Random Cuteness Wednesday

I discovered this wonderful website called Manomine through Pinterest. A talented gal named Mia who makes these beyond adorable stuffed animals that bring a big C to cuteness. Do I need to say much? probably not, all you have to do is look at these critters to know what I mean:

If these guys weren't ultra cute enough, they also come packaged in their individual cases with accessories! 

Go check out the rest of Manomine's creations and be prepared to overdose on all that adorableness. 

Fave celebrity home tour: Jayma Mays

I admit I have never watched one episode of Glee, but I am a regular reader of Dwell magazine. Their latest furniture issue featured the home of Glee actress, Jayma Mays. The home had a colorful retro feel to it, which isn't exactly my style, but there was one image that caught my eye:

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The mural on her exterior block wall is awesome in it's scope of size and the fact I love the quote. 

My husband and I are planning on looking for a new home this year and if we have the wall for it, it would be a great idea to try something similar. I think I found the perfect quote for my family of snackers:

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Anyhoo, check out the latest Dwell if you want to see more of Ms. Mays home. 

Flashback Friday: Warm Fuzzies

Remember these guys? When I was a kid in the 1980s, I used to love to collect these adorably cute fuzzy fellas. They were called Warm Fuzzies - they were meant to be given to people because you wanted to make them feel "warm and fuzzy" inside. They were basically just a colored pom-pom with googly eyes, antennas and large feet with adhesive.

So simple a concept expressed with such a simple toy.  Maybe we should bring these fellas back and just stick them randomly around to spread the love. 

Warm Fuzzies for everyone!

Random Cuteness Wednesday

So here's the thing, I think I would fit perfectly in Japan. "Kawaii" in Japan means cuteness which is such a prominent aspect of Japanese culture. I've just loved cute things throughout my life that I am dying to make a trip to Japan and overdose on all that Kawaii. If Kawaii was a tall iced hazelnut macchiato I would drink it everyday (because I do drink iced hazelnut macchiato everyday, it's an addiction).

For my new weekly posts (or in my case, semi-weekly - because I'm just bad about keeping my posts regular), I'll try to share some of the adorably cute things I have found during my nightly internet surfing. Oohs and Aahs are welcome.

Su Ami is a group of family crafters living in Vietnam. They create these impossibly cute crochet animals that are unbelievably tiny, which to me anything miniature is already going past 10 on the cuteness scale.  

Seriously? how freaking cute are these buggers?! And you know what? There's more of them...check out their shop and be prepared to adopt these little guys. 

Flashback Friday: "Happy little trees"

I used to watch The Joy of Painting not to learn about painting, but to be completely entranced and zen'd out by the calming voice of Bob Ross. He with the white man's afro and the ability to create a paint-like numbers landscape in 26 minutes. 

I found his words absolutely soothing with his talks of "happy little trees" and creating a "little friend over there." He quite literally put me in a "happy little" coma. I've never smoked a doobage in my life but I can imagine watching The Joy of Painting while being all Snoop Dogg (or is it Snoop Lion?) would be a perfect pairing.

I continued watching his shows on PBS not even realizing that Mr. Ross passed away from lymphoma cancer in 1995. It's sad to think that he would not be painting his happy little worlds anymore, but I'm sure up there in the clouds he is painting for the big man in the sky and making him go into a sleepy lull.

I'll end this post with a famous Bob Ross quote: "We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news." Well said, Mr. Ross, well said. 

"Ooh La La"

I got married in Paris in 2007. I had the Eiffel Tower right outside our chapel. It was a small intimate ceremony with our closest family and friends...

...okay, everything I said above is true, only the Paris was actually the Paris Casino Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada; the Eiffel Tower was a convincing fake; and of course we still were surrounded by our closest family and friends.

I wore a tea-length strapless lace dress with a veil and my husband wore a traditional Filipino barong. I went shopping in one day for my wedding dress and found it on sale for $300 at the local David's Bridal Shop and my husband found his barong at the back of a dry cleaner store where the owner sold Filipino garments. He paid $100 for it. We are a no-fuss couple and you will not find a bridezilla in me. 

So it was quite delightful to read about Keira Knightley's recent wedding in France. She wore a recycled Rodarte strapless, blush-pink, tulle dress (she wore it previously at a 2008 party), a cropped Chanel jacket, flats, and a adorable crown of delicate flowers. With her wealth she certainly could of thrown a typical celebrity, elaborate Kardashian type wedding, but I admire her for keeping it a small and intimate affair wearing a recycled dress. 

Bravo.

Flashback Friday: Swatch watches

When I was a teenager growing up in the 80s I had no idea what a Rolex watch was and quite frankly could not give a flying fig about it. It was all about the rad Swatch watches back in my day. These watches were first manufactured in 1983 and they were colorful graphic watches you would wear as the ultimate 80s accessory - so casual, so cool, so colorful (that should be the motto of the 1980s and I'm sticking to it). 

Your personality was defined by what type of watch you had: for me the simple nerdy gal I preferred the solid colors with of course my Swatch guard. What's a Swatch guard? well, it's like a pocket protector for your Swatch watch. Have no freaking idea if it actually protected your plastic Swatch, but it looked cool and that's all that mattered in the 1980s (some poor souls who were desperate to protect their Swatches resorted to using a twisted rubber band instead to protect it. I'll give them points for ingenuity, but no points for style).

You know what makes me feel old? Is when they sell Swatch watches that I used to wear on the Internet and classify them as "vintage" - if I only had a Back to the Future Delorean to go back in time and save my watches - found out some of these babies go for over $1000 now. 

I loved my Swatch watch. Radical.