BADGERMANTIS

Hello, I’m back from IEP hell, I apologize for my absence.

Although I’m sure my power animal is a whale, I love obscure animals on my clothes and my husband got me this amazing handpainted badger necklace from Etsy and my mom got me this beautiful embroidered Praying Mantis Tee from Nordstrom Rack for $16 for my birthday. The necklace is my talisman from evil and the shirt is so soft and cozy (and I’ll bite your head off if you try and steal it from me).

I paired them with my new mauve twill city shorts and my chocolate mary jane Crocs (I know there are those out there that hate Crocs, but they have obviously never owned a pair. These are the first model that are actually aesthetically pleasing. I feel like a futuristic Wednesday Addams hippie farmer in these and since I like to garden AND cook, I can wear these all day brewing beer, pulling weeds and cooking a ginormous meal and they are no worse for the wear. So with this cute new style, Crocs have gone from “functional: yes, stylish: no” to “functional: yes, stylish: YES!”. Ok, now just let me step down from my soap box….) and voila, I feel like I could snatch a humming bird out of mid-air and use my spiny left foreleg to impale it through the chest.

UPDATE: I found the tee-shirt here but unfortunately, unless there’s a Nordstrom Rack in your town, it’ll cost you $44.