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    Friday Favorites #375

    by Kaylah Stroup July 29, 2016
    Kate Funk‘s new cat calendar is out for the year! Ahhh! Seriously just love love love her work.
     (via: Kate Funk)
    Cactus pin. I mean, I already own a few but just like real plants you can never have too many!
     (via: Justine Gilbuena)
    Lately I’ve been thinking of getting rid of my bulletin board since it just seems to attract clutter. I LOVE the way this looks!
     (via: Urban Outfitters)
    Yessss!
     (via: Print Liberation)
    More cactus pins! This time hand-cut and hand-stitched!
    (via: Hanaletters)
    Yes, please! This phone case is the bee’s knees!
     (via: Urban Outfitters)
    This card is the cutest!
     (via: Quill and Fox)
    Love these stamps!
     (via: Native Bear)
    This custom pet portrait pillow is so so so awesome! I’m going to need one for each of my babies.
    (via: Camelotia)
    This is too cute! That cactus shaped light is pretty amazing too.
    (via: Pipolli)

    Link love…
    ▴ Crazy cactus lady! A very appropriate patch for me!
    ▴ When you don’t need a stapler for any reason but it’s so cute you start to convince yourself you do…
    ▴ If you own tons of cute notebooks, why shouldn’t your pens be cute too!?
    ▴ Hello, Sunshine!
    ▴ I blame it on growing up obsessed with the Spice Girls, I love this lapel pin!
    ▴ This is like the globe of all globes! I NEED it for my collection.

    Happy Friday!!
    xoxo

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  • medical model collection

    by Kaylah Stroup July 28, 2016

    A few weeks ago I shared photos of my globe collection and talked about wanting to share more of my collections. Today I’m bringing you one of my favorites, my collection of medical models. I wish I had a better reason to share as to why I started but I’ve got nothing. I really just …

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  • on my deck – late july 2016

    by Kaylah Stroup July 27, 2016

    It’s been about a month since my last plant update. See here. Without the photos to compare I don’t think I would realize just how much everything has grown! To be honest, I’ve kind of been ignoring them again. They get watered fairly regularly but for the most part I’ve just been letting them do …

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