December 2017 Japan Crate

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Time for another Japan Crate review!! I ordered this bow around Thanksgiving, because of a reason I'll explain later, and finally got it this past Friday! The box is SO CUTE and I'm not just saying that because green is my favorite color. ;) I like the design on this month's box, it's very festive!

So pretty, and look at those snacks!! The pamphlet is very small this month, but that's ok! it still has everything we're used to in it, it's just skinny and one sheet! So, let's go ahead and get started with the snacks in this box!

For the first few items I pulled out of the box, starting from the left, we've got the Christmas Shimichoco Corn! These are corn puff stars with chocolate and omg, I LOVE these things! Japan Crate has given us a bag before and I loved them then, and still love them now. They're crispy with a great amount of chocolate and just taste great!

The second snack is the Sour Cream and Onion Scones. And no, these aren't the scones you're thinking of. They're more like Cheetos! They tasted pretty good, there was a definite slight sour cream and onion flavor, but obviously it wasn't as strong as the kind you'd get from say, Pringles. They were really good though! I ate the bag in two days because they were super good lol.

The third item is the DIY kit for this month, and it's the Minions Furifuri Shake! This looks like a fun little kit to make quickly! It just uses the powder that's included, milk, and an ice cube! It's shaken up for 30 seconds and then you have a banana "shake" to drink! I can't wait to try it!

This set of snacks starts with the Christmas Black Thunder bar in mini sizes! There were two of these in the box, and omg, I regret never having had a Black Thunder bar before!! These are so good and chocolatey, and the cookie inside added a nice crunch!

Next is the Christmas Chocolate Daifuku! I've had this before in different packaging, and while the description in the pamphlet implies this is supposed to be like mochi, it was really just a marshmallow with a bit of chocolate in the middle, but it was still good!

Third is the Tasty Ice Cream Mini Bake Kit Kat bars! Two mini packs, and these taste just like vanilla ice cream! I didn't try the baking part for the first pack, but maybe I will for the second one!

The next snack is the Butter Cream Roll Cake! This looks like it's going to be a vanilla cake with butter cream in the middle! I've had a strawberry one of these before and it was good, now I get to try a new flavor!

Finally in this set, is the Awadama Red, a dagashi hard candy! This is supposed to be an apple flavored candy, the pamphlet says it it'll have a "fizzy" taste, so I wonder if this will fizz when I eat it!

he next set of snacks taken from the box begins with the Christmas Fugashi. This is a sugar covered wheat puff, and I believe they've sent this before as well, and it was a pretty good!

The next two items are both Umaibo snacks! There's the Christmas Umaibo, which is chocolate, and the Christmas Corn Potage Umaibo, which was a sweet corn flavor. I've really loved getting the Umaibo snacks and these are really good.

Third is the Constellation Chocolate, which is a little biscuit covered in chocolate. Each cookie has an imprint of a Zodiac figure on it, and mine has Taurus! It was a really good cookie and the chocolate was delicious as well~

Last for this picture is the Christmas Fueramune. It's one of the whistle candies and it came in a raumne flavor! Very good for whistling and eating! ;)

This is the last picture of snacks, and it includes our drink for this month!

First is the Tohato Christmas Caramel Corn! I love this stuff so much, the texture is so nice and the flavor is great! It's not like Western caramel corn at all, but it's still so good and I love how it tastes!

The drink is Cassis and Orange Orangina! The cassis is black current flavor mixed with the orange flavor, and that honestly sounds super good to me. I can't wait to give this a taste and see how it is!

Finally, this is the reason for my ordering this crate! For Black Friday, Japan Crate had an offer where if you signed up for a subscription, you would get $5 off your crate and a PokeBall bonus item with a little Pokemon figure in it, based on one of 10 Pokemon from the latest movie (Pikachu is feature twice, counted as two different figures)! I got an Ultra Ball and a tiny little Piplup figure!! I didn't expect the piece of candy to be in the ball, but that's cool too! The Piplup is too small, I hope I don't lost it, and the Ultra Ball is a great display piece itself!

So that's it for the December Japan Crate! All in all, this was a great crate for the end of the year! Lots of good snacks, new and old, and it all tastes great (from what I've eaten so far lol)!

Hopefully, if my monetary situation is looking good after buying textbooks for the spring, I'll be able to hold onto my Japan Crate subscription for a bit, and continue reviewing it along with having tasty snacks! So stay tuned, and we'll see what happens! :)

Amazon Order Products Review

This is not an affiliated or sponsored post with Amazon. I did not receive these products for free, I purchased them myself.

