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friday favorites #558

by Kaylah Stroup April 24, 2020

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These socks are just fantastic!

Everything Cedar + Spruce Studio makes is gorgeous but these stained glass earrings are just wowowow!

We will survive the darkness.

Holy smokes. I love the absurdity of these food stools. Also available in hamburger and of course, ice cream.

Some cute washi tape to spruce up all the snail mail you should be sending out right now.

Where’s the lie in this???

I am way into this half and half rain jacket!

This vase is weird and I am way into it!

Ah! Something we’re all getting to know very well.

Cryptid Club! Are you a member?

The pattern on this dress is so great! (& also available as a purse!)

Jeff bought us matching water bottles so that maybe just maybe we’d both drink more water and it’s totally working so far. Isn’t mine so cute!?

Link love…

  • All dogs are good dogs.
  • The perfect cozy yet put together work from home dress.
  • This orange shaped pot holder!
  • These silly little worms make me smile.
  • I need some of this black frame polaroid film. So snazzy!
  • 90’s kaylah positively needs these shoes even though adult kaylah knows they’d be destroyed in an instant.
  • This lace body suit is SO cute and actually super affordable.
  • This frog pitcher and mug set is absolutely ridiculous and I love it.

Happy Friday! xoxo

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Friday Favorites #557

by Kaylah Stroup April 3, 2020

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These earrings!

These socks!! So cute!

No better time to send snail mail than now!

Dark chocolate and wild mint. Doesn’t this lip balm sound amazing!?

This ‘bendy boy’ shirt made me giggle.

Nessie sugar spoon! We have this cat sugar spoon and I’m kind of amazed how useful a tiny spoon actually is.

Are you the all state cat patting champion? PS. Do you know your high score? (aka how many cats you’ve pet in one day?) One time I went to a shelter that didn’t have cages and pet over 100!

This raccoon hanky is the cutest. I just love raccoons so much.

Skateboarding ghost!

Be kind to ya mind.

Link love…

  • Totally random but my goodness, this umbrella is pretty!
  • This polka dot halter top dress!
  • Here’s a kit so you can learn to needle felt. Oh oh! And here’s one so you can needle felt a desert scene.
  • More crafty goodness – a DIY earring painting kit.
  • Loving this striped nightgown.
  • I am currently snuggled up in this cardigan. It’s so cozy.
  • This newspaper box turned record stand is killing me. I’m obsessed.
  • How to Raise a Plant (and make it love you back.) This book looks super cute.
  • Looking like a snack while looking for a snack.

My husband’s second book, Abandoned Northern Ohio, was released this week! I’m so so so proud of him. He worked super hard finding great locations for it.

abandoned northern ohio

Happy Friday!

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Friday Favorites #556

by Kaylah Stroup March 27, 2020

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No better time to send cards to your loved ones! I love this one.

This jumpsuit!

Hey!

This bug covered sweatshirt! Also comes as a skirt!!

These nail wraps! Holy smokes. Those are snazzy.

Loving these eye brooches!

Stay Magical!

Would you just look at this darn turtle planter!? Anthropologie is also having a 25% off home & furniture sale (discount shown in cart). Planters are included!!! I grabbed this eye one.

Yup.

This boobie planter comes in a bunch of colors. I love this white version.

Positively obsessed with these boots. That color is perfect!

Pilea socks!

Link love…

  • This polka dot pajama pattern is super cute. Also comes in a nightgown, pants, and shorts!
  • Speaking of cozy jammies, this romper!
  • I have worn this dress like… half of this week. It’s cute and comfortable!
  • Stress purchased any plants lately? I have. Ordered this one yesterday. I can’t wait to get it!
  • These KEDS x Rifle Paper Co shoes are adorable.
  • One of my most favorite pieces of furniture in my home is on sale right now – the birdy leg table.

