I got a couple of little Rockruffs and birds that have been on my list for a while!

We'll do the most interesting piece first, for once.

Chatot movie pen!! The paper insert is really grimy, so please forgive that in the photos. I've been searching for this pen for a while, and I'm really happy to own it, not in small part because the chatot charm is ADORABLE.

Kids figures. Rockruff sleeping has been my icon on another website for ages, so I was so over the moon when I saw it was getting a sleeping kids.

The little garden wall re-ment figure. The set looks really cute together, but this one admittedly looks a bit odd on its own. The Rockruff mould itself is adorable, though!

There was a Tomy Get collection released at the end of last year with both a Wattrel and a Rockruff, too. I've been really spoilt with the releases lately, I thought Rockruff merch would not be as frequent after S&M ended, and while it has slowed down there's still a pretty regular few bits which makes me very happy!!

And lastly, finally, the Corviknight re-ment terrarium. I bought two from this gacha set and got Raboot and Cramorant before telling myself "no more randoms, just buy the set" and... I didn't. Until now! Better late than never. :) It's nice to get a Corviknight piece this year, anyway, seeing as he's not getting as much love now we're into gen 9.

That's all for now!

This post is copied directly from PKMNCollectors Livejournal, as the Spring Secret Swap takes place there!

I was extremely excited to receive this parcel in from my PO box! It looks like Chatot was pretty excited too, especially given this drawing on the box — check under the cut to see what's inside! (WARNING: PICTURE HEAVY!)

Some more of my favourite birdies! They're having a little chat :3

Opening it up... wow! Look at all these beautifully wrapped gifts! 

First things first was this incredible card! It turns out my gifter is none other than nerucake , thank you very very much indeed! This artwork featuring my favourites being little mailbirds is so goshdang adorable! They all look so happy, and the cloud textures are simply stunning. Then, inside was another happy little Chatot! Look how puffy and cute he is. I knew I was in for a treat as soon as I saw this beautiful art :)

Inside was also a little mini-envelope with a bunch of stickers inside! (I accidentally covered Entei's face in this picture, oops.)

Okay, onto the pretty parcels.. what could be in the first one?

First up is this acrylic charm! This is an older charm from the Pokémon Center that I never grabbed. The Chatot in it looks like he's having a blast. It's still sealed and everything, I can't wait to hang it from my board!

Next is this gorgeous Berry Forest pass case!! I love the floral designs of this promotion, you can see the Chatot in the top right. The little button eyes are so cute. 

Next up is a biggun... Timtams!! I've had various friends from Aus but I've never had the opportunity to try Timtams and I was so intrigued I tried one right away. They're a bit like a biscuit we have here called Penguins, but (don't tell anyone else in the UK I said this) much tastier.

Ooh, it looks like Chatot knows what's in this bubblewrap..

Two beautiful trading cards from my wishlist! On the left is the Rockruff character art from a recent set. I could not believe how cute this art was when it came out! And then on the right is a promo Eevee card. Why did I have this one on my wishlist? Well, if you take a look up where Chatot's pointing...

There's a little Chatot up there! I'm so pleased to have both these cards in my collection! There is something just so pretty about the silvery borders of Japanese cards, they're going to look fabulous in my binder.

This parcel looks fancy! It's all wrapped up, and the washi tape...

Is lots of tiny unicorns! So cute! So, what's inside?

Oh! My! GOODNESS! 
These are some little handmade clay pins of all my bigger collections. I'm going to admit something: when I opened these up, I absolutely started to tear up. The sheer amount of time and care that must have gone into them, all the fun poses, and the incredibly steady-handed painting... Straight away, these are some of my favourite customs that I own. Thank you so much, Nerucake! 

Some more sweets! Looks like Chatot got to them before I did. I mentioned that I like caramels and toffees, and these are such a treat. I have to admit I laughed out loud when I saw the koalas; a very on-brand sweet!

Saving the largest parcel for last, and here it is! It's this really beautiful Forest Life tshirt from the Pokémon Center! Nerucake did actually guess my size accurately, but this will stay a collection piece. Let's play spot the Chatot on this one:

There he is! Look at that funny little face. Adorable!

Here is everything altogether! Thank you so much again Nerucake for making my first SSS just wonderful. It was such a delight and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate it! You've given me plenty of ideas to incorporate into my own gifting MO for next year too!
Until next time!

I got some beautiful birdie charms thanks to FreckledUnicorn!

The third one is a spinning keychain, so the wings "flap" side to side.

I got a very lovely parcel today, too! Look at this note!

And inside... a very odd find! On ebay I found an empty Kraks booster box featuring Chatot. From my research these are officially licensed. It would also seem this Chatot art is completely unique to this product, which is part of what drew me to it so much.

