Hong Kong Asian Market!

*Dances* My parents seem to have fallen in love with our local asian market! That means more visits for me >:D. Purchasing produce from there costs substantially less than at our grocery store. Even less than the farmer's market. Here are my spoils :3

*drools*

 

 

 

Ok so let's see. I picked up The Assorted Jelly sticks first because my Significant Other said that he loves them...So I picked up the biggest jar >_>. lol. If I care about people and learn about something that they like...then I HAVE to give it to them and spoil them lol. Along with the jelly sticks, I got him a bowl and matching spoon since he was taking the chopsticks and bowl from the pho place we had a date at lol. I also bought bendy straws for us whenever we go get something to drink because he likes bendy straws :3. 
The two other non-food items are two different ice molds. One that makes cubes that fit in water bottles, and one with cute shapes [including stars ^_^!].
Onto the food items that are for me :3. I got two things of bin bin, one for me and one for my mommy. A things of assorted mochi with peach, mango, and pineapple flavors. A bag of Strawberry flavored Hi-chew [omnomnom]. A bag of Strawberry filled Hello Kitty Marshmallows for my $50 Hello Kitty swap with menstrual-poetry. Two bags of Shrimp Snacks, Bar B Que and Onion & Garlic flavor. Three of the Look Chocolates because OMG they are so flippin yummy! Lastly, two boxes of Hello Kitty Cookie snacks.
Whoo, alright that's about it for that trip.
Tomorrow the Significant Other and I are going photographing :3. I bought a double pack of disposable cameras from walmart the on Saturday, and three mini photo albums [also from walmart saturday], so we're going to take em and go exploring :3. We're also bringing my digital cameras. I subconsciously want him to learn the buttons on the Nikon, and it would be easier for him to learn on my D60 than my D3100 ^_^. I'm quite excited if everything goes along well. 

♡o(๑◕‿◕๑)o♡LovePeaceHappiness♡o(๑◕‿◕๑)o♡

Swap Crazy (≧ω≦)

The two years I've been at college, I've been far far FAAARRR away from the "Swap-Lyfe". Reasons like: all the people I knew on flickr [where I'd mainly do the lovlier swaps] had fallen off the face of MY earth [they were still quite active...just not with me *sadface*], the flickr swaps that I WAS doing...sucked [sorry, but truthful], and the swaps on swap-bot ended up being quite depressing as well. 

This summer coming home from college has actually turned it around, and I have magically [whoo magic] come across some actual decent [ok amazing] swappers ^_^! It warms my heart to be able to send a total stranger a lovely package that I know they will love, and them do the same for me while making a new friend at the same time! I am guilty of re-gifting things I receive in swaps, but in retrospect who isn't? If I can't find a use for something but I know this person will heck yeah I'm going to send it to them!

The latest one's name is Paperfun [yes I'm giving you her flickr name because I don't want to put her business out like that lol], and we just hit it off completely. We had done a swap back in March as our first private swap together.

Received from her 

Sent to her

After this, we decided to do a "Big Swap"/Fill-a-bag swap together and I think our budget was $50, but at this point we had both forgotten our budget and theme [except that we were "filling" a bag] anyways and have just been buying things for eachother lol. Well, one reason is because we scheduled to send out in August, but then again we also get along quite well so the want to please the other is great [ha hopefully that doesn't sound too awkward]

Her "sneak peek" for me
*dies* my luff for domo..le gasp 

My "sneak peek" for her.
She hadn't wanted a sneak peek, but I thought since this wasn't
most of the items, I'd show her anyways ^_^.

Since she doesn't follow my blog, I'll post the rest of the swap when the items come in, but yeah not right now lol. Oh, and also she has a plethora of new lovely items up for adoption o.o!

This is only the plush, she has stationary items and such also
check her page HERE

The next person I haven't completed the swap process with yet, only because I had recently been flaked on by someone with a similar default photo, and she has absolutely no photos of swaps she's done before posted on her flickr. She also hasn't posted the photo of what she's supposed to be sending me though she said she would on the 11th. So I am quite iffy about sending out the items I had initially purchased for her.

Tis what I am supposed to send, but she hasn't even put up photos for me
so as of now, it's staying here

On her page it stated that she really liked hello kitty, so I tried to go all out and get her mainly hello kitty items. If she does in fact turn out being a flaker, then these items will be used for a different swap that I am working on...which will be talked about at the end, and you shall see why.
On a lighter/happier note, I have had the privilege of doing quite the lovely swap with a girl on tumblr [Erynne]. I'm normally quite skeptical of random people who hit me up for swap, but she was the most legit random person who has hit me up. She sent me a video of the items she had to offer, since pictures are hard for her to produce. I mean, I don't know what to say about her other than wow. In a good way though. If you're looking for a swap partner hit her up for sure! She is looking to do more kawaii swaps. I received her package to me today, and am sending out her side tomorrow. I'll only show what she's sent me since we agreed on surprise, and I'll upload the photo after she receives.

flippen lovely to the tenth power

She even said she liked my hair ^_^ which is never weird to hear for me trust me!

*whew* Alrighty! onto the swap that I'm working on now! So another lovely person has hit me up on tumblr about doing a swap. She had initially suggested a Hello Kitty swap with a budget of $50, but me being quite picky when it comes to hello kitty items we've rendered it a bit. I WILL in fact be sending her $50 worth of hello kitty items that I hope she will love, and she will be sending me $50 worth of goodies form my wishpot. If I am being flaked on, then the items that were supposed to be sent to le other chic [see above lol] will be for this lovely gal. I have a couple Hello Kitty items in my possession now and have also JUST purchased these two items for her:

Hello Kitty battery powered clock

Hello Kitty stainless steel chopsticks
she had a pair of chopsticks on her wishpot, but I feel like these stainless
steel ones will be better for when being washed and used over and over.

