I haven’t had much time for personal blogging so here’s what I’ve been up to lately, including my birthday!
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I never expected to have a second lockdown birthday but here we are. Even though I don’t usually do much for my birthday, it was a bit sad not even having a shopping trip to Glasgow. There will be time to celebrate once we’re all vaccinated though, so I just had a pretty normal working day but with lots of presents and cake! This colour-changing bunny lamp was one of my favourite gifts. I also really appreciated all the surprise mail that was sent to my PO Box. It really cheered up my morning reading them all.
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I got so much cake and snacks in the post that I’ll be sorted for weeks, but I did eat these macarons from Claire very quickly. They were so good! You can order them from Mademoiselle Macaron and they come in a very pretty box.
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I’ll share more of my presents in another post, along with things I bought for myself. I used my birthday discount at Cute Things From Japan and they always wrap everything so beautifully.
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Probably the most exciting part of the day was getting a proper birthday party in Animal Crossing, after over a year of daily play. It was still basically a deserted island last March but this year all my animal friends threw me a big party.
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I also updated my dream if you’d like to come see how Neptune is doing. I’ve made a lot of changes since spring arrived and there’s falling cherry blossoms and a meteor shower to enjoy too. Use the code DA-6646-5783-1713
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With all the sakura in game and photos all over Instagram, I went to see if our sakura trees were in bloom yet, and they were! It’s been really cold, wet and windy here so there were only a few open flowers, lots of buds, and lots of petals on the ground too. Hopefully it won’t be too long until our streets of pink trees are in bloom too.
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I’ve been doing a bit of spring cleaning too and reorganised these display shelves in my living room. I can’t believe how much better it looks, just moving a few things around. You can read more about it on Super Cute Kawaii. SCK has been taking up a lot of my time lately but we just hired 2 new writers so that will free me up a soon to write more here, and hopefully some new zines too.