Tuesday Tabs #22

Hello, Everyone!
I'm genuinely kind of sad about being such a lazy blogger recently, but I've been so busy with work and the weather has been so crappy that even when I haven't been doing anything, I've just been snuggling up and eating (a lot), so I'm afraid I've not really had much to say. I have some nice things to show you this week though, and I want to get things back on track and re-assess things before I start work tomorrow evening.

Life is bloody hard, I have to start thinking about in-goings and outgoings, which was kind of horrible as I had to make a small stopover at the Bank of Mum, despite having a full-time job. I guess I understand why so many people are still living at home, it's much easier. It's not that I'm struggling, I'm just full of worry all the time, but I guess you can tell that that's quietly my general disposition anyway.

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(via Stars Stripes Skulls Lights)

My favourite Jenna Marbles moment, Kermit is one of the best dogs. ♥


Half Full/Half Empty Tote Bag, £8.50, Lazy Oaf
It's been a little while since I've found myself on the Lazy Oaf website, not for any particular reason, I guess just because I haven't had the time. While I have no need for any more tote bags, and am already the proud owner of another Lazy Oaf tote that I picked up at their Christmas pop-up shop, but I really love the design of this one. Basically I just really love Lazy Oaf.


Frenchie Dog Ring, £24, Lazy Oaf


Stig Lindberg - Swedish Tea Time A3 Print, £12.45, Re Style Shop
This would sit beautifully next to our Pie & Vinyl print, it's so vibrant.


You And Me And The Cat Print, £24.41, Ashley G
I'm not sure if I've blogged about this before or not, but I adore this print from Ashley G, in fact, there are a few of her pieces that I've love to own. This would look lovely in our study, although as it's a bit cat-centric I don't think Moon would go for it. Maybe when we get a dog, he'll go for the dog alternative.


Vintage Cat & Stripe Dress, £47.19, Rusty Cuts
This dress is too good (for obvious reasons), I don't think I can handle it.


Lord Pug Necklace, £18, Cheap Frills
I haven't bought any new jewellery in quite a long time. This is adorable and suits my general 'I love Animals'-themed wardrobe ♥.


I'm on a major scout-out for a summer handbag. Although my mum has been lovely and picked me up one of my cousin's handbags while she was over in Hong Kong, I've no idea when I'll be home again yet so it's currently a toss-up between these two. It's so hard, I love the pink one's shape but I like the colours of the other one. See how hard life can be?!
Left: River Island Fluro Messenger Bag, £25, ASOS
Right: ASOS Colour Block Nylon Hobo Bag, £35, ASOS

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Link Love: ♥

Andy Hope's 'Being Brave' — Portrait series by photographer, Andy Hope documenting children going in for dental procedures at Sheffield Children's Hospital.

Goodnight Little Spoon - Weekly List 17 — Goodnight Little Spoon is one of my favourite blogs for inspiration, it's list-heaven! Bianca posts so many great lists, in so many forms, from things she's done to things she wants to do. She's also big on Keri Smith's 100 Ideas and I love the way she interprets them.

Street-art from Austrian artist, Meersau — Sometimes I forget how good 'good' street art can be.

Emmerlie Jay's 'She Said' Beauty Box Review — These seem like a more youthful alternative to Glossybox, and it's slightly cheaper so may be worth a trial run.

Teal Vintage French Telephone — This is one of the nicest telephones I've ever seen, but we don't need two telephones :(

How to Make Your Own Nail Polish in Any Colour — Nail varnish is definitely one thing that I don't need extra, but this is a pretty simple tutorial to make your own custom colours using just eyeshadow, clear nail varnish and a toothpick.

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Today is full of housework, accounts and cooking. I'm also jumping back on the 'proper job hunt' wagon as that's another thing that's been seriously neglected in the last few weeks. I've done the productive thing of moving my laptop back to the study so I'm going to try and keep it like that. Honestly, I was pretty happy with keeping it in here, but Moon gets lonely if I go 'interneting' in the evening, as he often just sits in front of the telly with his laptop, nuisance, it isn't as though the flat is huge.

Thanks for reading, I'm off to sort my life out.

