At least I was able to visit pretty much every store I wanted to while I was in the Tokyo area (Angelic Pretty, SWIMMER, chocoholic, Paris Kids, Chiara, Tralala, Liz Lisa, Hangry and Angry, Moi-Meme-Moitie, Baby the Stars Shine Bright, ACDC, Emily Temple Cute, SBY Happy Room, etc etc). Actually the Shinjuku Angelic Pretty was having a sale and so I ended up getting a really cute wallet/pass case and ring that were each 50% off.

The ring was only about $10!

And the pass case/wallet was roughly $20 (I got the one in black)~

I really need to get my camera so I can take proper photos of all of the cute things I’ve bought. I really did buy quite a few things while I was in the Tokyo area I do have some photos of Shinjuku, Harajuku, Shibuya and a few other areas though, but they were taken on my iPhone so they aren’t the best quality unfortunately I hope you enjoy them anyways though~

Driving from the airport to the hotel after first arriving!

Still driving…

Harajuku!!

It was so crowded and hot but it was amazing

Natto, salmon, avocado and rice. Natto is actually really yummy

SBY Happy Room!! Had a mini heart attack when I rounded the corner and saw this adorableness ♥ I bought a few bag charms in there

Passed by Bodyline but didn’t bother entering since I didn’t have that much time

Liz Lisa yayyyy

It was at about this moment that I spotted Kiddy Land and instantly knew where I would be spending the next hour of my life

REMENT! I bought a couple, I couldn’t help it

Wall of Rilakkuma = ♥ Ended up buying a large Korilakkuma plush

Descending into much cuteness~

I’ll stop there since this is turning into a photobomb, but I’ll post the remaining photos and my outfit snaps for those days in my next entry. Also I’ll be resuming my crafting as soon as I get settled in Shinjo so look out for some new jewelry soon!

Unfortunately I’m only here until Thursday and then I’m flying to the more south western part of Japan, but I’m excited to start working. The kids will be adorable I’m sure! I’ll write about my trip to Shinjuku before I start down that path though~

Myself and a few other interns decided to make Shinjuku our first trip since we needed to visit Kinokuniya and pick up some books. We took the line there and stepped into a camera store for a bit to pick up a disposable camera (I left my digital at home, really disappointed about that!). Then we wandered over in the direction of Kinokuniya, but first I noticed a building with a person dressed up in a Hangry and Angry costume outside so I decided to check it out. That ended up being a very good idea because there was a Liz Lisa store inside as well as a SWIMMER/chocoholic shop.

I actually wandered into the SWIMMER store thinking it was a patisserie because they have an assortment of extremely adorable sweets outside, but was so excited when I found out it was an actual SWIMMER store I bought a phone charm, a picture frame and nail clippers (random, I know). I’ll have to post photos later! I actually don’t have any digital photos from that day since I didn’t even think to use my iPhone camera until the next day. To be fair we didn’t spend that much time in Shinjuku anyways since I didn’t know where anything was and I spent quite a bit of time in just that one shopping building I have tons of photos from Shibuya and Harajuku though so look out for those in tomorrow’s entry!

There are lots of good things about camp though; there are so many great people here and I get to do so many things I would never really do otherwise Within the first week I got to try flying trapeze in the circus building and that was amazing! I also love my campers even though they can occasionally drive me crazy, but I feel like this is really good prep for teaching in Japan since it had been awhile since I’d worked with children.

Another perk is that I’m doing a lot of my own crafting in the art department since I’m there six hours a day. This session I teach polymer clay and stuffed animal making and I also teach drawing on the side. Having those things as a job has definitely been giving me time to improve my skills a lot! The other day was a slow day and so I worked on a felt project I had been wanting to do for awhile.

The idea came from a plush I saw online some time ago. The art department had tons of cute ribbon and so I had a hard time choosing some for the scarf but I love how it turned out

Besides working on my own crafts I’ve really enjoyed helping all the kids make really cute things out of clay and felt. One of my campers is in my polymer clay class and I helped her make a little candy jar. She’s only eleven but it came out so cute~

This session I’ve made sure to start taking a ton of photos since first session of camp I didn’t take very many at all. When my new campers arrived second session I snapped a photo of some of us at the evening activity.

So that’s pretty much what’s been going on at camp, I have quite a few photos from my San Francisco trip I want to get up though – especially ones from the New People building. I managed to take a couple good photos in the second floor shop before I was promptly told that photography wasn’t allowed I should be able to get those up next Thursday! And before I end this entry I have a single pixel to add to the pixel section.

Burger bear!!

* I GOT THE INTERNSHIP IN JAPAN!!! *

So I am now officially going to be spending fall semester interning as an ALT with Interac somewhere in Japan! I’m not sure where I’ll be placed yet but I’m sure I’ll get enough options to be able to pick somewhere great! I may decide to stay for spring semester as well, but we’ll see! Another option I might take advantage of is the choice to spend part of my internship living with a Japanese host family I think I would really like to do that!

Just in case any of you reading this are currently in college/university (or will be soon) and are interested in the program, or just generally curious, I’ll outline the process for it!

First~ Filled out the application and resume on their website and wrote an essay.

Second~ Passed the initial screening and was selected for a phone interview. The phone interview went well and so they decided to invite me to a seminar!

Third~ Attended one of the few seminars they host in the US. This was the hardest part I think! It’s the last step before they decide whether they want to hire you or not and so you’re really put to the test!

At my seminar location there were only two other people who had made it to this step in the process. I arrived to the location in smart business attire (blazer, suit pants, heels, etc) and first off there was a presentation on the company. Then we had to take grammar and personality tests. After that we were recorded while giving the mock teaching presentation we had prepared. Mine lasted about 6-8 minutes and I basically had to pretend like I was teaching English to students.

