Really? Still with the blurgh?

I kinda disappeared on ya last week. Sorry about that. In the midst of my awakening cold, I went to San Diego for a bachelorette party! We went to the zoo, hung out with some friends, went clubbing (ha!) and had an all around awesome time.

I ha at the clubbing because I’ve never been and let’s just say, I left it a bit late. It did remind me how happy I am to be married, though. ^_^

I had really hoped to have another IWW post done by now, but the cold that I held off for most of the trip hit me like a brick upon my return, and I’m only just now feeling good enough to get out of bed. I’m sure I left some fun comments on some of your blogs in the midst of my Nyquil induced coma. I swear I’ll have another IWW post soon, as soon as I can drag my butt up the stairs to my special Barbie photo studio. (Otherwise known as the spare bedroom closet!)

To help you along, here are some of the goodies I acquired on my trip or just before.

Very sparkly purse!

In the sunlight, I can blind muggers!

It’s more clutch size than handbag size, but you’d be amazed what I can cram in there. Um, never mind that.

San Diego had an awesome pen/paper store, where I got the following pens, erasers and sparkly paper! (Aren’t the exclamation points making you excited?!?!!!) !

If I had a sense of smell at the moment...

No idea what I'll use this for...

The pens and erasers will join the enormous flock of office supplies on my desk (which come in flocks) and the paper… Well, maybe I’ll find some Barbie use for it. Paper garments? Backdrops? Panda regalia? The possibilities are…nowhere near endless. There are pretty much just three.

Here’s a close up of the pencils and erasers.

Double Yummy!

OMG, you guys. Milk scented!

I expected these to smell awful, and some of them do, but the grape ones are right on. Now I just have to figure out why they’re all in milk containers… And the milk one smells as bad as you think it does. Trust me.

So, what’s been going on in the healthy world? Does on even exist anymore?

My collections part 3

Why, yes, I do collect lots of stuff. Besides pens, I also have a costume jewelry habit. And since I’m part magpie, I buy for sparkle.

My problem was how I could have them out to look at them all the time without them getting in the way. Seriously, who’d want to hide sparkle? I decided to utilize the bare walls on either side of my bathroom mirror. Last weekend, I finished some displays. The right:

And the left:

Many of these pieces are from a local shop called Boutique Ginny, a few are from clearance sales and even more were made by my friend Mari Ferguson, who should open her own Etsy shop.

Here are some close-ups of my favorites so you can better see. These two came from Ginny’s. The shop has this same style in more than these colors, and the magpie in me wants to collect them all:

I really love these, but those earrings can get pretty heavy.

Here’s a little display I really liked making. I bought a paper mache mannequin from Micheal’s (along with the shelves and jewelry displays) and I made a little dress out of it from wrapping paper before hanging two necklaces on it.

The larger one is actually an aspen leaf dipped in silver. The two hanging necklaces I got from a garage sale and mended or polished as best I could.

Now, just in case your ne’er-do-well cousin is looking over your shoulder, let me repeat that with the exception of the occasional silver piece, these are all costume. Completely fake and not one of them cost over $20. They’re not worth tracking me down for. Seriously, a pawn shop owner would laugh at you. And my pets would maul you to death. Yeah. Because they’re fierce. And dangerous. Believe it.

My newest:

And a set I got for Christmas flanked by a blinged-out frog and turtle:

I don’t have many places to wear many of these, of course. Often, I buy just to look at them, but I wear them for the occasional fancy dinner. Did I mention that Boutique Ginny’s also has tiaras? Talk about something I’d never wear, but someday, I’ll have one. And I’ll wear it to the grocery store.