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Currently Listening To: Shallow Bed - Dry The River

Soft kitty.

So, in my 2012, cats are kind of a big deal. So I was pretty damn excited when I saw a Paul & Joe cat-shaped blusher stick in this month's Company, it was the final straw. From beauty to the fact that you can't watch anything on Youtube without ending up on cats, I'm pretty sure that there's not going to be much getting away from pesky felines any time in the near future, so I figure, why not embrace it? And cats are great anyway, so...

The latest collection from Paul & Joe is a bit cat-centric. It's a bit more expensive than I would normally pay but I think it's all still pretty good value for money, plus for the extra money you can have paw-prints in your lipstick and a cat wearing a top hat to greet you when you put on your blusher - I don't even wear blusher!

Paul & Joe Cat Collection Blusher Stick, 'Minou', £21. ASOS


Paul & Joe Cat Collection Eye Shadow, £21. Available in 'Siamese Please' or 'Purr-fect', ASOS


Paul & Joe Cat Collection Lipstick, 'Sex Kitten', £16. ASOS
This range is available exclusively to ASOS, and after discovering Paul & Joe's kitties, I thought I'd take a look to see what else ASOS has to offer on the cat front, it turns out, quite a lot.

NW3 Beau Cat Brooch, £29, ASOS


Moschino Cheap & Chic It's Raining Cats And Dogs Umbrella, £45, ASOS


NW3 Annabel Cat Print Dress in Silk, £169, ASOS


Numph Cat T-Shirt, SALE £22, ASOS


ASOS Cat Print Across Body Bag, £18, ASOS


Dahlia Wrap Midi Dress In Cat Print, SALE £27, ASOS


Pepe Jeans Cat Tee, £40, ASOS


Posted these before, still amazing.
ASOS PURR Over Lasted Suede Wedge, £75, ASOS
Earlier this week, you may remember that I talked about Lazy Oaf, well they too have some sweet cat clothing coming up in their S/S 2012 range, but which one to pick, it's a toughy.

There's also a set of Lazy Oaf badges that I wouldn't mind getting my hands on, especially since losing my Gemma Correll Monday Cat pin at my interview on Monday *creys*
Lazy Oaf Meow Badge Pack, £3.50, Lazy Oaf
Here are some other cat things to round this off, how do you feel about cats? (HA!) I wouldn't even say I'm a 'cat-person', I basically just like any cute, furry animal, like any other normal girl who uses the internet. I definitely like cats more than horses though, although I still find it hard to say no to a horse dress.

Jeffrey Campbell Cat Tapestry Litas, $159.95, Sole Struck — Sadly now sold out :(

(via RIP Shannon)

I think it would be nice if this was real and accessible.


So, I was looking for some neat cat nail art that I hadn't shown you before, but this came up and I thought this was better. It was posted on this forum and as cute as it may look I think we should all just consider why someone would need to do this...

(via Bitching and Junkfood)

I hope you enjoyed my cat homage, I think I've exerted all my crazy now, so thanks for that.

VAL DAY.

After taking a gander at Lazy Oaf's S/S 12 Lookbook (at least one great cat-related item to stick on my list), I had a browse on the rest of their website, and stumbled across a pure goldmine of perfect Valentines cards. If only I wasn't so organised and hadn't picked up my card for my special someone over two weeks ago...

Guess which one I think would be the most apt... ♥

Intimate card, £2.75, Lazy Oaf


You're my Favourite, £2.75, Lazy Oaf


Your face is nice, £2.75, Lazy Oaf


You have nice hair, £2.75, Lazy Oaf
There are loads of other Love Day-related items currently at the Lazy Oaf store but you should check out everything because it's all nice. It would be great if they had another pop-up store soon, I broke my french fries tote at the weekend. :(

Purchases. ♥

As I mentioned in my previous post, I bought a few of nice things on Saturday. In some ways it was a bit of a failure because I had intended to get some Christmas shopping done but it other ways it has made me see how incredibly selfish I am, which ultimately results in my happiness, so I can't complain. Who am I kidding anyway, it's years until Christmas.

