One of my blog sponsors, Blippo – Japan & Kawaii shop, who provided awesome prizes for my December giveaway, also sent me a super cute stationery package! They offer free shipping, and their packages ship out of their warehouse in Hong Kong (so it may take a week or two to get to you!).

I’d have to say my favorite item in the package is the Yummy Eraser set!

The only problem with erasers like these is that you’ll never use them since you won’t want to ruin them!

I also received a Lifestyle Calendar Book. It has a sweet and simple, plastic-covered cover, and I was surprised to find that the inside had lots of different things in it like little sayings, images of knitted flowers or felted hearts, day-of-the-week grids, and tons of places to take notes.

Blippo has a LOT of cute notebooks and stationery. Some favorites are the Burger/Sandwich memo pad, Blythe note paper, Chocolate memo pad.

I also got these neat emoticon stickers! They are currently out of stock, though!

Some other cool sticker sets: Rilakkuma sticker set, Animal sticker set, Blythe sticker set.

And finally, I got this cute little mechanical pencil that looks like a real pencil and says “Life creative.”

More cute writing tools: Popcorn Otoki pencil & eraser set, Bunny Pen, Ice Cream Pen.

Blippo sells way more than just cute stationery. They also have purses, Japanese magazines, snacks and candy, cell phone accessories, and more!

Thank you, Blippo, for the super cute package!

I saw the most adorable photo on Instagram posted by yayoichang of two French bulldogs in some cute headgear.

I then knew it was my mission in life to crochet one for Bibi! I tried to leave the pattern pretty flexible so that you cam make one to fit your own pet. I don’t know that Bibi actually NEEDS something like this, as her body temp runs really warm, but you can’t say no to cute photo ops!

I designed the head band to be double layered, because that’s how it looked to me in the photos. So the pattern is basically a tube (which is working both layers at the same time when you squish the tube flat) that you crochet until the length can fit around your pet’s head.  Then you just stick some ears on top. Easy!

p.s. I can’t vouch for whether these will actually stay on your pet’s head for any amount of time. One good shake and Bibi’s ears went flying! I guess I would call these more of a photo prop! I think I made mine too small and they were also jutting into my neck a bit…but they were definitely WARM.

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Candace came through SF last week for some brief visits while she traveled back and forth to Hawaii.  Right before I took her to the airport, we decided to hit up the mall and take photos with Santa in our matching JapanLA Clothing x Sanrio sweaters!

I’m also wearing a TinyTangerines deer headband, and it’s kind of the best thing ever.

At the mall, we also went stir crazy at the little Japanese dollar store, and Candace got really excited about 1) toilet brushes and 2) GreeNoodles made out of a mysterious green vegetable thing that makes the noodles “deliciously chewy.” I ended up getting 4 different kinds of Pocky and some other edible stuff, but I’m too lazy to pull the image off my camera.

I realized that it’s probably a good thing that Candace and I don’t live close to each other, because, we go shopping-crazy!!!!! Would I have bought a $10 Transformers t-shirt if I hadn’t been with her? I think no! Do I regret it? Also NO!

I kind of failed to take pictures of my booth this year, since it was the same as last year’s booth. I kinda regret that now, but…..oh well! Here are a few Instagram snaps! I made a giant crocheted gingerbread man this year for the fair, and even though he barely fit into the car, I kinda felt like maybe he looked lonely by himself by the DJ booth. I would have loved to have time to make like 6 of them! Holiday orders really surprised me this year, which is awesome! But time-consuming! 😀 My buddy Elysse helped me out in the booth on Saturday. She was also my helper at my very very first craft show ever, which was the very first Maker Faire, and I believe, the very first Bazaar Bizarre in SF back in 2006.

Here’s a photo I found from it! My meat box is my cash box. I realized the night before my first show that I needed a cash box, so I panicked and made one out of a cardboard box and some random stickers. Inside, I hot-glued cardboard strips to create dividers for cash. I still use that same cardboard box to this day!!! I can’t believe it hasn’t turned to mush yet!

This is happening this weekend! Come on out! I’ll see you there!