I went by and tried on some Fluevog shoes the other day and am now officially quiet wanton to own a pair…or a few. XD They were immensely comfortable, fit amazingly and above all they looked incredible! Plus even though they are a bit pricey, leather lasts practically forever or until you tire of the style; so to me they can be great investment pieces for the wardrobe.

Now that I have moved to a walking city, having good shoes can’t be stressed enough! Those cute little flats you might have bought at the lower ‘discount shoe’ store are probably just not going to cut it for all day wandering around town. Especially when it’s day after day, month after month of walking.

After checking out all of the selection on offer and picking up this boot probably no less than three times, I finally caved and asked to try these on.

Yep, wearing Innocent World from head to toe which alas doesn’t really match my taste in Fluevog shoes. XD

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I’m super excited to say that my Star Finches have finally laid an egg in their new nest! I say new…let me back up. Last Friday they laid in egg in the simple nest they have been trying to build in the top of the fern, but alas due to poor nest construction it rolled out and onto the bottom of the cage where it suffered a hairline crack.

So over the weekend I bought a twig nest and while taking a deep breath, placed it in the cage next to the nest they were trying to build. My hopes was that they would find this new nest more attractive and move their efforts towards it.

If you look closely you can see the little egg all alone in the brown twig nest. That is one of the Star’s at the top of the photo.

Now since the egg was laid either in the night or super early this morning, I am not sure if the hen picked this new twig nest or if it rolled downhill from the fern nest. Sadly right now nobody seems to be sitting on it from what I have observed, so I hope that’s not a bad sign. I really want to watch a new brood be raised, so please don’t get my hopes up little birds.

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I have been trying to be really good of late and stop shopping so much, so much in fact that I have made a point to stop following the shop blogs so as not to be tempted! But alas I peaked this morning so of course I saw some things that caught my attention!

I think my favorite of them all is this Captain Hollow blouse. It’s long sleeved, long bodied and has the fun un-hemmed edges on much of the detailing. I haven’t been able to find the measurements yet, but I hope I can find them soon so I can put myself out of the want of this. XD

Next up is a gorgeous pin striped vest with cross buttons.

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So for whatever reason this morning I decided to get out some of the finery of breakfast and set the table all shiny for the braking of fast. I don’t want to ramble on to much here (as forthcoming posts will have more details) but I am so very happy to finally have a toast rack for the proper serving of toast at the table. Seriously, this little holder makes me so ridiculously happy it should be illegal. ^_^

I am also christening my new porcelain tea set (which actually is a full matching set! Shocking I know!) with what I believe is English Blend tea. I usually keep a little tag in my leaf container so I know what each one is, but somehow I noticed it’s come up missing this morning. Quiet odd. Anyway, English Blend is from my current favorite shop Lupicia, and it uses a fruity-taste Ceylon tea as its base with Assam tea containing lots of golden tips and is blended together. A very nice way to start the day.

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Despite my love for wearing loads of black I can not deny the fact that part of me very much loves cute things. So yesterday I was innocently browsing along on the net when suddenly -bam- an adorable Rilakkuma phone case appears on my screen!

I don’t own very many Rilakkuma things, but it does take quiet a bit of strong arming to drag me out of the store when I do go and a huge dose of self restraint to not buy oodles of adorable things I have no use for.

As things turn out I ended up in that part of town for dinner yesterday, so afterwards it was a moment of “I wonder if…” and hitting up the shop. Sure enough there it was in the back of the display case! After I purchased it I was told it was the last one and their shipment sold out in three days! Well no wonder, it is just too adorable for words!

So meet my new Rilakkuma case and it’s charm pals; a paw and cat from Sentimental Circus Kutusita Nyanko and a Hello Kitty ghost charm which I’ve been hanging onto since last Halloween to put onto my phone as soon as I figured out a way. :3 Ahhhhh the cute, I can’t stop staring now. XD

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After about seven days of non stop rain and super dark days, today has finally broke out sunny and I plan on taking advantage of it! Over the weekend I picked up several thousand glass seed beads with which to start decorating my little chandelier from Ikea. I have a sneaky suspicion I will probably need a lot more than this but I want to see how far these will go first.

I’m figuring it will be a two fold project: It will give me a short break from hand stitching projects and I’ve been saying I wanted to enhance the look of this fixture since I bought it a year ago. So needless to say it’s about time I do something about it instead of looking at it and sighing.

I have a sort of rough idea in my head on where I want to go with this (which won’t be stopping with these beads!) but since it will take some time to get all of the seed beads on I haven’t seen a rush to pick up any other supplies yet. Ah time projects, always just so much fun seeing where you end up in the end. =)

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