Happy Friday! Please make sure to keep social distancing! xoxo

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Friday Favorites #555

by Kaylah Stroup March 14, 2020

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Okay but just imagine this cabinet filled with skulls, medical models and all the other wonderfully weird stuff I have! Gah, it’d be amazing.

This Frank Reynolds pin is perfect.

This mug!

Love love love this dress. Looks perfect for a breezy summer day.

This desk is ca-yoooot!

Love this pouf!

I’m hooked on ‘dalmatian’ style polka dots right now.

I saw this turtle terrarium in person the other day at a garden center and I cannot stop thinking about it.

This own sconce is so rad!

I don’t know what it is about them but I LOVE flatforms. I guess it’s the 90’s child in me. Also, that color is perfect. From the same brand, I spotted this light green pair as well. Dreamy!

This dress!

Link love…

  • I bought this dress earlier in the week. It fits so freaking well!!! I am so excited to wear it (& for the weather to warm up.)
  • I’m really enjoying all of Coconut Studio Pottery’s work.
  • Ah, I just love these boob planters. Best part is they’re custom so you could get them however you’d like!
  • Loving this nail color.
  • A DIY concrete planter kit! I spotted planter molds earlier this week and I can’t stop thinking about making my own planters now.
  • How cute is this black shirt dress!?
  • This smiling terra cotta lidded pot is so cute.

xoxo

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Friday Favorites #554

by Kaylah Stroup March 6, 2020

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This mushroom pin!

These loafers! Ah! There are also ones with foxes on them.

I am positively hand chair obsessed right now. Wouldn’t this one look so slick in a room filled with plants!? I don’t currently have the room but the second we move, I’m buying this black hand chair.

I’m a sucker for a backpack purse with a lot of pockets! That color is great too.

This striped sweater is everything!

It’s a sign!

Isn’t this bedding gorgeous!?

I discovered Potey recently and can’t stop looking at all their planters. They’re super affordable too. How stinking cute is this one!?

This porcelain hand brooch!

Loving this dress. That color is so good. There’s also a skirt in the same print.

This shirt!

Link love…

  • It’s taking all my will power to not buy this plant. I own a different variation but… pink?! Gimme.
  • These faux cross stitch sandals are so neat!
  • This black and white striped dress is adorable and so affordable. I own the black version and use it as a nightgown.
  • Palate Polish released some new nail colors this week. I am dying over Sage. Ps. I almost exclusively wear Palate Polish. Can’t recommend them highly enough.
  • Oh boy, I have a major mug crush!
  • This velvet pink cat collar is THE cutest. I love Professor in his little bow tie but gosh, he’d look precious in this.

Happy Friday! xoxo

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Friday Favorites #553

by Kaylah Stroup February 28, 2020

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This shirt made me giggle. There are only a couple left in limited sizes so hop on it if you want one.

This blanket!

These planters are 100% my style. It’s taking all my self control not to grab one.

I can’t be-leaf how cute this rug is. Sorry.

This dress!

Just loving the hardware holding this shelf up.

This dress! If short dresses aren’t your jam – here’s a similar one that’s a lot longer.

I’m really digging this bedding.

How rad are these containers!? Each one is two pieces so you can change out your water without disturbing your plant. I also found this one. I kind of really want them both.

Absolutely loving this polka dot dress. It also comes in other colors and patterns if these wild polka dots aren’t your thing.

These shoes!

Link love…

  • This constellation wallpaper (which is removable!) is so cute!
  • Love love love this bra! It’s super affordable too.
  • This striped rug!! Soooo beautiful!
  • Kind of random recommendation but have y’all ever eaten this brand of gummy bears? They are THE BEST. Jeff and I got them once on a flight in a random snack box and immediately had to hunt them down. We’ve since eaten three of those bags I linked to. That’s 15 lbs of gummy bears.
  • This polka dot dress is so cute!
  • This sweater says the pattern is chevron but I just see a giant mouth – and I like it!
  • I bought this lithops grow kit earlier in the week. I am SO excited to get started.

Fitting with the color theme for this week – I’ve got one of these cat face boxy bags left!

