February Favourites

A few days late for the monthly favourites as it has been a hectic start to March. Didn't even realise we were at the end of February until I had to start writing March as the month. Lucky I have a job that requires writing the date quite often otherwise I'd have no idea what month it is. We had some great weather lately as it has been ideal summer weather. Not crazy hot but still warm. Love being able to wear shorts all the time and loose tank tops. Hopefully this type of weather stays around for a while as I'm not a fan of winter. Starting off this post with these cute stickers I picked up at Daiso recently! The store near me has actually been stocking some new sticker styles which is surprising! The prices went up to $3.30 which is kind of pricey for what you get compared to online whoever they are very pretty. I have the one in the middle in the colour pink but had never seen this cream colour set before.

Gaming

Not much happening this month besides playing random games on my switch. I've been super into the Faircroft Antiques series and almost finished my second game in the series. Picked them up during a sale and they are quite fun games. Plus I can get plenty of gameplay out of them over the course of a few weeks. Also been playing lots of solitare and random pet games on the switch too.

Music

So I ended doing something I didn't think I would do and brought some items on Yahoo Auctions. I wasn't planning on buying CD's from Japan for a while however I realise it was the only way I could get certain m.o.v.e albums. They were only available in Japan and luckily I was able to find the three I was after. Still thinking about some other things I want to pick up and will update when the parcel arrives. I'm trying to order albums/singles that I cannot get on iTunes here and looking for albums that are harder to find.

August Favourites

Winter is finally over even though the first day of Spring here was absolutely freezing! It was 7 degrees at my house this morning when I left for work and I was rugged up when I got there too. So over this cold weather and hopefully it will warm up soon with some lovely spring weather. Onto the monthly favourites now!

Gaming

I started a new challenge in New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star this month called the One Year Challenge! I've posted a few outfits already and you can check out the first theme which is hearts here. This challenge looks like it will be a fun one and definitely a challenge to post outfits every week for a year. The current schedule for the challenge posts is on Saturdays (Australian time) and I will make up a page for the challenge soon.

The other gaming news for the blog is that I have started playing MODEL debut2 #nicola on the Nintendo Switch. It is a fashion simulation game from Japan and I love it to death! It is super cute and I throughly enjoy the editing part of the game where you can design your advertisement. I've only posted one play journal so far for the game but I have another one lined up for early September. How gorgeous does my character look in the game? I haven't unlocked different hair colours or styles yet but I cannot wait to change it to something else fun.

Stationery

Headed to the local bookstore in town this month armed with some gift vouchers! I get them through training modules at work and it's a fun reward to pick out a new book. I actually ended up using the vouchers for this adorable Pusheen re-usuable tote bag and sticker set. I'm crazy at Pusheen branded merch and I've used the bag quite a lot. It's great for throwing into a small bag to take with me whilst I go shopping. The stickers are lovely as I didn't have any of Pusheen in my collection yet and they are good quality. The other item I got from Dymocks was this Standard Issue planner notebook which is more of a notebook than a planner. I think it uses the term planner as there are dates available on the pages. The cover is hard and the pages lie open flat when you open the notebook. A very nice stylish notebook which I'm looking forward to using once I finish off one of my journal notebooks.

June Favourites

June was actually a fun month for me with lots of activities and goodies! I saw the new Minions Rise Of Gru movie the other night at the cinema and it was amazing! Been hyped for that movie for ages and it was great to finally get to see it. It was a bizarre experience as my co-worker had told me about people going to see Minions in suits which I thought was a joke. Then when we were in the cinema, it turned out to be true! There was a row of teenagers in suits who were cheering and interacting with the movie. I've never been to a screening like that ever and I found it rather weird.

