All of us in the cafe are wishing all of you a very happy holiday! However you celebrate, please have a wonderful time! <3
Feel free to print out the above picture and color it in however you’d like! And if perhaps anyone would like to send their colored version back to us, we could maybe see about setting up a picture gallery to display them all? :)
Hey everyone! All of us here at the cafe wish all of you a wonderful Thanksgiving today! I know I can’t wait to dig in to some delicious turkey at the dinner table tonight~ <3
But we also wanted to remind you that the KuroKiiro Festival starts tomorrow! It’s at the Boyd Community Center, north of Pittsburgh, and we’ll be there for all three days. We’re dancing at Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as running the cafe on both Saturday AND Sunday mornings!
For more information on KuroKiiro Festival – as well as the schedule of events – hit up the website at http://www.kurokiiro.com .
All of us are thankful for all of you, and we hope we get to see you this weekend! <3
If you haven’t yet noticed the little image at the top of the page, we’ve got a bit of an event coming up this weekend!
That’s right, only two days left until our big Child’s Play marathon! Now, we’ve been saying that we’ll be playing for 24 hours – which we are certainly still going to do! – but we neglected to mention that it’s actually a total of twenty-five! Since Daylight Savings Time adds an extra hour on Sunday morning in our little area of the world, we’re tacking on that extra hour when the clocks roll back…and we’re planning on changing things up a little bit during that hour as well!
We are so excited to be doing this – it’s not just fun and games, it’s a chance to give back to the gaming community. While we play a small selection of games at the cafe, many of us enjoy a much wider variety, from console gaming to collectible card games to tabletop roleplaying games! This is an opportunity to raise money and pass that joy to those who really need it.
Keep an eye on this space – we’ll post the link to the video stream, the donation information, our gaming schedule, all of it, as soon as we know it. We can’t wait to see you there! <3
We recently took an afternoon to brush up on our chess and serving skills (which are completely related, by the way) down at the lovely Dormont Park. What a gorgeous day it turned out to be! <3
Maid Melody takes a moment at our recent photoshoot to play us a fairly popular tune!
Name: Miyu
Sign: Cancer
Cafe Generation: 2nd
What’s your favorite food?
Sushi, french fries, creampuffs, anything with mayo! ;o;
Coffee or tea?
Tea, coffee makes my stomach hurt!
Tell us about your hobbies!
I enjoy playing video games, watching anime and movies, dancing, and cooking.
In your totally unbiased opinion, what’s the best thing about the KuroKiiro Cafe?
The best thing about the KuroKiiro cafe is being able to work and interact with people with interests similar to mine! It’s so easy to make friends and have a good time with everyone!
What are you looking forward to most at the cafe?
I am looking most forward to working with everything and serving/getting to know new people.
What’s your favorite part of your outfit?
My favorite part…is definately my eyepatch. Second is my nurse headdress and syringe! I love running around and injecting people, hehe.
Who would play you in a movie?
Probably Chiaki Kuriyama (Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill). XP
Say a little something to everyone reading this interview!
Hihi! Thank you for reading this, I’m Maid Miyu and am new so…please say hi to me at the cafe! I hope to meet you all and wish you have a wonderful experience at the cafe!
The minutes are ticking down to this year’s KuroKiiro Festival (have you registered yet?) and we’re hard at work getting the cafe in tip-top-shape for all our wonderful customers! There’s food to consider, and decorations, and of course, brushing up on all our favorite games…
We might still need a bit of practice at chess, though!
The maid outfit comes in many different variations, but to be quite honest, the style really did stem from French maids in the Edwardian era (1901-19). The maids would work as servants in English homes and dressed rather conservatively, in black dresses with long sleeves and skirt. Overtop they would wear an apron, which one must admit is a fairly understandable practice for a housekeeper, even nowadays!
The Edwardian era was one of refined lines and silhouettes, at least as far as fashion goes. A new type of corset came into fashion, with a straight front that tilted the chest forward but pushed the…well, rest of the figure towards the back. As respected and well-sought as those lines were, however, it would have been fairly ridiculous for a servant to wear a corset of that type – after all, these were the girls who scrubbed the floors and cooked the meals. They didn’t have time (or, likely, the wallet) for high fashion!
There came a point in which the traditional French maid uniform became something of its own creature entirely, intended more towards accenting a woman’s features than allowing her the ease of movement necessary to complete chores around the house. Over the years the uniform seems to have lost more and more fabric, while gaining more laces and ruffles, eventually becoming the costume that we so typically see in stores today.
But for those maids who work in a cafe, their purpose is far closer to the original purpose of the French maid: to serve their masters as best as possible, while maintaining a neat and clean image. After all, one could very well judge the quality of the master by the appearance of his servants, and the last thing we want is for our customers to look bad! <3
Name: Rin
Zodiac Sign: Taurus
Cafe Generation: 2nd
What’s your favorite food?
Well, as somewhat of an amateur cook/baker, I have a lot of favorites depending on my mood. There is this delicious unnamed Asian noodle soup creation of mine that I’m particularly fond of, though.
Coffee or tea?
Tea. I love trying new flavors and varieties of it. Right now I really like this variety called Genmaicha, or popcorn tea, which has this delicious baked taste to it.
Tell us about your hobbies!
Well, as I mentioned before, I particularly like baking and cooking. But gardening is also fun. I love planting neat gardens with lots of Black-Eyed Susans, my favorite flower. Drawing also brings me a lot of joy. But don’t think I’m just mild and girly, baka! I also really enjoy watching ice hockey and rooting on the Pittsburgh Penguins!
In your totally unbiased opinion, what’s the best thing about the KuroKiiro Cafe?
I suppose its all the hard work that everyone puts into everything. I mean, we do so much to make the experience memorable.
What are you looking forward to most at the cafe?
This is a hard one. I mean, interacting with guests is always fun, but sometimes they’re messy and I get annoyed. And of course I love all the other members of the café, but sometimes they like to tease me (like that deviant, Host Kaikyo) and I get annoyed. So I’ll probably have to say serving the food. Because food never annoys me.
What’s your favorite part of your outfit?
Probably my bows, because they’re purple, my favorite color.
Who would play you in a movie?
Oh geez, I don’t know. I’d love to see Keira Knightley play me, because she’s been in some of my favorite movies.
Say a little something to everyone reading this interview!
You’d better show up and meet my friends and I at the KuroKiiro Café. We’re the best there is, got it? And umm… thanks for reading, I guess.
