[shopping] small business support – purchases of first quarter 2025

Continuing from my previous post of purchases in late 2024, here are all the small business purchases I made in January, February and March of 2025!

First off is a batch of extremely cool and stylish fanart merch from Scum Villain and Genshin Impact and some original artwork from byLimonmaid at Etsy! 

Next was a trip to the local mall for not one but two Valentine’s Day art markets. At the Lucky Bunny store, for the Palentine’s art market, I got some strawberry matcha cookies which were super yummy from fragariatreats (all of the following usernames in this post are instagram handles so just search these names on instagram, I will add actual links to anyone not on instagram). Necklace from winkleheartz, Nana print and Sylvania sticker from milkteart. Citypop poster and overdressed print from EJnoodles. I don’t know the artist for the Howl’s Moving Castle print, sorry, there was no signature and you can’t reverse search a popular screenshot redraw, if this is you, let me know please!

In the first photo on the left, the deco stickers and card frame from Yunorium, even more stickers from Peachicream and Forizzlesart, scrunchy from katsscorner. I believe the Genshin prints, sticker and trading card are from Espiewespie. I want to say imligrim for the bracelets, sorry I’m forgetting already in my old age.  From the Animeuwu Market hosting various English voice actors for a romance series, I got a signed print from the Free! anime from a voice actor (not that I watched the English dub lol but I just never see fanart of this character) in the photo on the right. I also bought socks and earrings from the local Asian goods store that are not from small businesses, I just added them because I forgot about the nails I bought from lethargicspring_nails at the Lucky Bunny art market previously so it was an inclusive photo.

Next is an online purchase from Coralus (from their ko-fi shop). I preordered some Transformers One merch for the cute chibi stickers and lenticular cards that switch between 3 images, I was amazed by the technology lol. Also a Rohan enamel pin from Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, I love that weirdo.

Then it was time for the March art markets! The first market by Animeuwu is for a sporty series (Wind Breaker) I haven’t watched yet, so I wasn’t interested in the English voice actors this time but just bought a few things from an artist, retro holographic stickers for my brother and friend from heribertomartz (store Neon Future Designs), and resin charms from mc.yings.crafts. I also went to the Potato Art Market at Lucky Bunny and got stickers from wittlestpotato and mikachu0 (here is their carrd site, instagram is no longer active).

Next is the Vampire Hunter D fanzine! I hopped onto the preorder a while ago when an artist I follow in Twitter advertised it and of course I was excited to see something for such a, ahem… legendary horror anime film and book series. This bundle includes the zine which has both art and writing, a large sticker sheet, small motivational stickers, a foil logo sticker, and large prints, plus a super goth thank you note with a wax seal. 10/10 on style and aura.

Next was an Uglyfairy market also at Lucky Bunny that I randomly attended, didn’t know it was happening haha. This market featured little hairclips with plants that vendors will pass out with purchase, I clipped them all on my hair. The shopping bag and apple pin are from mediummushroom. The Genshin and Demon Slayer and mascot stickers are from bunthirtyone. The Trigun sticker and clouds washi tape are from niicomode. Now the earrings and little sticker pack inside a bag are from dasminacore, used the bag to hold my blorbos lol.  Finally the Genshin sticker sheet is by badhapple.

Last purchase for March 2025 is an online purchase from etsy from kohiandieco (shop link here).  I got this because uhh they were in the same region as I am and had a super cool style but I love the goofy little Starscream too much to not buy him. And got a Dungeon Meshi sticker sheet just because lol.

I really need to stay on top of my purchases because I am forgetting too many things that happened, but at least I’m only 4 months behind now. Maybe my memory will improve?  Stick around for another haul post hopefully soon before I forget!