One of my short-term obsessions..

Kinder Surprises. They are kids egg-shaped chocolates that are hollow in the middle (which is where the surprise is!)

Each egg contains a little toy in the centre of the egg and this time it has had Disney Princess figurines inside. 

I spent about a week to collect all 7 figurines (and a lot of money, and chocolate :P) but I finally collected them all and I am in love with them. They are so cute and just go together well! 

I just wanted to share my little collection with you all, as I am very proud to have collected them all.


- Rachelle XoXo

Kawaii Box Review - Oct. 2014

It's that time of the month again... no not THAT time of the month!

My October Kawaii Box has arrived!! This is the second month I have received this wonderful box and I know it won't be the last. 

I am absolutely in love with what has been put into this month's box! The items that were included in this month's box are;

- A cute love letter pencil case

- Cupcake 3D stickers

- Cute hand towel

- Phone pearl stick on jewellery

- Rilakkuma macaron squishy

- A Cat pencil sharpener

- Pucchu grapefruit flavoured candy

- A cute dog card & envelope

- Two candy hair tie bobbles

- and a cute cat plushy by Furyu!

Everything in this box are super cute and I already have a use for most of these items so I can't wait to use these items!!

Thanks!

- Rachelle XoXo

Cake Decoration Kit

This is the Happy Kitchen Cake Decoration Kit by Kracie.

This kit is a sweet DIY kit which was very fun to do! It took around 30 minutes all up to create from opening to the taste test. Each kit contains a white container which has a mixing section, molds and a water scoop. The kit also contains a spoon for mixing, a piping bag for the icing, and various coloured packets that have all the powders in them to make the food.

The process started off by mixing the orange and yellow packets with two and one scoop of water each which made the two cakes, these were put in the microwave to cook for about 50 seconds then were removed from the trays then set aside to cool while I prepared the icing and jelly drops.

I then mixed the blue packet for the white icing which went all over both cakes as a base. The pink packet was also mixed to make the pink icing, which was then placed into the piping bag to be piped on the cake as I wish. 

I then mixed the red packet which made the strawberry jelly drops, it was placed into the molds below to sit until the mixture set.

I then arranged the pink icing, strawberry drops and tiny sugary balls onto the iced cake as I saw fit and TA-DA! The cake was done!!

This was very fun and very easy to make!! I bought this kit off eBay as part of a group purchase, it can be easily found there or in a lot of Japanese grocery stores. 

Thanks!

-Rachelle XoXo

Popin' Cookin' Love

I have recently found that I have fun doing Japanese DIY candy sets. I have only done a couple so far but they are really fun to make!! The sets I have are(Do not quote the names, this is just what I call them!);

 - Donut shop

 - Cake Decoration

 - Bento Box

 - Sushi Kit

 - Cheeseburger set

 - Ice Cream set

 - Pancake set

 - Soda flavoured Nerunerunerune

 - Octopus Balls

 - Cornet set

I bought all of my sets from eBay but a lot of asian food stores sell them too! 

I have tried Cheeseburger set, Sushi kit, Octopus balls and the soda Nerunerunerune and the only one I have enjoyed the taste of so far is the Nerunerunerune, all of the others aren't my favourite flavours unfortunately. There are plenty of videos on YouTube with all of these Popin Cookin DIY sets so go check them out! I will take photos of my process for the next kit I use! 

- Rachelle 

Kawaii Box Review - Sept. 2014

This is my first ever Kawaii box and I am not disappointed! I live in Australia so I payed around $20 for this box, everything that came in the box was definitely worth more than that amount in my opinion and everything is just SO CUTE!!

 This is what is inside the box...

- An Alpacasso plush coin purse

- Pink moustache shoelaces

- Green polka dot hair band

- Pink ice-cream squishy (it's REALLY squishy!)

- Fruit nail art pieces

- DIY-POP loom band kit

- A pink and blue card holder keychain

- A purple donut charm

- Hamu Hamu Town cardboard pieces 

- A lucky bear notebook 

- And a box of Rilakkuma apple pie flavoured biscuit treats! (which were delicious!)

Every box comes with a hand-written note from Kawaii Box saying something (this month's was Have a Kawaii September!) which I love because it makes me feel like each box has been personalised to some extent! I am definitely going to order this box each month as it is very affordable and it is just a nice little treat for yourself (or a friend).

- Rachelle xoxo

I am in LOVE with cruising!!

I am absolutely in love with cruising! Now I've only been on two cruises before but they've been some of the best times I've had. The last cruise I recently got off went to Suva, Port Denarau, Isle of Pines, Mystery Island and Port Vila, but, I feel I had more fun on the boat rather than stops.

The cruise line I've been travelling with is P&O cruises on the Pacific Dawn, the crew members were amazing which I think made the time there even better.

I have two more cruises planned for the rest of this year already - One is a two night cruise to Sydney and the other one is an 11 night cruise through Princess Cruises to Fiji.

I will be documenting my days on these next cruises and will write more about them with the next ones!

- Rachelle xoxo

new project

I FINALLY GOT THEM!!

for those of you who don't know what these are they're books written by Keri Smith and pretty much what you need to do is to wreck them. yes, you read right, wreck them. For someone who hates even opening up a new book because they look so perfect it's gonna be hard.

There are instructions on each page that get you to do things to the book like; Crack the spine, or turn this page into a paper plane and fly it etc..

it looks like SO much fun and I can't wait to get into it but I am also terrified of wrecking the book!

The one underneath is a journal that gets you to look for certain items and glue or tape them into the book and write a story about them - I have started this one but haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet. I've been writing the story on how I got them and it seems you are meant to just write a story about the anything that comes to mind so I will need to get the hang of that!

Does anyone out there have any of these? or even something else of Keri Smiths? I'd like to know!!