And as they said, they sent some bonuses! An empty buizel wrapper (also appears to be unique artwork) and a French Chatot card! Overall I'm really happy with this bizarre buy.

Got some fun bits to share!

Corviknight scale world, flats, and a buizel for a friend's birthday! Corviknight scale world is MUCH bigger than I was expecting.

Finally and in really exciting news, I got in my INCREDIBLE custom shiny chatot pokedoll by Emberfallplush! I'm so excited to own my first custom plush, and such a neat one to boot. They chose some really beautiful colours for this boy!

Here are a couple of things that came in individual parcels that I haven't posted up yet!

This came on the 1st! I saw that there were some of these old European kids figure packs on eBay and it was so nostalgiac seeing one again. As a kid, whenever we went into Tesco my sister and I would go to the toy aisle and beg my mum to let us get a pack just like this. One day I'd like to collect them all sealed as they're just so memorable for me!
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On the 8th I had my lonely quarantine at-home Darkness Ablaze prerelease. In terms of actually valuable pulls, I got Slowbro V, Centiskorch VMax and Crowbat V (!!). But more importantly (to me!) I managed to pull a load of the reverses that I'd later want to go back and get. This is a very bird filled set, so I was excited for it. Even better though, the following Japanese set Legendary Heartbeat has my two main collections: Rockruff and Chatot. I'm excited for those to drop!
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Chatot pokédoll charm delivered from Waku on the 7th! It came in a lot with 5 other (intact) pokédoll straps. I'm not 100% certain whether this  Chatot is actually from a strap, though, as he has a tiny hole in the bottom which woud indicate he might have come from this strange pen I managed to find a picture of. It looks like if he came from the strap he should have a small hole in his head for the clip to have gone in. I'm not sure, but happy to have him!
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I've got some more fun bits and bobs coming now, including what I THINK is the Chaatot playset figure, so I'm very excited to get those. For now though, that's all!

On Tuesday I received a parcel containing 9 DPPT era gacha balls with 1/40 Zukan figures! The "Diamond Pearl Edition" balls (of which I got 2) are also known as Zukan DP02. The "Diamond Pearl Dialga Edition" ones are Zukan DP03. From the former I was especially hoping to get the Starly set, and also wanted the Turtwig set. From the latter I wanted the Eevee/Leafeon/Glaceon set and the big Dialga figure. I looked the balls before I opened them to see if I could catch a glimpse of what they were; I was able to determine that there were 2 Budew sets and 1 Buneary set, so I left those sealed for my collection. I opened 2 then and there and got the Mantyke set and the Eevee set. I filmed the opening of the remaining 4!:
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One parcel from a fellow collector and one from Japan came in on Wednesday! My collections right now are all over the place, lol. But I (finally) got the corviknight plush, the new rookidee plush, the murkrow fit and cafe mix starly, as well as the galarian zigzagoon pin set and corviknight moncolle from the Pokémon Centre. Then from FreckledSamurai I got the 2012 leafeon I Love Eievui plush, two rockruff charms I was missing, a centre promo postcard, leafeon, glaceon and shaymin kids, and a leafeon candy figure. They were selling a lot of this stuff at really reasonable prices, so even though a lot of these aren't my main collections I couldn't resist grabbing them for the price. My very little leafeon collection has been bulked up a bit!

In my defense COVID-19 happened and getting things posted from Japan became a pain. :(
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This is a picture of stuff on June 6 that had come in pieces for a couple of weeks leading up to it!

Fellow collector Perritbear was kind enough to middleman a loose WCT rockruff for me from US mercari. In the parcel they included a bunch of fun food wrappers that featured rockruff from the Alola era. Also picked up a couple other rockruff figures I needed, and I now officially have all rockruff plush and figures!

Three of the best (in my opinion) chatot plush: of course, the pokedoll, a banpresto keychain and a 5" banpresto plush. The latter of which was an entire can of worms unto itself to achieve. I spotted it in a huge $200+ lot on JP mercari and since I'd been looking for this guy for a while... I just went for it. That's definitely the most I've spent in one go lol. Luckily a lot of other collectors needed other stuff in the lot, so it was worth it! As life so happens though, about a week after, the chatot plush showed up for a really decent price on ebay... That's just how it goes, I guess!

Other than that, there are a couple cheap eevees I found on Y!J and JP mercari. Eevee is a pokemon I love but could never even think about collecting to completion. That being said, in its multitude of plush are some that I personally really love and have kept an eye out for at a good price. Here are three of them: the modern pokedoll, the laying I Love Eievui and a canvas eevee.

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A smaller parcel of gets from July the 11th. One of each regular chatot kid plus one clear, a couple of chatot charms, and a corviknight kid. Nice!