Christmas Morning

This red-orange knit dress from Lane Bryant is the perfect thing to wear for a holiday at home. It's like a warm, somewhat dressy, extremely flattering nightshirt. I wore it with cozy tights and slipper-like shoes to complete my "I didn't want to get dressed this morning but everyone is taking pictures" look.

Early Christmas

This year for Christmas my amazing friend Antiope got me this Wobbly Octopus Magnet. She likes to enable my octopus addiction.

And she also gave me a orange elephant-shaped ornament made from elephant dung. Processed elephant dung -- it feels like papier-mache and smells faintly of hay. Hilarious and wonderful.

I gave her citronella candles shaped like eggplant.

And some vintage maps from my favorite ephemera source, Etsy seller Inkpainter, because Antiope is a geographer.

Afterwards we tried to decide which set of Christmas presents was the most bizarre. We decided it was a tie.

Fuchsia and Finals

This is what I wore to give a final exam today. It features my new favorite tights, the fuchsia-colored ones from We Love Colors that were supposed to be maroon. After seeing photos of other people's maroon tights, I think that We Love Colors sent me the wrong ones. Did they secretly know that I would like these better? Because now I am obsessed with them. I'm even going to wrap my Christmas presents in purple and fuchsia this year. Obviously We Love Colors is psychic.