Spooky Haul 🩸

It's time for our monthly spooky haul! Haha. These are just things I've been collecting since our last one that I don't consider to be Halloween stuff. I'll save those for October because yeah, I already started buying and collecting some Halloween goodies. 

I've gottend these things from different stores and places so, I'll try to mention them as I show you the items. Let's do this!

First we have this Yokai 3D pring. I got it ealier last month at a Japanese Matsuri I went with my friends. I believe it's supposed to be a bookmark but I have it as decoration in my room. The picture doesn't really show it but, it's textured.

This bat was a very random purchase, it's actually a dog toy we found at Walmart. I removed the tag so I don't really know the brand. My sister made it hug me while gocery shopping and... I just had to get him and name him "Billy". They had other super cute dog toys, my sister algo got one and a spider ball for the furry niece. 

I am obsessed with this bloody tee from Temu. I've seen it with other phrases on it but this one was my favorite. I got M size which is slightly loose, I don't mind but I wanted a different fit. I just think it's super fun and original. I believe they have matching pants too.

I accidentally bought 2 of these bat scrunchies and ended up giving my sister one. They are also from Temu. The scrunchie is ,ade of a velvety material but the bat wings and wars are felt. It's not the best quality but I still think they are very fun and cute.

I also bought a set of 6 black, bat socks (but I'm only keeping 4). I don't need more socks but you know, it's something we always wear so, yeah. I don't remember if they had other colors too. These are from Temu too.

Lastly we have some candy because, I had to. These gummy fangs are SO good and SO cute! I'm on my Vamps obsessed era so, it made sense to get them.

This is the most unnecessary thing and the last thing I recently got, I just couldn't resist cuz then again, we have fangs. This like one of those "baby pacifier" kind of hard candies. It's strawberry and I love strawberries so...

And that's that guys! This is probably the last spooky haul before moving to a Halloween Haul, I'm excited about it, hehe. 

See you next time~!💋

What's in my bag? | Michael Kors | Fall 2025

I wanted to buy a new bag but I haven't found one that I love so, this year (or at least for now) I'll be wearing this one, which has been my Fall bag for a couple of years now. It's a Michael Kors Prism Saffiano Leather Satchel bag I received as a gift. I really like this one because how different it is and, even tho it can't fit too many things, I think it's unique and I always get compliments when I wear it. I love it's color, to me, it's a cinnamon brown that matches pretty much everything.

It's a medium size bag, quality is great and it is a heavy one. Originally, it came with a MK charm that I usually change depending on my mood. This year I changed it for my bat wing lipbalm holder, same charm I had on my other bag. It has handles and an adjustable shoulder strap that is detachable. I rarely leave it on because the chains are noisy, haha. It kinda has 2 snap pockets, 1 zip pocket inside, 1 back slip pocket and 1 front slip pocket.

I don't know if it's just me but, it kinda looks like an origami bag. Plus, I do have to say the fact that the ring on my bat wing is silver and the details on the bag are gold, do drive me a little crazy. I don't love that.

I really love this bag, and honestly, quality is great! It's not perfect anymore but it's still in a pretty good condition. 

Here are some of the things I moved from my other bag, I forgot to include a couple of things in the pic, life my eye drops, phone charger, phone and the lipstick I'm wearing cuz I had them in my work bag.

I've had some of these things for the longest time now, I'm sure you've seen them in older bag posts too but still, I'm gonna show them in separate pics.

I've had this wallet since forever, sometimes I wanna change it for a smaller one but, I haven't seen one I love yet. It is from Todo Moda.

My sunnies and my glasses. I feel like the cases represent my two personalities, haha. The bat sunnies and case are both from Temu and the purple case from Daiso. 

This notebook is also something that has been on my bags for years and years. It is from Ale Hop and honestly? I don't use it much but I think it's handy to carry it around, just in case.

I started carrying band-aids after my mom hurt her foot with one of her shoes and kept them in the bag since that day, then we have some nail glue stickers cuz I'm usually wearing glue-on nails and, we also have some sanitizing gel from Bath and Body Works.

I usually carry hair elastics or scrunchies, tis time we have a bat scrunchie but it changes, I also have some pain killers in the Corpse Bride tin and the small pouch (which needs to be cleaned) is a good luck charm my sister gave me on Halloween a couple of years ago.

My old Sailor Moon mirror, a hand cream and my super powerful pink mini pocket knife.

I feel like I don't carry as much as I used to years ago, and of course some of these things can change depending on where I'm going and stuff. It's hard to fit a makeup bag in this bag so I usually just carry my lippie of the day.

But that's it you guys, Idk why I like to make these posts whenever I change bags, hope you enjoyed, hehe. 

