Out & About: 💀 Alfeñique 2023

I don't really post about many local events and stuff but this one is one of the few I really enjoy. The Alfeñique Fair (Feria de Alfeñique) is a traditional fair held every year In the city center. It usually starts at the beginning of October and ends after the day of the dead. (November 19th this year)

In this fair you can find a big variety of seasonal candy, alfeñique candy figures and other day of the dead arts and crafts. 

This fair is big tho, many people from different places come to see it. It's alwasy suuuuuper crowded. But I get it, everything is so colorful and fun. 

I remember going to this fair when I was a little girl. Grandpa used to take me and my sister every year to buy some candy, then my dad and now, I like to go with my friends at least once.

This year we found they had different types of cultural activities, especially for kids. 

I'm gonna share some of the pics we took this year (I'm including the ones my friends took too) for you to see the things you can find there.

You can find a big variety of candy here. From the traditional chocolate skulls, wafers and dulce de leche.

Sugar skulls are also very common.

We saw many skulls and skeletons dressed as different things. I'm not a big fan but, some of them are cool and very popular.

I always wondered why thet sell sheep...

There are many non-edible figures people like to buy for their altars or just to have as decoration.

I loved these animal cookies, they were really cute.

We also found marigold candles this year. Some of them smelled really nice.

I love it when they have animal stuff

Sometimes you can also fins a couple of Halloween related stuff. This year they had a lot of Nightmare before Christmas goodies.

Those are just a couple of things you can find there. I feel like I didn't even show half of what they have. We spent hours walking around and deciding what to get. I like it because you can always find tourists and children and adults wearing costumes. It's a very friendly environment.

You can also find many photo spots with mexican Catrines and Catrinas.

There's a smaller Alfeñique fair closer to my house. It's not as crowded and a little cheaper because it's not as popular. But, I defo think going to the original one is the best option to have the whole experience, hehe.

I'm gonna finish this post with this super cute pink sugar cat skull my friend gave me. You know, I love my kitties.

And well, I hope you guys enjoyed this post with a big photo spam. Let me know if you'd like me to share mos posts like this one.
Here are other old Alfeñique related posts: 

💀 Out & About: Alfeñique Museum

💀 Day of the Dead

My Sakura shuki 🍶

Those who know me, know I am a big sake lover so, I'm very excited to share this. 

I wanted a sake set for a long time now but for whatever reason I never got one. A shuki is a sake set, the jar and cups to drink it. I only had a small plain jar I bought from Dokkoi a couple of months ago but I couldn't find the matching cups there.

As you might have seen in my last Pressies Haul, I recieved a very speacial gift, a beautiful ceramic tokkuri with sakura flowers. It is just perfect!

The set comes with a tokkuri wich is the server and 4 ochoko. The tokkuri usually has a narrow neck to keep the heat when you're drinking warm sake but you can find different designs. As for the ochoko, there are also different types of cups to drink sake, and they all have different names.

The set is this kind of an off white color with pink and black details which are the sakura flowers. It is super girly, super cute and... it's exactly how I wanted my shuki to look like!

I used to drink sake from Japanese ceramic tea cups, hehe. Now I can upgrade and drink it properly. 🌸

🌸 Flower Sculptures | Town Square Spring 2021 |

 

It's Spring! And that means: Flowers everywhere!

A few days ago, my mom found out about this "Flower Festival" that was held in Town Square and since we can't really do much on our Spring break, we decided to make a quick stop and check it out.

Town Square is a shopping center that has many open spaces so, I wasn't as paranoid to be there (I only took my mask off for the pic tho). We also went as early as possible, knowing it wouldn't be too crowded and didn't spend much time there.

To our surprise, it wasn't really a "festival", it looked more like nice Spring decoration with artificial flowers. Still the sculptures looked nice and I can't imagine the work behind them.

These are all the sculptures we found on the first floor. We didn't really check the others but, they don't really decorate the other floors much anyway.

My fav has to be the peacock, it was also the biggest one.

HR Giger - Solo con la noche exhibition

Early this month I was invited to go to the HR Giger exhibition in Mexico City. To be honest I had no idea of what to expect since I wasn't familar with him or his work. I only knew he was the guy who designed the famous aliens from the movie, Alien.

Now I know he's a well known Swiss artist with a very unique goth and biomechanical style(?) who won an Oscar for special effects.
His work kinda reminded me of Aeon Flux. hehehe.

I'm not the best when it comes to describing things, especially art. All I can say is that going to the exhibition was an interesting experience and if you are a fan, you should definitely go cuz I feel like there are so many cool things for true fans.

In this expo you'll find paintigs, photos, furniture,  sculptures and of course, Aliens! You can also buy official merch like books, t-shirts and super expensive replicas of his paintings.

The exhibition has been there for a couple of months now and still has a month left (March. 31st).
I'll link the official site in case you guys want more info or feel interested to check it out. https://hrgiger.mx/

See you next time!!