A good horse rug never goes astray


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I just bought this on my best bud, Etsy. Gonna hang it on the wall behind the bed. I totally stole this bit from Stokes who has a super gorgeous big peacock over her bed. Homes has good dressing sense.

FOR ANNIE Large Vintage 60s Wall Tapestry 72" x 50" Forest Scene

FOR ANNIE Large Vintage 60s Wall Tapestry 72" x 50" Forest Scene

I’ll blog a photo when it’s posted up in all its glory.

I love Etsy so much. I go through waves of being on it soooso much, then not at all for months. But the fact is, my favourites list never gets smaller, only longer.

There are two others that I’ve favourited that have, I think, elk on them. So if you’re in the market – have at ‘em.

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That ice cream in there? Haagen Dasz Vanilla Swiss Almond? Oh, you wanna.

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Murph has been limping for two days. They rip around here constantly and play pretty rough, so I’m quite sure it’s a result of something that-related. Andrew took him to the vet this morning. She thinks it’s a pulled muscle or sprain, nothing huge. Definitely not broken – PHEWF! I knew it wasn’t though. We have pain meds and some other med that’s supposed to aid in healing speed. 180 roots later. Better than the many-multi-hundreds, maybe even thousands it could’ve been if it was broken. Vet prices are outrageous, considering that we humans get our shit fixed for free. What do vets do if someone comes in with an ailing pet that they absolutely cannot afford to fix? Do they let them walk back out just like that? I don’t know. I struggle with that kind of stuff a lot. If I was a vet, I just couldn’t. I’d end up doing half my work for free, I know it. Don’t you get into the vet field in the first place because of an unshakable love of animals? No matter how poor their owners may be? They make good loot, they can afford the time.


It is gorgeous outside. What am I doing?


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Now for another edition of Things I Think Are Nice But Most Likely Won’t Get. Maybe You Should?

Rainbow Moonstone Ring, Snow White Blue Flash Gemstone Ring Oxidized Sterling Silver Ring Metalsmithed - Ready to Ship US Size 6 - Haunted

Rainbow Moonstone Ring, Snow White Blue Flash Gemstone Oxidized Sterling Silver Metalsmithed – Haunted

Now this is a Rang. I love this ring. I highly doubt I will end up buying it, but will just look longingly upon it from within my Etsy favourites list . I don’t know, it’s $104 and I can never bring myself to spend more than like 50, 60 if it actually stops my heart dead, on jewellery. I’m cheap, sorry. Plus I just don’t like to have so much jewellery to begin with. I start forgetting things that then just live in my jewellery tree alcoves forever, and I hate that. Waste of pretty objects. I also hate clutter and looking at too much of a pile makes me scowly. This is a gorgeous piece though, so you get it. Okay, did you notice in the caption that the ring is supposedly haunted??! YOU GET IT!

14k Rose Gold and White Topaz Gemstone, ROCK Fetish, Made to Order

14k Rose Gold and White Topaz Gemstone

Ayespahlease. This is obviously a badass bitch, but it is also $905 and I am not expecting any proposals anytime soon, so. You get it, you have loads of paper!

drink

I’ve been back on the caesars in a big way this weekend. Delicious. Oh, I’ve been pouring a bit of the juice from a jar of Matt & Steve’s Extreme Bean jar in them and the results are spectacular.

movie

Am also passively watching The Campaign right now. What you are looking at is the bedroom TV on top of the wheeled things holder cart thing from the kitchen, and it is because the living TV room was acting weird so Hutch rigged this nonsense up to watch the hockey game last night and hasn’t undone it yet. I didn’t even get to watch SNL last night because his highness – no, literally, really – started chainsaw snoring at like 11:20. LIVING WITH A BOY IS A JOY, JUST ALL OF THE TIME.

Sterling silver ring with white stone

Hmmmm. I do like this. I don’t know. Maybe the rugged rawness of this hand just isn’t selling it to me. Look into some lotion and a flattering light next ring shoot bro, christ.

I’m just kidding, this hand looks exactly like my Mom’s! I’m just being a thorn in etsy user HeathersCollectibles’ side (I feel guilty now). Jokes make the world go round.

I might get this. Will consider over the next couple hours. See what else is out there as well. In case it isn’t obvious by this point, yes I am specifically looking for a ring with a white stone. Can be a challenge finding juuuust the right you one, can’t it? I don’t care, the search really is half the fun.

Oh, I just found a few gorg wall hanging rugs that I like and may purchase one of. Not sharing those though, gotta keep something up the sleeve.

