Saturday , July 24, 2010
nogoodforme in the City: MORNING GLORY- For Dying of Cuteness in Toronto
This past Saturday, April 25th was an unstoppably killer day in the Life and Times of Laura Jane. It was the first day of 2009 on which I could comfortably wear shorts and a t-shirt (For me, First Shorts Day is better than Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Tet, Halloween, Valentine's Day, my birthday, and John Lennon's birthday combined), I ate some wildly, dazzlingly delicious strawberry gelato, drank Asti Spumante, hung out with good buds, and frolicked around like nobody's business, even when a torrential thunderstorm hit later in the day and I feared that Armageddon was approaching. Howevs, out of all the mad-awesome business that went down in my life yesterday, the best thing of all was scoring into finding Morning Glory (620a Bloor Street West, between Euclid Ave. & Palmerston Blvd).
Morning Glory is a Korean Cuteness Emporium that sells the motherflipping best stationery, notebooks, stickers, binders, notecards, and etc. that I ever done did seen. This is a ginormous compliment coming from me- I have spent ample time in my life ducking into Chinatown junk shops, fawning over Pochacco-shaped erasers, buying candy that tastes nasty but looks awesome, and so on and so forth. Such behavior is par for the course when you have the aesthetic sensibilities of a four-year-old.
It's been a long, long year since I last spent serious money on anything for myself, so I made up a rule saying that I was allowed to buy ANYTHING I WANTED at Morning Glory, in celebration of the momentous occasion that is First Shorts Day. I came out of there with 7 notebooks, 5 stationery sets, a fridge magnet, and two postcards, and my total was a mere $35!
Steal of the century, best store in the world, check this shit out!
Left: Is this dog Asta? He looks like Asta: The Renaissance Edition. He wants you to know that you warm his heart and make him smile; Center: an alien-lamb notepad/fridge magnet; Right: The crest and "Penguin: Fugitive" postcards were only 29 cents each!
Left: The little girls' cookie is asking her, "What caught your eye about me?" Cookies can be very inquisitive sometimes; Second from left: I've never wanted to go to Germany quite so bad as I do when I look at this notebook; Second from right: The block of text underneath "Stylish Look" is the lyrics to "Jingle Bells"; Right: This notebook has taught me that water bottles become significantly more charming if you draw smiley faces onto the caps. Also, the Diet Coke can says "Oke," perhaps for fear of copyright violation?
Left: "The Whole View of the Eiffel Tower is seen from my bedroom window," seriously classy shit; Right: Sorta contradictory- first of all, where is Toto? Or Zeze? There is only one dog here. The top of the stationery says "Let's Diet!" and then Toto/Zeze says "Oh, No...No! NO!" Right on, Toto! Or Zeze.
Left: God! Wow! These rabbits really fuckin' love them some tea, apparently; Center: Basically just a sexy, great notebook; Right: This river otter is a very motivational little dude. He teaches us all a valuable lesson in perseverance.
Left: This dude is hot. He holds a flower between his teeth, which is hot of him; Right: Today's news- Love spells can do wonders! You are an integral part of my life! Don't let this opportunity get away from you!
In short- if you're from Toronto, and you don't go to Morning Glory STAT, you're kind of an idiot, or else the kind of human being who acts his/her age and not his/her shoe size, unlike certain three-named fashion bloggers with Beatles tattoos.
Tags: acting my shoe size, alien-lambs, city guides, city living, cuteness, First Shorts Day '09, Hanukkah, Korea, MAXIMUM CUTENESS, nogoodforme in the city, notebooks, river otters, Toronto
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dear laura faulds,
please send me a letter on the Toto/Zeze paper. you don't even have to write anything except "HI!" and "BYE!" if you don't want to. cool?
sincerely,
elizabeth barker
p.s. this post makes me really happy!
By Liz
on April 26, 2009 6:48 PM
and all of a sudden I have a massive desire to go to china town and buy a badz maru wallet, and those horrible boiled sweets that come in Moomin tins, and socks with badly translated philosophical statements on them. Curses!
By Sylvia on April 27, 2009 10:56 AM