Stuff Lately // Early Fall

   Hey!

   Youse guys! It's faaaaaallllllllll!!! Yeah man, that Autumn Equinox business went down a week or so ago, and I've been craycray about the season's changing ever since August, so you can only imagine how many scented candles I've bought and pumpkin-flavored things I've failed at baking.
  Anyway, it's been a while since my last SL, so this one covers everything from then to yesterday.  P.S. Sorry the quality is a bit disgusting grainy, I was trying a new software and it failed to deliver that high standard you just expect from me (hardeeharhar).
.S.S. I'm officially obsessed with making collages ok.

 Watching: DEXTER COMES ON TONIGHT!! I urge you strongly to watch it. What else? Well, pretty much every fall show premiered last week/will premiere soon, so the ones I set my DVR are Mike & Molly, 2 Broke Girls, New Girl, The Mindy Project, Modern Family, The Middle, Elementary, The Big Bang Theory, Copper, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, and Vampire Diaries. You can bet that I forgot many of them. Yeah I watch a lot of TV ok leave me alone

 Reading: a banned book for English. I haven't picked one out yet, but it'll be banned, and it'll be a book. You can count on it.

 Eating: Everything pumpkin-flavored. The end.

 Doing: Going to Hastings today to rent all the Freaks & Geeks and a Peter O'Toole movie, then seeing Hotel Translyvania. Tomorrow is ortho then the zoo to see a baby giraffe. Thug life.

 Listening: to a lot of Ingrid Michaelson, for whatever reason. And Mumford & Sons of course!! Honestly though, I'm kind of let down with their new album. Obviously it's gorgeous and perfect but it's just so hopeful. I miss the depressed, angry guys! Oh well. I guess you can't be unhappy forever. :)

 Buying: Flannel from Target! It's all so nice and fall-y and cute! Also, Ulta recently had 40% off my favorite brands so I stocked up.

 Oh, And Also: I won't be doing a "September in Review" kind of deal, but my favorite posts this month are What's in my Jansport Pocket and My Everyday Make-up Routine & Make-up Tips.

 Fall-y Stuff

 From left to right: 1) Pumpkin whoopie pies; 2) kitty-carved pumpkin (Pumpkitty? Catkin? Name undecided.); 3) a bunch of cool Halloween stuff at Tarjaaaaay; 4) tried/failed painting sugar-skull style (points for alliteration though)

    Other Stuff

   From top to bottom, left to right: 1) Katy Perry movie! (if you preordered on Walmart you got an autograph too. so you already know that's what I did); 2) my Latin class project-- basically we do whatever Greek/Roman-related we want, so I attempted sculpting the Greek Mask of Comedy out of Model Magic. My sculpting skills aren't what they've never been; 3) Ulta stuff; 4) my dream car!! a Volkswagon Cabriolet! except they're all manual and that's just like impossible for me so all I can do is admire from afar; 5) LOOK AT THIS HARAJUKU MINI SWEATER OMG OMG 1920'S GIRLS YOU GUYS; 7) Shipley's Donuts is an apparently-famous little joint we found one day while thrifting far away, yummmmm!; 8) Andy Warhol soup cans, you know how I do; 9) Tim Gunn designs for Barbies you guys.; 10) good shoes make for good times (quote me ok)

 
  What've you been up to?

 xoxo,
    Zoe

Valentine Shenanigans & Baking Ventures

 Howdy!

   Since I couldn't put my Valentine's Day happenings in the actual Valentine's Day post, I decided to make a new one, just for that!

  Aside from making some of Cupid's arrows, I crafted up Valentines for some of my family. I was tremendously inspired by Scathingly Brilliant's, but wanted to make them myself.

   

 I decided I'd bake two Valentine-themed treats on separate days. The first? Whoopie pies! I couldn't believe how complicated they actually were. Since they turned out too large, there wasn't enough frosting. Sigh.

 

 Speaking of pre-14th, on Monday I wore a Pre-Valentine's Day outfit, complete with the heart shoes I got for Christmas. I don't have them on in the photo, unfortunately. I was a big, festive smack of red on the actual 14th, because I love red. Is this my first what I wore mention? I believe so!

  I apologize for how messy they look; one was actually taken in the bathroom, both taken before school. Won't happen again. Honest!

  Have I told you about my obsession with bees? Now's as good a time as any...

   

  How precious is that bee balloon? And look! I freaked out when I saw the bee cupcakes. Oh, and check out that thumb. Pretty festive nail art, if I do say so myself.

    On the real hearts day, I gave Strawberry Puffcakes a shot. And something went terribly, terribly wrong.

  Did you see what they're supposed to look like? Yeah, not like that. I did something wrong, probably with the butter and salt. Oh, well. At least they were dipped in chocolate!

   So, that cat Valentine really did the trick, because my mom got me some presents! She's the best gift-giver, I swear.

Tokidoki Airways Palette, Tokidoki Mints, Tokidoki Mirror, and chocolate Turtles (my favorite!)

The palette is absolutely gorgeous. The colors are so perfect for me, I'm just gonna die.

  Target had some fantastic Valentine things, so I hit it up on the 15th for some hearty clearance (get it?). What I got will be in an upcoming post, I suppose.

    How did you spend February 14th?

  xoxo,
     Zoe