You can never be too early...

I've decided that I'm just going to do as much christmas shopping as I can now, and maybe do some last minute stuff closer to christmas when they do sales and stuff. I think this is a better idea since when the sales come, I really really want to spend money on myself and am all *sad faced* when I must think of my receivers first. Since I've already started with the boyfriend, and just started on mi madre, I decided why not just knock the stuff out now?! So here are plans and purchases for presents SO FAR.

For starters, whom I shopping for includes: Mom, Dad, Brodie, Boyfriend, Best Friend. [boy has my list narrowed over the years o.o]

Mom

I haven't bought anything for mi madre yet, but I always like to spend the most time on her present. Since we're best buds and all I already know what to get her :3.

What I'd like to/Plan on buying

First thing is probably a purse to put everything in. Possibly some things for her Hookah [which I purchased for her for Mother's day :3]

Neko food charm - eBay

Leo Hello Kitty Keycap - eBay 

Purple fuzzy toe socks - Sock Dreams 

Plum midcalf kitty socks [madre likes cats] - Sock Dreams 

Funk blue Calf cat socks - Sock Dreams 

Noir Cat Knee Highs - Sock Dreams

Dad

Pops is quite hard for me to purchase for...since he mainly likes electronics...and Starfish ain't got electronics money. I did have my eye on maybe a carrying case thing for his ipad, or some snazzy carrying case for multiple or any of his electronics lol.

Brodie

Also am not sure what to get this fella...maybe some clothes....most likely some clothes..

Boyfriend

Bought

PLNDR

Germany flag pin - eBay

American Flag Socks - Sock Dreams

Would like to/Plan on buying

Galaxy shirt - eBay

American Flag Backpack [my baby likes Amer. flag] - eBay

Aztec Print Socks [if he doesn't end up buying them himself -_-] - Sock Dreams

Best Friend [Sara]

Lastly, is my best friend Sara. I will more than likely be getting her a purse with some red themed jewelry pieces, and maybe some tupac things. I saw this Tupac Good Wood Gun necklace that I'm sure she'd like....just gotta find where to get my hands on it again -_-.

As you can see...I've mainly been getting things for the boyfriend...well..he's on my mind a lot and I laptop screen shop a lot and I see things he may enjoy..a lot lol.

'Til next time

Starfish Out!

Helly Kitty X Street Fighter @Sanrio

Capcom and Sanrio team up for 

an exciting collaboration 

featuring your favorite 

Street Fighter and Sanrio characters

My favorite items from the collection:

Purin as Zangief

Badtz Maru Ryu Vs. Hello Kitty Chun-Li

Badtz Maru as Ryu

Can be found here

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

Swap Update!

I've been slowly working on a couple swaps. One is to Krystal R. who hit me up on tumblr [cannot remember her tumblr D:] for a $50 Hello Kitty Swap, but...I explained this in this post [at the bottom]. Here is an update on her package:

Including [L-R]:
- Hello Kitty Sticker Box
- Hello Kitty Strawberry filled marshmallows
- various other hello kitty snacks
- Hello Kitty Glue
- Hello Kitty bell charm
- Hello Kitty Snowball themed plush
- Hello Kitty themed plastic phone case for her phone
- Hello Kitty pencil pouch
- Hello Kitty mechanical pencil
- Hello kitty sticker sheet
- Hello kitty blank cards
-Hello Kitty ipod sock
- Hello Kitty lanyard
Is it annoying to see hello kitty that many times?

I would be about done if only the rest of the items I ordered online would come in. The only thing that I've received so far was the phone case.

  

I had asked her if she had an iPhone since they have so many hello kitty themed cases but she didn't and I was able to find one for her phone!

The other swap I've been working on is the Fill-A-Bag swap with paperfun on flickr. The bag hasn't come in yet still, but the swap isn't due til august so it's ok. 

Here's what it is so far:

Included [L-R]:
- Hello Kitty mini notebook
- 4x6 Ruu&Suu memo pad
- 4x6 Piggy Girl memo pad
- Die-cut Teddy Burger memo pad
- Zodiac Girls 3D sticker sheet
- Miki and friends stamps sticker sheet
- Two Monotone panda long memo pads
[Gently Used, she asked for gently used memo pads also]
- Star and cupcake cabochons

I want to do a good bit more swaps before school starts in August, but we'll see.

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

Bento Love

I hadn't noticed the amount of Bento boxes and accessories I had, until I found my "collection" in a cabinet downstairs in the kitchen. I know I had the Panda one in my room with me since it's the most recent one I had gotten, and I knew of the Hello Kitty "house" one I had since I used that one during high school but totally forgot about the others.
With that said, here's my bento collection:

Hello Kitty House Bento Box
Received in a Swap
was bought from Janetstore

Apart

Egg molds
Bear and bunny

open

Chi Chai Monchan 1-tier Bento Box with slot for utensils 

Hello Kitty 1-tier Bento Box.
Spot under top for utensils and  a divider.

various cups, picks, utensils, and sauce bottles

Panda Bento Box
Received in a Swap

2-tier box with belt

can "change" expressions with the belt

I think I may have two more, but they're more like tubberware containers ^_^. I need to find reasons to use them ASAP! I don't like my collection sitting doing nothing lol.

A few sites that provide Bentos:

modes4u

kawaiishopjapan

shopkawaii

and ebay ^_^

By the way, I received this ask in my inbox on tumblr

This made my day! I love to help people finding kawaii and for her to say I was an "expert" hahaha I'm too much. 

♡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♡