First off I brought this adorable Pikachu Fujifilm Instax Mini Link printer! At first I was looking at getting one of the cameras as it has always been something I thought would be fun. But someone suggested to get the printer instead as it is better value. So I ended up finding this one quite cheap along with some pink film. I haven't tried connecting it to the Nintendo Switch yet but it's super easy to use. The one thing I don't like about it is how you have to use up an entire roll of film before you can take it out of the machine. Like I get why it's like that, I just would like to use different styles of film for different photos. I'm thinking about getting a thermal printer one day to use in my journals as you can print out anything with those and it would look amazing in my notebooks.

Stationery

Went to the city again and did some shopping! Last time I went I totally forgot to go to kikki.k so this time I made sure to remember! There was a few items on sale there and I picked up some random paper things and a bookmark. No photos as they are pretty boring and basic. I did however get some stuff from Daiso such as this washi tape and stickers. I didn't have these styles yet in my stationery collection and there was an ok range. The city store isn't as good as my local one but it's easier for me to visit now that I'm going to town monthly.

Gaming

I have actually been playing some games this month! Been playing a fair bit of Style Boutique as I will be posting a new challenge for the blog soon. It is still a work in progress and it will be a long one so keep an eye out for that. Need to figure out my free time schedule to blog but I might start posting it this month. Thinking about buying a new game soon for my Switch that I've been looking at for a little while. Will update in the future with how that one goes.

Music

Nothing much happening here besides I had to buy a new Kaiser Chiefs CD to replace one of mine that was skipping. No idea what is wrong with that album, like it just skips on two of the tracks. It is the greatest hits so I already had the songs but it was upsetting that it wouldn't work. Luckily I was able to get the replacement CD for 80 cents brand new!

Daiso Haul - Finally Washi Tape!

It finally happened! Daiso restocked their washi tape sets! I'll get more into the washi tape journey later on in the post. Looks like my closest Daiso got a whole bunch of more stock in which I wasn't expecting. I was excited at all the stock they got in during my last Daiso trip post and couldn't believe it when I saw they got more in. Here are all the items I picked up and this was all about $15. 

I have been searching for ages for this particular item and they must've just got them back in. The item is this great set of washi tape that comes a number of colours and patterns. I brought a set when Daiso first opened a store here in the city and could never find it again. So when I was visiting the store this month thinking it would just be the same stock they had in last time I went which was just after their restock, I found the tape! I was so happy as I love this type of washi tape due to its thin size and you get a good range of patterns in one pack.

The remainder of the items were stickers of course as Daiso is my go-to for stickers. I picked up a few sets that I passed on during my last visit. First up are these gorgeous stickers that feature a brown background and cute drawings. I didn't have anything like this in my collection yet so that's why I picked them up. Decent size and you get two sheets in the packet! The 2 sheet sets are getting harder to find in Daiso so it was good to find some.

Daiso Trip & Sticker Haul!

A miracle happened and Daiso finally got stock in!!! I've been visiting the store over the past year and it seems the company got a big shipment of stock in. The store I visited was packed full of stock and I even saw some items I've haven't seen for ages. I could've spent ages just going through everything but I restrained myself and didn't buy too much. The main purpose of the visit was to stock up on stickers and Daiso did not disappoint in the sticker department! There was even some I'd never seen before! I shall share my haul in this post along with all the other stickers I've acquired lately. First let's take a look at what Daiso has on offer! 

Gotta check out the snacks of course! I wish there was a Daiso closed to my workplace so I could eat the cookies & cream and choc banana flavours all the time. Once I tried the hundreds and thousands flavour and it was too die for! Never been able to find it again as I believe it's limited edition. The snack sections at Daiso have shrunk over time and you need to go to the city store to get the better range. I tend to stick to the Pocky or biscuits however Daiso does stock the Poppin' Cookin' sets which are fun. When I made my purchase today, the sales assistance didn't ask if I wanted Koala cookies. They must've run through their supply as they always ask you to buy them.

So many snacks!

