Ok, you know you’re a bit obsessed when you make a journal page about a journaling supply. But I couldn’t help myself. I got a nice juicy order from the oh-so-amazing Angoo-Mart today, and I simply couldn’t contain my excitement. If you aren’t familiar with deco tape (aka “decorative tape” or “kawaii tape” among many other names) then I suggest you start with Kelly Kilmer’s post about deco tape. You’ve probably heard me talk about deco tape before – I’ve certainly talked about Kelly before, and she is very much the source of this new infatuation. I’d been wanting to try it out for a while and when she was at Ink About It in December one of her classes was focusing specifically on deco tapes, so I jumped at the chance to try it out and play with Kelly’s massive collection of tapes. Let me tell you, I was SOLD. This stuff is enormous fun! Let me explain by quoting my own journal page: “DECO TAPE! How do I love thee? Let me count the ways! (Ok, the reasons WHY!) ~~~ You can cover a mistake. ~~~ You are oh-so-easy to use. ~~~ Your transparent qualities are marvelous for layering with. ~~~ You take paint but only kinda. Which is just even more awesome for layering! ~~~ You are oh-so-affordable, especially now that I found Angoo. I ♥ Angoo. ~~~ Just a tiny snippet can say so much, even literally! ~~~ You are sticky and awesome! wait that came out wrong…” Okay, rereading this I realize that my journal page reads like a gushy teenage love letter, only written to an inanimate object. What can I say? I’m an artist, I’m SUPPOSED to be a bit crazy. :)

In case you’re wondering, Angoo-Mart is a China-based supplier that added me as a contact on Flickr a few weeks ago when I tagged some pages with “deco tape”. Clever social media marketing, eh? Since it was actually on target, I clicked over to their page, and oh man… I lost HOURS drooling over their selection. I kid you not! Hours! After much deliberation, I settled on the 40-ish rolls I couldn’t live without. (Yes, I AM a shopaholic.) Shipping came to about as much as the cost of the items themselves, but it was still a bargain compared to what I’ve seen on Etsy, and some of my favorites were ones I’d never even seen on Etsy. With shipping it came to something like $2.25 (American) each. I’ve rarely seen that kind of price BEFORE shipping. Seriously, I don’t mean to gush so much, but I’m totally knocked out by their prices. (No, I’m not being paid to say this – though they DO have a referral system of sorts, email me at bgoutal AT gmail DOT com if you’re interested in listing me as your referrer on a purchase, and I’ll look into the details.)

All in all, I am amazed by Angoo. They win big points for finding me in the first place, for their awesome prices and shipping speed, for their staggering selection of tapes, and for the free adorable plush monkey they included in my order. :) My only complaints would be that their site is fairly difficult to navigate, and they only have the shiny “packing tape” sort of deco tapes, not the “masking tape” kind. And if I were to really quibble, the tapes were a tiny bit dusty (presumably from warehouse storage) – but they were all individually wrapped so it’s really only a TINY quibble.