See you next time~!💋

🔖 Recent Reads: Relatos Cortos de un Crimen (vol. 2)

This book was grandpa's, he liked mysteries and crime stories. I like to think part of my love for it (and horror) comes from him. Since his birthday was in August, I chose it as my August read but I didn't finish it until earlier this month because I got distracted obsessingly reading Spuffy fanfics...yeah. But, I did finish it, it wasn't long, it was an easy read and, it's the first book in Spanish I read this year.

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Relatos Cortos de un Crimen (vol. 2) is a collection of short murder stories by William Bankier. This book comes with 6 different stories which I always enjoy, even with shows because if you don't like or love a story, you'll move to something completely different once you start the new one. None of the stories felt long and slow and, even tho they are not super dark, they have plot twists and unexpected endings. 

Something I noticed and liked was that the characters, their jobs, feelings and relationships were so real, like nothing was perfect, they all had problems and worries. Which, of course, led to the crimes. I wouldn't say it was relatable but, it felt like real life and real people. 

I wouldn't say this was my kind of crime stories because I do like them to be a lot darker but, I did enjoy them. It felt like an easy read, I  could've gone through a story a day if I would've dedicated more time to it every day and finish a lot faster but, I just didn't. Fanfics and life got in the way but, I'm glad I was able to finish it.

This is going to be the shortest book post so far but, there's not much I have to say about this one. It was a nice and easy read. As I'm sharing this, I already chose my next read I'll hopefully share next month and I'm sure I'll continue with the fanfic reading, let me know if you'd like to read a little more about it too.

See you next time~!💋

Mini Wedding Chit Chat + Green & Gold Nails 💚

On August 24th, two of my closest friends got married and I couldn't be happier for them. They are both the sweetest people and I've been a fangirl of their love story from the beginning (even before they officially started dating, hehe). Wedding was beautiful, relaxed, fun and full of happiness and love. Very them. Last time I went to a wedding I really cared about was back in 2012 when one of my cousins got married. So yeah, I loved being a part of their love story and sharing this moment with them.

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The theme was green and succulents so of course I wanted to find pretty nails to match my green dress. At first I was planning to make a wedding look post, especially because I rarely wear green and I bought a green dress just for the wed but, I didn't take any dress or outfit pics. 

Not the best pic but, this is the dress I wore with a black blazer

The wedding was in the afternoon so I kept the makeup and accessories pretty simple.

The nails were too pretty not to share so, yeah. As usual, these are glue-on nail, from Temu. I was between these and a darker set, both with gold details but honestly, green is not my favorite color so I liked these lighter ones a lot more.

I feel like the nails looks a little blue in pics but they are mint green with a pearlish finish to them. It also came with a couple of nude and gold nails. I liked them way more than I thought it would.

This set came with 24 medium almond shape nails, a small file and the sticker glue thingies. I'm starting to have way too many of those sticker things that now, I carry them in different bags just in case I need them.

Since not all nails were the same, I wanted to show you both hands. 

I still find it hard to take decent nail pics.

Even tho these nails were very clean and pretty, durability wasn't that great, after wearing them for like 3 days, the pearlish cover started to peel on some nails, pearls fell and even the green color faded on the tips. I'm glad they looked great on the wedding day but, I wish they could've lasted longer. Oh well~

And, that's that guys. Hope you enjoyed this nail post with a twist, hehe. 

See you next time~!💋

✏ Teacher Chit Chat #9: A year after I quit working in schools

It's been a little over a year since I stopped working at a school and a lot more than that since my last teacher chit chat update kinda thing so, I guess we'll be doing that today.

I remember when I was working at schools, my bestie (who is also an English teacher among other things) once told me that once she stopped working for schools, she knew she'd never go back. And, even tho I didn't like many things about it, I didn't feel that way until I quit my school job. Now I know I wouldn't go back either. People say you should never say never but at least I know I wouldn't do it unless I really had to or, after a while away from it. Before I continue, I want to say that all my experience has been on private schools, I don't know how things are in public schools.

Let's go back in time a little to tell you how I started teaching, I'll keep it short cuz I've written about it in the past. As some of you might already know, I am a fashion designer but I never really worked as one, it was just not my thing. So, while I was figuring what to do with my life, I took a teaching job at this small kindergarten to do something in the meantime. Honestly, I didn't like teaching and, I didn't like kids, I was not patient but, I liked English so, that seemed to be enough. 

That "temporary job" ended up lasting for years! The pay was really bad but back then I didn't really need much money since I was pretty young and was still living with my parents. There I learned a lot about teaching, became much more patient with kids and actually started to enjoy teaching. It also taught me how toxic working environment and people can be. I can say tho, that most of the parents there were super sweet and nice, which is something I didn't see in my future jobs that much. Towards my last year working there I was in a very low and dark moment in my life, so I started making my life revolve around my teaching job, you can defo see that on my post from that time. I wanted to look as if teaching was my passion and the most important thing in my life, I wanted to sound like a super inspirational teacher or something, LOL. And to be honest? It has never been my passion. Don't get me wrong, I do like it a lot and enjoy what I do, I love my students but, it is a job for me. I know some people say that your job and the things you're passionate about should come togehter; I think whoever gets to do that, is very lucky!

