Hedgehog Heaven

So my adoration of unusual little forest animals such as foxes has already been made known. I also love hedgehogs thanks to Beatrix Potter and her tales of Mrs. Tiggy Winkle. 

Oh she's just the cutest little English hedgehog ever! 

So when I saw this doormat from ModCloth I was instantly smitten. Yes I want this in my house! I can't believe that was even a question...

How did I not know about this?

I am the worst bargain shopper ever. Literally. My sister is awesome at it, but I can never find things for the prices that she gets in styles that I like.

But I feel like everything has changed now. I stumbled on loveculture.com and the first thing I see is that top for $26.90 and then there are things like this skirt:

for $8.99! At Urban Outfitters that would be somewhere around $40. I'm a changed woman. Of course I don't expect the quality to be as good as designer clothes, but I might just have to use that as an excuse to order some things and test that theory out.

Officially Obsessed

So what this is from 2009. I'm over it, you should be too.

Diet

This is horrible. I am not on a diet at all, but I guess you could say my diet is being lazy. I'm really hungry right now but I don't have any food that can be eaten without being cooked. I really don't feel like cooking right now. But I'm also hungry. These two problems will battle each other out until one wins. Therefore I haven't eaten yet today. It's like 1 pm right now, I should have had two meals and a snack by now. Instead I've just opened the refrigerator like ten times.

Strange how googling images of food does not make me any less hungry right now. 

Black Skinny Jeans

I need a pair of black skinny jeans but I don't want to break the bank getting them. I don't know where to go for a pair of black jeans that will fit well, and are less than $100. I know where to go to get some that are close to $200 but that just seems silly to me to be dropping all that dough on some black jeans.

I guess my only solution is to window shop online all day. The things I'll do for clothes..

Shiny

I wish I had a wardrobe in which these were an acceptable shoe to wear. Unfortunately the only thing I can seem to end up purchasing for myself are sensible brown shoes. If only I could release my inner...what would you call someone who wears these? Anyhow, I wish I could release her, and wear them, and be the talk of the town.

Of course they're from Urban Outfitters. 

Seriously Bro?

So apparently Prince Harry wants to climb Mt. Everest. Uh bro, my girl Kate hasn't produced any progeny yet. Shouldn't you be getting all Scar on Mufasta's ass and trying to steal the throne? Not climbing a mountain that kills people. Can anyone get in contact with him and tell him he's doing it all wrong?

Unicorn Meat

Speaking of unicorns, I want this in my kitchen. Currently the only artwork hanging there is a way too large whiteboard and a canvas with fall leaves my roommate painted. No whimsy whatsoever. This print that I found on Gelaskins is the perfect kitchen print.

Obviously I would never actually eat unicorn meat if I were given the chance, I just enjoy this because it caters to my obsession with mythical creatures as well as my twisted sense of humor.

Foxes

I've decided I have an unhealthy new obsession with foxes. You know how everyone has their own animal? My mom has pigs all over her kitchen, my boyfriend is obsessed with cows, my aunt loves peacocks, and everyone knows at least one girl who is obsessed with horses to the point where she is known as the horse girl. I think I want my animal to be foxes, that go to animal creature thing that people see something with a fox on it and they're like "Oh hey, that'd be a perfect gift for my dear friend Eleanor." And then they gift it to me and I am happy.

I've been searching foxes on Etsy and I really like what I see.

I've decided that my non-existant son's nursery will be foxy forest themed. I think that will go nicely with my similarly non-existant daughter's nursery which will be unicorn themed. I have such lucky non-existant children. 

Weddings

I have a couple of friends getting married this summer. This is the first time I'll be attending a wedding that is for a friend, not for a cousin or my parents friend or something like that. So obviously I can't be like "Yo Mom write my name on the card!" Because my mom isn't going.

Well shoot, I'm poor. What is a poor person supposed to get a person for their wedding??

If I were super creative I would get a set of clear glass nesting bowls and then etch the married couples initials on them, and I might if I find at some point I have a lot of time.

However I probably will just buy something, and in that event I'll hit up my old faithful Anthropologie for these dishtowels.

The Storybook Romance dishtowels. 

I mean, they'll really only be cute in their house for a year before they become so last year, but whatever. I'm poor, and this is what I can offer that is wedding themed. 

Lolcano

This makes me laugh. Am I really that immature?

