Yosei ❤ D o l l i e

Hello! So my blog had a rough start, what with my old laptop being such a painful disappointment to me. Seriously, it was hell to work on and I couldn't run my art programs etc. Ugh!
But now I have a nice new PC that works well, so I am happily picking up where I left off.

My birthday was on the first day of spring. Yes, spring is officially in full bloom. I had a lovely time, despite not really being in the mood for it originally. I have been feeling very sad and disconnected.
I was treated to breakfast and had a lovely dinner with everyone. My mother made me a cute sakura blossom shaped cake with little blossoms on it. So cute!! I LOVED IT! It was really yummy too (it was vanilla cream flavour).

I got some really nice cherry blossom themed items along with an adorable maneki neko ornament and some cute bath items from Lush cosmetics. I got some of the new Easter items, which I haven't tried yet (they smell really amazing though) along with a couple of regular favs. (pop in the bath bubble bar & sultana of soap). Then of course, I got the new PC (yay!). So it was all super lovely.

The day after I had a girly birthday day out treat. We went to druckers Vienna Patisserie for some coffee and treats. I really liked their yummy coffee cream eclair and a caffe latte. It was pretty nice, they have some cute cakes and treats along with really good Italian coffees.

Then we went shopping a little, where we stopped at a nice jewellery & accessories store Love Forever. They have such pretty items there, its just so sparkly everywhere! I was treated to a really pretty hair comb accessory too, which made me feel spoiled. 

After that we went to the sushi bar, Yo! Sushi. It was really fun there, the staffwere awesome, super friendly and upbeat. We had some yummy sushi (avocado maki, salmon maki, tamago nigiri, inari pockets etc). I didn't photograph everything (I actually forgot) but you get the idea. Oh yes, their Japanese matcha tea was also very good, and we got free refills so I was really happy about that. They had a nice edamame soya bean salad too and tasty chicken gyoza dumplings and chicken teriyaki on a bed of cabbage.

They also had really good anko mochi (it wasn't on the belt though so we had to ask for it, and it was worth asking for!), but the best was the strawberry cheesecake mochi!! Oh my word, that was amazing. Definitely worth trying if you are there. I want to try and re-create that mochi at home sometime, it really was that good!

I had my cute sakura necklace on while we went out and it matched my whole birthday theme and the beautiful spring day! Our trees are all starting to bloom and didn't disappoint on my birthday (the apricot blossoms opened first, the peach blossoms are starting now and the cherries are going to follow soon).

It was a really fun two days, and I really appreciated everything. Everyone was lovely to me and made it feel special. I know I wasn't looking forward to it, I have been kind of depressed lately so I wasn't very interested in celebrating anything. But I couldn't help but enjoy myself this year so I am again truly grateful to everybody. Thank you so much!