My lovely Twin (tiina-tran) got these for me and I literally squealed when I opened her package. THE HANDMADE TOTORO CARD PULLS AT MY HEARTSTRINGS, UGH. Tina is the best. T^T 

I cleaned off the top of my side desk thing so I can put these babies there. I got these as some Christmas presents. The toy, jar, and book (giftcard container which I will use as a polaroid keepsake box) are from my sisters while the alpaca figurine is from my friend as a Secret Santa present. I didn’t realize that the fur was made out of real alpaca fur. I thought that was pretty cool.

lol Pudding in his sweater. He and Bonnie has matching sweaters so they wore it for the party. :3

Meh heh, my winter polaroids box is pretty full. o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o

Brat was sleeping while we were all decorating my sister’s Christmas tree on Thanksgiving Day.

Bit obsessed with tea/coffee right now. Couldn’t resist the hand-made stationary made in Nepal & the Merry Cookie three-wick candle from Bath&Body Works. SMELLS SO GOOD.

Finally got my new stationary in the mail the other day! I will not use these until I finish the ones I already have, haha. But I also got a cute pin and Sentimental Circus Calendar as a free gift. ლ(╹◡╹ლ)

Don’t have work today so I’m trying to be productive by working on art and crafts. :D

 
It was snowing the other day and I woke up to this: Pudding looking out the back door, watching the snow fall. If you look closely, you can see the snowflakes against the pine trees. haha he’s cute sometimes.
It’s snowing right now too and holy flying fuck, IT’S FREEZING.

So for Christmas, I got this stuffed bear… because my brother-in-law didn’t know what to get everyone. He got bears for everyone in the fam. LOL.
 
He’s chilling on the top of my bookcase now because Pudding keeps trying to pull him down from my treasure chest.

Snapshots of the Christmas tree at my sister’s place -
 

There’s alot of handmade stuff on the tree because my nieces like colorful things, apparently.

Last but not least: Guess what my first purchase of 2012 is?
 

THAT’S RIGHT. A travel book to Seoul, Korea. What does this mean? hohoho, well my sister and I have this tradition now.. of travelling to places every year. We’ve been talking about Korea and we’re trying to fit it into our schedule during the first week of October. It depends though, on my priorities and my cash at the time. I’ve been travelling too much lately, it’s hard to save up. DX

But I was skimming through this book and I already picked out places I want to go to. This fabric store for one; You can request custom-made hanboks. I used to have one when I was a kid but I don’t know what happened to it. It’ll be expensive I’m sure, but probably worth it.
And then some night clubs. I’ll be legal in Korea so fuck yea - clubs are a must-go. >D 

There was a Christmas party last night that I wasn’t prepared for. So I had to wake up at 8AM in the morning to finish gift-wrapping and present-making before work. LOL.

First off, there’s the presents I bought for my dog (Pudding) and my sister’s pup (Bonnie).

I LOVE SHOPPING FOR DOGGIES. Like seriously! They have so much cute things, augh. The picture only shows half. There’s like holiday cookies for dogs, bones, toys, etc. But Pudding was bothering that green elf toy so I just snapped a pic of it.

Next is this:

On Facebook, there’s an event for December called “Pokemon Profile Month”. So most of my friends joined and their profile pictures have a certain pokemon. I used that to my advantage and drew my friends with them. I thought it was a cute idea, but as I was inking the drawings… I realized how ridiculous I was. LOL.

 
 
Finished presents, all wrapped up and/or put in gift bags. I put the dogs’ presents in the giftbags with the dog and reindeer on them.
I actually drew 8 of those Pokemon portraits. I regret not picturing the others. But my friends really liked them, including the cookie keychains I made from a past post: http://kriista.tumblr.com/post/12970159276

Alright, now the highlight of my night. My friends and I had a Secret Santa event this year so that it would be easy on our wallets and whatnot (max was $20 to be spent and $15 minimum). The event went really damn well. Everyone got what they wanted, including me. I was kinda worried with my gift and while I was opening it infront of everyone, I was nervous. But look!

It’s a Totoro plushie! Well, actually it’s one of those ornaments where you put the sucker thing on a mirror/glass and it sticks. But whatever! It’s Totoro, I freaking love Totoro. And he’s holding a little bag with acorns in it! <33
He’s going to be chilling on my bookcase I think. hoho.

Damn - I should’ve took pictures at the party since there was some memorable moments, but didn’t have time to pack my camera since I was kinda late for work. BOO.