In My Own Time: Slowing Down at Mitsukoshi

 

Technically, this isn’t from Kinokuniya Mitsukoshi, but I forgot to include this in the Fully Booked post. 

I wasn’t able to write yesterday because I had to fulfill an order:

Princess Learning Kit:

Each kit comes with one free lip gloss

Dino Sensory Play Kit:

Includes my handmade chiyogami covered notebook 

And a handwritten note! 

Custom curated thank you gifts:

I made 7 kits in total. I call everything kits, even the gifts. 

After fulfilling this order, I went on to make a new product which I’ll share in a separate post. 

Now let’s continue…

My last stop in this series was Mitsukoshi. 

I was so hungry by the time we got there. I had a hard time booking a car. The first driver just ghosted me. He kept saying that he was there, but he was nowhere to be seen. And then he completely ignored my texts. I had to cancel the booking and guess what? Grab charged me 50 pesos for canceling and another 11 pesos for who knows what. 

 So, naturally, our first stop was food! I ordered my favorite roasted chicken rice from Tiong Bahru. 

After a very late lunch, we went to Daiso, but didn’t find anything I like or useful in my life so next stop was Kinokuniya. I can never have enough of Kinokuniya. ☺️

Look at these cute erasers! I have some Hello Kitty erasers like these from when I was a child. I’ll show them to you in my next post. 

 I wanted to buy these, but my son is over Zelda…for the time being. I bet he’ll be into it again when they release a new game. 

I found just one copy of this. We are huge Godzilla fans, especially my son, but he said no as he says it’s not too far from the movie. 

We passed by the Gashapon area before going down. I wanted to get some Monster Hunter Gashas for my son but found Godzilla instead! I was thrilled. 

On my first try, I got this one. 

Ugh.. I don’t like spiders 

But you have to admit, the detail is beautiful. 

My son has a great sense of humor and he put this one on my desk, at a strategic vantage point. He says it’s like the spider is staring into my soul. 😆

I said I’m gonna try one more time and my friend did this weird thing with his cane where he “blessed” the machine and said, we’re getting Godzilla next time. He walks with a cane because he got a stroke last year. 

Anyway, I bought the tokens and he said he’d be the one to play. And lo and behold:

He did get Godzilla! This is Heisei Gojira.

I was so happy! Manifest! 

After that, we had some Sawada Ichigo. It’s funny because my friend doesn’t know a lot of things aside from his own little world (office and the malls in the area) and gets amazed at almost everything I show him. 😆 Yes, including this frozen strawberry treat. 

My last stop was Mitsukoshi Fresh and then I went home. 

I had such a relaxing, inspiring, fulfilling day in my own time. I got a lot of  ideas and inspiration from looking at all the beautiful things from ART BAR to Kinokuniya. My Creative Carafe was filled. My dopamine tank got filled, too. 

I look forward to my next “in my own time.”

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'Til my next post,

Stay soft. Stay strong. Stay Glowing.

LET'S GLOW.

With elegance and quiet fire, 

Lady E

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