Whoops

Sorry for not posting in forever. I went on a little hiatus in which I was a disgusting example of a human and was a huge bum for a week. I'm going to say my excuse is that rain and cold weather make me not want to blog...but really I was just being lazy. I'd say it won't happen again but...it probably will.

Morning Cuteness

This baby primate bro has better moves than me.

He's mastered the "why doesn't this hat fit" dance move. I'd hate to see him do the penguin or the sprinkler, he'd crush me in a dance off. I'll just add this to the list of my white girl problems. Monkeys are better dancers than I am.

Supakitch & Koralie

Ok, since my last post I have been googling images of Supakitch and of Koralie (together, separately, suggested searches) and I'm a little obsessed. I wonder if the mural they did comes in a smaller print....

Stumble of the Day

This is AWESOME. I love watching people make art, and this is amazing. I sat entranced for 4 minutes and 10 seconds. Something thats very hard for me to do when I'm stumbling. 

SUPAKITCH & KORALIE Art

Dad Story

Oh Dad, you are so amusing sometimes.

I received a care package from my dad. You know, a box full of groceries that he accidentally bought and my parents don't want in the house anymore and needed to get rid of so they would have room for real groceries that they will actually eat. Among the usual peanut butter jars and tuna cans, my dad sent bananas.

Uh bro, you didn't even write fragile on the box.

Needless to say I opened a box with smashed bananas all over everything in the box. It was a banana massacre. Sticky, smelly, and yellow.

He had no idea this would happen. All I could think of was that chocolate milk commercial that used to be on where he ships chocolate milk to himself so that the mail service will shake it up the perfect amount.

Oh Dad, when will you learn that you can't send soft fruit in the mail?

Girl Crush

So I openly have a girl crush on Katy Perry for her hair.

Loved it when she had the Snow White thing going on. 

I didn't like this though. You're no Nicki Minaj, Katy! Be you. 

This, as far as I know, is her latest hair. I love it! The light bits of pink in her blonde bob are perfect, and I'm jealous. 

Baby Lips

I am not a crazy lip balm person who has 13000 lip balms in my possession at all times. My sister is. (Ok that's an exaggeration, she probably has close to 15 though) This being said, I am becoming obsessed with Maybelline's Baby Lips.

 I've been using it for about a week and a half, and usually by this time I would have lost interest in a lip balm, but this is actually amazing. My lips feel significantly softer every time I use it.

A week ago my lips looked like parched desert lips.

Now they are soft, smooth, and protected with spf 20

Note: The above photos are not my lips. They are pictures I stole from google of beautiful people lips. This should be obvious, but I felt the need to clarify just in case.

Morning Cuteness

HAHAHA I can never look at this and not laugh. It's impossible. Everything just cracks me up, the dog's expression, the man's expression, the fact that this exists on the internet...

Stumble of the Day

The best new recipes from Smitten Kitchen

I stumbled, I drooled, I liked.

Random

Why is it so weird to use mythical creatures as a category when playing categories? It's not my fault not everybody keeps themselves updated on all the imaginary creatures there are and are uncreative and can only think of dragons and unicorns.

Maybe it would be unfair if in the previous rounds people weren't coming up with categories like types of tractors and hockey goalie's names. Like seriously? Uh, there's those green tractors and then Tim Thomas from the Bruins. And I only know that because they won the Stanley Cup but of course the bimbo (who is my friend so I mean bimbo strictly in the competitive anger sense) sitting next to me says that first so then I lose.

So yes, I'm going to pick a category in which I will have an advantage. And I don't feel bad. So quit crying and drink your beer or next time I'll pick something obscure like character names from The Immortals series. Oh what, you didn't read that? Drink up.

Ps. I don't know where I get most of my pictures from...I stumble on them and take screenshots of them when I'm on the internet at 2am and then put them on here and realize I should have saved the link to it so I could credit it but I didn't. So I credit it to the internet.

In all seriousness

Why isn't this my house?

Seriously. Damn you Anthropologie for creating my dream home. Spiny Lobster Rug and all. I never knew I needed one of those until now, and now my life won't be complete without it's colorful lobster legs sprawling all over my floor.

Morning Cuteness

Haha just kidding. This is creepy and gross. Look at his nipple. Ew. 

Stumble of the Day

Chef/Jive/ValSpeak/Pig

Perfect for if you find yourself in a bind and you need to translate something into swedish chef, jive, valley girl, and pig latin all at once.

p.s. I can figure everything out except for Swedish Chef....what is that?

