Animal Crossing New Horizons Play Journal - Springtime

Springtime in Animal Crossing is one of my favourite seasons in the game as the trees are beautiful and the weather is perfect! Just like normal Spring weather! These screenshots are from October/November 2020 so a fair while ago. Slowly getting through all my screenshots and at the pace I've been posting play journals, we should be up to current times soon! First up are some lovely screenshots of the area around my house during the cherry blossom season. I wish I could have these pink trees all the time as they match me pink house exterior perfectly!

My birthday falls in October so there was a birthday celebration of course! My best buddie Marshal hosted it at his house and I was so happy to see my favourite Pudge attended. Clearly the best villager and has taken the top spot for me out of all the villagers. Birthdays are quite cute in New Horizons however I didn't know everything I had to do for it. I had a busy day that day and didn't know I had to give the cupcakes to my villagers. They all missed out and I felt bad :( Oh well there is always next year! Kind of silly as on your birthday you are often busy and need to find the time to play (or at least change the in-game clock sneakily).

ぴこぷり Pikopuri January - March 2017 Magazine - ガールズモード 3 Girls Mode 3

A few years back, I wrote a blog post covering the ガールズモード 3 Girls Mode 3 content in the Japanese magazine ぴこぷり Pikopuri. I was recently sorting through my bookshelf and was reading my ぴこぷり Pikopuri issues and thought it was a great time to post some more Pikopuri Girls Mode content! This time I'll be showcasing the January - March 2017 issue which features a cute Isabelle on the cover. There was a fun bonus with this issue which was a guide to NPC's in Animal Crossing New Leaf and I actually use this one a bit!

Onto the ガールズモード 3 Girls Mode 3 photos now and this issue only features four pages of the game. The game had been out for a long time and wasn't as popular to be featured as a key title in the magazine. It wasn't even featured on the front cover and with that, I knew there wouldn't be too much stuff in it. I actually brought this for the Animal Crossing book and the Girls Mode stuff was a nice bonus.

I always love admiring these pages as I adore how they layout all the items and match them to illustrations. It always reminds me of old KERA or Japanese fashion magazines. Everything catches your eye! Nice to see how the editors of the magazine styled the items and some I would've never thought of. The ガールズモード 3 section always features a little comic featuring various characters from the series and this issue features two different stories with one about Sophie. Awww she is the cutest and I miss her in Styling Star.

Idoling!!! ロデオマシーン Rodeo Machine Album Review - Regular CD Only Edition

I'm not one who uses Spotify much or even at all really, but it is a great tool for discovering new artists! I was listening to some AKB48 on there and a suggested group was one called アイドリング!!! Idoling!!! Now I had never heard about this group at all and a fair bit of their discography was on Spotify. Turns out I quite like them and decided to grab one of their albums when I had the chance. After some research, I found out they were created by Fuji TV in 2006 and had a variety show devoted to them. Sadly they disbanded back in 2015 and I haven't found much else about them online besides Wikipedia information. Not sure if they were super popular in Japan or not compared to other idol groups of the time.

アイドリング!!! Idoling!!! ロデオマシーン Rodeo Machine Regular CD Only Edition

For my first アイドリング!!! Idoling!!! CD, I got their 6th album ロデオマシーン Rodeo Machine. The album was released on March 18th 2015 and was released in four editions: Limited Edition A CD+DVD, Limited Edition B CD+BLURAY, Regular CD Only Edition and Limited Loppi HMV Edition. It was a tad tricky to find one in good condition or at all. At the time I purchase this, there wasn't many listings for it and I could only find listings for each of the different editions. I ended up getting the Regular Edition as I liked the cover with all the members and it was quite affordable. My copy of ロデオマシーン Rodeo Machine came with the following contents:

• CD - 16 track album
• Jewel Case
• Lyrics booklet
• OBI
• Pony Canyon flyer

My CD did come with a damaged case which I'm not too fused about as it was hard to even find a listing of this album in a good condition. The CD worked fine and there wasn't any serious damage to the entire thing. The only part broken is the top connector part of the front case and I've had this happen with plenty of other CD's over the years. アイドリング!!! Idoling!!! had quite a lot of members at this period of promotion and they are all featured on the Regular Edition cover. That was the mean reason I wanted it as I like covers that have all the members on them. The back is quite cute as it has the members in the same position but wearing a fresh face look instead. What a fun concept and matches the whole idols you can relate to concept that was popular at the time.

Outfit Of The Day - Formally Red

This is the last outfit from my set of red toned looks I put together in recent weeks. Isn't red the perfect shade for preppy styled outfits? I think it works well as it is such a formal colour and common for school uniforms here. I was in the red house at school so it definitely was a colour I had to wear! I quite like this outfit as it's casual looking whilst having a formal touch to it. This particular jumper style is a favourite of mine from Brooke Bridge and I love using them to match with the colours of the stripes. Can't finish off a preppy look without glasses! I've gone for a red toned pair to match the rest of the outfit of course.

March Favourites

This month's favourites is going to be a tad different as I haven't really done much this month. March was just all over the place and I didn't even play any games this month! Wasn't in the mood for playing anything and I was spending a lot of time on creative projects. Plus I was pretty busy at work with staff shortages and such. So I thought for this month's favourites, I would just share some things I brought this month!

First up is this beautiful bullet journal I brought! I have been on the hunt for a while now for the perfect notebook and boy was a challenge. I went to every stationery store here and the range wasn't what I was looking for. Whilst I did find beautiful notebooks, the paper wasn't up to the standard I was after and nothing jumped out as the perfect one. I didn't want to get a 80 GSM book as I thought my supplies would leak through or show on the back page. Ended up finding this one of trusty old Aliexpress! It is from a store called Buke Notebook and the quality is amazing. The cover feels rather elegant and the paper is on high quality. Price was reasonable around $24AUD for me including tax & shipping. The seller packed the item perfectly and even included some goodies! Love the bookmark as I actually needed another bookmark! I also got some stamps and an ink pad from Aliexpress and it shows up great on the paper. Definitely looing forward to using this over the next few months.

Shopdo Visits - All The Styles!!!

Lately I've been watching a lot of movies and playing Style Boutique. One of the things I enjoy doing is chilling out by visiting random Shopdo boutiques. Clearly one of the best features of Shopdo as it let's you see all the wonderful outfits other players create. Now it does bug me that I can only visit players in the AUS/EUR region and not other regions. But there are enough lovely things to see in our region. First off is this adorable character I found and I love her makeup! The blush looks really cute and very trendy!

Next up are two players I came across that had cool looking outfits and I adore these combinations. Never thought about using this style of inner with baggy pants. Like it works quite well! The second look is a favourite of mine as black is always stylish and I've been really into this short skirt look lately in real life. Outfit is on point with the dark toned boutique interior as well.

Outfit Of The Day - Just A Preppy Look

There isn't too much to say about this outfit other than it's just a preppy outfit. That's how I feel about it, nothing special. I wasn't feeling too inspired when I created it, I just wanted to do something with the Brooke Bridge brand. Sometimes I feel that way when I play the game sometimes. Like I just want to make an outfit without any reason behind it. Does anyone else play that way also? I wish the 3DS had more fashion styling games and don't get me started on the Nintendo Switch! I have the one decent fashion coordinating game on there which is SELFY COLLECTION and it's such a pain to scroll through all the items to create outfits. I've reviewed the game here if you are interested in it! If only there were more fashion games on the switch because I would buy them in a heartbeat.