Next up was the check out the stationery section for washi tape. I couldn't locate any so maybe they didn't get any in this shipment. I brought a nice set from the store once that had 10 different styles in the pack and I've been searching for it since! No luck so far but hopefully they will get it back one day as there was a green version of the set I want to get. Daiso did have these amusing animal notebooks on display and I've never seen anything like this. It was like a weird squishy cover and everything about them is just so weird. I don't buy any notebooks from Daiso as I'm not a fan of the paper in most of them. I used to buy all my stationery from the Morning Glory stores which stocked Korean brands but they all closed ages ago (still sad about it). Nowadays I get all my notebooks cheap from work as I go through so many and you know, staff discount is a huge selling point haha.

Over in the craft section, there isn't anything too exciting. I usually check out this section to see if Daiso has anything unique or crafty hack things. The pom pom maker looked interesting but I have no use for it. There wasn't any new needle felting stuff either, just the same old stuff I already have. The knitting markers looked cute due to the pastel colour. Mine are fluorescent colours and are super easy to use compared to these. The Disney stamp sets aren't new besides the Zootopia one. I hadn't seen that design yet so it must be a recent release. I have the pink cat one on the right already and a Winnie the Pooh one that is an old style. Stamps are something that are fun to collect, but I find myself not using them too much now. I really should try to incorporate them into my notebooks more.

July Favourites

Can you believe August is finally here? July seemed to be a really long month for me. I guess it was because we had a lockdown and I lost track of the days. I kept working the entire time due to working in online logistics and it was nice to hang out with my co-workers on a casual basis. Luckily the lockdown was only short and everything was able to reopen but with restrictions. It feels like I did a lot of things this month so I'll get right to it!

Gaming

I brought a bunch of Sims 4 expansion packs early this month as I felt like getting back into the game. I've actually been enjoying it a lot and I don't mind Sims 4. A lot of people complain about it, but I find it fun and it's nice to see something different to the previous games. It gets boring with the same thing over and over again and it's interesting to see the unique packs the developers are bringing out. I've been playing the Eco Lifestyle pack the most and been working on different careers. My sim kept getting set on fire by their toilet though which was silly. I think I upgraded it too much so it kept causing fires every time someone used it. Sold it straight away after the third fire!

Reading

This month I've been obsessed with reading and it's all I think about! When I was at school, I wasn't much of a reader and usually avoided it outside of reading sessions in class. After year 12, a friend got my into the Janet Evanovich books which were the only thing I really read for years. But since I got my Kindle, I've been really into it! Like I search for free kindle books and read those. All the ones I've read so far have been great and I even brought more in some series! I quite enjoyed the Bennet Brothers series from Staci Hart and I'm starting the second book in the series soon! Other than the Kindle, I use the Overdrive App with my local library so I can read at work or on the go. The app has a decent selection and I've read some good comic books on there especially Sarah Scribbles who I actually have the first book from.

Sticker Haul!

If there is one thing that brightens my day is stickers! And today's post is all about the sticker's I've collected recently. I've kind of got a bit obsessed with stickers this year and place them all over my journals, work stationery and electronics. All of the stickers shown in this post were purchase from Daiso, Aliexpress or Spotlight. Let's take a look shall we?

First up are all the Daiso items I got! Glad I picked these up last month as I went to two Daiso stores recently and both were pretty lacklustre sticker wise. One store didn't have any! The second store had shrunk it's section down which made me sad as I love going to that store to stock up and it was the whole reason for my trip. Anyway I was happy with all of these cuties! I love the Daiso stickers as they are small in size and ideal for my journal. They also come in many fun styles and images. I think I have every style of the schedule sticker available here. The hedgehog stickers in the top left corner are adorable and this was actually the second pack of this I've brought. I really like these ones as you get two sheets in one packet. I rarely see these two packs anymore :(

I just had to get these adorable cat stickers as a few of the kitties reminded me of cats I watch on Youtube. The tall standing up white and back cat reminded me of cat_urgry on Instagram and they are also on youtube! This cat is like the best suggestion I've ever had on Youtube. I'll post my favourite video on theirs at the end of this post. Some of the cats also reminded me of Mejoo Cats which is my favourite youtube channel. Hyuji is my bias then Monji is a close runner up. But I love all the cats honestly ❤❤

At first I wasn't sold on these shell stickers but they are gorgeous and feel lovely to use. They are a masking sticker so they feel different to plastic ones. Excuse my bad terminology, I'm not a sticker expert just a hoarder! I actually brought a second pack of these yesterday as I had almost used up my first lot.