I started off with an introduction and then had to read aloud from a script to demonstrate my English. After that I did an activity teaching colors and an activity teaching different words. After the presentation is all finished they interview you for about an hour and then comes the wait! Luckily I only had to wait about a week and a half before they let me know yesterday

So besides that I am also excited about my summer camp job, which is coming up soon! I’m also visiting a friend in San Francisco after my summer classes get out on June 10th! Definitely going to be doing some sight seeing and shopping there

To keep this entry from being a complete wall of text, and to celebrate a little, I’m going to do a giveaway today! First to comment will win the items pictured above ♥ Please feel free to comment even if this is your first time visiting!

And only $20.00 too! I put together an outfit for them today

Kind of crappy lighting in my new apartment Probably doesn’t help that it’s always so cloudy outside! I can’t wait for the weather to start reflecting the season.

So I’ve been doing some crafting again recently! With even more sculpting! These new pieces were heavily influenced by crafts I see for sale on mbok and such

I’ll probably put them up for sale either later today or tomorrow. There aren’t so many because I wanted to put little details into each of them ♥

I almost forgot, I want to review a webshop I bought from recently! In addition to my usual MAC lashes, I’ve been looking for some cheaper lashes for days when I don’t feel like breaking out my #7’s. So I checked around and finally found out about Jcosme. At first I was a little scared to order from them since they don’t accept Paypal and I hadn’t really heard any reviews. But I decided to just go for it and order a bunch of the “Ethnic Beauty” style lashes. They also have “Gyaru Fashion” lashes that are cute and dramatic!

So those are mine above I ordered way too many though so I might sell off a few pairs! I loved ordering from Jcosme though, and they even sent me a bunch of cute nail stickers with my lash order, it was so sweet and unexpected!

Made another MAC order recently as well since I didn’t end up visiting their counter at Nordstrom when I was visiting home. And now that I’m back and taking summer courses (including yoga! but more about that later!) I won’t get the chance for awhile. I decided to order some eyeshadows in Woodwinked and Shroom and more #7 lashes. I seriously love #7’s

Okay this entry is getting long but I’ll update about progress on my Japan internship and more later!

Recently I moved into my first apartment though! And I have my first very own bathroom!

It’s a lot bigger than my dorm room and much easier to live in! Plus my roommates have been nice so far So! Here is my new room~

Still a little bare on the walls! I’ll fix that soon though

It’s pretty spacious, I wish it came with a desk though! For now I just use my laptop on my bed and keep my printer and books on the chest of drawers.

The closet gets a thumbs up from me – wayyy more room for my shoes and clothes in this one! Five points to anyone who can guess what show I was watching

And the bathroom! I never thought I’d be so excited about a bathroom but apparently having one all to myself makes me extremely pleased. I love all the counter space

I really have so many hair and face products, trust me that isn’t even the half of it! Here is my newest addition~

The Shiseido pureness facial care set with cleanser, toner and lotion. I also invested in the face scrubbing brush!

Hopefully the set works well since it was a little pricey I think Shiseido is more simple than other more chemical facial washes so it should turn out well.

That’s all for now, I have so much to catch up on with my blogs though so look for more entries very soon!

For now my iPhone doesn’t have a case, but considering that I could have lost the phone as well it makes me happy to at least still have my iPhone

There’s currently a Beauty Insider 15% off your entire order sale going on at Sephora for anyone who didn’t already know about it! The promo code for it is MADNESS and it ends tomorrow. I was seriously considering some of the cute new tokidoki collab items Sephora has up for sale but decided not to buy.

I finally did a bit of crafting over the weekend and here are the results!

I haven’t been feeling very creative lately but it was nice to do some work with clay after not having made anything for awhile. I have most of the rings above for sale as well as some Liz Lisa items and more at the link below

The pixel eggs have hatched today! You may notice that the egg design had a lot of influence over the hatchling~

If your egg hasn’t changed, refresh the page and it should show up The hatched pixels will be available for today only! Tomorrow the pixel eggs page will be removed from the site so make sure to get yours now

I received my seminar information from Interac the other day and I’ve read over it probably a dozen times by now – I’m so excited for it (and there is a ton of information to go over)! I’m really hoping I’ll be able to land a job interning as an ALT this fall. The seminar is on May 1st and seems pretty intense. I’ll have to attend an information session and take a grammar and personality test, among other things. The part I’m most concerned about is the demonstration lesson I guess it consists of putting together a mock lesson of up to six minutes long and presenting it to a ‘class’ while being recorded. The tape then gets sent on to potential employers in Japan. Sooo we’ll see how well I do with that! I think I’ll just need to practice a lot

I want to start adding more to the dollmaker soon – I haven’t really updated it in awhile. College has been busy lately though now that the year is coming to an end I had a math exam yesterday that was absolutely awful, math is my worst subject for sure. I found out I was accepted to the college I want to transfer to though, so I’ve just been setting that up in case the Japan internship doesn’t happen this fall. I have to plan for either outcome, but I’m really hoping I get the internship and spend fall semester in Japan Also I need to book a plane ticket for this summer so I can fly to the summer camp I’ll be working at from June-August. There’s so much going on

I received my Liz Lisa spring/summer denim skirt in the mail yesterday though and that cheered me up. It’s so cute! I can’t wait to coordinate it, I think it can go with pretty much anything really.

I feel like now I have enough of the ‘essential’ pieces from Liz Lisa that I can just add American brands into the mix but still have a sort of Liz Lisa look. I mean I’d love to have the whole spring/summer collection but that is definitely not possible