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Shoe Appreciation

I love, love, love shoes.  All kinds. Heels, flats, sling backs, sandals, what have you! Here are some of the one that I wish I had in my collection!!

Faith restored

The world can be pretty shitty sometimes and we can get wrapped up in all that negativity that the media generally feeds us. 

Today as I was scrolling through buzzfeed (my new obsession) I found this gem: 35 pictures that prove the world isn't such a bad place

Essentially, this made me cry because, well, I'm a cryer and gave me some hope :)  The world in fact can be a wonderful place!

Here are a few posts that I have found that had the same effect...

Things I love: Shirts!!

I love t-shirts/tank tops, a lot, especially if they have something hilarious or "relatable" printed on them.  Here are a few of my favorites that I have found trolling the internet:

Sherlock Party

I may be the one of the biggest fans of BBC's Sherlock so naturally I have been greatly anticipating Season 3 that premiered in the US on Sunday.  I thought it would be a great idea to have my friends who I have proudly turned into Sherlockians over to catch the first episode.  The party was a huge success!

 

I transformed my door into the infamous Sherlock and John residence.  To also include from Season 2 Episode 1 the "Crime in Progress, Please Disturb" note.  I just painted wood numbers and letters and tied them to my door.  Easy Peasy...

 

I had a hard time finding anything that was British in nature or anything to do with Sherlock so I found some Union Jack Duct tape (who knew?) and some London related Scrapbook stickers.  I tried to be creative and made this picture with a quote from Moriarty.  I think this is quite cute :)

 

 

The Calendar is always there...I just added the poster I got for Christmas.

 

 

The mantel piece in the dinning room.  With the quote from above, tea cup candles, the Complete Sherlock Holmes stories, and I framed the extra invite postcard which says "Keep Calm and Text Sherlock"...very clever I think!

 

 

I got a little ahead of myself and took a picture of the incomplete tea station.

 

 

#SherlockLives Cups because I have too much time on my hands....

 

 

 Again, I love quotes....

 

 

The most important part!  The Food!!!!  We had quite the spread.  I made scones with jam and cream (and to jazz them up just a little I put English scrap booking stickers on toothpicks to put on top), Cucumber vegan tea sandwiches, a Trifle, and a friend made English Stuffing Balls (which were amazing.  So amazing you should make them yourselves, click here for the recipe!) and Madelines. 

Bastille Concert

 

 Bastille at Royale Boston (pardon the heads)

I have mentioned in a previous post how I absolutely adore this band, Bastille from London and how wonderful their music is.  Last night a friend and I made the 3.5 hour trek to Boston to see them and it was totally worth waiting out in the cold to see them!  

 

Dan Smith and Will  Farquarson

They opened with Bad Blood then my personal favorite, Things We Lost in the Fire.  I could have left right after that and been the happiest girl ever but needless to say, we stayed.  They also played Laura Palmer, Icarus, Flaws, two new songs (which are amazing--shocker), Overjoyed, Rhythm of the Night (another personal fave) and ended with, in my personal opinion the biggest song in the country right now, Pompeii.  

 

 

The happiest girls ever (me and Karrie) 

If you have not listened to them yet, do yourself a favor and listen!  I've made it easy! You are welcome :)

 

Blackfish

I was listening to the radio about a month ago and they were talking about this new documentary about the Killer Whales at Seaworld.  Naturally this interested me because Killer Whales are my favorite animal.  They are so incredibly smart and for years I have been saying that the Discover Chanel needs to have a Killer Whale Week too based on the fact that they are on the very tippy top of the food chain (they attack Great White Sharks and eat only their liver...can we say bad ass?!).

Anyways, I got the film through Netflix and held off from watching it a few days.  Honestly, I was scared of watching it because I didn't know how it was going to make me feel.  I had visions of me just completely losing it and flying down to Orlando to burn Seaworld to the ground.  So I finally got the courage and put it in.  It was phenomenal.

The documentary had former Seaworld trainers discussing what it was like working with the whales and all the accidents/attacks that happened in the years that Seaworld and other Marine parks have been operation.  They also talked about the history of Killer Whales in captivity and that was absolutely appalling.  People would go out in boats and airplanes, find the whales, and then take the calfs by putting nets around the pods (groups of whales).  They showed the video of this happening and the rest of the pod would just watched them take their babies.  One of the men who did this, a big, tattooed, old man said, while crying, that it was the worst thing he has ever done.

The documentary also shared the story of Tilikum, the whale that killed his trainer in 2010.  It went through his history of being captured and being abused by other whales and his first park.  When you watch it you think to yourself no wonder he acts like this, look at his life.  How could you be ok living in a bathtub your whole life?

You must watch this documentary.  It was so well done and it only made me cry twice but it made me want to do something and hopefully when you do watch it you will feel the same.  These animals need to be in the wild and that's the end of that.

For more information on the film, you can visit these sites:

Official Blackfish website

SeaWorld of Hurt