Bye baby, xo


This month in TV, nails, and glasses


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polishes

Now and for the unforeseen future, clear and sparkly polishes are my jam. Currently rotating Nicole by OPI’s Heavenly Angel from their Selena Gomez line, with Revlon’s Heavenly, with Essie’s shine of the times.

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This is my mitt today sporting shine of the times

I have made one selfish/foolish/naive discovery about nail polish – no matter how easy your pea brain may picture it working, you CANNOT just keep putting layers and layers of polish on chipped spots in hopes of keeping nails fit as eventually the polish will just chip off in whole-nail-peels from the different layers binding together (I guess?). So not only do they still chip, but they chip as like the whole nail’s coverage at once. No, I don’t know if this is the way all polishes work, it’s just something that’s happened to me a couple times recently.

Not partycentric.

Moving on. Howwww in love with Girls are you? There is only one right answer here. I know how late of a ‘conversation’ this is, but this is not a blog that bothers itself with timeliness. This blog gets brainwaves of things it wants to talk about and it just goes for them right then and there. Time or current relevency be damned, na mean?

But mostly, howwww into Hannah and Jessa are you? They make me so, so happy, and that episode where they introduced Jessa’s family just about shot me through the roof. I get Jessa’s family. I HAVE Jessa’s family. You will say nothing unkind about her – she’s been brought up heavily effed up and has come out mostly together, so. That is not nothing, trust me. The things that bug people about her, I get them, I really get how irritating her whole flaky friend bit is. But even so.. I don’t know, I forgive it. She isn’t terrible, she is just a messy little girl who may not have the same ingrained life skills as others. It sucks. But her heart is soft and she’s a rare, weird specimen. Those are not to be written off. Listen to me, yelling at the internothingness not to rag on a TV character, ha, who do I think I am with this? It is 23 degrees outside, help me jesus, I must leave this couch cave before I start going off about how much entertainment set in Robin Hood times bores me. I’m sorry, it does.

Oh my god, this episode was HYS-TERICAL. Look at Elijah’s stance here! Look at it! He is so quality. He kills me all the time.

What do you think of these beasts? I want, kindof. Well I want red cat-eye glasses, but they don’t have to be exactly like these. Actually, these look a bit gummy bear-ish the more I look at them. Okay, not these at all, but still red and still cat-eye. Must keep combing Clearly Contacts.


NEW LOVE: Horse ring


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I’ve decided I want a horse ring. Here are a few way-out-of-my-range ones that popped up on Etsy.

18K Yellow Gold Unique Genuine Natural Diamond Horse Ring Band

18K Yellow Gold Unique Genuine Natural Diamond Horse Ring Band - gorgeous. As IF I can/will ever spend $765 CAD on a ring but still. If I got this as a gift, I’d be considerably less than pissed off.

HORSE RING ('Ghost Rider') in 18K Gold w/.09ct tw diamonds

HORSE RING (‘Ghost Rider’) in 18K Gold w/.09ct tw diamonds - Oh man. So fucking G. I’d be ripping a mad Elvira Hancock attitude in this bee.

14k Horse Head Ring Yellow Gold Solid Free Shipping IN USA

14k Horse Head Ring Yellow Gold Solid - Baller, table for one.

The one I end up getting will be these sort of ideas, but like, under $50. And no, I will under no circumstances consider a unicorn – please. That cliche-”unique” ship has sailed and is PACKED full of borebots who are surely the first to be “OBSESSED” with unicorns. Sorry, I just have a really sensitive when-things-in-popular-culture-have-been-saturated-to-a-choking-death radar. Next thing you know, these exact humans will be like, “I am so into things from the 80s these days! That’s wierd right?!”, while my eyes roll out of my head, out through the door next time it opens, and into a cab straight to hell.


HATERS GON’ HATE: In relation – Wedge Sneakers


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What do you think of my legitimately digging wedge sneakers? Okay, well I do, so, figure it out. Here are a few cool examples I’m going to share to back up my claim:


oh wait, are they even definitely wedge sneakers on Rashida, B and Bosworth? I’m not totally sure. Either way, they do look like them and – cool. Although they also kindof look like skate sneakers too, which I hate so, fuck. Really in a sticky one here.

I think I just really don’t like the ones with large, cartoon-y tongues and velcro straps, but prefer the slimmer, more stream-lined styles. The fat tongues, and overall roundess on these up top was what was giving me doubt.

This is more my jazzy wazz.

Oohh, yeah, MAJORLY these. I love the black and white with the slicker overall look and tan sole.