The Adventures of Tom the Lion - Tom the Lion.
I'll start off with something I didn't buy. I persuaded Moon to treat himself as he is currently feeling as down about 'the job situation' as I was a few weeks ago - and undoubtedly will be feeling in a few days time. The lion is coincidental and just something I have lion lying around. As it goes, Rough Trade East know how to pick a good album of the month. I quite like it and currently have the first track on repeat on my iTunes. For the price it also came in some of the nicest CD packaging I've ever seen, bargain!
Moon's blogged about it, he can be such a hipster, I can't even.

These two critters are from Maiden, an amazing shop on Shoreditch High Street. They're made by a company called Quail, which make all kinds of other adorable ceramic animal homewares and gifts. The guinea piggy bank is life-size, so cute! It was such a tough decision to go for this pug egg cup over all the other worthy faces looking back at me, I even shunned a panda, I think additional purchases are definitely needed. However, at the same time I need to stop crowding my tiny room with things for my future house, I just don't have the space right now. :(

I'm not sure what spurred me to buy these but I picked them up at the Old Spitalfields Vintage Flea Market. The green matches are the same brand as the only tobacco that one of my uncle smokes so I thought I'd put them in a Christmas card, and get him something else, obviously. They're quite pretty though and different and I would imagine there is a chance I will need matches in my life at some point.

All Lazy Oaf Xmas Pop-up Shop -
Mittens - £1
T-shirt - £10
Tote bag - £5

If I had more money I would definitely have spent more, I'm dying to get these socks and this anorak was amazing and reduced. I did have a bit of a steal though, the mittens would have come in useful today if I had remembered to bring them, hello winter! Best £1 I've spent on an item of clothing, even if they are a little bit big, I adore the pattern and colours.

This ring is from a stall in Brick Lane market, which I have got things from before but forgotten the name of again, I was doing so well as well. I would recommend you get down there though as the jewellery they offer is much cheaper than getting it online. I also picked up my sister something that that's a secret.
What do you think of my nails, they're still here today, I like them, they remind me of Skittles.

Two days left with Ink...

A bit more hearting.

♥ *derp
Doing a bit of link saving, and this has been a pretty good day for finding stuff, despite some how spending a lot of today in leaves and outdoors.
Moon's currently completely disengaged with me and watching the football so I thought that now was as good a time as any to write this.

There are too many nice bags everywhere, and just after I bought this great one, which I also love, owhhh the perils of having an unsatisfactory bank balance.

(via The Dainty Squid)

She's Got Purseonality Bag - ModCloth, $59.99
I think that there might me too much novelty to this bag for me because I have a tendency to get bored, but it's so readily available and fairly reasonably priced, and it's face(!)

Eye Clock - Lazy Oaf, £20.50
Lazy Oaf make the cutest things, they have a great blog and I'm definitely popping to their pop-up Christmas shop when the event rolls around on the 26th. They also have great bags, of which I want all.

Happy Socks Split Dots Pink Socks - Lazy Oaf, £8
Well, I said I was loving Lazy Oaf, I'm really into cute socks rn as well. Kind of getting bored of Primark-standard, and these would look so nice poking out the top of my boots.

Rubik's Cube Mug - Urban Outfitters, £12
Now, I love a fun mug as much as the next person, but I really am beginning to think that Urban Outfitters are missing it when it comes to prices. Topshop has the same problem, I can't afford anything, or at the very least, justify a tiny one-off purchase. While browsing UO's latest offering of Christmas stocking fillers I came across a 'new' Gameboy Original for £80 (EIGHTY)! I mean £12 for a mug is one thing, it might be an unbreakable mug or something, but how old is the Gameboy again exactly? Surely even the hippest of hipsters isn't that stupid, I guess they could make a necklace out of it or something...

(via HelloAntonia)

I was a bit torn while watching last week's Pier's Morgan's Life Stories, because it meant enduring Piers Morgan. However, pushing on did mean that I absorbed a bit of how wonderful Rolf Harris is and remembered how much I might have loved him as a child. I might have even downloaded an album, and even paid for it, or not, but maybe, definitely...

(via Rolf Harris Entertainer)

I didn't really intend to post this, I have some fun photos to show you so I promise things will get a bit more visual soon.