The Little Things: Hello Kitty and Halloween!

It's been a while, but it's finally time again for an appreciation post! Everytime I do these I realize I take way less pictures than I used to. I should get on that because it's nice to look back at pictures from a few years ago, even if they're just of random stuff!

♥ finding a whole box filled with colourful scented candles ♥ spotting possums and racoons in the backyard ♥ new episodes of American Horry Story ♥ sushi dinner with friends ♥ new bedding ♥ Catfish marathon ♥  receiving the cutest Hello Kitty figurine that looks like me ♥ 

♥ mulled apple tea in a new mug ♥ beating my phone anxiety ♥ Halloween stuff everywhere! ♥ Playing Lego Batman 3 with the boyfriend ♥ pumpkin pie! ♥ winning new lingerie (review coming soon!) ♥ The new book in the Miss Peregrine series: Library of Souls (and getting it on the day it came out :)) ♥ The new Coheed and Cambria album (and anxiously waiting for the vinyl to come in) ♥ being busy with illustration jobs ♥ (binge) watching Glee for the first time (where have you been all my life??) ♥ finally finishing up immigration papers ♥ giving my blog banner a little makeover ♥ working on my anniversary present and buying little things for it (and picking up some small halloween things for myself on the way hehe) ♥

♥ going to a videogame/comic convention and admiring all the rare games and comic books ♥ record shopping with a recently won gift card! One of them is 'Three Cheers For Sweet Revenge' by My Chemical Romance.. be still my teenage emo heart! ♥ complimenting my favourite online ladies ♥ seeing the big Toronto sign for the first time ♥ This post by Cazz (Nerd Burger) on being 30. Or basically on becoming an adult and still having pink hair, reading comics and dressing like a 10 year old. Some people might criticize you or not take you seriously, but what counts is that you are happy with your life and decision. What anyone else thinks of you is none of your business. ♥

Have a great day and don´t forget to take a moment and appreciate the little things in your life. :)

OooooOohhh...

I was just playing around with these elements for a school assignment and figured I might as well throw this little thing together! Classes are already cancelled for two days in a row now, craziness! So today I have all the time in the world to read magazines, browse Baltimore apartments on Craigslist (which is hilarious, and sometimes a little creepy), watch more American Horror Story, cook my favorite pumpkin stew, decorate my Hello Kitty town with Halloween stuff and munch on banana chips.

Finally, you should definitely check out this awesome set of Halloween pictures over at Juxtapoz.

Have a spooky Halloween!!

My life is all about art and fun mail.

I'm SO ready for a break, and a shopping spree, and travels to far off places, and a bath filled with candy corn. But nope, I can't have any of that yet. And it sucks. But let's move on to positive stuff now!

Yesterday I had a portfolio night, which basically means everybody sets up their own little table with their work and people/businesses come to check out your work. It was a little scary, but a great experience to have people other than my mom tell me they really like my work. This was my little set up (the pink half, obviously):

I lovelovelove my brand new purple portfolio! Normally portfolios are black or white or whatever, but then I found this one and it was love at first sight. I later found out they also have it in pink, but I was already head over heals in love with this one that I couldn't really care less that the pink version was already sold out everywhere. This was the very first time I put together a 'professional' portfolio and I felt pretty damn good putting everything together. Like I got over another big hump in my illustration journey. One step at a time c:

Feeling a little 'meh' today since the last school days have been pretty intense. But my dear friend Alex came to the rescue with one of her amazing packages!!

Too much goodness in one parcel n.n

I loved the Nightmare before Christmas figurines she sent me!
Here is Sally posing with some delicious smelling gells.

This was kind of a short post, but I'll probably have more to talk about when my fall break starts! Hope you're having a wonderful Thursday!

Halloween Sweethearts

I present to you.. Halloween Sweethearts! This was/is a little project I've been working on inbetween school assignments to keep my inspiration and motivation going. Every time I had to come up with a.. halloween related pick-up line and then think of some kind of sweetness to illustrate it with.

'Your coffin or mine?' is from this Alkaline Trio song and probably once of my favorite lines of theirs. It's cute and creepy at the same time. I think the doughnut is my personal favorite, because it's sweet and simple c:

Do you have any more ideas? Because I definitely want to continue making these and could use some inspiration!

Hello Kitty + Halloween = ♥♥♥

Omg. I just died. Hello Kitty x Halloween anything is honestly my idea of perfection. I just came across these cuties *__* Aren't they the greatest? Yes, yes they are. And only $10.99 each! I want them all. But I am poor and broke and have some mayor school expenses coming up. Whyyyyy?

Hello Kitty Zombie

Hello Kitty Mummy

Hello Kitty Frankenstein

Hello Kitty Mystery Minis

I can't pick a favorite, they're all so precious.. Can you?

I'm finally starting to feel more like my old self again and have some cute Halloween themed art-related ideas floating around in my head that I can't wait to start working on. Right now I have pink dye on my head though.. so I can't get everything I need yet. Unless I wouldn't mind walking in public with a shower cap on my head. Patience, patience..

Inspiration: crazy bat lady!

I'm growing a slight obsession with bats at the moment. I mean, I've always loved them, but I think they're one of my favorite animals right now. I mean LOOK AT THAT BABY BAT. Isn't it amazing? 

In the future I shall be a crazy bat lady, living in the house you see in the middle of the first collage. Halloween decorations will be out all year long and I'll be baking creepy cute treats while dyeing my hair crazy colors. Yes. That sounds about right.

Oh, and did I mention that it will be fall all year long? With maybe some snow every once a while. Snow made of whipped cream and cotton candy!

I sincerely apologize for the lack of picture credit. I saved these pictures over the past month and have no idea where they all came from :c Now I feel like a criminal.

My life is about cake and cuteness.