CUTE! This could very well happen for me. I’m not often an impulse shopper with ‘new’ ‘fashion’ ‘ideas’. I have to obsess over whether it’s really going to work or not for at least a couple months, so we still have time to nix this or not. We’ll see what’s in shops come February, then make the final gavel throwdown. Christ, I need to start working out ALAWT more.


HATERS GON’ HATE


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I am an enormous fan of all these haters gonna hate things. They are the best – well, only good – thing to come out of the phenomenon of the term ‘hater’. I have yet to see an unfunny one.

With that, this is my new favourite..

oh wait, this is pretty badass too. HA

as is
Oh my geaad, I could go all day with these. Gotta get a white wine refill, see ya.

Etsy stores – Anthology27 and The Sleepy Rabbit


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I just bought a white druzy ring and fuchsia druzy earrings from etsy store, Anthology27, that I can’t wait to cruise around in. I didn’t know what druzy was until wikipedia told me that ‘in geological usage druse or druzy is a coating of fine crystals on a rock fracture surface, vein or within a vug or geode’.
Ah, cool, totally have a frame of reference now. I’m always conversing with people about things within a vug or geode. 
Based out of Washington, Anthology27′s Aga seems to do a lot of colourful jewellery, and also offers custom bridal and bridesmaid orders. There’s of course more than just druzy-centric stuff, but that’s what’s working with me.
Druzy white ring 14kt gold filled - custom size
Special listing for A. Druzy fuschia color earrings - gold filled ear wires
I’d go and get in on Anthology27 if I were you and as much of a brand new druzy fan as I am. Everything is also 20% off right now with coupon code BF20OFF, so go on! You get yours! I don’t even mind if you get the same stuff as me, I love being things-twins with pals. 
I also got these super pretty cobalt and gold bacchus earrings from etsy darling Lizzie of TheSleepyRabbit. 
Lizzie is lovely, and, as she said to me in a message, “I really do this because I love it, and I’m grateful that I *get* to do it. If someone is kind enough to buy something that I created, well then I’m thrilled!”

Lizzie lives in Colorado with her husband and two bunnies. As you may know, animal people are by default my very, very, very favourite. 

Etsy is the best jewellery source. I’ve been so on it lately. Although I can get overwhelmed slash bored at times trying to find great stores. I like stuff that’s similar in style to Catbird, or, like, blunt, gold and bright coloured pieces, and I love white quartz, rougher in cut. I can get ADD with sifting through so much to find what I want. Please recommend me stores I might like if you know any.

Shoe Mettle Dreams


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If only I had the pain threshold to wear them. When I can’t even withstand a full evening in regular old 3-4″ heels, these 6.25″-ers are but a dream. Aren’t they so pretty though? I am SO down with the colour blocking bit that’s been going around.

But how do they do it? How do the women trotting around in shits like these do it? I have seen, known, women with the character strength of a plastic bag in heels this size and it confuses me to no end.

These Rosann masochists are on sale at Aldo right now for $97.99. Get them! Get them and prove me a total big girl’s blouse!!


Nuxe Gentle Exfoliating Gel with rose petals


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Woooooooooooo I have risen from the dead to share a product suggestion with you, WOOOOOOO! And right after Halloween too, aaagghhh, particularly scary!

The other day at Shoppers I bought Nuxe’s new gentle exfoliating gel with rose petals. I was worried, as I often find exfoliating gels to be not nearly exfoliating enough. Often they can be so gel-y with little grit. Nuxe’s does not have that problem. It has a great amount of grit, and leaves your face feeling super clean. Now I have heard over and over how your face should not feel squeaky when it’s been cleaned, that that means a cleanser is too harsh. I disagree with this. I think that can be true, but isn’t always true. I have naturally oily skin so I like to feel like a cleanser has really proven itself to me, you know?

This is what Nuxe has to say about what’s in this product:

This Gentle Exfoliating Gel exfoliates, eliminates dead cells and refines the skin texture with its combination of 100% botanical exfoliants (Extracts of Lychee Seed, Nutshell Powder). Complexion is clarified and purified (Rosemary Water). Skin is soothed and softened (Damascena Rose Petal Floral Water, Allantoin).

I like it! Those crappy face washes that leave you with a squeak but are full of science lab balogney ingredients probably are, yes, terrible for you, and I suspect have given a good squeak a bad reputation. I think a squeak is fine, certainly allowed, with the right, positive-ingredients-based product. Along with how much I like the way it makes my face feel, it smells GREAT. It smells like roses and I love roses; I’ve been on a major roses kick the last few months so it’s totally jiving with me. I got Stella McCartney’s signature fragrance earlier this year, which is very rosey, and I adore that.

Nuxe Gentle Exfoliating Gel with rose petals retails for $23.