April Favourites

Yet again another month has flown by super quick and means it's time for another monthly favourites! I actually did a stack of things this month most of which was decluttering belongings. One day I was just like 'I feel like I own too much stuff' and I started clearing out things. A large bag of clothes for younger relatives, a few bags for the op-shop of various items and sold a bunch of gaming stuff off to friends. The biggest clean out item was books and DVD's. Over the years, I've gained quite a collection of DVD's but I stepped back to take a look at them all and thought 'jeez I never watch like 60% of this stuff'. So I spent ages watching a whole bunch of DVD's to determine whether they spark joy or not and ended up getting rid of like 50 DVD's! The books were much easier as I decided to get a Kindle so I could read more on the go and store them digitally rather than physically. I had all the Janet Evanovich novels which took up heaps of space so I donated them all to various op-shops and just kept my favourite series of her's which is the Wicked Series. Seriously Janet? When are we going to get the next book in the series?!?! I've been waiting years! Also got rid of a lot of other random books that I was never going to use and will hold off buying anymore physical ones. Here's a photo of my lovely Kindle that I'm obsessed with! I got the Paperwhite and it's so lightweight and easy to use. The Kindle store has stacks of books about theme parks which I'm super excited to read. My current book is Action Park: Fast Times, Wild Rides, and the Untold Story of America's Most Dangerous Amusement Park and I've been enjoying it!

Also got a bunch of new stickers! I actually got quite a few this month and I'll probably post a small haul next month. Here's a quick photo of all the ones I got at Daiso last week! The first Daiso I went to didn't have many stickers at all or anything exciting really. But then I went to the one closer to my house and they had so many!!! Not sure why the original store isn't carrying much stock, but I'm going there again tomorrow so I'll check out to see if the selection has improved.

Gaming

I've decided to stick with digital games from now on (Style Boutique will be the exception if it ever comes out on Switch) and cancelled my pre-order for Pokemon Snap. I didn't want to buy another physical game until I played through current ones. Just been playing some SELFY COLLECTION which I'm so close to completing the entire game. It's taking ages to grind money to buy all the items and it's kinda boring. I only really do it when I don't want to think about stuff and just press buttons. One game that did just get released that I never thought I'd see is Castaway Paradise on the Switch!! I played this game a lot on Steam ages ago and couldn't believe it when I saw it appear on the eShop. Had some eShop credit from a gift so I picked it up and it's still charming. It's pretty much the same game and it's not something you'd play for ages. I just play a bit here and there. Much easier to make money at the start as I know the tricks. I hope it does well on the Switch as the game is fun and it's nice to support indie developers.

Music

Have to admit that I did clear out some CD"s this month. None of my Korean or Japanese pop music ones of course! My CD storage was over flowing and unfortunately I couldn't keep somethings. I brought a stack of CD's back in March at an op-shop but my collection was becoming a bit too much to store so back to the op-shop went a portion of them. Mainly things that I wasn't attached to and wasn't hardcore collecting. Plus I always burn the CD's into iTunes so I can still listen to the songs!! The cases were pretty destroyed as well which is common with op-shop CD's.

November Favourites

Can't decided if this month went fast or slow. It seems like ages ago that it was the 1st of November or maybe the last few weeks have really dragged. The busy Christmas season has hit and it's mental with stock and orders everywhere. A lot of people have been saying the postal system has slowed down in Australia and parcels are backed up. But I've been getting my online orders rather quickly and we've only a had few instances at work hearing about parcels getting stuck at borders which are closed for COVID-19. Anyway onto some favourites for November!

