Subscription box: Illumicrate
Theme/Month: In the Stars, December 2023
Ownership: Subscribed on their 6 boxes option. If you are interested in purchasing an Illumicrate subscription, you can do it on their website.
Illumicrate is a book subscription box, it usually features fantasy and sci-fi but not exclusively young adult, sometimes it features adult too. It usually contains a new release, a pin and several bookish goodies.
A box to end the year with a lot of items for the new year. Starting at the top left corner and going clockwise:
- Theme leaflet
- A money jar (or ideas) inspired by a quote from Addie LaRue.
- A calendar with art for each month based on books, usually pretty nice.
- Weekly planner with a habit tracker and space for each day. It is currently on my fridge and used somewhat for meal planning and notes.
- The featured book which is The Pricniple of Moments by Esmie Jikiemi-Pearson, and surprisingly I’ve actually read the book (review coming soon!).
- Finally, underneath all of it, a tea towel for space, quite nice design but the fabric is not particularly good at drying which is one of my biggest issues with it. It’s cool but useless.
Nice box to end the year, and I have used most of it except the towel which I tried to use, found it unusable and gave it away. I have this problem a lot with Illumicrate towels and tea-towels, they never dry enough and are pretty much useless for their intended purpose despite being very pretty which frustrates me because I would like to use them and have awesome towels. But the rest was cool!