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What’s In The Box – Meraki Box and Anime Quarterly – April 2017

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This is an UN-BOXING post.

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The Meraki Box is a monthly UK based subscription box. Each box contains 4 candles and around 3 bookish items! You can’t set up a monthly subscription, instead you have to rust over to Etsy and buy yourself a box when they go live – a month in advance. This months theme was:

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In this box we got:

1. NARNIA candle – Narnia
2. ESSOS candle – Game of Thrones
3. ELENDEL candel – Mistborn series
4. RIVENDELL candle – The Lord Of The Rings
5. Tote Bag – Bookworm boutique
6. bookmark by Till&Dill
7.Camp Half-blood pin

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My thoughts:

Candle scents – Narnia – menthol, lavender and pine. Elendel – jasmine, amber and musk. Rivendell – wildflower and cashmere woods. Essos – Lemon, orange and aromatic woods.
I wanted to like Narnia the best, but my favourite is actually Elendel, then Essos!

I found the bag funny because it comes right after the Middle Earth Nerdy post box – where I said I owned nothing with this quote. Now I do!
By now you may have noticed the lack of bookmark in the picture. I did too. I went through my individual pictures and I don’t have a picture of it there either! I’m careless with bookmarks (that aren’t one’s I’m collecting) and at this point I felt really bad – then I realised I didn’t remember what it looked like. So I looked up other unboxings, which didn’t help because it’s similar in colour to another TillandDill bookmark I have so I have no idea if my box was just missed or if I’ve managed to lose it – so sorry about that! Need to open this boxes more sensibly and not on other peoples cluttered desks…

 (picture gallery of items on Instagram!)

Anime Quarterly

This is also by Meraki candles, it’s anime themed and quarterly! That was all I needed to know! This month’s theme was Ghibli so I was super excited

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In this box we got:

1 Howl’s Castle candle – Howl’s Moving Castle
2 Totoro candle – My neighbour Totoro
3 Ghibli pin – Totoro – Hannah Hitchman
4 Postcard – CodyLeighBond
5 Forest Spirit Notebook – House of Wonderland
6 Yubaba’s Bathhouse soap – Behindthepages
7 Arietty print – @tjlubrano

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My thoughts:

Candle scents – Howl’s Castle – kumpquat, rose, jasmine and patchouli. Totoro – sweet pea.
When I heard of this box theme I hoped there’d be a Howl candle and I’m so pleased there was! Howl’s Moving Castle is my favourite Ghibli film! I’m so pleased to report it’s my favourite scent in the box too!
I got an adorable Totoro pin, but I think there were others sent out too and I can’t wait to see what they were.
I LOVE Behind The Pages stuff – (I have an order waiting to be sent but I’m also waiting for the shop to re-open so I can get my hands on some perfume oil) so I was excited about this soap!
I’m also really pleased with the forest spirit notebook – Princess Mononoke was the first Ghibli film I saw. My mother bought me the video, I still have it on top of my DVD tower.
The print is adorable as always and I’m not sure which film the postcard is from – most likely one I’m yet to see.

I really liked this box, but the next theme is Yuri on Ice and while I enjoyed it I’m not crazy about it like most of the internet. I may not get the next one and let someone more obsessed get it. We’ll see! It goes on sale on the 27th of May at 12pm British time.

 (picture gallery of items on Instagram a few hours after this post!)

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