ZOMBIES. DUDE. ZOMBIES.

OMG YOU GUYYYYYS. REINE DU CIEL IS OPENING WITHIN, LIKE, THE NEXT FEW DAYS! SUPER-EXCITING!!!

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So, okay, I know I was going to talk about Christmas shopping today. But now I'm not. For the following reasons:

• It's freaking October. Mind you, I've bought all my Christmas gifts already (and practically everybody I know is getting something of an Etsian nature), but I'm pretty sure normal people aren't this anal about getting their shopping done early.
  
• I think my mom may have found this blog, so I don't really feel like talking about Christmas presents right now cause it would be a bit awkz if she found out that I am getting her a pair of totally stylin' SAS shoes and a color-coordinated flowered tracksuit. (LOLZ, just kidding, Mom!)
  
• I have found a new shop to be completely obsessed with, and I really feel the need to talk about that instead. IT'S AN EMERGENCY, YOU GUYS. AN ~EMERGENCY~. Check this out:

"ZOMG!" you may be (and probably are!) saying to yourself. "That is the coolest ring I have ever seen in my life! Also, I have a complex now that nobody will find me attractive because I don't have a gigantic cocktail ring with a gross bug on it." Just last night, I felt the same way. Which is why I bought one of these fine fly rings from Schmutzerland. But now it's a drag because all I can do is ogle the rest of the shop and lust after stuff.

Exhibit A:

Why, yes, I believe that is a knock-off Chanel bag. From the 80s. In purple.

Exhibit B:

Totally creepy faces, available with or without skin!

Exhibit C:

AN OCTOPUS ALL UP IN YOUR GRILLE.

They also have some really cute vintage boots, but they're too little for my stupid gigantic feet, and it makes me bitter. I can't really talk about it.

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Finally, because it's almost Halloween, and because the living dead are awesome: can I interest you in some HIDEOUS ZOMBIES?

From twolittlefruits:

I feel like this a really good picture, because it's striking and also factual. Zombies do love brains!

brokesy has pillows that would be very comfy for any zombies in your life:

I was going to make some joke here about having a zombie in your bed, HURHURRRR, but that's cheesy and also a little yucky even for me.

Did y'all read Pride & Prejudice & Zombies? If not, you should. It's totally excellent. And sweetheartsinner made a charming coordinating pillbox:

Zombie Charlotte Lucas (IDK, I always assume that's supposed to be Charlotte... I guess it could be any old-timey Regency zombie lady, though) wants your mood stabilizers and vitamins!

Finally, stickerella knows that, in the regrettably inevitable event of a zombie apocalypse, it's good to be prepared:

I want one, but I guess I should get a vehicle first.

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Thus endeth today's compulsive shopping!

Next time: Wall art, old-lady chic, helpless obsession, and the momentous-ish grand opening of Reine du Ciel Design!

In which I have no idea what I'm doing

So, okay. I like rosaries. I like vintage. I like to make things. Obviously, I should tooootally open an Etsy shop to sell vintage and handmade rosaries, amirite?

Um. Well. Maybe?

Here's the thing: I may or may not have even a lick of business sense. Sometimes (like when I'm designing extremely fly business cards, or acquiring a crazy-beautiful vintage piece for my shop) I'm all, "OMG. I AM LIKE SOME KIND OF GENIUS. PRETTY SOON DONALD TRUMP AND BILL GATES WILL BE KNOCKING ON MY DOOR, BEGGING FOR BUSINESS TIPS. AND CRYING." And then other times-- like when I'm trying to figure out international shipping, which, SERIOUSLY, WTF, HOW DOES THAT EVEN WORK?-- I am pretty sure my shop is going to crash and burn about five minutes after I open for business.

But mostly, I'm excited. Right now, I'm waiting for my business cards and some of my inventory, and then I'll be good to go. And there is every possibility that my HEAD is going to EXPLODE from having to wait!

In the meantime, I obviously have to vent my obsession with Etsy somehow, which has led to shopping. Like, a lot of it. You can imagine, a lot of my shopping has been focused on Reine du Ciel-- so today, I'll be pimping a few shops and items that have been especially helpful to me as a rosary-maker. (And an aspiring captain of industry who makes Trump and Gates cry, etc.)

Tulle has basically swallowed my soul, much like the monsters in The Evil Dead, except cuter and with more jewelry. There are some super-gorgeous rosary supplies-- I'm especially sweating this crucifix-and-center set:

--but they also carry all kinds of random, completely awesome charms. Can you even begin to deal with how cool this charm is? Because I seriously cannot even deal with it:

I KNOW, RIGHT? IT'S A CICADA. AND IT'S GOLD. OMG! (Also, why do I suddenly fail at resizing images? Arrrgh.)

There's also Gypsybits, which I feel is possibly the most dangerous site on the internet, because every time I go there I seriously want to buy EVERYTHING. Check out the "Vintage religious" category for beautiful old rosaries and findings, or just buy THE MOST FABULOUS VINTAGE JEWELRY, I MEAN, OMG, I DON'T EVEN.


Maybe it's just my love of old-lady jewelry (seriously: old ladies dress awesome, amirite?) but DAMN, y'all! I kind of feel like if I don't buy that bracelet, I will literally die.

Also: KADYDID, YOU GUYS. JUST... KADYDID. Not only are her beads super-pretty (I just got some beautiful cathedral beads from her), but she also sells unbelievable rosaries. Such as this:

Red jade and cloisonne! All her work is similarly original and beautiful and just so cool that I want to steal it all and run away cackling into the night.

You know how it is.

On the next exciting episode of It's Glitz!! Christmas shopping and the zombie apocalypse! So, you know, good times all around!