Crack Den Couture for the Upper Middle Class

While on a wild pinning spree, I started to notice a repetative pattern in the images from one of my favorite stores. (If you just said, "huh?" I'm talking Pinterest. Google it.)  

Juxtaposition, odd marketing stategy, trying to make overpriced linens seem not so over-priced? Art? Call it what you will. All I took from these advertising images is the assumed truth that Anthropologie shoppers must all live in crack dens.

They moved the bed away from the wall so now
they're safe from the mold, you see.

Every little girl's fantasy bedroom: Wrought iron headboard,
pretty yellow sheets and sludgy walls.

Roof over my head, or fancy comforter... Roof over my head, or fancy comforter...?
FANCY COMFORTER!!!

Why, no! No murder was ever commited here.
Just go to sleep dear...

The best way to counteract asbestos?
A purple chair-and-a-half! 

The honeymoon suite.
Just don't look up tonight, darling!

Scared by the nightime sounds of your house settling?
You just need an antelope pillow to cuddle up to.

With pretty bedding like this, you won't mind
ingesting lead-based paint chips in your sleep!

No time to repair plaster and refinish the hardwood floors?
A low-hanging chandelier is sure to distract the eye.

I couldn't afford a Trapper Keeper for my homework
because my duvet cost too much.

The most restful place to position the bed is
directly beneath where the bathtub is likely to fall through.

So, next time you begin to judge the lady with the fancy shopping bag, vintage-looking sailor pants and the perfectly heathered embroidered sweater... Don't jealously assume she's going home to your dream house.

Maybe, just maybe, some Anthropologie shoppers really do live in crack-dens.

 Some may be gypsies...

And, some simply homeless...

(They do have free coffee in their stores, you know.)

Breakfast Dump Brinner

This isn't my usual blog M.O., but Pinterest will only let me enter 500 characters for my Breakfast Dump recipe, so I had to link it to somewhere.  But, if you're looking to see how a single working gal of my age eats in a rush, feel free to read on:

Breakfast Dump Brinner:

This has become one of my favorite quickie dinners when I don't feel like thawing/prepping/cooking. 

• Take a handful of refrigerated shredded hash brown and toss it into a buttered saucepan. 
• Saturate the top of them with those liquid eggs that come in the pourable carton. 
• Sprinkle the top of that with shredded cheese, any kind you please. (Today I was extra lazy and just tossed a slice of American on there.) 
• Salt while wet, if you'd like. 
• Sprinkle one more layer of hash browns on that. 
• Flip like an omelet once bottom is cooked.  Let the other side cook and voila! 
• Precooked bacon that microwaves in seconds is a nice side meat. Usually, I'll crumble it up and toss it in with the cheese layer. 

It is healthy?  Probably not.  Is it filling, fast and easy?  Oh yeah...

Prep time, 0.  Cook time, about 5.  Satisfaction time, hours!