to enter. We entered all the Google user names (minus our own) into a spreadsheet from oldest to newest followers. Click to see our contestant [...]

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Thanks to the 100+ readers that have followed Carousel of Crowns through Google Friend Connect. To thank you, we’re giving away a pair of Tarina Tarantino large Pinkhead Cameo earrings featuring Hello Kitty in a yellow Sweet Lolita outfit to one of our Google Friend Connect followers. If you’re already following Carousel of Crowns on [...]

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Tags: accessories, giveaway, sweet lolita, Tarina Tarantino
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Lots of little tidbits about  Gothic & Lolita fashion and other Japanese youth fashion have been released lately. If you not had the time to keep up with everything, consider this your  crash course. New York-based Tokyo Rebel has announced the shop will be doing an interview with KERA model, AKIRA. Tokyo Rebel will be asking [...]

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Carousel of Crowns has officially hit it’s second anniversary. The first post was made on May 6, 2009 back when the blog was hosted on WordPress.com. It’s been just two short years but it seems like a lifetime ago. In the past year alone, a lot has happened – including a move to our current [...]

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Q-pot has created a Peace Chocolate Band that it is selling for 525 yen to benefit Japanese Earthquake & Tsunami relief. The band comes in four colors – milk chocolate (brown), white chocolate, strawberry chocolate (pink) and mint chocolate (mint green). If you’re in Japan, do pick one up or submit an order online. Unfortunately, [...]

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Since February 16th, maruione.jp, the online shopping page for brands featured at the Marui One department stores in Japan has been down due to malicious hacking attack on the website. Just yesterday, maruione.jp re-opened in all regions after a gradual roll-out to a few countries and regions. This is good news for fans of all [...]

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Tags: Angelic Pretty, black peace now, bpn, Emily Temple Cute, gothic lolita, japan, japanese brands, Metamorphose, sweet lolita
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