Well this is going to be a big post haha. I received a $40 Amazon gift card as a gift recently at work, and I finally got to use it! I made this order on April 29, and it finally arrived at my house on May 7. (If would have been here earlier if I had used my mom's Amazon account, but, it's fine. There are reasons I didn't and I was ok with waiting...for the most part.)

So, four of these items are just things I wanted/needed, and three of them are very personal. I will talk about two of these items more than the other, because the other is going to be used for a very special reason. Maybe one day I'll share what it's for, but, right now? I'm not sure I want to, so, I'll keep the reason for it to myself. :)

So the first item is a box of 44 cards of Proverbs to color in. For Christmas this past year, my mom bought a shared gift for all of us of blessings to color in, and I really enjoyed them, so, when I was making this order, I decided to get the Proverbs one, especially after going through a few personal things. This box is super pretty, and the cards are really nice. My cards, though, seem to have been cut oddly when they were made, so there were pieces falling off and the edges aren't PERFECT, but, that's ok. I'll still enjoy coloring them. I'm thinking about getting trading card sleeves to get these into my binder of coloring pages, in order to keep them safe once they've been colored (or I'll leave them in the box, lol. I don't know yet.)

This one is a Copic Marker Doodle Pack! I've bought one of these before, and honestly love them! Copics are such great markers, even though they're expensive! This one is the Turquoise pack, and it includes Cool Shadow, Mint Green, Atyou Spica glitter pen, and a gray Copic multiliner pen. These are going to be awesome for journalling and drawing in general!

OK, so, this is the one that's got a special reasoning behind it, and I'm keeping that to myself, but I wanted to show the journal itself, because it's super pretty. I have a pink one like this with Matthew 19:26 on it, and I'm going to be using that one to write down Bible verses I want to remember. This one is going to be used alongside it at times, but for a very private reason. I may talk about it more one day, but, right now, it's being kept for me to know. :3

This one is a illustrated devotional for women. I picked this one out because it looked very pretty and the pictures of pages I saw on Amazon looked lovely. I think it'll be something great to do each night before bed, especially since I have a small set of coloring pencils I can use with it.

This item was more of a silly one, but I ordered one pack of Animal Crossing Amiibo Cards haha. Those are the six I got, and one is A PENGUIN. I'm going to have him move into my New Leaf town soon!! :D

Finally, I got a new umbrella. Mine was a cheap little one from Walmart, and it got really beat up during our last bout of rain and wind two weeks ago. So I bought a stronger one! :) I love the flower on top of it too!

So that's everything I got this time. I'm really happy with everything, and I'm glad to finally have the important things I had been waiting for. :)

Funko POP Review: Peasant Belle from Beauty and the Beast

This Funko POP is of my absolute favorite Disney Princess, Belle! I love Beauty and the Beast, it's my favorite movie ever (do not talk to me about that live action remake). I love sitting and watching it, enjoying the beautiful animation and amazing songs, and now I have a Funko POP of Belle in her peasant outfit!



So this Funko POP comes in a green and white box. Belle is number 90 from this collection, and she looks adorable! Her outfit is a perfect match to the film, and the pain job isn't that bad! This is one I purchased online, from Walmart, and she came on time without any damage!

So there she is from every angle. She just looks so great, I love her! Once I get shelf up in my room, she'll definitely be displayed where everyone can see her!

Funko POP review: Sasuke Uchiha

As a huge fan of the Naruto series, I got extremely excited when I found out there were going to be Naruto Funko POPs made! I do have the Naruto Uzumaki POP, but the review of him is on my other blog here: Naruto Funko POP Review.

Today though, I have the review of the Sasuke Uchiha Funko POP!

I tried a new way of taking pictures of these little figures, and had a small problem with Sasuke not staying up when I turned him. He kept falling over because his head is a bit too heavy for the design haha.

He's super cute though! He's very accurate to the Shippuden design, and looks awesome. I ordered him online from Hot Topic during Hot Cash time because I had some, and I'm surprised at well done the paint job is for him. I always worry when I buy these online because I can't check and make sure they look nice enough for display.

But, this one looked great! Sure, a few little paint smears, but other than those he looks wonderful! His face is so cute, and he transfer from anime to Funko POP very well, in my opinion. I really can't wait to get a shelf up so he can be displayed properly!