Snail Mail /10

So this utterly amazing parcel appeared in my mailbox the other week. It had traveled all the way from Spain, sent from the lovely Damaris who blogs at The Cat you and Us! You already know that she is one of my favourite blog gals and I'm sure we would be ultra friends in real life too :) Her parcel was so so special and everything in it made me do huge big smiles!!!

When you first find a Gachapon capsule, pastel pink and twine you know things are going to be wonderful :)

I made sure (before diving in) to appreciate all the pretty tape she had used on all the little parcels!

Wowsers! Blown away + cheeks hurting from smiling so much! I have to mention that adorable cat purse because I don't think I got a good close up photo of it. Damaris was also very smart to include the little info card inside to know it's by Kishboo! They make such pretty bags and jewellery!

Check out that adorable Christmas card, I can't imagine a card more perfect and yup it definitely matches our pink tree! On a side note we thought we might have issues this year with Peachy and the tree but she was happy just to munch on the bottom non-breakable ornaments :) OH OH and Japnese kit Kat!!!!

On an extra side note, it's been a really intense last week with Peachy suffering a brown snake bite.  Peachy is a warrior princess though and despite being still really sick, I have lots of faith in her full recovery :)  I might blog a bit more about it all but she's still in the thick of it so it's nice for me at the moment to distract myself with super happy things like snail mail!!! 99% of the other time I'm giving Peachy gentle pats and telling her how pretty she is :) :)

How frighten cute is that patch and sticker by Pony People, Ben remarked afterwards that I pretty much have to make that planter now - eep, we'll see might be a big challenge!!

The Japanese candies were so perfect, we both got to travel to Japan last year (separately *sad face*) and Damaris and Dani are still blogging their awesome adventures of Japan over on their blog at the moment.  They take such amazing photos you definitely need to have a peep!

Ariel biscuit! oh my gosh, how cute is that and I can personally say the apple crackers were one of the best things I've eaten :)

And then an actual Ariel pin from their trip To Disney Sea! *gasp* it's now one of the most special things I own, it's glittery and pretty and the clasp on the back is shaped as Mickey! How cool is that! I wore it out the other day and was super worried about losing it but it seems to secure really well so I probably should get over that paranoia! Oh and the Gachapon had Sailor Uranus!! Eep, so so wonderful and I feel so lucky to have received everything inside :) :) So much thanks, special lady!

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My Birthday haul

Gosh I got showered with gifts this year, I like seeing what other people get for their birthdays and I like showing off too, so without further ado, my goodies....

This was a present from my Mum, I didn't previously know about fortune teller fish but turns out they're awesome!  Essentially it's a plastic fish that you put on you palm and how it reacts tells your fortune.

When I put the fish in my palm it's head moved (jealousy) but then it flipped over so I'm guess I'm not really jealous :p When Ben tried he got moving head and tail - so I guess he's in love :)

My friend's Dan and Jess got me an awesome package from Daiso (Japanese store) so much Japanese candies!

My friend Kylie got me a scratchie which I just found out I won $12 bucks on - woohoo. I'm going to buy another one with my winnings and save the half left over. Do you guys buy more scratchies or run away with the winnings?

The rest of the Daiso loot. I feel I'm going to be warm this winter. I'm one of those people who feels the cold and with the temperatures dropping of late, I'm grateful for extra ways to rug up :)

My cousin Heather and Dan's present was so nicely packaged! It came with the above card (3d cat card - woohoo!) and also lots of parcel wrapped in the same cat themed wrapping paper all inside a pink barbie box. Heather always goes above and beyond with presentation 10/10 for sure :)

And inside all those beautiful wrapped parcels were the sweetest gifts, a bunny jumper and frilly socks, oh my goodness - cuteness to the max!

and bunny lights!!!

plsu a whole bunch of cute stationery, if you read my cat blog, you'll know I'm a sucker for those choo choo cats

My family not only loaded me up with money (thank-you family!) but I also got a sweet bundle of gifts, the cat toys were the best idea ever. After hours and hours of play they're no longer looking so pretty but I take that as a lovely sign that Gremlin approved!

I couldn't get a good photo of this card but it is the best shade of pink and super glittery (my big bro knows me too well)

I think I mentioned Emaya gave me a ridiculous thoughtful gift, not only an amazing tea towel by able and game (cool Aussie illustrators) but she got me a plane ticket to go visit her in Melbourne. Her thoughtfulness is so crazy, I mean she flew up for my birthday and then had the thought to fly me down as well! Yikes so amazing :)

This necklace above I got a few weeks before my birthday from my friend's Niece. We all went to the movies together and whilst waiting in line for popcorn she thrust a plastic bag towards me. She's maybe 6 so it was hard to work out why I was getting a plastic bag but we narrowed it down to having a present inside for me. She then told me it was a necklace and I kind of got a little way too excited! As we sat down in the cinema I unwrapped the tapped covered paper to discover a toy sized wheelie bin inside. Not quite the necklace I was expecting but then I realised I needed to look inside :P

Definitely something I would/will totally wear too. I asked if she wanted her wheelie bin back and we both left happy with the exchange :) Still not sure why I got such an awesome necklace but I'm going to guess she has amazing intuition and knew my birthday was around the corner :p

Our awesome artist friend Phil gave me one of his art pack, choked full of goodness. I still have to blog about our outing together but to be honest haven't even looked at those photo yet apart form pulling out all the flower photos for Floral Friday :)

Ben's mum got me a cute kimono card, don't you love getting cards in the mail?
And Ben got me the most outrageous/awesome gift ever...

A tiger bag!!! He got it from a country fair he visited whilst out at work. The bag itself has some stories attached like cheering up a girl who tried to commit suicide, so I like to think of it as a lucky omen, I just have to work out where I can wear it. It's not the most practical of bags, because the content part is just at the back and they haven't really utilied the head for storage but even if I just hang it up for display it will look amazing in my room :)

So yup another super lucky year for me :)

*ROARRR*

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