what i got for christmas!!

hi guys! MERRY CHRISTMAS & HAPPY NEW YEAR! here are a few things i got for christmas! hope you all had a great holiday week and are reluctantly ready to go back to school or work tomorrow! ~Lin-chan ^.~

(left) pandora ring cluster charm (retired), murano glass disney jasmine, anna, ariel, midnight effervescence, sterling silver stopper beads
 -- my family ended up getting me two of the jasmine charm, so when i went to exchange one of them, they were having a spend $100, get a free item up to $75. so i was able to return the extra charm for store credit, and then purchase 3 new charms. sweet!
(right) tokidoki 2017 calendar, tombow fudenosuke calligraphy pens, pokemon moon, yeti-esque mug with my initials and metal straw..?, oven mitt with spoons and tabasco--such a cute and simple idea!
my grandmother still fills my stocking, which is funny because my uncle was telling his 8 year old daughter she was too old for grandma to keep doing that....lol, anyway, she usually puts snacks, candy and random things in there. this year, we got steripods, a cupcake divider thingy (split colored dough..?), and a brain teaser puzzle which took us about 5 minutes to break it apart, and like 5 hours to figure out how to put it back together. yeah... she did give us the solution, but you can only get so far with those...

liquid, powder

lamora beauty brush set, melodysusie makeup brush cleaning mat, treat jumbo lip balm in marshmallow cream, ecotools brush shampoo, ovonni brush tree (holds 26), ysl black opium perfume, trader joe's tea tree oil soap, becca glow on the go set in moonstone, pokeball bath bomb (there was a teeny murkrow inside!), pacifica deluxe travel kit
-- mini reviews!
- the ovonni brush tree. it's good but not the same as a benjabelle. the legs do not lock to the top part, so you have to be careful when moving the brush tree around. there are a ton of small holes in it, but the biggest ones are barely big enough for my sigma/lamora kabuki brushes. which sucks. anyway, moral of the story: for my needs, benjabelle's is better and i should just order their replacement legs or a larger one (i've dropped it twice and hot glued the pieces of the legs back together....)
- the melodysusie brush mat (no longer available on amazon??) is interesting. first off, it doesn't fit the sink i intended it for..which sucks. it's a smaller sink, so it's too big and i ended up getting the whole brush handle wet when trying to wash it. so i switched to a different sink. i'm not sure if the same would be true for the sigma spa mat, but every spot that has a suction cup underneath was annoying to use, like because of the lumpiness.., or the mat shifted or detached from the sink.. >.> it wasn't super awful once i got used to it, but i'm not a huge fan for these reasons. on another note, it did work well at helping me get the gunk out of my brushes.

hp pavilion 22cwa 21.5in monitor, black + decker toaster oven & pivot hand vac, jcp home blanket, covington anne booties (sears)
-- i bought these booties with some christmas money, but i'm on the fence about keeping the black ones... haven't figured out an outfit they work with. the grey ones are great though! i mean, the quality of the internal construction is kinda low..but if i'm wearing them, people aren't going to know, nor do the imperfections cause any discomfort. so i think they were worth the $15 i paid for them.

dorel living faux marble lift top storage coffee table (by the way, this is the couch we bought last year, mentioned it but didn't photograph it. those two pillows on the side came with it along with the two on the couch, but they aren't really our thing..)