You know I love a sale and what could be better than a sale on Hello Kitty? Right now at sanrio.com they are having up to 50% off! Here are a few things I picked out.

Love this totebag for grocery shopping. Now if only I could remember to actually USE it!

Sweet little mini-baguette purse in pink and green. Very PREPPY combination.

Adorable memo pad with hard to find Hello Kitty dressed as a geisha.

Sweet pink Hello Kitty geisha charm. I go crazy for these, I must have about twenty or more.

Hello Kitty chopsticks with towel wrap. Oh if only I had dishes to match!

Ahhh the madness of the season is nearly over so it seemed like a good time for me to re-cap some of the kawaii things I got for Christmas.

This was a stocking stuffer for me, a great set of STILA mini lip glazes. These are so sweet and portable and have yummy flavors too. My faves are the pearly and sparkly colors.

This great beauty kit is from POPBeauty and is much more vibrant than it looks in this photo. This is a treasure trove of festive colors ready made for parties and the winter months. You get five eye shadow/liners, two shades of bronzer, two shades of face powder, a multi-hued shimmer palette and eight lip colors, all in a velvet covered box.  It is called Cabaret Bouquet and was on sale at ULTA.

Another great make-up kit this one is from Pixi Beauty. I mean it has a little twee fairy on the box! All the colors are shimmery and sweet. You can get this right in Target and it was on sale to boot. You can also get it online at pixibeauty.com.

My sister-in-law was kind enough to get me this adorable Bare Minerals Sweet Obsession mineral powder eye kit. The smaller size jars come in a little foil candy cups. Arrragghhh – cute overload! So yummy I want to eat them!

Since I get cold tootsies in the winter (yes, even in Florida, what can I say, I am a big baby!) I looked for a pair of faux fur lined boots online and came up with these which were sent overnight from endless.com and arrived on my doorstep on the 24th. I’ve barely taken them off since. Except to put on these:

These are called Chastity Sweater Slippers and were $18 at Target. They are completely faux fur lined and delicious on cold toesies.

Hope your Christmas was loaded with kawaii goodies and joyful happiness. Remember to hit all the After Christmas sales too!

I’ve been away from the kawaii a bit so I have lots to catch up on. You’ll be seeing me more regular-like from now on.

Happy Kawaii New Year!

You know I love to shop and love my kawaii goodies. I was talking with my Mom a couple of days ago about how the word kawaii applies to other things other than what is truly considered kawaii (like Hello Kitty stuff for instance) and I told her that in myopinion, kawaii can relate to many things. To put it to the test I did a search on kawaii shoes!

Don’t you love shoes? For many women this is a huge part of their wardrobe (think Imelda!) and for kawaii lovers it is a downright obsession. I found some incredibly adorable shoes out there ranging in prices from pretty reasonable to totally ridiculous (almost $70 for a pair of custom kawaii Keds? Puhleeeze!).

Speaking of cute Keds, here was a pair I found at a Zazzle Shop called Mashusik. They are cute for sure, but for $67.50 that’s a bit steep for canvas shoes.

You can get these Hello Kitty Chooka rubber boots for only $67.00 at shoes.com. These are pretty adorable but unless you live in a pretty rainy place I have my doubts about wearability.

These sexy Harajuku Lovers punk rock plaid platform heels are too cute for words. I would absolutely break my neck if I wore them but I can still think they are super kawaii. You can find these at endless.com.

These kitty-cat platform heels from Irregular Choice are some of the cutest shoes – ever! Irregular Choice is hands down my favorite kawaii shoes I’ve found available in the US thus far. You can find these at endless.com.

Here are more from Irregular Choice:

These below are from Betsey Johnson and are also available from endless.com. I love Betsey Johnson and the plus side is I find tons of her stuff at TJ Maxx and for clearance prices (yay clearance!). These are more spring shoes so I believe they were on sale too. Here in Florida I wear shoes like this (only not as high!) all year long:

Finally these shoes are from the Japanese brand Wano Nano and are especially unique. I don’t know if you can get them here in the US at all because the site is in Japanese but I really thought they were terrific! I love these moccasin style shoes the most – they look so comfy!

It is no secret that I do a ton of online shopping! I love to shop indie at Shana Logic and other cute boutiques online, as well as on Etsy for kawaii goods of all kinds. One of my favorite places to shop might surprise you though – it is HSN!

You might be thinking – what? Do they even have anything kawaii?

Well, listen up and listen good kawaii lovers – you will be surprised to find that in HSN’s CLEARANCE section  you can not only find adorable and fun things to satisfy your kawaii-loving self but for CHEAP too!

Here are a few of my recent finds from HSN:

This is theBalm Read My Lips Kit in Nude on Clearance at HSN for $10! (from regular price of $40). I don’t know if the company is still in business since I saw some of their cute cosmetics for sale at Sephora too. You cannot beat this price though for 2 lipsticks, a lip pencil and lipstain. Holy Kawaii Clearance!

Along those same lines is this sweet little kit from theBalm for your eyes. It comes with a luggage tag and is portable itself with a wee little mini-brush. You can actually use one of the shades as a blush if you’ve got a teeny tiny blush brush. This was originally $18.50 marked down to $5.00. No mistake there – that’s right – five bucks!

This Barbie Loves Stila Collection (in Jewel Doll)  comes in a paint can (so adorable) and includes a Barbie palette, yummy lipgloss and gorgeous black mascara. The original price was $40 and is on sale for $13.98. You must trust me that you will never find  even one single Stila item for this price let alone, three! These are full-size products too and you get a blush and two eyeshadows in the palette. Worth every penny!

They offer another kit too, so if you can just get both! This is called Foxy Doll kit and comes with a different mascara, palette and lip glaze. The kits mimic the make-up on the dolls to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of your favorite girly-girl Barbie.

I know it’s not Easter but since when do kawaii bunnies have anything to do with holidays? To be fair these are more retro kawaii. These are perfect for springtime or just to put out something cute. The plates are unfortunately sold out but the bowl is on clearance for $19.00 from $49.00. Great value. This comes from the catalog company Grandin Road on HSN.

This is the Garden Party ring from Hot in Hollywood, a costume jewelry designer brand on HSN. The enamel flowers are so sweet and the crystal stone looks like a piece of candy. This is on sale in two colors for only $29.95.

Also by Hot in Hollywood is this saints crystal bracelet. So completely funky and cool I just had to have it. It is on sale for only$19.95 and comes in four crystal colors.

Next time I will focus on finds from QVC, Sephora and whomever strikes my fancy. And has CLEARANCE! Polish up your credit cards girlies!

I don’t know how I found this awesome site (the are in the UK but the site ships to the US and also has prices in US dollars) but CHICKI is my new fave shopping site for kawaii goodies.

The first thing you will see when you get to the site is a rainbow of color and cuteness that pulls you into the site so fast your wallet will not even know what’s hit it!

There are so many brands to chose from, some that are new to me (like Ruby Gloom) and others that are old faves like Tokidoki, Pucca, Paul Frank, Loungefly, Scrummy, Ukiyo5 and Gloomy Bear.

You’ve got all kinds of items to choose from  clothes, bags, jewelry, stationery and cute toys too.

Here are some of the goodies I got:

This is an old Tokidoki European bag from before Tokidoki was branded with LeSportsac and before it became its own brand. They are rare and hard to find and the price was superb. They are not as high quality as the current Tokidoki bag but the print is totally awesome.