let your freak flag fly! giveaway win from brandy-son zen master flash

two things i have learned this week:

1. i am still riding high from winning my girl thursday's november giveaway.

2. my mother is the world's worst photographer.

i checked the camera only to find crappy photo after photo of my boobies that didn't really show how awesome this necklace looked on a real person.  {hence the reason my mother is not allowed to assist me with fashion posts anymore.}  i hope these photos will suffice to show how unique and comfortable this piece really is.  thanks so much, brandy!

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soooooo....

i've been a little m.i.a.  i haven't had a chance to come by some of my favorite blogs and visit.

i miss it.

didn't plan to be gone so long.

just got a little busy.  you know, trying on cute hats at forever21.

life happens in good ways sometimes.

but i'll be round to visit soon.

probably wearing my cute hat.

he really loves me

last week i got to open my birthday presents a bit early so that boy and i could spend the night enjoying a whole buncha x-men, wolverine, harry potter and some more wolverine {there can never be too much wolverine, amirite?}

does this boy know me, or what? 

now i just need a girls day road trip to ikea for one giant ass frame for that awesome poster.  any takers?  dollar ninety-nine breakfast is totally on me.

thrift

it is very unusual for me to bring something home from the thrifts and not already have a purpose or a place for it in my mind but last week i surprised myself by bringing home these little baskets.  at one dollar for the pair i couldn't leave them behind! 

the trouble lays in deciding what to use them for - organizing, displaying, linens, papers, books, canned goods, closets, desks, pantry...  the possibilities are endless.

help me put these wire baskets to good use.  what would you use them for in your home?

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 {clockwise}picked out some thrifty novels for a birthday gift; apples in a christmas-sy bowl; filling boy's stocking up; tea biscuits have replaced all other things as my new addiction

creamy coffee in chipped diner mugs go perfectly with banana pancakes; visiting the post office to get the international cards out on time

{clockwise}mid-day snacks should always include something toasty; sunday evening comfort food on a tuesday; loki kittie helping set up the tree at mum's; a better shot of the thrifted christmas bowl {it's a brian gluckstein, for those into label whoring - i am

on a cold day i went with a cafe mocha and a hot apple pie instead of the egg nog milkshake - now i can't get the shake out of my head; a pretty snowy surprise when leaving work

happies not pictured: peppermint tea, mini kit kats and jukebox oldies to set up the tree with mum {i respond well to food bribes}

unhappies not pictured: getting physically caught in the middle of an argument you have nothing to do with... awk-ward!