Pugs & Baubles

compulsive pug lover. New York explorer. Astoria inhabiter.  baubles hoarder. Pugs & Baubles is a rare combination of world domination.

[micdotcom]

Watch: President Obama delivers pointedly feminist speech at United State of Women summit

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Omfg! She is GOLDEN 😀😄

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BLESS

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My queen.

[bedsider]

Life is messy. Relationships are messy. Love is not all you need. You need mutual respect, compromise, sacrifice, understanding, the willingness to work at it and stand by him or her when times get rough. You need to be willing to be by their side not only during the bright days but also during the dark ones. To encourage them to become the best version of themselves, but also to love and accept them as they are today.

James Michael Sama, from “Relationships Are Not Easy, But They Are Worth It” via Huffington Post

(via bedsider, npr)

All too true for what Andrew and I have gone through this year. 

[micdotcom]

Watch: Stop what you’re doing and listen to Aretha Franklin’s tribute to Carole King

[popculturebrain]

This was out of control.

[pugsandbaubles]

SLAY

[thefrenemy-blog]

How To Have A Good Weekend (like Ina Garten would)

Have your husband leave for a weekend, but prepare him dinner upon his return

Consider upgrading your “very good” olive oil to “your most excellent olive oil” by putting it on a small boat and sending it out to The Hamptons for a weekend

Steam your hundreds of denim shirts

Meet your florist for calamari stew and homemade bread

Take a walk through your garden, which has the most beautiful flowers and cubed cold butter, just perfect for making sweet and delicious flaky pie crust

Have Alec Baldwin do your grocery shopping (real episode I saw once)

“Golden” “Flaky” “Crispy”

Become so close to the owner of your local cheese shop, you cannot help having them over for scones and tomato bisque, separately

The wonderfully rich and warm gay men that live down the block have already promised to decorate your Christmas tree for you

Genuinely say “my fishmonger” 

Garnish your table with basil leaves in mason jars, and have people shower you with complements like “I’ve never though to put basil leaves as a tablescape” and you humbly say “divine”

Buy whitefish spread and have it put you into a transcendent sunset overlooking the water

Make your very own lemon curd to serve to forty or fifty small business owners

Put together a flower arrangement that will never die

Greet your very good olive oil, now your very excellent olive oil, and delight that it has brought you back a lobster roll

[livemylove]

[pugsandbaubles]

and hello birthday month!

[dearbeta]

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current mood. fall, I love you but my sinus infection is bringing me down. 

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I started watching Queer as Folk on Netflix and holy Brian Kinney.

[coveteur]

[pugsandbaubles]

goals. 

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ANOTHER WONDERFUL GIVEAWAY FOR SOME TRULY WONDERFUL PEOPLE!

I’ve had some really great fortune in my life lately, so I wanted to share some of the things that make me happy with you all!

One winner will receive:

Any three (3) Lush bathbombs of their choosing.

All three (3) Urban Decay NAKED eyeshadow palettes.

One (1) Urban Decay Eyeshadow Primer Potion.

One (1) Urban Decay Perversion mascara.

One (1) Anastasia powder contouring set.

Any two (2) pairs of socks from the Sock Drawer (www.sockdrawer.com); limit $20 (not pictured).

One (1) Forever 21 giftcard in the amount of $50.

One (1) copy of Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman.

(All products will be in new, never-before-used condition.)

How to win:

You don’t have to be following me to win, but a brief peek at my blog would be appreciated!

Each reblog counts as one entry; likes do not count as an entry.

Please limit reblogs to under ten a day.

Giveaway blogs cannot win.

Giveaway will close on August 20, 2015. Thank you all, and good luck!

[pugsandbaubles]

found my favorite moment of silicon valley. happy friday!

[theavc]

Drake and Peggy Olson, together at last

Now, thanks to the internet, you can watch Drake’s admittedly amazing hustle anthem being put to the most perfect use imaginable, as a soundtrack to Olson’s rise to the top. Bravo, internet.

More at avclub.com

[anniehinton]

Google search: Who is the hot guy in the Royal Family photos

[pugsandbaubles]

God where has six years gone? Studying abroad in Paris was the best experience in my short life. It was a summer of heartbreak and lust, questionable moral decisions, long nights and early mornings, cheap wine and too many croissants, and where I found myself for the person I was, not the person people wanted me to be. That summer I never felt so secure and so insecure at the same time. Spending my days roaming around the city and nights on the Seine I met some of the most amazing people, a few of which I will have a life long relationship with.  Sounds cliche, but it was the summer that changed my life. I quite often question my decisions about that summer and the months following, even the years following. But for now, I look at this picture and smile with abundance of how crazy the seven of us were and how magical the moments we had together were.  

[pebbleinknee]

Sooooo about six years ago I went to Paris to study and I was eating falafel with some of my classmates and this dude asked if he could take our picture and we were like sure whatever.

Three years ago someone says there’s a mural in a Philadelphia falafel shop that looks like me and I’m like “wait, that IS” me.

Three years later (tonight) I finally find the photo that stranger took six years ago.

Like how the hell did a photo taken of me in another country end up as a mural in the city I live in?

[rsmallbone]

[buildingaladder]

As if we would expect anything less.

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[kbjpresently]

Pretty much my life motto.