Hello! Is everyone sufficiently stuffed and overspent from the one-two punch of Thanksgiving and Black Friday shopping? I know I am. Nevertheless I'm excited the holiday season is officially here.
– MAC introduced a super exclusive Grey Friday lipstick and nail polish for Black Friday. I was intrigued by the stock photos, and after seeing real-life pictures of the lipstick I knew I had to have it. I also knew I'd have to be very quick to order online, with MAC's tendency to sell out. So I told my dear husband to remind me at midnight on Thanksgiving to place the order. Well, come midnight we both forgot and I was completely passed out in a food/prosecco coma, but around 1:30am the husband remembered! He apparently tried to wake me up, but I was unresponsive so he went ahead and placed the order himself. Now that's love. :D Can't wait to get it! It's a good thing he ordered too, because by 8am on Friday it was sold out.
– In other beauty news, Makeup Minute provided a very interesting history of an old beauty implement known as a strigil.
– Design Crush brought my attention to Much-Loved, a photo series capturing well-worn plushies! I wish I had known about it – I have two that are so old and falling apart they can only be honorary Museum staff members. I would have loved to have them photographed.
– Gawker asks the age-old question of what one would buy for someone who lives to remember the '90s (*cough like me cough cough*). A good gift: this '90s edition of Trivial Pursuit.
– Now that it's the holiday season, I went a little crazy ordering stationery from Hello! Lucky, but in my defense they were offering 20% off and free shipping. Here are a few highlights from my order.
I simply can't resist those sock monkeys!
I love how the little fish next to the penguin on the card on the right is just sitting there chilling out with his hot cocoa.
Here's a pretty holiday scene and another one of my favorite things – anthropomorphic food. Awesome.
(images from hellolucky.com)
– It seems everyone is getting into the holiday spirit. You may know the Museum has a Domo who is one of the security guards. He was very jealous when he saw this picture of some of his buddies at local store Atomic Books.
(image from atomicbooks.tumblr.com)
Now he wants a reindeer/Santa costume too!
What was your favorite Thanksgiving dish this year? Have you started your holiday shopping? Did you have any Black Friday mishaps?