Gaming

Mainly just playing New Horizons this month and my island is almost finished! My friends helped me out with getting certain items and I finally have the entire garden gnome set. Haven't even started on my house yet haha. It's always the last thing I do and might spend some time soon thinking about what I want to theme my rooms around. Speaking of Animal Crossing, my friend got me this Animal Crossing puzzle as a birthday gift. How amazing is this? I didn't know they existed until I received this! I cannot wait to do it as I quite enjoy puzzles and it's even better cause it's Animal Crossing!

When I built a new computer recently, it didn't come with a SD Card slot so I haven't been able to get new photos from any of my games. I looked at a few SD card readers but the reviews were awful so I didn't get them. Most readers now are USB-C so I'm going to most likely get one of those and an adapter for USB-A to connect to the PC. Then I finally get all my lovely screenshots from New Horizons and my 3DS again.

Music

Brought a bunch of new CD's on Black Friday as JB HiFi finally had their 20% off music sale. Picked up the standard album version of Blackpink's album but I haven't had a chance to listen to it just yet as I've been busy from Black Friday hilariously enough. Waiting on a bunch of CD's to come from Japan that I'm very excited to receive whenever they arrive. I feel like I've listened to a billion songs this month as November went on forever. I've been listening to a lot of AKB48 lately as well as Apink. The later is a group I never really listened to much and I quite like Apink's style of music. It reminds me of older Korean Pop music and stuff from the 2nd generation. It's been so busy lately I haven't been able to listen to any new songs from girl groups as there has been a fair few recently. One thing I have been doing is cranking Girls Generation's Into The New World loudly at work so hopefully everyone who has no clue about k-pop can appreciate that gem haha.

Stationery

Visited Daiso this month which resulted in a adorable haul of course. I wish they'd build a Daiso closer to my workplace so I can go all the time :( The two closest to me are in shopping places I rarely visited, I used to work in the same centre years ago before it opened. I picked up these cute stickers and some sticky notes as I wanted to get a few for my planner.

My Stamp Collection

Whenever I go into a stationery store, there's one section that I always head to first and that's the stamp section. I just adore stamps of all styles - cute animals, sayings, weather symbols and cat faces. I've been collecting stamps for a long time now and thought I would share my collection. Also I had to organise my collection so it was the perfect excuse.

First off are my wooden box sets which I have two of. The first one is a diary style set which I purchase from Kawaii Pen Shop. The set is called Cute Korean Happy Day Stamps and I brought it in the Original set. It contains 21 stamps featuring cute pictures of animals, weather symbols and other trinkets. All the stamps fit into this wooden box and are wooden rubber stamps. The second set is the Alphabet and Numbers stamp set from kikki.K. I brought this a few years ago as I had a voucher for the store but it's not my favourite. I'm not a fan of the type of rubber/gum they use on the stamps and when I use them, they leave this weird residue around the ink on the paper. I ended up giving this set to a friend as I no longer wanted it.

This is a Doraemon set I brought in Hong Kong many years ago. When I was visiting Hong Kong, I really wanted to find some kawaii stamp sets and I found this one and the Rilakkuma ones below in a little shop in the Metropolis Mall in Kowloon. The Doraemon set is surprisingly good! The ink pads have a strange look to them but have good ink that doesn't bleed through paper. Some of the stamps in the set don't fit both ink pads so you have to use the blue ink pad for the larger stamps. The stamps are decent quality but a bit cheap. The stickers come off easy and sometimes the stamp part will pop out of the plastic holder after you use it. No problem though as you can easily pop it back in.

These two Rilakkuma sets are the other sets I brought in Hong Kong. Now I love anything Rilakkuma so I just had to get these. Each set includes 8 stamps, 1 notepad, 1 stamp ink pad containing 4 colours, 1 plastic charm and plastic case. The stamps feature Rilakkuma and friends as well as food items such as pancakes and cakes. The stamps are quite tiny making them perfect for diary/schedulers. The notepad features a cute picture of Rilakkuma on each page and the pages are quite small. Now for the ink pad which is awful honestly. The ink bleeds through most types of paper and doesn't work well with the small details in the stamps. Over time the ink pads have actually shrunk as well (shown in the last photo). I ended up just throwing the ink pads out as they didn't work and I'd rather not have them leak anywhere.

