To celebrate the Christmas season Shelflove Crate created a Christmas Advent box. There were two different boxes a 12 day box and a 25 day box. Because of the quality of the Darkdawn box I decided that I want to order the 25 day box as a gift to myself. The post about the Advent box said that it would include bookish fandoms, Christmas fandoms and general bookish goodies. Below there will be a list of the items with pictures and then I will go into my feelings about the box.
Day 1: Hallmark Christmas Movie socks
Day 2: A pop socket
Day 3: An Iron on for a shirt or bag
Day 4: A wooden mixing spoon with a cookie recipe
Day 5: A Christmas Candle
Day 6: A Miracle on 34th Street note pad
Day 7: An oven mitt
Day 8: A set of Christmas Cards
Day 9: A set of four wooden ornaments
Day 10: A book sleeve
Day 11: A snowflake necklace
Day 12: A set of A Christmas Story coasters
Day 13: A 52 card reading challenge set
Day 14: A Harry Potter book wallet
Day 15: A Charlie Brown Christmas Tree enamel pin
Day 16: A Polar Express paper ticket bookmark
Day 17: A Christmas stocking
Day 18: An ACOTAR star shaped stress ball
Day 19: A large art print of a Christmas scene with multiple characters
Day 20: A Harry Potter Mug
Day 21: A snowflake marshmallow
Day 22: A Hat
Day 23: A Elsa art print
Day 24: A copy of A Christmas Carol
Day 25: A large blanket
Boxes were stated to ship in mid to late November to arrive before December 1st and the 25 day boxes were even split into two boxes so there wouldn’t be any delays but that did not happen. The first box of the 25 days didn’t arrive until the 4 and did not include day 11. The second box as also late. Given the cost of the box I expect much more high quality item and fewer paper items. Also there was no card included to find out more information about each item, I don’t even know which artist are connected to each item. I ended up damaging the iron on in an attempt to figure out what the item was and it is completely unacceptable to include food items with out any information attached to them. The marshmallow I thew away after photographing as I didn’t trust where it came from with no information.
At this point with all the issues this box had and the fact that the owners of Shelflove Crate only had excuses about what was going on with no apologies I have no intention of ever buying from Shelflove Crate again.