Starbucks Sakura 2014 Collection: Asia

By | March 2, 2014
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On February 25th, Starbucks Philippines released their spring collection. Of course, I was among the first ones in the stores when they opened. I was disappointed that not everything in the original collection is available here, as usual. I don’t know why they limit the designs, though, seeing that so many people buy them.


This is my haul. I bought 10 out of the 12 designs. As you can see, they have a lot of mugs this year.


Spring Breeze Mug (P535.00)

Cherry Blossom Floating Mug (P595.00)

Cherry Blossom Floating Mug Wooden Coaster

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Starbucks Sakura 2014 Collection: Korea

By | March 1, 2014
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This year, Korea had two Sakura product line releases. The first was on February 15th, which featured the products other Asian countries will be seeing/have seen. The second one came as a shock to me because they never had their own exclusive designs before. My feelings on Korea also releasing their own local Starbucks Sakura line is mixed. I am happy to have more products on the market, and just a tad bit mad that it could be really hard (and pricey!) to obtain them. Note that they also have the “Asian” release products. They’re so lucky! Anyway, here’s a look at their local line.

I prefer their tumbler designs over the ones in Japan and the rest of Asia. :( They also have muddlers and coasters. I wish we had these too!



2014 Starbucks Cherry Blossom Floral Muddler

2014 Starbucks Pink Cold Cup Muddler

2014 Starbucks Cherry Blossom Floral Coaster/2014 Starbucks Cherry Blossom Round Coaster

The only thing I got from this collection is this Starbucks Card I ordered a week ago. It’s really pretty!



2014 Starbucks Sakura Card/2014 Starbucks Sakura E-card

I can’t provide actual pictures this time, since I can’t buy them. I have no connections there whatsoever.. which reminds me that I am looking for someone in Korea to tie-up with so that I can easily obtain these products and provide more information, or perhaps be business partners, or even for trading personally. Please reach me at mail@pinkaholic.net if you are interested! :)

Starbucks Sakura 2014 Collection: Japan

By | February 16, 2014
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Here are actual pics of Starbucks Sakura Japan 2014 Collection. Yesterday, amidst the bad weather, people still lined up to get themselves tumblers and mugs or just grab a cup of Sakura Chocolate latte.




Here’s a closer look of the ‘Stainless Create-your-own-tumbler Sakura’ tumbler:



It says “Doodle it.” because you can actually write something on the bordeaux-colored base behind the glass. To understand more, take a look at this image.

Here are two more tumblers:




The Sakura glass I’ve been raving about was unfortunately sold out in all 4 stores near our place since morning. It was also sold out from the online store some 5 minutes after the initial release. What’s worse is that you can find a lot being sold on eBay for ten times its original price. I am still disappointed that some people are hoarding these merchandises to sell them at ridiculously marked-up prices online. I’ll try to get those I missed, so, wish me luck!

I’ll make sure I will be the first in line next year. Even before their stores open.