Meh, so yeah that is the gist of my current Swapping life. It's going fairly smoothly as of now, and I'm back into enjoying participating in it again.

♡o(๑◕‿◕๑)o♡LovePeaceHappiness♡o(๑◕‿◕๑)o♡

Happy Birthday to me! [yesterday]

DISCLAIMER: This post may be longer than usual o.o lol
I had a delightful Birthday. I woke up at around 12, and chilled in bed for an hour. Then mommy and I left the house at 1 to go shopping all day since I had gotten a lovely amount of birthday money. I hadn't asked for any gifts, and I kind of only wanted to go shopping so it magically worked out the way I wanted it to :3. We went to Discover Mills since it has a good amount of Kawaii stores along with clothing stores that I enjoy. I spent $111 and some change in total. I like to shop as if I don't have money so then I can pick up things I actually want and not just impulse buy. Also being a cheap-o gets you more goodies lol.

We stopped at Ross first. It had been so long since I had gone shopping at a Ross. It felt so nice to step foot inside once again. Haha. I meant to buy a "Summer" bag/purse, but got sidetracked by the clothes...as you can see.

Ocean Breeze Flow Dresses [sharing with mommy] $8.99 each 

Ocean Breeze [left] $9.99 and SOL [right] $12.99 Flow Dresses [sharing with mommy] 

Derek Heart long shirt/tight dress $6.99 

Lapis dress/skirt [left] $15.99 and Sunflower dress/skirt [right] $8.99

I've noticed that I'm starting to like dresses a lot more now.Probably because it's something easy to stick on in the summer time, and it gets enough breeze. Plus, I've come to the realization that yes, I am cute and I can wear cute clothing instead of sticking to boyish outfits lol. BUT I DIGRESS lol. 
After fiddling around in Ross, we stopped at the first Kawaii-esque store that came up, which is called Pica Pica. I didn't get too too much. Just a few goodies for a future swap and some anime posters for my wall back at school.

- 2 Funny Sticker World Piggy puff sticker sheets [one for future swaps, and one to keep]
- 2 Q-lia Petit Cream Cafe mini memo pads [one for future swaps, and one to keep]
- 1 My melody x Kuromi purple mechanical pencil.

designs of the mini memo pads 

Posters! One of my neighbor Totoro [which will make it two that I own now]
and four Black Rock Shooter posters [with will make it five that I own now]

After that fun trip, we stopped at this store called Silvina. They had some really nice clothing pieces, but it was more than what I wanted to pay for them at the moment so I only walked out with a halter top and a bandeau. I needed a new bandeau since I had accidentally destroyed by lace ones, and the halter top was just too cute.

Halter Top was $7.99 and the Bandeau was only $3.99

We stopped at earthbound afterwards to restock on incense and cones. Both mommy and I got 100. I mixed it up and got incense and cones while my mommy only bought 100 cones lol. Oh, and if you sign up for their mailing list on the website, they'll email you a 20% off coupon :D!

I embarrassingly spelled Lavender wrong...

After leaving there and walking around we arrived at the last two stores I wanted to step in, Papaya and Lydia's Art Box. 
I stumbled upon one treasure in Papaya. I picked up a sweater since I dont care the season it is. If I can get clothes that I'll need for a different season cheaper than SO BE IT! lol. And boy was that sweater cheap! The price on the tag said $3, but I didn't notice that all clearance items were take an additional 30% off! so I paid 2.23 in total for the sweater!

Lydia's artbox is the other Kawaii-esque store that I favor at Discover Mills. They have a Sanrio store, but nothing ever jumps out at me making me want it. I got a bit more at Lydia's than what I bought at Pica Pica because I wanted to get some Hello Kitty items for a swap I'm getting ready for in June. 

All the HK items are for the swap
- pencil pouch
- sticker sheet
- lanyard
- glue
- ink pen
- cell phone charm with bell
Fabris Pastels are for myself [$2.99]
and the Domo cell charm plush is for myself [$2.99]

That was it for mall shoppings. We left at around 6 or so, then headed to the asian market cuz I wanted some snacks lol. 

- Tohato Caramel Corn snacks
- Senjaku Candy Land Hello Kitty Hard candies
- Morinaga Strawberry Hi-Chew
- BinBin Rica Crackers
- Kabaya Canbaby Soda Tachi Candy
- Kabaya Canbaby Budou Tachi Candy
- Glico Tomato flavor Pretz
- Kabaya Strawberry Hello Kitty Pocky
- Kabaya Hello Kitty Nodoame

The different flavors of the Kabaya Canbaby candies 

Hi-Chew nomnomnom 

HK candies are flower shaped :3 

and come with a collectable sticker...Merry Christmas XD 

 That was pretty much all of my birthday. Later on I got visited by some friends and hung out for the rest of the night. Some negativity did happen around midnight, but I'm going to ignore it and move on instead of talking about it (≧ω≦).

I hope everyone's Memorial day weekend has gone as delightfully as mine ^_^ I'm also supposed to be getting one of my cartilages pierced [the left ear] for my birthday, but it'll be happening another day.

♡o(๑◕‿◕๑)o♡LovePeaceHappiness♡o(๑◕‿◕๑)o♡