Daiso Adventures & Haul

Visited Daiso a few times in the recent weeks and picked up some new cute items. So I thought I'd put them all into one big post to share what I found. First off, Daiso finally got my all time favourite stickers back in stock! I've been waiting to see if they got them back in and they finally did. I was so happy when I saw them so I picked up two packets this time so I have enough to last me a while.

Found them!

Daiso had some other adorable stickers in stock over the last few weeks. The store has this range called Animal Party that is available in a variety of items such as post-its, stickers, note paper and letter sets. I took a photo of the Shiba Inu ones as that breed of dog is my all time favourite animal. Haven't picked these up yet as whilst the illustration is cute, it's not the normal style of Shiba illustration that I'm drawn towards.

kikki.K 2018 Diary Review

Since it is now halfway through 2018, I thought it was the perfect time to write a review of the diary I have been using this year. For years I used a Rilakkuma scheduler from Taiwan bu unfortunately they stopped making the item so for 2018 I had to find an alternative. This year I've been trying out a new diary from the kikki.K brand and it's just perfect. 

The diary I have been using is the 2018 Diary from the Sweet line which was available late last year through kikki.K. Usually I don't shop at kikki.K as it's on the pricier side stationery wise but I needed to get a diary quickly and ended up there. The day I went they were having 20% everything store wide so I picked the diary up for a good deal. I went with the larger sized one as I wanted plenty of space to write in. Whilst I loved the Rilakkuma schedulers, they were quite small and not much room to write more than a few words in some sections.

The 2018 Diary from the Sweet line comes with the following contents and sections:

• Sturdy plastic cover
• Sticker book
• Bookmark
• Two ribbon bookmarks
• Yearly Calendar for 2018 and 2019.
• Monthly View
• Weekly View
• Lists for wishlists, movies, websites and books.
• Restaurants & Bars Page
• Books Pages
• Addresses Section
• International Public Holidays Lists
• Lined Pages for Notes
• Blank Pages for Notes
• Lift-out Shopping & To-Do lists

May Favourites & Blog Update

The last day of May brings the end of Autumn and soon the beginning of winter. However it's been freezing cold here recently so it could've been winter already. Nicer weather the past few days, so hopefully it stays that way for a little while. Anyway, time for my monthly favourites! I've also written a little update on the blog at the end of this post about my plans for future posts.

Gaming
Goes without saying, been playing New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star of course! Managed to get a few new customers in my boutique recently and I've seen the chased the story line girls off for a while thankfully. Besides Style Boutique, I'm still grinding away at Disney Magical World trying to craft all the items. I'm stuck at the moment trying to obtain rare items like the Rainbow Clover and Fairy Diamond Bubbles to make some items. Other than that, I collected all the Easter set and just waiting for other holidays later this year to get more items for the 100% collection. I took this funny photo from the game that I thought was amusing as it wasn't Easter in the game anymore. Easter started in-game after Easter had occurred in the real world. Excuse the camera photo as you cannot move photos from the game off the 3DS as they aren't stored on the SD Card.

It's not Easter anymore!

Besides 3DS games, I'm looking forward to a game on Steam called House Flipper. It was released recently, but I'm waiting till it comes on sale during one of the many Steam sales to pick it up. I find it quite fascinating and interesting as the game lets you basically remodelled a house and decorate the interior. Sounds right up my alley!

Music
Got a bunch of new singles and albums this month which I've posted about before so I've been listening to them. Besides those, I've really been into E-girls latest release Showtime. Haven't got the new album just yet as I'm saving up to get the top version, but I've been streaming the album on Spotify. No stand out faves just yet, but Showtime is definitely on that list. 

