a month in a nutshell ♡ 2016.04

After I skipped Wednesday's update because I had a deadline to deal with, it's time to welcome the new month and talk a bit about all the things I've done in Apirl - though you will have a small piece of April swooped over into May anyway, because I still haven't uploaded the last part of my spring blossom hunt.

 With the first of April came the first blossoms and just like last year the purple-leaf plum in my front-yard transformed into my favorite photo motive for the following three weeks.

일기장에게 ♡ Korean notebook haul

I usually try not to talk too much about all the small obsessions I have and about all the little things I adore and can't keep my fingers off, but I can assure you, they are there.

One of these things is the unexplainable excitement that runs through my veins whenever I hold a new, empty notebook, diary or basically any other sort of cased paper to write on in my hands. I love the smell of freshly printed worksheets, newly bought books and new notebooks.

I also really, really like pens so in general, I'm in love with stationery. Especially when it's cute.

That being said, Korea turned into my personal goldmine (actually I mentioned that before in my sticker haul but whatever).

So, before I continue with photos about the day we spent in Gyeongju, I'll share all the notebooks with you, that I bought last summer, on the other side of the world.

French greetings from Japan ♡

As I shared on twitter this week, I received a parcel from my two French girls, Alyssa and Carole.

Around Christmas 2014 I sent them small Christmas presents because I felt like it and when they went to Japan in 2015, they promised to send me a parcel as a late birthday present - let's say it took them some time but it was well worth the wait.

I changed my original plan for today's update and decided to share in all the detail, what these two cute girls came up with, so that you know how the flood of cuteness looked like, that cascaded down onto me when I opened the shoe box sized parcel.

First off, just look at all these things they sent me. It's honestly like Christmas and my birthday mixed together. Most of the things are from Japan, but a couple of other things were bought in France, after they returned from their trip. As you can already guess from the first photo, this posting will be kind of picture heavy.

스티커 ♡ new arrivals for my collection

Who follows me on my personal tumblr - yukulicious.tumblr.com - might have noticed that between the obnoxious load of KPOP content, POKéMON and fashion snippets, loads of cherry blossoms, beautiful photos and general outbreaks of anything pastel and cute (I honestly reblog whatever floats my boat without any kind of content filter there, it's like my personal dump for everything that holds my attention for longer than 3 seconds) - you can find relatively many reblogs containing stationery.

Hands down, I love stationery.
- especially cute stationery, no matter if pens, pencilcases, notebooks (I actually collect them as well) or whathaveyou, which is why South Korea or Asia in general is heaven on earth for me in a completely other level.

   

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Honestly, I sometimes have a hard time to find stationery with decent quality that is at least kind of in the same street as what you find in Korea in terms of art supply or just generally stationery, here in Germany... Most of the time it's either too expensive or too kitschy (or both).
All the more I used every occassion I could to wander through stores that sell stationery and just surrounded myself with items that I never tired of looking at.