April Favourites

Cannot believe April has come to an end, that month just seemed to go on forever! I feel like I didn't do much and then I feel like I did too much. It was super busy at work and hopefully will die down now. Honestly I'm not sure what to write in this month's favourites as I didn't recall much I did outside of work. I haven't been playing any video games at all as I've just lost interest currently. Maybe if my local Nintendo club starts back up, it might inspire me a bit. We had to put meetings on hiatus due to the pandemic and it's never started back up again. I do miss going into town to them as it was fun to check out all the niche stores and the local book chain as re-opened in a larger heritage building and I'm dying to check it out! Someday this month I might make the trip into town as I thinking I might need some buttons from a sewing store that is only in town.

I've been super into journaling during April and trying to do it everyday. Last month I posted about the new bullet journal I brought from Aliexpress and it is amazing! The quality of the paper is outstanding and I love how there is no bleed through. Well worth it and if I fill this one up quick, I'll get another one. I'm thinking of maybe trying a Hobonichi next year as I want to get more serious with this hobby but they are so expensive to import here. This week a large order from Aliexpress arrived which is where I buy most of my craft supplies. I seriously need to cut back on the stickers as I cannot close the box I store some of them in currently! This lot was just too cute and will be put to good use.

Music

Only one new CD this month as I'm trying to cut back my collection. But I've been looking for Britney Spears' Blackout album for years and never had much luck. Well I was at Salvo's yesterday and guess what? It was there! I couldn't believe it as I've never seen it anywhere and I've been looking in Op Shops for a few years now. Super excited as I used to own the album and somehow lost it one day. Nice addition to the collection and I think that might be one of the last Britney albums I need. Anyway, I'll end this month's favourites with some songs I've been enjoying lately. See you in May!

January Favourites

I am so happy this month is finally over as it has been something. There was a lot of issues with the pandemic here and I haven't been out at all besides work and medical appointments. The latter was a big one as I had some surgery on my leg and luckily it is getting much better now. After years of difficulty, my leg is finally back to normal and not painful anymore. Anyway onto the monthly favourites for this month and I feel like I didn't do much. 

Oh one thing that did happen was that I started a tumblr again! I used to have one many years ago but unfortunately deleted it! Got bored the other day and decided to restart one up. I'm not very good at using the site at the moment so please excuse how terrible it looks. Please give me a follow if you use the site as well ♡ My tumblr is just for mindless stuff really that I fancy and think is cute. Expect lots of j-pop/k-pop content as well as some Style Boutique and other gaming posts. You can find me at https://marzipanwonderland.tumblr.com/ 

Gaming

Been playing a fair bit of both Animal Crossing New Horizons and Styling Star. Also played some Cooking Mama whilst I was recovering. I've just started decorating my house in Animal Crossing which is gonna take forever as I'm just kind of winging it and seeing what works. I've got plans for a few rooms but it would be great if the side rooms were larger. I have been making lots of new outfits in Styling Star so I will have quite a few to share on here!

Stationery

I filled up my very first journal the other day and I'm quite proud of myself. One for sticking to journaling often and for actually filling up an entire notebook! My workmates always joke about never using notebooks as they are too nice and I felt like that too. But then I realised the paper is just sitting there doing nothing and it's much nicer to use it for it's purpose. I brought this Scooby-Doo notebook ages ago at work as I thought it was groovy but never used it. Then one day I decided to take up journaling and the rest is history. I did manage to add nearly 2 extra centimetres to the notebook from all the stickers and papers I added! Oops! My new journal is the same style but with Pusheen on it (got suckered again at work by the cuteness).

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.