Another song I've been into this month was (G)Idle's debut song Latata. Loved it from the first listen! Looking forward to seeing what their future releases are like and I need to make time to listen to their debut album as I've seen people raving about it.

There's a few more new tracks that came out this month that I haven't had a chance to listen to yet like AOA's new release Bingle Bangle. Really need to work on getting some new music on my MP3 so I can listen to them at the gym and in the car.

Television
This month I've been super invested in watching Produce 101 China. I'm so obsessed with this show and personally I prefer this version over the Korean one (season 1). I find the China one is a bit more positive and less drama. My fave girl so far is Gao Qiuzi because of her upbeat personality and hilarious antics. Plus she's actually quite talented in singing and dancing. I'm actually quite fond of all the girls on a show so it's hard to narrow down my top faves. Yamy and Sunhee are pretty cool and I've become more interested in Meiqi who is from WJSN. I'll definitely need to look her past performances up! I've linked the theme song MV below and be sure to look up the episodes (they are subbed too) if you are interested in watching this amazing show.

Daiso Haul - Needle Felting Supplies

Recently I've become interested in needle felting. It's just fascinating the creations people make with needle felting and how lifelike some of the products look. Sometimes I've been scrolling through and seen a post of a Shiba Inu and clicked on it only to discover it was actually a needle felted Shiba Inu and not a real life. It's just amazing what people create!

So I was in Daiso recently and decided to pick up some needle felting supplies to do out the craft. The Daiso near me only had a few items in stock so I got the ones that were available which was a starter set and two packets of wool felt.

I just wanted to get a small selection of stuff first to try out needle felting to see if I like it or not. It doesn't seem too difficult, I've watched a few tutorials on youtube and understand the concept of the craft. Daiso didn't have any sets with instructions and just these two packets of coloured wool. I thought I'd try making a small item first before attempting something like the cat and dog pictured on the packet. The needle felting starter set comes with a mat and one needle. It looks like a great set to start out with and was super cheap. The needle looks easy to use and hopefully won't hurt too much if you accidentally stabbed yourself.

April Favourites

Can't believe it's time for another monthly favourites post! I feel like I just did the one for March. So here's my monthly favourites for the month of April!

Gaming
This one is easy to work out. I've been playing a lot of Style Boutique visiting different Shopdo's and creating outfits. I've just started doing another outfit challenge which is the 25 Day Outfit Challenge. It's been super fun and you can check out the outfits I've created by checking back through my blog feed. Here's a picture I did post for my Valentine's Date outfit because I accidentally took the picture whilst the Zoom icon was up.

I've also been playing a bit of Disney Magical World and working on my collection in the game. I managed to find the final seed I was missing this month and craft the final wand I needed. This month I had a fair bit of luck finding rare items for crafting such as the Truststone Plate so I was able to create lots of items I was missing for my collection. Somehow lucked out and managed to get a few Starfall Radishes this month which I needed to complete recipes and achieve star medals. So it's been a incredibly lucky month in that game. Still working on completing my collection 100% but will need to wait till new seasonal items come round later on this year.

Stationery
A little while ago, I posted about some items I recently got from Daiso. One of those items was a super adorable sheet of stickers. I've been using them in my scheduler this month and they are just too cute! They're super high quality and I like the small size which allows me to write stuff in the same square as the sticker. I will blog about the scheduler I use soon as it's a great item. I've returned to Daiso since I brought the stickers and they are out of stock now. Hopefully they'll get some new cute ones next time I visit as I quite like their range of stickers. I did get a new stamp set which I'll blog about soon.

Too cute!!

Daiso Haul - Super Cute Stickers!!

A while ago, Daiso finally opened up a store here and it stocks the most amazing stationery! It's quite amusing because nothing has a price tag (apart from sale items) so when I go there with friends and someone asks how much an item is, we always say 'almost $2.80!' Because everything is almost $2.80 which is the same as the other Japanese novelty store in town. Daiso has a good layout but they recently moved some stuff around so the sewing/craft stuff is in a different aisle further away from the stationery stuff now.

