NEW Hime Decoden Iphone Case!!!

Yesterday night when I was packing up a case to ship off, I decided to do a new decoden iPhone case!!! It's time that I used the pearls that I bought a while ago~

Whoo, isn't it beautiful~ Time that I used that Louis Vuitton cabochon too!

This is on sale at my etsy: http://www.etsy.com/listing/107417417/hime-pearl-decoden-iphone-4-case

Pink Decoden Box

Looks lovely~ All the cabochons were handmade!
On dA: http://phamalama.deviantart.com/art/Pink-Decoden-Box-322243008

I also made chocolate with spare cold porcelain from the batch that I made from the cold porcelain post... it really lasts a long time! But it should definitely be used within a few weeks of making it!

This was edited on Pixlr, an online photo-editor with photoshop-lite qualities! It has layers, gradients, levels, vibrance, adjust size, crop, etc. I add a lot of stuff to my photoshop on my macbook so it loads really slowly (especially if you install tons of fonts!). Sometimes pixlr works much better for quick photograph edits~

Also, someone PMed me on dA saying that they wanted to use my photographs to make stuff and sell it??? Just a reminder that I do NOT allow it and watermarks are there for a reason~ 

Luna Bowtique Review~

I'm back from a week of vacation in Austin, TX! I had a lot of fun visiting my grandma and eating pho and other Vietnamese food with my mom's friends. It's really weird going around the city since the gas stations are always different in various parts of the USA and that HEBs populate every surrounding area instead of Walmarts! I love the fact that Asian food is easier to find there. I stuck out like a sore thumb with my midwestern accent!!! I don't travel by plane much so getting past security and barely boarding our flight on time on the way back was a challenge! (ps use fastpass parking to save money when going on trips!)

Boy, I was super happy to get some packages in the mail~

Hello Kitty swap from swap-bot.com!!! We sent $4+ worth of HK stuff to one partner! It was my first package swap so I hope everything got to my partner in Argentina... idk how long mail takes to get there!

My next package was from Luna Bowtique, a bow store! I actually didn't buy a bow but instead went for the Swimmer Alpaca comb/mirror~ I am so obsessed with alpaca right now! They also had a deal that if you spent a certain amount of money, you got a free bow! Make sure to visit their tumblr for promotions, updates, and customer photos~

Added some cute deco tape to outer package~ 

Ooh, extras!!!

I'm guessing they bought it directly from Swimmer bc just look at that SUPER CUTE sticker!!!

The heart sticker is PRECIOUS!!! 

All of my items~ Loved the extra memo sheets!

Up close and personal! Please visit my alpaca blog: http://macaronchan.tumblr.com for more cute pics!

I would rate this a 5/5 for easy online shopping, good communication, EXTRAS, and quick shipping in USA. I would buy from this seller again (if I wore bows that often! Thanks for selling this hard-to-find item!)

New official website!

I made a website: kokorosweets.weebly.com. Please visit it for a complete look at the creations that I've made so far! :D This will still be my blog but it's great to have a more professional site.

Mitsuwa Summer Festival!!!

It still hasn't kicked in that it's August already! Yesterday, I went to Mitsuwa Marketplace in Chicago for their summer festival~ It was super fun since I live about 2 hours away so it's always a trip full of spending money on stuff! I think the exchange rate is not so good right now *sobs* (according to google, 1 Japanese yen = 0.0127 US dollars) so I spent a lot of money in the bookstore. To add to the pain, Chicago has like the highest sales tax in the USA: 9.5%!!! (´°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥ω°̥̥̥̥̥̥̥̥｀) But I love buying manga and Japanese magazines and such in person so it was totally worth it! (I think) It was super hot from 1pm to 4pm but then there was a severe weather alert! So we went to a nearby mall (with the help of a local friend) to chill until it the storminess was over. I don't trust myself to drive back home in that weather. And we ended up just hanging out there until we had to leave~ (〜￣▽￣)〜

Here are some pics from the festival!

Roll the dice game! I was lucky since I got double 3s so I won the pack of Lucky snack! 

One of my friends tries to catch fish in the classic goldfish scooping game!
She got 3 fish! >゜))))彡

TAKOYAKI! (Kero & Suppi battle for the last takoyaki)

All the masks!!! They had a lot of Precure & Hello Kitty masks...
(Pikachu was in the back!)

Taiko drumming! The kids were cute and the drumming was amazing!

My haul pics:

Got the Cosmode partially bc Fate/Zero was on the cover! I loved Rrider in the anime and LOLed at the RL cosplay Caster. Also, KERA, BeBoy GOLD, Rilakkuma memo pad, Heartbroken Chocolatier vol.04

Do you know about Guilt | Pleasure? This is a BL group that does yaoi manga. It consists of Jo Chen/TogaQ (one of my favorite artists of all time! Check out her Buffy comic cover illustrations!) and Kichiku Neko (writer). You have to show your ID in order to buy BL/yaoi manga magazines since they're 18+! Otherwise, stick to buying your guy on guy manga online...

Forever 21 earrings & necklace, Little Stars memo pad, Hello Kitty mech pencil, Pikachu mask, Nerunerunerune, cookie cutters with stamps, Rilakkuma ReMent, Lucky Stick

Opening the ReMent! Gonna try making that series out of polymer clay!

EXTRA!!!

A self-portrait of me~ Jk the mask is kinda creepy on an older person

Who's wearing the pikachu mask??? 

PIKACHU!!! /inception

Charm update for Sabyloves contest entry

It's the same charms that I showed you earlier last month (since today is August OMG) but now in a video! ^_^ This was all made for a contest entry for Sabyloves, a youtuber who makes wonderful charms and tutorials~

Finally figured out a setup for filming using only scrapbook paper~

PS I just sold my first thing on etsy yesterday! That strawberry pink decoden case was bought and ILU whoever bought it!!! I'm modding the black case too for another seller

PPS I am watching so much of the Olympics... it is a bad obsession! GO TEAM USA!!! (congrats on the women gymnastics team on the gold, Lithuania getting gold in 100 breast, Ye Shiwen being awesome and winning gold despite the NBC white male announcer haters, Ryan Lochte for beating Michael this time, Marcel Nguyen being a fine mofo representing VIETNAMESE people in Germany gymnastics, Tom Daley for being such a cutie, Australian hurdler that shakes her hips like no other and wins her race, and finally... the eternal question: #IS THIS THE OLYMPICS OR GAY PORN)