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Yeah… I know I’m late but being spooky isn’t just for Halloween and neither is Halloween Afternoon Tea! Or least it shouldn’t be because the afternoon tea I want to talk about here is WAY too good to only make an appearance once a year! Mama Doreen's Emporium I was sad when I missed out on this last year so as soon as I found out that there would be a repeat of Mama Doreen’s Halloween Afternoon Tea I knew I HAD to book myself in for it! After rounding up a couple of friends who also wanted to eat this masterpiece, I booked us in for Saturday 2nd November! As soon as I knew I was booking this, I knew it was an opportunity to wear my new dress – St Vitus by Haenuli! I attempted my best gothic look with what I had in my wardrobe and while I think it leans closer to classic, I was comfy and happy and really liked what I did with my face! (Makeup isn’t my forte so I’m really happy with this look! Eyes and lips courtesy of Miniso's Pink Panther collection!) ...

I have managed to brush off EVERY mystery subscription box in existence (despite major temptation) but last week I caved when LoveJojo announced the following:  "EXCITING NEWS! To celebrate reaching 100k followers on Instagram, we are giving away 100 LoveJojo Boxes!  💖 💖 💖 Go to our website (link in bio), add the LoveJojo box to your basket and enter the code GIVEAWAY100 to get 100% off! Just pay for shipping  💕 We hope you enjoy, everyone! This is only valid while stocks last and only limited to the first 100 customers who claim one! Thank you again for supporting us over the past 8 years  🙏 💖 ♥️" " Link to post I placed my order 1st June with the code and paid for postage which was £4.99 (full price of the box is £9.99) and it arrived on 7th June.  ... Let's see what I got! Initial thoughts: the box is V cute and seems a good size! Initial thoughts upon opening: there are no snacks? Okay, so there are 8 things...

Want to know what else I love apart from lolita? Food. Especially cute or gimmicky food! While I was in Hong Kong in late March I picked up some Sakura Pocky from Japanese supermarket YATA and somehow, I have only JUST got round to eating it. I was 10/10 into sakura things in Hong Kong (I forked out 28HKD which is about £2.50 on a piece of artisan sakura mochi - oops) but if I said I wasn't totally won over by the packaging, I would be lying. It could have been ANY flavour and I'd have probably bought it for the packaging and for 'science' - obviously.  Needless to say I was very pleased that even the internal packaging was mega pretty! Compared to the picture on the packaging, the actual Pocky definitely didn't have as many Sakura bits (?) and it definitely wasn't as vibrant as pictured but in all honesty, that was kind of expected.  On to the taste!  They were sweet (not hugely different to the flavour of the strawberry ones to b...