Wicked Riot

So LimeCrime is a brand I had wanted to try for years. Recent events made me a little weary. This brand has had it's name dragged through the mud for years. Just a couple of months ago they had a security breach and pretty much that was the last straw for a whole heap of people. With an update on their security I decided that this would probably be the best time to give it a try. 

Christmas Pooch

   These are incredibly late and I apologize. I've posted them all over the rest of the internet so here it is.

She really dislikes hoods!

"Blooper"

The Halloween Spirit

I bought this jar without a clue of what to do with it. Thankfully I found these chocolate eyeballs in our commisary!

So Halloween is my favorite holiday, as I'm guessing most will say. No that we have our own home I went crazy trying to make and put together as many decorations as I could. So here is a gigantic post of some of the things that I made/put together for this holiday. Also you can see what my favorite scented candle was in a picture below.

I used a technique that any  kindergartner could master, while making these hats. You make a cone, cut a circle (for brim) and tape it together!

These were the first things I made, they have been hanging since the beginning of the month.

I'm usually more of a Silkin & Co. fan but this Yankee candle has been my ultimate favorite!

 This candle reminded me so much of home during Autumn. Here in Korea, with the lack of trees, I haven't seen many changing leaves. I miss that so much about Georgia. I miss walking through Sims Lake park listening to the water run its course and the rustling of the leaves in the wind. 

We finally got some shelves and it made me just giddy with excitement to stuff them with pumpkins!

These bat lights are one of my favorite decorations. They go perfectly with the black and orange pumpkin garland!

ALL THESE DANG SPIDER WEBS!! I should probably clean more often ;)

Last but definitely not least, Lily! We all started getting stuff for our costumes sometime towards the end of September. Our tiniest fluffiest member of the family also needed a disguise. I searched all over the internet and on amazon so something befitting of this little girl. We found on costume, Wonder Woman, that ended up being more like a ball gown than dress. Lily is a tiny pooch fitting between the (dog) sizes of xs and s. So my finally searching ended up on Etsy! I should have known I'd find something here. I present to you the cutest little Goku! 

This little fluff monster would not stay still so these are the best shots we could get :)

Maybe later on I can show you guys better shots of the costume. It has a good amount of detail.  Also some shots of our Jack-o-lanterns we will be carving tonight!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

Alice Brunch (mostly pictures)

So for my birthday we got to go to this nice place named Alice Brunch. It's small and cutely decorated. As the name suggests, they sell brunch! The over all experience was so nice and cute that I had to go back with my husband. After two failed attempts that left us disappointed, we finally made it! It was around three pm so I was a little scared that for some reason we wouldn't make it yet again.

The charm starts as soon as you walk in but also look as this menu!

Close up of my husbands new shirt i got him. Spider-man and his villains make up a spider.

My favorite picture and wall decoration.

Yummy!

Last, but not least, our brunch! Everything was super delicious. I always enjoy variety.

The Goblet Of .... Fire?

Diva Cup!

WARNING TMI AND WHAT NOT!

So my first ever menstrual cup! Wow, you've heard of these right? Well if not I introduce to you this surgical grade silicone menstrual cup. You can find it online at Diva Cup or Amazon.

I personally decided to try this product because of my constant struggles with tampons, as I dropped the pads years ago (adult diaper much?)  Every time aunt flow dropped by I had forgotten to restock and found myself in a frenzy running to the grocery store for more. Or sending the husband cause he's sweet as candy! Anyway I had heard of the Diva Cup years ago in high school from this "free spirited" girl, well her explanation at the time turned me off from ever trying it. Fast forward six years later and I've been convince by all the eco-friendly do goers. If you think about it, doesn't take too much of it, and you'll see that it will save you loads! The cost of this product is around $25 dollars that's you'll only pay once a year (at least once). Compare that to the $8-$10 bucks a month (minimum) every month.... $96-$120 a year compare to that $25!

