 No way, no way! Everyone, welcome back to my channel. I hope you're well. And today, I'm so excited. I'm doing my first ever Illumicrate unboxing. Seriously, will I? This is a big dream. I have literally wanted to have an Illumicrate box for like, all my life. No. Ever since I joined Booktube or started watching Booktube, I have lusted after Illumicrate, like I have been obsessed, but I am now an Illumicrate rep for the next couple of months. And I am just so excited. This is just such a dream. I do wanna let you know I do have a code. My code is MegwithBooks, and that is valid for 5% off three and six month subscriptions. So if you've always wanted an Illumicrate like me, maybe consider going and using that on their website, but let's just get into it, shall we? Oh my God, I feel so lucky. Like, I'm so excited. By the way, this is a new ring light, and I don't think I like it. I think I'm gonna send it back, but let me know what you think if you watch my videos compared to other lighting. Oh! Oh, okay, okay, okay, okay. Oh, okay, okay, okay. I've gotta, I've gotta, I've gotta, I've gotta try not to look at anything. Okay. The theme is spellbinding stories. Let's open whatever this is first. She's incredible. She's a beautiful person. Her talent and brilliance is beyond. This is so cute. So the first item is forgotten fables on folklore ceramic book pot by Chatti Nora. So it's just like, it's just hollow. So you can store like little trinkets and stuff, but this is gonna look so cute on my bookshelf. Like, I already know it's just gonna go on my bookshelf and look so cute. Oh my God, what, what, where am I gonna put it? Oh, okay, this is just gorgeous. Like, oh my God, this is exactly this design. Like the vibes of it is my favorite kind of fantasy. Do you know what I mean? Like the intricacy, the gold, the purple, like it just feels so whimsical and magical. On the back it says a compendium of whispered tales from between worlds. This is gorgeous. Like this is so nice. Wow. Oh my God, that's gonna look so cute on my bookshelf. Just like. Oh my God, it's so cute. Okay, wow, that's so nice. Okay, what's the next? Oh my God, it's a face mask. Okay, this is actually great because I only have those like blue surgical masks. And so I always want like a nice material one but I've never bought one. Oh my God, this is so cute. Hang on, let me try it on. Oh my God, that's so cute. That fits so nicely. Oh my God, she looks cute. Somebody lied to her several times and told her that she was fly hot and sexy and beautiful and she's nothing like that. She's nothing of the sort. Herb law face mask. Artwork by Stacey McAvoy-Caunt. Inspired by one of our favorite witches, Cersei. Oh, cute. I haven't read Cersei yet but I do own it. That's so cute. Oh, I got makeup on it already. But I'm so happy. That's like something practical that I've needed because now I don't have to just wear those blue surgical masks. Okay, what's next? We've got like a Christmas tree ornament. So it's in the shape of like, what's that word, an hourglass? That's the word. And it says on it, books and letters in bottles cast into the waves of time from one person trying to save the world to another. So this is designed by her paper world and the quote is from How You Lose the Time War which I've always wanted to read, but I haven't read yet. That is really cute. That's gonna look very cute on my Christmas tree but my family Christmas tree is usually chaotic as fuck. Like it's usually have like 10,000 ornaments on it. We just chuck tinsel at it. But that is really, really cute. Okay, I really like that. Okay, so this is the monthly collectors pin inspired by the once and future witches designed by Stacey McAvoy-Caunt and it says the wheel, the words and the way. That's really cute. I don't, I've always said this with book boxes like pins are cute, but I don't really use them. Do you know what I mean? Like they just sit on my bookshelf and look cute. I don't wear them or anything but I think they're a nice cute addition. So I don't, okay, I think, what order do we do this in? I think there's two books. Wait a minute. I'm figuring this out. I'm like Scooby and Shaggy, I'm solving a mystery. There's two, there's two books. I was not expecting that. Why have you given me two books? What? I knew there was gonna be two books in the December but this is like a surprise. Let's do this one first. What? Okay, what is this? No way, no way. So we've got Legend Born by Tracy Deon. We've got, what? I have been eyeing this up. I have heard so many good things about this. I think it is an Arthurian retelling, I'm pretty sure. I think it's about a young girl who discovers that she has magical powers and gets caught up with the secret society of Legend Born which is the descendants of King Arthur's knights. And I literally have had so many people saying amazing things about this. I have been eyeing it up so much but as many of you know I want a book buying van so I haven't allowed myself to like consider it but oh my God, that's so exciting. I've really, really wanted to read this. That's amazing, I can't believe two books. What? I'm so shook. That's so exciting, oh my God. Let me know if you have read this because maybe I'll get to it soon. Oh my God, that's really, really exciting. So now it seems we've got like a hard cover but first one of my favorite things to receive in book boxes is book sleeves. So this book sleeve is, oh my God, it's strange to dream of. It was like, oh my God, that shit took me, caught me off guard, I didn't expect it. Oh my God, I love it, that is so beautiful. Oh my God, so I think that's Laszlo Strange there and this is the library from the start of Strange the Dreamer. I love book sleeves. Like I just think they're so useful, like I use them even when I'm not going out. Do you know what I mean, like not leaving the house because like we don't need the house much at the moment. I use them to like store my bookmarks in and stuff like that. And this is like a kind of like, it feels like pleathery. Is that the right material to describe it? And it's just so gorgeous. I wanna live in this library so bad. Like I really do, I just wanna live here. That's so beautiful, that's such amazing quality. And the second book is in it, but what is this first of all? These are the Starless Sea book plates, which is one of my favorite books. It is, oh, you can't see it, it's over there and I can't take it out. These have quotes from the Starless Sea. Like, a book is made from paper but a story is a tree. No story ever truly ends as long as it is told and we are all star dust and stories. The idea of these is that you can put them in your books, they're like stickers. You can put them in your books when you're like lending them out to friends and stuff and put your name on them. That's really cute. I never thought of owning one of these. I don't know how much I use them, but I am starting to struggle to like know where all my books are and like who's got them. So this would probably help. And then it's time to find out the like, the final book. Oh my God, I just hurt myself. Oh, but you wanna really fight. So this is the Once and Future of Witches by Alex E. Harrow. Oh, this is so gorgeous. I've heard so many good things about this and I love the cover. Don't you love the cover? Like, I'm obsessed. And then we have these gorgeous red end papers. Oh my God, they're so pretty. And then I think it is also signed as well. Yeah, it is signed. I'm so excited. Let me know if you've read this. I have heard so many people saying amazing things about this. So the description of the plot of this is in 1983, there's no such thing as witches. There used to be in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box. But when the Eastwood sisters joined the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witches' movement. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote, and perhaps not even to live, the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. There's no such thing as witches, but there will be. I'm really excited. I have been in such a mood for a witchy book for so long. I have this image in my head of this book I read when I was eight from the library about witches, like setting the 1800s. And I just wanna relive that. So hopefully this will help me do that. I cannot believe. So many of these items, I would expect to be like the big item in a box, like a book sleeve, the ceramic book, and the fact that we got an extra book. Like, we got so much. I am so shocked. This is absolutely amazing. Thank you so much to Elima Crate for sending this my way. Like I said, I will leave my code link down below if you wanted to go and join. And yeah, I just cannot believe how amazing this box was. And hopefully I'm gonna get around to one of these two really soon. Let me know what you've thought of either of them if you've read them. Thank you so much for watching. I will see you very, very soon. Bye.