Good Morning guys Welcome back to Tokyo

I'm at Ushka's house again and we do

have lots of work to do this weekend

that's why I'm down here but because it

is the weekend before Christmas we

thought we would also do lots of

Christmassy stuff while I'm here so I

thought I would invite you guys for one

last cozy vlog before the holidays so in

Japan the holiday season the most

exciting thing about it is lucky bags if

you've been following my channel for

years you know that it's super fun at

the end of the year lots of Japanese

companies will gather up the items that

didn't sell or sometimes they'll buy

brand new items and they'll package them

together for lucky bags and we're going

to be doing that for our stationery

business this year can't wait so that's

our main project for the weekend I'm

wearing some new frames today from

glassesusa.com

they have very great affordable frames

so many different styles to choose from

on their website you can add

prescription lenses to any frames you

can also add blue light protection lots

of fun stuff to choose from so I will

link my frames down below if you'd like

to check them out first item on the

to-do list today is making some

Christmas wine okay so this is what you

will need for making the mulled wine

we've got cardamom

cloves

fresh ginger, cinnamon sticks and some

orange peel

[Christmas Music]

depends on if like if you like lots of

ginger

[Music]

usually like two but these are kind of

small so it doesn't matter that it's got

like all that can you use any kind of

orange yeah any kind of orange is fine

and again if you like more orange just

add more

sometimes I break it if I can

It's like super tough

so

cinnamon, cardamom

[Music]

I can give you some of this to take with you I've never seen these before

This I get from the Indonesian

supermarket

If it's open we'll get more flavor

mmm smells good already yeah

cardamom's amazing

It's really rough It is rough whatever I

used to count but now I don't

then we just boil it for like I boil it

for about 10 minutes okay

and then I'll just leave it to steep for

I don't know a day or so

we can drain it later tonight

[Simmering]

So while we're waiting for our wine

ingredients to boil

I actually have some presents open from

viewers and there's one from my friend

Emma in here

this first cute package is actually from

Japan this is from Alev in Osaka

Thank you so much Alev that was such a nice

surprise

cute cat tape

ah it's my favorite card this is

probably the best Christmas card

that exists in Japan, it folds out into a

3D

Christmas tree with a bunch of cats

hanging off of it I've gotten this one

for my family before it's such a cute

Christmas decoration here we go

how cute is that

aw cute

I'm very excited for this one of my

favorite teas is a rose-flavored black tea

wow this smells so good

this is gonna be so yummy look at that

how pretty is that

oh and a bunch of cool stickers

I'm going to secretly

stick these all over

Chris's studio don't tell him let's see

Chris's studio, don't tell him let's see

if he notices

thank you so much Alev that's great I

can't wait to try it Next I have a

little present from Emma I met up with Emma

yesterday for lunch and she gave me this

It's in a really pretty

Japanese patterned bag which I love I'm

gonna have to find another use for this

what do we have here oh cool tin

it says matcha

matcha mochi

oooh they're like little senbei crackers

[crunching]

It's really light

oh they're really good

they're so light and fluffy

mmm Emma these are delicious thank you

and finally I have a gift from

Andrew in America Thank you so much

Andrew

Ooh what's that

ah no way is it one of the tamagotchis?!

two or three vlogs back I drove past the

tamagotchi store

in a taxi and I was like what there's a

tamagotchi store I had no idea and I

looked it up online and

they were selling these tamagotchi smart

watches

like a tamagotchi that you wear as a

watch and Andrew got me one what that's

so fun I haven't had a tamagotchi in

ages

I love them this is exciting

and it's so cute

love the design I love the rainbow

[Tamagotchi noises]

while our wine mix is steeping we're

gonna head to 7-eleven because they have

some Animal Crossing items out that

neither of us have seen yet and we're

gingerbread houses

got a few things to pick up

[Christmas Music]

we found the new cup noodles oh do they

come with something oh they come with

stickers

cute this is what I get every time I

come to the conbini

dried persimmons so good

so this is the other Animal Crossing

thing they have so each bottle comes

with a different one it's um a little

desktop calendar

Ooh I want October

oh cute that's cool

yeah I've already got November oh this

it shows some on the back there's April

oh all the different ones yeah

they also have these they're um

files plastic piles

if you buy two ice creams you get one

free file

they've only got one left

that's it it's a cute one though

it is cute yeah yeah I'll get one let

me get some ice creams

do you have a preference

black thunder is good have you had black

thunder? Yeah black thunder's amazing

Let's get some black thunder

what's that penguin is that tokyo banana penguin?

tokyo banana penguin ice cream yeah that's new

so we're picking up some candies for our

gingerbread house now

I'm happy with those

yeah I think that should be good

I'm going to get us some extremely expensive

grapes

I splurge on these whenever they're in

season cause they're so delicious

say hi there you go big girl how much do

you weigh now