Review: Fire Emblem Awakening

When I uploaded my latest monthly favourites video the other week, I mentioned that Fire Emblem Awakening was my favourite game of December. A friend of mine asked me to review the game as she was interested in it, and although I've never reviewed a game before, I thought I'd give it a go!

The Game Series

The Fire Emblem games are a series of tactical role playing games, in which you control an army of soldiers in turn based strategy battles. I haven't played the previous games, but I know that the series is known to be difficult, as if a member of your party dies, they are dead permanently and it can change the whole storyline of the game. However in the latest instalment of the series you have the choice to play classic mode, where the characters can die permanently, or casual mode, where fallen units are respawned after each battle. Because I'd never played a Fire Emblem game before, I chose casual mode, and honestly I'm glad I did because I would have failed so many times! I get attached to the characters too;;

My Cosplays So Far~

I've been watching so much anime recently, and been wanting to cosplay so many characters I thought I'd make a blog post about my cosplays now, so it's not such a ridiculously long post in the future! Then after this all I have to post is cosplay updates hehe~ 

I've only done two cosplays so far, Azusa Nakano from K-On and Mirai Kuriyama from Kyoukai no Kanata. I'm not great at sewing, and I don't have a sewing machine, so my cosplays are all bought, mostly from ebay - that includes wigs too. I generally try to find shoes in local shops, since I prefer to be able to try them on than buy expensive cosplay shoes that might not fit, at least if a costume doesn't fit properly I can alter it. I just spend some time searching through ebay listings for the perfect wig and nice looking cosplay for a good price! My Mirai cosplay was the most expensive so far, but it was custom made and has a lot of parts to it (uniform, skirt, cardigan, glasses) I got the ring for her from TopShop, it was a midi ring that I got in the largest size so it would fit my pinky finger, since finding pinky rings is pretty hard! My Mirai cosplay isn't quite complete yet, I'm still waiting on my coloured lenses (which I buy from Honeycolor) and I need to get some sort of white fabric to make a bandage for her hand. I also need to re-style the wig a bit xD

More photos of my cosplays, and characters who I plan to cosplay under the cut!

Outfits from 2013

Just thought I'd share some of my outfits over 2013! Pretty much all of these were posted on my Instagram, but I thought I would put them all in one place. Most of them are pretty similar, and not that interesting haha! I'm getting some new clothes soon from online shopping so I should have different outfits soon! Either way, enjoy~

 More under the cut!

My First Pullip Doll (photo heavy)

So recently The Hollycopter from Youtube became obsessed with Pullip dolls, and I think the love for the dolls has rubbed off on many people! (including me) So naturally I bought one too!

I bought Bloody Red Hood from Groove Store (you can also buy from PullipStyle) and a set of 3 outfits that were only available as a set from Groove.

Edit: I forgot to mention how quickly this was shipped to me! I ordered on January 1st and it arrived on January 6th, which coming from the US to the UK is super quick!

Isn't she gorgeous? Read more for more photos and information about her~

Cute Ebay Finds

People are always asking me how I find cute things on Ebay, and honestly you just have to search for what you want! I thought I'd make a post on some of the cute things I've found on Ebay recently, and include links for those too lazy to search xD

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I tried to include a mix of items from fashion to stationary, but let me know if you'd like a future post dedicated to one thing!

What's on my iPhone

I've been asked many times to make a video of what's on my iPhone, but I never seem to get around to it, or if I film it, it's ages until I get to edit the video and by then I have more and different apps. Though I haven't downloaded anything new in a while, I thought I'd make a blog post about what's on my phone, and then at least I've still shared with you guys what apps I use, even if it's not in a video. I have an iPhone 4s and it's the 16GB version.

Before I start, I'll show you my lock screen (yes I took these screenshots at 3am) My lock screen wallpaper changes a lot, but right now I'm addicted to playing Fire Emblem Awakening on my 3DS, so this wallpaper is from that game.

Blog Customisation

So after spending around 2 hours changing up my blog after writing my previous post, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of the websites I found with Blogger templates and things that I used on my blog! Plus it would be a good way to get back into blogging~

First I had decided I wanted simple and cute social media icons for the side of my blog. I'm not a graphic designer, and I didn't really want to be messing about for too long trying to create the icons I wanted, so I decided to Google-fu for some. Searching 'cute social media blog icons' or words to that effect brought up some nice icons, but many of the icon sets I found didn't include one for Youtube, which being a Youtuber, is something I had to have! However, I stumbled upon these icons, and found them to be perfect! Not only is there an icon for Youtube, but you can download them in many different colours so you can pick the set to match your blog, and there's also a blank icon in the set so you can make your own! I only used six of them on my blog, which you can see at the side, but they're my most important links on the internet, so it's nice to have them displayed in such a cute way~ I chose the bubblegum pink ones, if you're wondering.

