You could mistake her for a relative of Hello Kitty. I wouldn’t be the first one to think of Hello Kitty "dog" fashion, but it’s fun anyway, especially for the fluffy white variety of dog.

and some more intriguing pink kitty pictures, also taken from Deviant Art, very cool site btw.

Taken from Deviantart.

Aly & AJ have a new ride

The ‘tween’ pop duo hits the road in a Hello Kitty tour bus.

It’s a perfect storm of cute.

Aly & AJ, the pop star sister act, darlings of the "tween" music set, just setting out on their biggest tour yet.

Hello Kitty, the venerable pop culture icon of all things kawaii – cute in Japanese – sponsoring that tour.

And backstage at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine on Thursday, they met onboard the Hello Kitty tour bus – the usual deluxe motor coach on which you find your touring musicians, only this one decked out with as much Hello Kitty merchandise as you’d find in the typical Sanrio store.

"It was ridiculous," says AJ – she’s the younger sister, 16, with the straighter blond hair – of what they saw when they stopped by the bus on the way to their sound check.

"We were thinking there’d be a few things, and there’s SO much stuff!" she says.

"We saw it right before sound check and we FREAKED out!" adds Aly, 18, the one with wavier tresses of hair.

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We walked through the bus with the gals and this is (some of) what we saw:

• A Hello Kitty water dispenser, popcorn maker, coffee maker and toaster that toasts a Hello Kitty face on your bread. Ice cube trays that make Hello Kitty shaped ice.
• Hello Kitty blankets, sheets, pillows, towels, rugs. A toilet seat cover – that’s a rare item, we’re told by the Hello Kitty decorators. Not many people even know they exist – so don’t tell anyone!
• Strands of Hello Kitty lights attached to the top bunks where Aly and AJ slept early Friday as the bus headed north to a show in Concord. Litters of plush Hello Kitty dolls, Hello Kitty clothes for those dolls, guitar straps and guitar cases that would have to be moved before they could even think about sleeping.

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"This is our mom’s room," says AJ, walking us into the master bedroom at the back of the bus. And let’s really, really hope mama loves pink as much as her daughters think she does.

"Check this out – it’s a humidifier!" AJ says, pointing to a sorta egg-shaped Hello Kitty.

"Because our mom has asthma," Aly explains.

"How cool is that?!?" AJ says – they tend to talk in a rush, finishing each others sentences like sisters, as if, oh, they’ve spent a lot of time on a bus together?

Mom also gets lots of blankets, pillows, a Hello Kitty doll made into a kind of headboard, an iPod dock with speakers.

"Half this stuff, I was like, uhhh, they make this stuff?" Aly says, pointing to the iPod device and expressing their surprise at all of the new and unexpected toys they’re getting.

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As for Hello Kitty, she’s getting exposure on stage on a tour that while crisscross the continent in support of the just-released "Insomniatic" through at least mid-September – check www.alyandaj.com for details.

She gets banners on stage or at the venue. She gets Aly & AJ playing their Hello Kitty Fender Stratocasters each night when they rock out on their song "Rush" – Aly playing a forest green one, AJ on the ice blue.

"The fact that they’re great musicians, they play guitar, they’ve been successful in an area that’s typically been dominated by males – it’s girl power and we like that," says Andrea Sobel, vice president of marketing for Hello Kitty.

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Aly and AJ seemed absolutely stoked to have the Hello Kitty bus to call home for the next few months – and maybe in a way, it’s a connection to home.

It helps that the Kitty made provisions for their dog. The bus is now equipped with dog carriers, collars, bowls and bedding for Willow, a "teddy bear" mix of bichon frise and shih tzu, who comes on the road with them.

The Kitty also connects them to their past, before they had all the trappings – and endless attention – of fame.

"We’ve always been fans of Hello Kitty," says AJ, remembering how they used to descend upon the Sanrio store in the Thousand Oaks Mall as pre-fame preteens.

And now, the store is more or less onboard their own bus – what teen girl isn’t gonna love that?

Kuromi, sometimes referred to as an evil twin/rival of My Melody, who is all sweet, she is sweet but sports a pink skull on her face. She was born on Halloween, Kuromi is the leader of a tricycle gang known as "Kuromi’s 5." Other members include a cat named Nyanmi, a dog named Wanmi, a fox named Konmi, and a mouse named Chumi. They all wear black and drive around in a menacing fashion.

Kuromi is the counterpart to the other Sanrio rabbit character, My Melody. Although My Melody has warm feelings for Kuromi, Kuromi’s feelings are more inclined to rivalry.

A style of character like this in my mind has a lot of potential in an older fashion and style, particularly now with bling in vogue and the darker look, she could be a nice counterpart to the more goth bling out there.