Happy Friday! xoxo

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Friday Favorites #552

by Kaylah Stroup February 21, 2020

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Me!

I’m over here repeating to myself ‘you don’t have the room – no matter how much you love that plant stand!’ I also really really love this one too!

I’m always on the hunt for black and white planters. How gosh darn cute is this guy!!

Snake lamp! Ooooh boy!

Isn’t this planner so pretty!?

Forever a fan of Joules’ rainboots! Just look at these! Their Right As Rain collection has so many dreamy prints. I already have two pairs but…

Wowowow!

This pin is perfect. I probably need to get it and wear it all the time.

These earrings are amazing!

Just think how perfect it’d feel to prance around garden centers in this dress!

This sweatshirt!

Link love…

  • This scalloped platter would be perfect to hold plants!
  • I’m a total sucker for a pretty candle.
  • Plants get me.
  • This terrarium kit is SO cool! Like a ship in a bottle but for plants.
  • This eye planter! I love it!
  • Pressed plant nail decals!? Yes!
  • Unrelated to plants, I’m wearing these pants right now and they fit SO nicely.
  • I don’t know what I’d really need this cat platter for but I dig it!

In shop news today, I had a massive update! A whole bunch of new fabrics hit the shop. This plant one fits today’s theme, right!? Also – I have to show off these holographic ones. Gah. Love them!

Happy Friday! xoxo

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Friday Favorites #551

by Kaylah Stroup February 14, 2020

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Welp. This little cutie is on my wishlist!

This bumper sticker!

I love basically everything in Little Paisley Design’s shop, especially their patches!

This mug!

This print is RIDICULOUS and I love it.

This sweater!

Never too many cactus enamel pins in my collection!

Love love love these socks! Combining two of my favorite things – plants and planters with faces.

So very tempted by this dress! (It’s on sale today too, along with everything else on the site! You just have to add the item to your card to see the discount.)

This sticker!

I don’t know why I love you but I doooo!

Link love…

  • These satin mushroom jammies! I originally went looking for floral ones but mushrooms are most definitely better.
  • I LOVE this wrap dress. The color is perfect and nothing beats a simple, easy to wear piece.
  • A mug shaped like a terracotta pot!
  • This ‘growframe‘ is such a cool idea.
  • How cute is this little plant stand?
  • Oooh! Loving these fancy pants bee earrings.
  • I went looking for a self watering planter and ended up finding this hilarious gem.

Happy Friday! xoxo

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Friday Favorites #550

by Kaylah Stroup February 7, 2020

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How cute are these happy socks!?

Still obsessing over this phone case from Redbubble. I’ve got a round up of my favorite Valentine’s Day picks from them here. (& you can use code ‘RBC-V20-thedaintysquid’ for 15% off your entire order now through March 31st.)

This book by Carissa Potter looks so lovely. I love their illustrations.

This sweater! (It also comes in other colors!)

This brain planter!

This shower curtain!

Can’t make a Valentine’s Day(ish) themed post without including this candle.

How rad is this heart lamp!? The shop also makes a handful of wonderfully weird objects. Look at this tooth container.

Love the color of this jacket! It’s tough but also super sweet and feminine.

These shoes would look so cute paired with that jacket above and these jeans.

I think we’ve established how I feel about sheer bras by this point. This one also has polka dots!!!

Diggin these vases!

Link love…

  • This heart bra!
  • What could be more romantic than a candlelit dinner when this little turtle is holding the candle!?
  • How cute is this candle featuring a vintage valentine on the label!?
  • You’re never alone if you have demons.
  • These sheer ‘tap pants‘! OMG. Love them!
  • Avo-nly got eyes for you!
  • Fan of the Fresno Nightcrawler? I found the card for you!
  • A pin for the person who has a pizza your heart.
  • What’s more on theme than an anatomical heart enamel pin!?
  • Socks featuring dinosaurs in love.

Happy Friday! xoxo

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