Creepy/cute. Spooky/Sweet. Kowai/Kawaii. However you choose to label it, there are plenty of great ways to combine the awful and the adorable into something unique and satisfying. One of my favorite items in my collection is this great purse.
It's a zombie shoulder bag by Agatha Garcia. Here is a photo of mine in real life, after about two months of near constant use.
As you can see, he's taking most of his wear on the chin, beneath which is the clasp that holds the bag shut. Here's the same bag in different lighting. I notice mine doesn't have a little bat design. I'm not sure why that is.
He's extremely cute. I've gotten more compliments on this bag than I have almost any other accessory I own. Everybody loves a cute little zombie. I do have to decapitate him to open the bag, though.
The interior isn't much to look at. Just a plain purplish grey solid lining and a side pocket with zipper. Inside, I keep my wallet, my clunky phone, and this cute change purse.
Why yes, that is Bloo from Fosters Home for Imaginary friends! I'm not into matching everything up perfectly all the time, so this works for me. ;)
The Agatha Garcia bag is available in other background colors if you're not into so much black. I'm not sure if the Foster's coin purse is still available anywhere. I've had it for a long time.
I give this bag a complete five stars. It's holding up nicely and it's super cute.
With any luck I've misspelled something and I haven't noticed yet, and this will all be very embarrassing, But anyway, I bought this domain name because it was cheap, and also because I have a dream. Let me take you back to earlier this evening. One of my hobbies is watching subscription box videos. Not just any subscription box videos. The absolute worst subscription box videos I can find. The ones where they open the box and they're absolutely horrified, or intensely disappointed, or angry about what they found inside. I would say that I don't enjoy their unhappiness, but that'd be a lie. I laugh. I laugh, because I have totally been there. I've bought bad subscription boxes and had that whole hilarious experience of buying a pig in a poke and not being pleased to hear it squeal. I had a box I had to wait for a full month longer than I should have, and then it came missing one of the items promised in the description. I got ripped off. It's therapeutic to see that it does happen to other people, and how they went about handling the experience.
I have an online playlist where you can watch many, many videos of people opening things that are, let's face it, lackluster. I hope that if and when people watch it, what they get out of it is that age old advise: "Buyer beware."
I was searching for new videos to add to that playlist tonight, when I accidentally found a subscription box that wasn't hilariously disappointing. In fact, it was awesome and cool! I've been looking for a subscription box with stuff in it that fit my style aesthetic, and this is the very first one. It's called Spooky Box Club.
Spooky Box Club. I wanted one. I wanted one super bad. The one they have on sale for this month is inspired by fortune tellers, which just makes me think of Madame Leota from the Haunted Mansion (which is one of my recent obsessions). What a cool idea! The only problem... Shipping to the US makes this box $50, which I think is both more than I can afford right now and probably more than the items are worth. If I lived in the UK or even just in Europe, I would so go for this. Instead, I must resign myself to watching the super cute videos Toxic Tears puts up of the contents of the boxes and yearn with the rest of the Americans.
For a moment, I thought to myself, I would really like to curate my own subscription box like this! I brainstormed lots of cute ideas for things I'd put in my boxes and how neat it would be. That would be a lot of work though, and I don't really have the wholesale connections to make that happen. So, instead, I've decided to put my ideas here. I have a Pinterest Pinboard for my fashion aesthetic, but it'd be so much fun to blog about all this stuff and design adorable little outfits from the items I've picked out.
So, consider this blog a creative outlet for my weird fashion ideas. Hopefully I'll find some cool small businesses you might be interested to find out about and shop from. Maybe I'll link to some neat clearance stuff. Definitely I'll show you some cool stuff I found secondhand and some things I bought online. If I get brave, I might do some lookbooks. In the meantime, checkout my pinboard, it'll give you an idea of the kinds of things I like. Some of it is "pastel goth," some of it probably has some roots in Japan, some of it is just cute. Most of it has a spooky little twist.
Expect to see a lot of light colors and cute skeletons.