Hi there! Just a fun, quick little update on life right now c: Still trying to stay sane. For some reason drawing still depresses me so I just try to work with collage for school assignments right now. I just try to keep surrounding myself with cute stuff and sweet people. Also, I decided this new place in town called 'the Tea Lab'. It's seriously amazing...

I got a mango green tea with mango pearls in it and a green tea cake. That cake. OMG. I almost died (in a good way) when I had my first bite. It's the greatest thing ever and I could eat just that for the rest of my life. The tea was SO good, too. New favorite place for sure!

That day I also picked up some cute things for school + other knick-knacks I couldn't resist.

Cute sticky tabs and memo notes, rilakkuma pen, Hello Kitty mechanical pencils, bright notebooks and some random deco stuff!

Oh the perks of my roommate working at Lush... today she gave me this originally Japanese Lush FUN product which is basically a soap you can mould into all kinds of shapes and smells like ice cream and freshly baked cake (aka vanilla :P)! I've been tempted to eat it more than once already.

I also got these super cute purple bat lights today! So excited at least some shops over here have Halloween stuff.

I also want to share this wonderful short documentary on Lolita fashion with you: Sugar Coated. It's incredibly inspiring and seriously made me cry.

'I think you should be allowed to enjoy and love whatever you like, despite what you look like, how old you are or how small or big you may be. It doesn't matter. If you love it... just be true to yourself and forget about those who hate it'

**Halloweenoccino and puppycats**

Some little things that inspire me or just make me happy on this August day c:...

did anybody else hear that?
An awesome playlist at 8tracks to get in the Halloween mood!

Bee and PuppyCat
The greatest cartoon I've seen in a while. Be sure to check out part 2 too!

Pretty pictures...

Pretty pillows, want! - Halloweenoccino - some wisdom I need to live by more - bat candle holders! - pink sparkly runnins shoes, second want! - pretty hands - some pretty damn awesome pumpkins

You Will Not Hook Up at the Show
This is so recognizable and a great reality check! Oh how many times I went to a concert and thought: 'tonight's the night!' Never happened though. If there's one thing I hate most, it's talking to someone when loud music is playing so that doesn't really help. Hooking up at a show (mostly) just doesn't work for some weird reason.

This Girl's Outfit

Like many other people, I always tend to gravitate to darker colors fashion wise when fall and winter come around. I have that exact same dress (which I hardly ever wear because it's a little short) and OMG, it looks so cool with an underbust corset! I'm all about black, lace and corsets right now so I'm definitely tempted to get a similar corset and copy this look. So cute and pretty.

Chris Ashton Kutcher's speech at the Kid's Choice award
Seriously, this made me cry happy tears (and those girls screaming 'woo!' all the time made me cry tears of sadness).

My Kawaii Style videos by Tokyo Fashion
Haruka Kurebayashi is so incredibly adorable, and I love her style tutorials that Tokyo Fashion has been posting lately. Not even necessarily to try out the tutorials myself, but it just makes me so happy to see her putting on bright make-up and doing her rainbow hair. I want to start a beauty salon with her and give everyone brightly colored hair and they can have lollipops and dance to fun music while the dye is in their hair.

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Copselfies tumblr
I love taking selfies, and I don't mind others taking selfies! So cops can do it too. They make it quite hilarious and entertaining though.

A Corgi Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Here are some pictures of corgis in Halloweeny costumes for an even happier halloween...

Hello this is cat.

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Bat hair and sparkly dandelions

Happy Monday! Hopefully you guys are really having a happy Monday. I'm still in this downward spiral and it HAS TO STOP. So I figured I'd make a small post on things making me smile right now.

Japanese Streets pictures - wishing I could go to the Harajuku Halloween Pop n Cute party - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu bat hair! - Rilakkuma dessert anyone? - an inspiring and oh so true quote - pretty dress from Modcloth!

I'm also really loving bubzbeauty's videos on Youtube right now. I often feel like videos like this on Youtube are much better than any psychiatrist. Mainly because you can find people who are 'just like you'. You can relate to them because  they're usually around the same age as you and believe it or not, lots of people are experiencing the exact same feelings/situations/emotions as you. One of the best things when you're feeling down or insecure or whatever, is knowing you're not alone.

So I got some Green Tea Ice Cream today and I can't wait to try it! I'll probably blog about my icy experiences later this week. And now I should just stop blogging and start working on some personal drawings/paintings because I know I want to, I just got to get to it!

I could look at this picture for hours...

*More creepy cuteness*

I'm no good at saving money. I used to be, but that was back in the time when I wasn't interested in clothes, make-up, jewellery and such whatsoever. Back when I only had one pair of shoes and didn't see the point in buying new ones when the ones I had didn't have gigantic holes in them yet (I'd still wear them then though, because holey shoes were awesome). But now it's a completely different story! I don't know whether that's a good or a bad thing. I do know the change is bad for my wallet.

I had a look in my Hello Kitty piggy bank since MONTHS, and it turned out I hadn't saved that much in the meantime, so I figured I might as well spend it. So I did. Yay!! First stop was obviously H&M where I fell in love with this denim shirt!! I had been looking for one for ages! I love it n.n

Claire's had a really awesome sale going on where you could get 3 items for only 5 euros! So I got these gorgeous lace gloves, heart tattoo tights and black rose hair clips. The other items weren't on sale unfortunately, but I couldn't pass them up ♥ I'm really into romantic gothic lolita like accessories these days, as you can also see on my Fall/Winter fashion pinterest board!

And since we're in the Halloween mood already now, this is the package I sent all the way to Japan for my redditgifts Trick or Treat exchange! I had a message from my match the other day saying there's a package from Etsy on its way to me. I'm so excited!!

All adorable Halloween pixels can be found at engram pixel! Hope you'll have a great weekend!!