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    Friday Favorites #526

    by Kaylah Stroup August 2, 2019

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    My mother in law got me this candle for my birthday and holy smokes, it smells SO GOOD. They even have a roll on perfume in the same scent. Gardenia and honeysuckle is seriously the best scent combo ever.

    This couch is gorgeous! Just picture it surrounded with plants. So dreamy.

    This vintage hand model! I already have a hand model but not one with arthritis!

    Look at these awesome coasters!! The person who makes them also has these dental ones as well.

    I’m just a sucker for strappy black flats.

    This dress!

    Digging this wild and colorful rug!

    Just rediscovered this snake candle holder in a wish list I made and surprise, surprise, I still love it!

    If I could afford it, I’d cover my walls in vintage anatomical charts. How pretty is this one?!

    Stumbled upon this cool little glass terrarium and can’t stop thinking how cute it’d look full of beach treasures!

    Link love…

    • This fancy pants peacock mirror is rad!
    • It’s all good.
    • This black sheer romper. Hello!
    • Okay, I really am just nuts about lamps. How cool is this weird little colorful one!?
    • Because I absolutely love things that are bigger or smaller than they should be – look at this giant pencil door stop!
    • I’ve never really been into monogram things but these enamel monster pins are way too cute.
    • Heirloom tomato candle!? YES, PLEASE!

    Big shop news – a massive update went live this morning! 47 new listings in total including a handful of one of a kind wristlets, a brand new size of pouch that’s a little larger than our ‘standard’ sized one and a whole bunch of coin pouches.

    Shop The Dainty Squid.

    Happy Friday! xoxo

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  • hair dye diaries

    by Kaylah Stroup July 30, 2019

    Its been around two months since I made the big change from green to orange. In that time period, I feel like I’ve had to touch up or deal with faded hair way more than normal. This is my one last hair change with Arctic Fox then I’m off to try new brands. (I say …

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  • my mother’s plants

    by Kaylah Stroup July 29, 2019

    Grief for me has been cycling through the polar opposites of ‘save everything!’ and ‘throw it all away!’ Sorting through her storage room in my dad’s garage a few weekends back with my sister-in-law, I found myself when asked what to do with something, more often than not, answering “Goodwill pile!” Guess it was just …

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