Two-Day Trippin: Excelsior!

While in Texas, we stayed at the Excelsior House. My parents took my sister and I once there when we were fairly little -- I was maybe 8 or so. This time, I shared a room with my grandma. We just went to California together in May, so we are pretty good travel buddies. Mallow, my grandma, and I were in the Jay Gould room. It was by far the coolest room out of the three my family rented, temperature-wise,...

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Two-Day Trippin': Gladewater

So, my family took a quick trip to Jefferson, Texas. My mom was taken there by her mom as a kid, I was taken there as a kid. Several family trips have already been made! It was a trip purely for nostalgia and family togetherness purposes. I took Mallow with me. On the way there we stopped in Gladewater, which calls itself the antique capital of East Texas. We only looked in a couple of shops,...

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"It's Raining..." Revisited

I believe it was last summer I posted about covering my med bottles with washi tape and Korean stickers (yes, it was!) and nothing has changed... still doing it!

Seriously, it's the best. Not only does it look cheery and detract from the whole -- for lack of a better word -- medical quality of them, but I used to almost always grab the wrong bottle, and now I can very easily tell what's what. One of the medications I take three times a day, so I just need to know what's what without it taking too long.

I have one of those days-of-the-week pillboxes, but honestly, I just use it for travel.

Just yesterday I picked up a refill that came in an unusually tall bottle. "So tall!" I marveled. "I have to cover it in washi tape immediately!" Then I was in the mood to do some more, especially with the new floral fabric tape I got for my birthday, so I dug out some empties.

Only three of these bottles actually have pills in them, so don't fret. The others are old. I used the one with yellow and heart tapes on it last year for the disastrous anti-anxiety med that derailed my life for, like, six months. But that sticker's super cute, so it's hard to hold grudges.

I really have too much washi tape. WAIT, IS THERE SUCH A THING?

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P.I.P.

Wait, it's Sunday again?? About time a girl wore this MINI JIJO dress! I've had it for a good long while and even though I've considered it many times as I'm dressing a girl, for whatever reason I usually pass over it. Frankly I didn't know it would wind up on Holland, of all my girls, but paired with this pink tutu (also from MINI JIJO) and her own stock shoes, I think it looks cute, if a little...

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video: Blythe Clothes Haul

Happy Sunday! My Friday/Saturday was spent putting together this Blythe clothes haul video! I actually had to film it twice... which isn't the first time that's happened to me, or anything. Hauls are the easiest things to film! Yes, I still have to drag out my lighting kit and mess around with the setup and probably record a bunch of footage out of focus (wah-wah-waaah), but just talking about...

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video: Get Klara Ready With Me

Here's the latest video in my "Dolly Dressup" series -- Klara! This was also a request. This dressup had several technical difficulties, so definitely watch it if you want to witness me breaking headbands some more. I believe Beatrix is next in line for a dress-up, if I'm remembering my YouTube comments correctly. I also have a couple of other requests that I do want to try and do, but I'm not...

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