So for my first time, I was terrified not going to lie! It's something totally new to me. If you going into it with this sort of mentality you'll definitely freak. Don't worry though you'll be more than perfectly fine and your are only sycing yourself out. It comes with instructions just like those pesky tampons. And of course like most things there a bagillion videos about it on youtube. After my first days, though, I got a hold of everything and ended having the best experience. Did I mention you can use one for up to twelve hours?!?! So even if you find your self out and about you don't have to worry about your lady time being in the way. Make sure to at least carry a water bottle with filter water if you do feel the need to freshen up. When you do clean it make sure to use a fragrance free soap/ a vaginal cleansing wash (like Summer's Eve, as I used). After you're done with your period you wash it in the soap THEN throw it in a pot filled with water and boil it for five minutes. Yep, you can totally do that without harming it. Also no need to remove every time you use the restroom. Overall I believe this is a very necessary product/change.

You'll get to know yourself a little better but it's all very worth it. I would 100% recommend.

Take A Simple Breathe

Stolen Lavemder(?) from the Pyongtaek subway station.

Sometimes it's hard for me to PAUSE.BREATHE.AND RELAX. I don't have much going in my life but my mind is a hodgepodge of crazy. So I have to tell my mind to shush up from time to time. And haven't you found yourself in the same position? Latelty, though, I've found calmness in the small things, as people tell you to. For example, seeing the clear(ish) blue sky for what feels like the first time in forever. Here in South Korea it always seem to be smoggy, but you tend to get use to it. I feel like our little town even looks nice when this happens. Secondly, I've always been a big fan of making a space your own. Since being married and living with my husband I haven't gotten the chance to do that. We moved to California which was super expensive so any extra money was used for groceries or transportation. Then here we are now! In S.Korea, where we will only be living for about a year and a half now. So I guess whats the point? Well I still try. So I bought a set of cheap shelves! To my disdain our walls, I later found out, were concrete! SIGH!! So I sat and looked at those selves for months. My friends had suggested some solutions but I was to scared to be disappointed again. Well I gave in finally low and behold, SHELVES! Sadly, I don't have much to put on them and one of them is crocked (which makes me a smidge crazy). It might be ridiculous but these things have chipper me up. And of course as always my baby pooch Lily keeps a smile on my face every day.

Our little town of Songtan.

Our Hot Seoul

So as a extended birthday "celebration" I wanted to go to Hongdae to find these nice unique shops. Everybody else was busy with work and such on on my actual birthday so we did this that Saturday after.

We started off our day pretty early, 9 am wake up! After that we got on a bus, which we had to wait for, and rode on it to Seoul for about an hour. Once at Nambu bus terminal we hopped on the subway and rode around 11 stops to Euljiro3 then transferred to the Green line for 7 more stops until we arrived to the Hongik University stop. Seoul being in 95 degrees F weather sucked loads. Thankful the subway cars were all air conditioned.... but the streets weren't. This was our first time traveling in Seoul together, my friend Liz and I, without and Korean speakers. We were determined to make it out alive.





After having visited at some clothing shops, such as Uniqlo and H&M, we decided to try and find what we had come here for. Everything was in Korean and made everything difficult and the hot weather did not help at all. So we decided a cold drink would help calm us down and give us a mental boost so we could find this shop.

As a lot of shops here in Korea, this shake and ice cream place was tiny just like the rest. It's quiet quaint. Only four tables inside with minimal but cute decoration.

Our desperate attempt at using a Korean map

We busted out as many maps as we could. Obviously most of them were in Korea so it got pretty desperate.

While walking around we arrived to a pretty hip part of town. This is were we were to suppose to find our shop we were looking for, Lomography. This graffiti caught my eye so i stopped to take a picture of it. Funnily enough this building was wrapped with a Lomography sticker. We busted out laughing at our dumb luck. We circled the building hoping to find said shop but with no luck.

My favorite of the graffiti!

There was a lot of nice wall art as we walked around so at least we got something nice and beautiful out of it.


At this point our legs and feet we aching and the heat was weighing us down. Slowly I was giving up any hope of finding the one place I had set out to find. We kept walking and I finally just settled down for Lush and other cosmetic stores.

My friend Liz at the Hello Kitty cafe in Hingdae

 To our wonderful surprise, we found the Hello Kitty Cafe!! It was hidden in a deep corner. The only reason we saw it was because it was the only bright and pink building in town! It being a Saturday the cafe was a little too busy for us to go into.

They even had their own street signs

Nine hours later we were more than ready to go home and relax. We hopped back on the subway and did it all again... For far too long. This was definitely enough traveling for about a month or two.  I might not try finding these shops for a while or at least until the weather cools down here in South Korea.