Trash is not trash if it’s cute and is a teapot.

how is this trash?

the handle is broken and mrs. rabbit is missing one window shutter

but the interior is too sweet to ignore

The clock has stopped working, too. But I love that it stopped right before the devil’s hour — right before many human lives mysteriously end; right before when darkness can no longer be fought with a good dose of cute.

Someday, when it’s time to move apartments or when the need to streamline and de-clutter clutches me all of a sudden, this hoarding of all things cute will not make for a happy day. These things will break my savings because they add to moving charges. These things will break my heart because a moment of indifference to cuteness might make me realize rather stupidly that “adults don’t fall for whimsical things.”

Where do your book shelves end and your wardrobe begin? With book style, I take the colors, textures, and mood of book covers and transform them into outfits. Sometimes, I take elements from the story itself. Sometimes, I will come up with outfits that I will never dare wear (the ones with shoe heels that reach the sky, mostly). And perhaps, one day, we will find a way to make style resonate as loudly as the written word.

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Incantation by Alice Hoffman.

Another outfit that I will never have the guts (read: heel-wearing powers) to wear. For some girls, learning to walk in heels is a huge coming-of-age milestone. In my case, coming of age did not involve shoe-wearing training.

But it’s nice to think of outfit elements that you wish you know how to rock, right? Aside from the heels, the blazer I added here is a shade of pink that will not do wonders for my skin tone. But it looks positively delicious with the gray and I had to include it. The skinny jeans, too, are most likely the type that are perfect on the waist but ridiculously thin on the legs (seriously, how come manufacturers of jeans never get real women sizes right?).  I will also never buy a bag in a light color because it will get dirty within one week. In other words, the necklace is the only piece here that I can wear.

Man, oh, man, if I were taller and not scared of heels and just a tad paler…

Some of you are, though, so give this outfit a chance, will you?

Hi kids,

I put up a Facebook shop for my handmade goodies. Multiply has gotten too confusing for me. Add me up! Love ya!

Preview of what I am selling so far:

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This is how you can be a slave to your habits:

You go to the mall to buy a book because you cannot stand another night of tossing and turning. If you don’t read a book before sleeping, you spend at least an hour in sleepless anxiety. At the bookstore, you select a book  by one of your favorite writers. You pick the book based on the title alone, relying on the fact that you can clearly remember which of the writer’s books you have sitting in your shelves at home. You do not read the synopsis.

That night, you open the book, preparing to de-stress before sleeping. First paragraph in and you realize that you have read the book before. You curse.

The next day, you go to another mall to buy another book. Or two.

You end up buying five:

No harm done. They were on sale.