During my recent visit to Daiso, I picked up a few stationery items. I actually only went to the store for flash cards but ended up getting two other items as well. So I ended up getting the flash cards, a cute stamp set and a sheet of stickers.

First item is the stickers which are so adorable!! You get a large amount of small sized stickers for a cheap price and the quality is pretty good. The stickers are easy to remove from the backing and stick well to most surfaces. I'm using them in my scheduler/planner which they are the perfect size for. The styles of stickers vary from animals to shapes. The grey kitty ones are my favourites along with the Rilakkuma looking bears.

October Favourites

Another month has passed so here are my favourites for the month of October!

Gaming
Still playing Disney Magical World and slowly working my way through it. I'm currently up to 82 stickers and cleared most of the episodes. I'm stuck on defeating the final boss in Aladdin's World and I'm having trouble upgrading the wand as I don't have access to the last item I need for it. It's hard to earn coins in this game compared to the second one so now I've got a system of playing the game a few times a day just to collect coins at the Cafe.

Also in gaming news, I'm super excited for the release of New Style Boutique 3: Styling Star! I can't believe a new one came out so quickly, I'm still playing the second one. I've played the demo a few times and it seems the game is similar to New Style Boutique. The in-game clock system is going to drive me nuts though, I prefer the 3DS clock one.

Music
Didn't pick up any new albums this month, I'm saving up to get E-girls E.G. Crazy album and Dream Ami's Try Everything single. I really wanted to get Dream Ami's album she released this month but it was just too expensive and I already owned nearly all the tracks. That's one thing that frustrates me about j-pop albums, they often have songs I already brought in single form. I would've loved to have gotten the CD+DVD+Photobook version of her album as the cover was stunning, but it's a bit too out of my budget.

Isn't this Dream Ami cover so gorgeous?

Art 
My friend got my some gifts this month from Daiso which has the cutest and quirkiest stationery. A while ago we were in Daiso and found this hilarious pencil caps which are just caps you put on top of your pencil. Turns out my friend brought me a packet and they're actually quite good. It's handy to use on coloured or drawing pencils when you carrying them around in a pencil case. I also got some decorative tape which as an interesting case. It's kinda like a click pen, you click the top and the tape comes out the bottom. Then when you are finished, you just click it again and the tape retracts. I find it better than the usual white-out tape dispenser as I always seem to misplace the lid of mine. The BMO Badge shown in the picture was a gift as well and that comes from a company called We're All Mad Here. I have a super cute Lumpy Space Princess one from them as well that says Whatever It's 2009.

Toys
I had a gift card to use up recently so I decided to pick up two new Barbie Fashionista dolls for my collection. I used to be into Barbie collecting a long time ago, but stopped because my collection got too large (ended up selling half of it) and I wasn't interested in teh dolls that were out at the time. Now I've slowly been getting back into collecting mainly because of the amazing Fashionista dolls that Mattel produces. Fashionista dolls however are hard to get hold of in Australia and I rarely see new ones. I check all the toy stores and departments every week and they're still selling Fashionistas from 2016. I contacted Mattel and they said new ones aren't scheduled for release in Australia until next year which is annoying. Anyway I ended up getting Dolled Up In Dots (Number 13 Original) and Chambray Chic (Number 22 Curvy). I choose the Dolled Up one mainly for the outfit and I choose the Chambray Chic as I did not yet have a curvy doll and I really liked the face mold of this doll. I've already got a petite brunette doll in my collection so now I'm only missing a tall one to have all the different varieties. I also picked up a few outfit sets but I'm planning on making a post about Barbie's soon to cover those.

This month I came across the most adorable mug. Saw these cute Pokemon themed Halloween mugs in a store and they are just perfect! The top one is my favourite as I love the colours on it and how cute Pikachu looks in that Halloween outfit. Halloween merchandise from Japan is always amazing and if I lived there, my place would just be full of so much stuff (especially Rilakkuma which is my number one favourite).