Strawberry Hi-Chew

Hi-Chew (ハイチュウ Haichū) is a fruit-flavored chewy Japanese candy sold by Morinaga & Company and can be found in many stores across the U.S. It comes in the following flavors: 

Strawberry, Green Apple, Mango, Melon and Banana.

It was first created to be an edible gum in Japan, so it is really chewy. The taste is similar to Starburst. I can only find them in one store where I live so I rarely buy them, but they are soo good and very addictive! I love them!

If you want to know where you can buy them, you can visit the hi-chew website @ http://hi-chew.com and visit the "Where To Find It" Page. You can also find hi-chew online at Amazon.com!

New Squishies!

I've purchased four more cute squishies to add to my collection :)

The first three are from kawaiisquishyshop.storenvy.com. She has great prices and quick shipping! She still has more of these squishies in stock so I'd get them while they're still available. I haven't seen these squishies anywhere else for a reasonable price (including shipping price).

Powdered Donut

Chocolate Donut with Sprinkles

Mini Chocolate Donut

The last squishy is from tootookawaii.com. She recently stocked up on a ton of super rare squishies for the best prices ever! I had to quickly get one before they sold out so if I were you, I'd bookmark her website and keep checking back for updates. Her package came in this adorable pink mailer with cute deco tape. The squishy was securely wrapped with bubble wrap and placed into a bag. I will definitely be purchasing from her again!

Strawberry Shortcake

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Hello Kitty Donut Squishy Replica

Another replica! I'm still obsessing over these adorable hello kitty squishies. I bought another one from decoden-acc.com and decided to do another replica since people enjoyed my last one.

Here is the actual squishy:

...and here is the replica!

 This one was fairly easy to do and didn't take me as long as my last one. I started by making the graphics for the tag using a photo editing software called Photofiltre, then I made the graphics for the back.

I made the charm with polymer clay and used brown liquid clay for the chocolate drizzle.

Here is a side-by-side comparison of the actual squishy and the replica:

Rare Hello Kitty Squishy Replica

I've been wanting a hello kitty squishy for forever and I finally got one to add to my squishy collection. I purchased it from decoden-acc.com. She has amazing prices and the cutest squishies.

This is the one I bought:

Her shipping price is great and you get your items super quick. Every purchase also comes with her adorable business card :)

Before receiving the package, I decided to make my own replica of it!

I made the actual charm, or "squishy" with polymer clay. I used dark brown and black acrylic paint for the "chocolate drizzle" and used triple thick sculpey glaze on top of it. I attached a black cellphone strap fom hobby lobby onto it to give it the full effect of a real squishy.

For the packaging, I used a small resealable bag I got from Hobby Lobby. I made all the graphics from scratch using my favorite editing software called Photofiltre. I started off by making the pink and brown striped background, then added the text on. I got the heart, tea cup, hello kitty head, and hello kitty bow from google images then edited them by resizing, cropping, changing the color, etc. to make them resemble the ones on the actual squishy package.

For the label with the barcode, I actually just scanned the one on the actual squishy and then edited it on the computer to fit. The red label, however, was made with Photofiltre. The official Sanrio♥ tag is from google images.

Here is a comparison of the actual squishy and the replica:

I'd say it turned out pretty well. The graphics aren't as vibrant, but there's nothing I can do about that. The polymer clay charm itself is nice, though :)

This was extremely fun to do so I might make more of these!

Small Collective Haul

Last weekend I went out of town to take my sister to college and I did just a bit of shopping. Not much, but I thought I'd share it. && I promise all of my blog posts won't be hauls, haha :) I have a ton of exciting blog posts for the future so stay tuned!

It's an unlisted video, so if you've made it to this blog, you're pretty special to be able to watch it :)

Craft Shopping!

The craft store is seriously my second home. I spend hours and hours shopping around until my mom starts rushing me to hurry up. This time I spent quite a bit of money, but after a long hiatus of not going, the list of things I needed was pretty long. I got cute stationary, polymer clay, clay tools, findings, glass bottles, miniatures, scribbles, cake decorating items, storage containers, etc.

For a closer look at all the items I bought, you can watch the video below!

A few other things I didn't include in my haul video was scrapbook paper, felt, and two white tiles (what I used in the background to film). I got the tiles to work with my clay on.

 I can't wait to start on new projects!! :)