Why must they be pink?

I have four Japanese BB creams (two of them are the same brand). Why must the packaging be pink? What is it with the Japanese and pink packaging for BB creams?

Diary indecision.

The Kikki K email came today announcing that 2014 diaries are instore. I rushed off at lunchtime to look at them. I spent 20 minutes agonising with 3 different sales women, and finally decided to go away and think about it. Diary-buying is one of the most difficult purchases, every year. I like the paper at KK. And the fonts. I like A6, week to a spread. But after that it gets hard. One style has an elastic, but it has lines to write on and costs $5 more. Another style has nice spaces to write in, but no elastic, and too many cutesy pictures of cherries and ice-creams. Another style is cloth-bound and has nice writing spaces, it's almost my favourite, but the front cover says "2014 My Best Year Yet", which just feels like a lot to live up to, a lot of pressure on me. It'll be a sad joke if it turns out to be a mediocre or worse year. What to do!

Nail polish joke for graphic designers.

Probably not many of you out there, graphic designers who collect nail polish. But this pleases me whenever I output a pdf from Quark.

Some free fun.

Scraping the bottom of the barrel to keep the posts coming.

First: I went to IKEA (with team jelssievision) for the first time. I planned to spend no money, and ended up buying 2 packets of coat hangers and 2 Skubb storage things. That is The IKEA Effect. Plan to buy nothing, buy 4 things. Plan to buy 1 thing, buy 5 things. Anyway I have wanted to have matching coat hangers since I read about them in a book as a child, so that's a childhood dream come true.

Second: A link to 56 things to do instead of spending money. I'm leaning towards deep frugality again. http://andthenwesaved.com/things-to-do-instead-of-spending-money/

Third: I have been having intense, crowded dreams recently. The scraps I can remember from last night are pretty good though. I dreamed, amongst some kind of camping in blanket fort situation I forget why, that a young possibly Benedict Cumberbatch who I thought had Aspergers was dating me by doing nice things but pretending not to care. Like he said "do you want to go for a walk? I've got a book called 'Pointless But Nice Walks'." That was how we were dating. And the walk included the Thames at Oxford and an Asian food court (that does sound like a nice walk actually), and then I woke up.

Rave retract

I may have to retract my footlet rave. After a week, they feel as if they are falling apart -_-