Hey guys, so I am actually going to be going back to Canada very soon for a very quick trip
It won't be very long at all
But I wanted to get some
souvenirs for my family and my friends before I went so I did a little shopping trip the other day at
two of my favorite stores, Artbox, if you guys have watched my previous Korea vlogs from a couple months back you probably
Noticed that I went to Artbox several times
It's a cute little stationery / home ware store so they have like cute stuff for your house
Lots of stationery they even have a little beauty section and like socks just small like gift type stuff
So it's a really good place to go to buy souvenirs, so if you're in Korea
And you want to get some souvenirs for your friends or your family
Definitely check out Artbox
They're very affordable, and yeah super cute, so I went to Artbox and then I also went to the KaKao
Friends Store. Kakao is the messenger app that they use here in Korea
I think overseas lots of you guys use WhatsApp? Or at least you did awhile ago? That's what I heard from someone
In Japan the big app was Line and here in Korea
They use KaKao and the KaKao friends are so cute the KaKao characters like the characters at the app are adorable
So I went to the KaKao friends store
and I got a few things there that I thought would be really good for souvenirs for my family, so if you are a
family member or a friend back in Canada
There's probably something here for you, so don't watch this video turn it off right now. I trust you
Okay, are you gone?
So this is the cute bag
I caught at the KaKao store here in Korea you often or always have to pay for plastic bags
They're really into like recyclable bags
Which is really good, but I really wanted to get one of these bags because I think it's really cute
But I kind of destroyed it on the way home
I kind of wrecked the handle. I was hoping I could reuse it but
it's a little little roughed up now
But these are the KaKao characters my favorite is the little peach
That's always showing
It's butt you'll probably see me slowly collect lots of KaKao goods as I live here for a little longer
I'm always picking up something here and there if I find a good deal. I got this for my grandma
It's one of those
Solar-powered things that like wiggles when the sun hits it. Ok wait. Oh there we go
That's the movement that it does it wiggles
And then this one also has like a little scent thingy where you can put in these refillable scents
But it's my favorite little peach character, and I thought it would be cute to
Get my grandma one of these from Korea because I gave her one from Japan so she's like collecting one from every country
That I went to on her little windowsill, so I thought this would be perfect
I hope she likes it next is the thing that I really needed for myself. It's a little
Trash can that I can put in my makeup area
Again, I got a peach
Let me show it to you guys. It's just a tiny little trashcan that I can use for like throwing away
cotton pads or q-tips or tissues that kind of stuff
it's so adorable
This is what it looks like but it gets better. This is the back side
Look at the butt crack
I love it so much, and then you just lift up
The head like that
So cute it's gonna look really good on my makeup desk
All right next thing from the KaKao store. I got these. These are really cute these were like specifically
made as a souvenir. They had these sets of Korean themed
pins and each one of them had a different one of the KaKao characters. I thought these ones are really pretty
They were pink and most of them had the Seoul badge and then the character and then like one other
Korean item. This one has like this little pouch
So I picked these up for my sister. I figured she could pin them on a tote bag or something. I hope she likes them
And I think that is everything I got at the KaKao store
Okay, so next is my little mini haul from Artbox. Like I said, they have lots of cute stationery
I had to hold back from not buying it all
I'm writing letters every month to my patrons who are part of my little pen pal Club that we have going on
So every month I go to a stationery store to find some cute stationery to use for my letters for them
And I found this which is actually KaKao-themed, but it's not from the KaKao store
I found this at Artbox and what it is is it says
Hello Kakao friends
Coloring postcards, so I haven't opened it, and they didn't have a sample
But I'm assuming that it is a little book of postcards that you can color yourself
So I figured I would work on this. It's probably going to take me quite a while to color them all but
I'm gonna color them all and send these to my patrons in my letter club. I'm really excited to do this
I love coloring and I just like never have a chance to do it because I figure like I'm wasting time but because
This is like a project for my viewers
I can like totally get into this and not feel like I'm wasting time coloring, so I really really really excited
Let's open it up and
See what the designs are I don't know what to expect?
They're really good quality, it's like really sturdy
postcard material and the back has a space for the stamp and the address and your message. They're quite big.
They're bigger than like a standard postcard I want to say
Look at them
The little couple scenes are adorable
I love these so much. This was such a good purchase. Next I have been looking for these
The other day, I borrowed some band-aids...
well, got some band-aids from Megan
Because I hurt my feet and they were KaKao band-aids, and they were so cute
And I needed to find them. There's four different designs. They're all cute and colorful
I figured it'd be good to have some cute band-aids on hand for when you like cut your finger or something
and you don't want an ugly regular band-aid. And these were only a dollar for 16 of them so good deal.
So yeah, you can also get KaKao stuff outside of the KaKao store, but
Obviously they have a better selection at the KaKao store itself. I needed a new hat and my husband was attracted to this one
So I decided to go for this one. It was really cheap, and it's actually really nice quality
the back says meow
on the strap
It has this chubby cat that kind of reminded me of Maro even though, it's not a Scottish Fold
but I think the tiny little ears just kind of reminded me of Maro so
This will be my new cap for the spring
I think it's super cute
I really like it
And last but not least I got some colored pens. I like to write letters in cute colors and my favorite I think
it was pink pen or was it purple? I can't remember now. My favorite pen ran out and I was so disappointed
I had to go back to boring black so I picked up a bright blue and a pink pen for writing my letters
They have such a cool selection of pens at Artbox. There's so much to choose from and these are like a dollar
fifty each I think. That is it that is my fun little character haul it's basically all character stuff
I think it makes really good souvenirs and the characters are just so adorable. I love the KaKao friends
You can get them in claw machines here in Korea too, and the claw machines here are so easy
I don't know if we just have had really good luck with the ones we've tried, or if they just make them all really easy
But we usually spend maybe one or two dollars, and we can get like a big plushy from the claw machine
So I'll probably be doing a little bit of that to get some more souvenirs for my friends in Canada
and bring them back some cute plushies. Thank you guys so much for watching, and I will be back again soon with another video
See ya!