As for the theme of my blog, Blogger's pre-set themes just weren't doing it for me. I like to be able to customise them, but none of them had the look I wanted for my blog, so it was back to Google for some more searching. Searching 'blogger theme', or 'template' brought up lots of results, but again, none of the themes were cute enough for my liking, or the style I was looking for. So obviously I began searching for 'cute blogger theme/template' and this brought a lot more results! I first came upon this blog post, it has a lot of links for templates and themes, and even background images and headers, all of which useful when customising your blog. Through that post I found this site, which has a lot of cute themes, and although I didn't use one of them for my blog, I will save the site for future reference.

I finally decided upon a theme from this site, and chose the subtle stripes theme. I really liked the background and scalloped border on this theme, and I even stuck with the original header rather than creating my own (although I will probably make one in the future) The download came with the XML file containing the HTML for the template, the font (although I ended up using CAC Pinafore) a blank header to customise and a Photoshop PSD file of the header for those owning Photoshop. It was very easy to add the text I wanted in PS, and I also saved a smaller version of the header with just the text for the signature at the end of my posts!

After that it was just a case of adding my pages and widgets down the side, including an Instagram widget from SnapWidget, and of course my cute little social media icons~! I really love how my blog looks now, so hopefully this will spur me on to blog more this year! I even transferred my frainy.com domain from my Tumblr over to this blog, so make it seem more official and perhaps force me to keep this updated? Either way, I hope you enjoyed this post and it was helpful! Let me know what you'd like me to write about next!

The Fashion Filth Decoden Case Review

Today's blog post is a sponsored review for The Fashion Filth! The shop owner is very sweet, and she also makes hair bows and shorts, which I also love :3

Instagram Video vs Vine

So Instagram recently released a new Vine like feature to its app, the ability to record short videos as well as post photos. I for one welcomed this new addition to what is one of my favourite apps, but it sort of upset me that people were angry with Instagram for introducing this feature and that short videos belonged to Vine. Now I like Vine also, but I do believe that Instagram did do videos better, and in this rather serious and informative blog post I'll talk about why I like Instagram video better, but also why I'll still use Vine.

Getting ready for ONECon!

Sorry I haven't been posting here in forever, I'd like to update more but I never get the time > <

I've been wanting to sell at an anime convention for a while now, so when I heard about ONECon, I decided I would try and take my shop along and get a dealer's table :3

So lately I've been making charms and necklaces and things like crazy because I'm worried I won't have enough to sell over the whole weekend xD

 Just a small amount of the things I've been making xD

I also bought these jewellery trees from ebay so I could display my charms and necklaces in a cute way ^^

And this is what charms look like clipped to the white one :3 It's a little full here, I've taken most of the doubles off and I'm keeping it looking neater so people can actually see the charms xD

I also went and printed off photos of my decoden phone cases to put in a portfolio, so that people can see what I've made and order custom cases in person (which I'll ship out after the convention)

I really like how the portfolio looks so far, I'm going to get photos of my supplies so people can request certain things too :D

The convention is on 24th and 25th of August, so I have lots of time to prepare for it, so I'm hoping I'll have enough made by then! I have a growing list of charms to make, and I want to make at least 3 of each one so I know I'll have enough of those, not to mention the amount of resin necklaces I want to make, and decoden phone cases! I've been making things nearly every day, so I'm hoping to keep it up and have enough to sell!

And if anyone is going to ONECon by any chance, I hope to see you there!

 I'll be most likely wearing my new galaxy seifuku :D It's so pretty!

Anyway, thanks for reading, I'll hopefully be able to post more often!

Newest video (for a better view of my charms): 

TooTooKawaii Haul

So I recently bought from TooTooKawaii, and I've been wanting to buy from this shop for ages!

 The thing I wanted to get most was a whipple kit. I'd never made one before, and when I saw this I knew I had to get it because it looks so adorable! I had filmed me making it, but I was a derp and accidentally deleted the footage I had ;_;

So these are the pieces I made with the kit! They're super cute :D

The next thing I got was this cute chocolate cake roll squishy. It looks so realistic and is very squishy :3

I bought 3 small phone charm plushies, a pink Totoro, Cinamoroll, and Korilakkuma. They're not licensed or anything (you can really tell with Korilakkuma's face haha) but they were cheap and I don't mind.

Amy, the owner of the shop, also sent me these Girls Collection stickers and a park scene to put them on as an extra! These stickers are really cute and fun to use c:

So that was my little haul, if you want to buy anything you see here then you can visit her shop: http://www.tootookawaii.com/ and if you want to see the products in detail (and see me squish the squishy) then you can watch my haul video here: 

Thanks for reading!