Playing with Hair

I love using The Beauty Department to look up hairstyles. They break down cute hairstyles so that they're simple and effortless. This one was recently posted, and I'm in love and its way better than a ponytail.

Dad Story

This is the first of many Dad stories. As you loyal readers will soon find out, my dad is a freak. Like, not in a criminal kind of way, just in a 'Wow are you sure we share DNA?' kind of way. Of course I love him, he just provides me with a lot of funny stories to tell.

This one is always a favorite.

My dad is in charge of the grocery shopping for various reasons. He probably shouldn't be, but he has been for a long time and so we just let it happen. For as long as I can remember, he always forgets to buy like 2 or 3 things despite the fact that he has a list, and he almost always buys something in excess.

For instance, currently we have about 4 boxes of instant oatmeal. NO ONE eats instant oatmeal in my family. And we say this to him every time he brings it home and yet somehow each time he goes shopping he'll just buy it anyway.

I imagine his thought process goes something like this: Do we need oatmeal? I think Ella is home, she eats oatmeal. I know they said something about oatmeal. I'm not sure if we ran out. It's not on the list...oh I'll just get it just in case! Everybody likes oatmeal! 

Sometimes it's peanut butter, other times it's pasta. But it's always something that doesn't expire for a long time and just sits in our pantry until either someone eats it or we donate it to some school food drive. Sometimes they'll even ship a box of excess stuff to my apartment just in case I'll eat it.

We usually remedy this after we realize he's started by writing on the list DO NOT BUY OATMEAL or whatever it is that he's currently obsessed with buying.

Oh Dad.

Ew.

I would like to meet the person who wears these and makes them look good because they are uuuggglllyy. I cannot imagine anyone wearing these and thinking they look good. I don't see how they could make your legs look better the way a wedge would, and I don't see the attraction of making your feet look like glorified shoeboxes.

Courtesy of Free People. Good thing they have other shoes that are cute, or they'd have very low shoe sales. For instance, I grant full permission for someone to surprise me with these or these. You're welcome for the hint. Also, while we're talking about shoes, I love these from Urban Outfitters!

Morning Cuteness

Yes, I'm aware this is late (or really, really early) but this video is the epitome of cute puppies. Make it stop, I'm drowning in puppy cuteness!

I would pay all the monopoly money in the world to wake up with all those puppies snuggling with me in the morning.

Yummy

This Ziggy Chair from Urban Outfitters is delicious. If only it would somehow match my obnoxiously upholstered couch. But hey, I can't really complain...I got it for free. 

Snow?

I'm pretty sure it's winter due to the fact that it is colder than my freezer outside. Nothing is worse than a dull winter with no snow outside whatsoever. I mean, I want to look out my windows in the morning and feel like there is a reason for the fact that I can't feel my toes. If it doesn't look like the universe dumped it's entire stock of sugar outside, then there is no point in it being this cold. Get your act together nature. Seriously.

Oh and just in case you were wondering, the weatherman is a soul crusher. I don't even have an opportunity to think maybe the frost on the grass is a light sprinkling of snowflakes. Because he's got it all over todays weather that there is 0 in of snow anywhere. 

Awesomeness

Yeah these are old news. Whatever, I still think its funny. Its a velociraptor philosophizing...a philociraptor if you please. 

Morning Cuteness

Oh yeah, just a miniature hippo just being all slimey and adorable. No big deal or anything like that. Too bad it will grow up to be a ravenous man eater. 

Pretty sure whoever made this video definitely cut off the 'One of' from the beginning. No way is it the most dangerous animal in all of Africa...

Unexpected Free Time

Due to recent events I happen to have some unexpected free time on my hands. One of my friends had previously suggested I start a blog (not related to my free time, just in general). So here it is... my blog.

So anyway before I started this I went window shopping at Anthropologie and just added items to my shopping bag without looking at the price. Turns out I need to find myself a fairy god-sugar-momma and fast!

Yes, that is the total of my shopping spree. Obviously I had no intention of buying anything and there are some ridiculous items in there like four chairs and a couch, but still, a girl can dream. And hey, the regular shipping price isn't so bad! Or at least it doesn't seem that way in comparison to all the other numbers.

 I hope whoever works on the website can't see what I have in my cart and is hoping that they're about to get an $18k purchase...