A bit mad

I love Jake Gyllenhaal. Even when he's masquerading as a psycho.

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No matter how careful you are, there’s going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn’t experience it all. There’s that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should’ve been paying attention.

- Chuck Palahniuk

kawaii ne

This is a page from a cute wee book I got at Muji. It has lots of funny faces and  eyes, nose, mouth and hair stickers at the back to create your own characters. It's too much fun! 

Washi tape madness. I discovered a shop that has a great MT tape stock so I gave my collection a boost over the weekend.

The snow shows no signs of stopping. There was a little lull, but now it's back. I took this on my walk to work this morning.

Catmosphere

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I wrote a small piece of Cat Cafes in Tokyo here. Enjoy!

Winter appreciation club

I don't particularly enjoy Winter, so for this very reason I have concocted a list of all good things that come with the season

- can wear a fur hat and not look silly

- snow fights with friends, extra points for unsuspecting victims

- hot mulled spiced wine, all the time

- baths with fragrant salts, or visiting the local onsen (Japanese nudy bathes)

- the promise of Spring

- staying inside and being creative

- re-watching favourite movies/re reading books

- attempting skiing or snowboaring on the slopes/ trying not to mow down small children

- soul food

- layering

- bed with a million layers of blankets
-watching snowflakes swirl out the window


that's all I can think of!
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Patti and George

For whatever reason, I didn't hear any Beatles music properly until I was thirteen or fourteen years old. Like some people who hear them retrospectively, I went through a phase of listening to them intensely, and now only put on their records every now and then. This week a stumbled across a small English book on the Beatles, and quickly devoured it. One of my favourite parts was reading about Patti and George. I didn't know, but Patti took lots of photos during her time with the Beatles, which she has turned into her own book.  It's lovely to see a moment in time captured so intimately. They were such an awesome looking couple.

And the winner is...

Prudence! Congratulations. You can flick me an email at gemmarasmussen@gmail.com and I'll get that out to you this week. Also, apologies I didn't announce the winner yesterday. The internet at our house broke. Can you imagine the horror?

Note: This image has nothing to do with the giveaway. It is quite simply a ridiculously cute image.