What did you BUY today?

Gonna make my own sukajan style jacket by putting embroidery patches on this and it was only £7! (£6.10 actually, including shipping but I round up all my outgoing to the nearest £1). I know it's prob not gonna look like a 100% authentic sukajan cuz for one thing I think typically with those the cuffs are a different colour than the main body of the jacket, but I'm still really excited to see what I can make of it! I also am considering doing a Spuffy apparel project where I create a design with acrylic paint markers on a dark coloured hoodie of them together cuz I couldn't find any clothing with them embracing or looking at each other when I did a google search and that is a travesty, must rectify somehow! :D
 

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Raging Bull, Kotoko and A Snake of June by Shinya Tsukamoto (Tokyo Fist was available but I decided against it). I got these from CEX in Harrogate after the Thought Bubble. Someone apparently brought the Tsukamoto films in for trade that morning so it felt happy coincidence worth taking advantage of.

In terms of manga; I got F by Imai Arata and To The Sea by Mukoubi Aoi. Both are from Glacier Bay Publishing at the event and they both looked interesting.

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I got some store credit and a large discount coupon bundle on Temu so I bought various appliques and some other items that will be in the next couple of posts I put in this thread :)
 

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More appliques from Temu, and a heat transfer plastic rhinestone iron on patch... so much sparkliness :o
 

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Last of the recently purchased appliques, plus some fabric glue that only arrived yesterday so I've yet to test it (none of the appliques have arrived yet from this batch), and some lovely Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale illustrated hardbacks plus The Sad Ghost Club Volume 1 in paperback, all the books are from Temu local warehouse sellers (the fabric glue was a local warehouse product as well) :)
 

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I needed to buy a new single-cup coffee maker for work, my old one is starting to wear out. Sometimes you have to press the brew button twice to get all the water to run through the machine, and not all the grounds get wet from the dripping water anymore, so the coffee is getting weak.

I decided on this brewer from Amazon, it is able to use ground coffee (pods are too expensive!), has a reservoir for multiple cups, and also has a Bold setting so I can make the coffee a little stronger if I need to. I won't be using the removable frother though, as I always drink my coffee black, so I'll just detach that and store it away. The handle plugs into a USB connector inside the socket when mounted on the unit. I ordered it at lunchtime today and it's arriving Prime overnight between 4 and 8 am, so I should be able to take it to work with me right away tomorrow!

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My boyfriend loves goose and duck memes so I bought him this fun set of pin badges and got some more cute clothes for me as well, looking forward to receiving these! I am also now having a go at designing hoodies and some other clothes for me to wear on a UK based Print on Demand clothing (and various other items) website called Contrado, and I placed my first order for one of my designs today!! I am extremely excited about this, even though I know that it will be a bit of a test run and I'll likely need to get a second one of these printed with some design revisions and make revisions to my other designs that I'm working on based on how this first one comes out (I suspect the two biggest stars may have jaggies along the edges of the blue centers), my boyfriend was kind enough to buy it for me as my early Xmas gift so I could see what the quality is like and start troubleshooting and I'm very grateful to him he is a star who deserves many goose and duck meme badges 🥰👍

EDIT: OMG I forgot to put the hoodie text on here!!

The text on the front reads:

"Come, night, come, Romeo, come, thou day in night;
For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night
Whiter than new snow on a raven's back.
Come, gentle night, come, loving, black-brow'd night,
Give me my Romeo; and, when he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night
And pay no worship to the garish sun."

- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

The sleeves have a sort of echo-quote influenced by The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe:

"Do you love me?" Asked the cat.

Quoth the raven, "Evermore."

The text on the back is one of my own poems, it reads:

You are
The rainbow after every storm
The sun given life in my heart
The stars inside me breathing
Rain making love grow within my soul
Like a forest teeming with birds and flowers
And in you
I would put down my roots

- H.K., many moons ago
 

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I had three delayed Temu orders so I got £12 store credit and used it to pay most of the cost of the MinaLima Snow White and Other Grimms' Fairy Tales illustrated interactive hardback book, I also ordered all these lovely clothes from Vinted that I'm very excited about! :)
 

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I purchased a couple of items for the home over the holiday weekend during the Black Friday sales here in the US - I bought a $220 msrp Cusinart air fryer / toaster oven on Amazon during their Black Friday sale for only $99. I also picked up a Seagate 26TB external USB hard drive about $100 off at $245. I will be using that to backup my main PC in the theater room that has 30TB of HDD storage across 6 drives, but currently has only about 15TB of actual data.

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I got a lovely blue sparkly dress from the charity shop in an animal rescue center I went to with my boyfriend and his mum (we had a nice time seeing cute goats and bunnies!) Also bought some adorable fabric pieces to make one or two pairs of bloomers out of (I've mostly decided sewing isn't my thing, but bloomers as a project don't drive me nuts the way many other things do, so I'm happy to put in the time). A couple more Vinted purchases as well - this beautiful fairytale silhouette dress that puts me in mind of the work of Jan Pienkowski, Lotte Reiniger, or Michel Ocelot, and a gorgeous blue Indigo Moon jacket to go with my blue dress :)
 

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Also my first hoodie with my designs on it arrived from Contrado and I really like it, so I ordered another one with a different design of mine :)
 

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Are you going to design some homemade Christmas cards?
If so you've not much time.

Not a bad idea but not sure I'll get around to it this year! I will prob just be very basic and message everyone a happy Xmas on my messaging apps XP

Am gonna do smth special for my boyfriend though, he said he'd like some of my art on his wall so I'm gonna do him a nice big A3 print of one of them with some of my poetry on it too (plus those silly goose badges) 🥰
 
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