I decided to quit that job, my first official job, but at that point I couldn't stand the environment there and I knew I needed a change. That same year I went to Spain for a couple of months and it felt like a reset in a way. Did it change everything for me? Not really. But I came back more motivated to change things in my life. 

I was lucky enough to find a new teaching job almost right away, this time at a new elementary school I had eyeballed before. The idea of working with older kids was terrifying but a bigger school felt like a good upgrade. At that same time I also started working at a language center, the same one I'm currently working at. And that's when I started having 2 jobs, haha.

I worked there for a couple of years until it got ugly, I had one of the worst bosses there and in a way, indirectly, she pushed me to quit. I met great people there and my cconfidence working with older students grew. Working at the language center helped a lot too cuz I had the chance to start working with teens and even adults, which I liked a lot more. 

Now that I'm writing this, I think I've been very lucky when it comes to finding jobs, cuz as soon as I quit there, the school where my mom was working at needed an English teacher and, I took it. It was only for a couple of months really cuz I joined almost in the middle of the school year. It was a Montessori school, and even if it was for a short period of time, I hated it. Plus they had a lot of money problems, super rude kids and no control... it was bad.

Before that school year ended, the pandemic started and as soon as I was done with Montessori, I started working at this project from another private school to go to different houses and work with small groups during the pandemic so they could take presential clases. It sounds crazy now that I think about it but it went pretty well, it kept me busy and with good money throughout the madness of what was going on. Even tho we did have some special parents, and not everything was nice and easy, I can tell it's one of my favorite working experiences so far. It was exhausting, and I was always running because of my other job but, I really enjoyed it.

After the pandemic, the same people who started that home-school project, decided to open a new school and took me with them, haha. It was a big elementary school, on the other side of the city but, I was excited. The team was a great one, we really worked pretty well together and I especially loved the English team, we had a great coordinator and we all became close. But they had lots of issues with the management, money and payments. After 2 years, I decided to quit because of many reasons, money being one of the main ones.

 I was just no longer motivated, I was tired of always having to give my 1000% but having to put up with delayed payments, sacrificing my free time because they wanted us to work on some weekends, go to this courses with no pay on our vacations or spend hours in a meeting after working hours. And I know training is important but, it wasn't even useful for us English teachers. It was all about giving, giving, giving and not receiving anything in return. Plus some students were super difficult and, so were the parents. We didn't have the support we should've had.

And that was when I just knew I didn't want to work for a school anymore. Quitting was scary this time because I had a house and other responsibilities now but things went pretty well since I kept my teaching job at the language center and started focusing a lot more on it and taking more and more classes. I didn't really talk about the language center that much because I am actually happy there and I wanted to focus this post more on the school part. I can say than my current boss is a great, supportive one. I've known her for years now and she is someone I can actually learn a lot from, I'm happy where I am right now. I get to choose (most) of the groups I wanna work with and I also have time for myself. 

I think after quitting, my stress levels decreased a lot, I was able to start focusing on just 1 teaching job and give my 100% there, I am no longer running all the time and I actually have time for myself since I works from homee a couple of day a week. I'm not expected to work extra hours with no pay and being available 24/7 and, I don't have to put up with toxic bosses and unrealistic expectations from them.

It's funny but, I also feel that I'm not even that worried about money now that I have just one job. I'm motivated again and I enjoy what I do. I realized planning events and festivals for younger kids it's just not my thing anymore. Some people think teaching jobs are easy and well paid, let me tell you it is not true. At least in most cases. It's physically and mentally exhausted and you end up working a lot more than just your "working hours."

But, do I miss something about working at private schools? If I'm completely honest, just the ton of presents I used to receive during Holidays and special days.😜I think quitting was a very good decision that I don't regret making and I don't think that'll change in a while.

This chit chat ended up being way longer than I thought it'd be, sorry about that, sometimes I feel extra chatty. I bet some things are all over the place and I don't even know if I kept the main idea of this post in the end but, thank you if you read til the end, haha.

I'll see you next time~!💋

Spooky Haul 🧛

Is anyone surprised that we have another spooky haul? Haha. I keep getting small stuff I wanna share around here so, we're doing it. This time I'm including something I got for my furry babies too and, of course, more bat stuff. 

Then again, most things are from Temu, I'll include the store with the items that aren't.

First we have this fun Child's Play magnet from tattu. For some reason, Chucky has become one of my favorite horror characters so, I knew I had to get it. 

This was one of the things I was the most excited about: Bloody knives / sharp weapons whatever you wanna call them, toys for the cats. They have catnip inside so they are extra attractive for the kitties. The set came with 4, my babies kept 2 and gave the other 2 to their furry cousins. I know I'm gonna buy more in the future.

Killer cats! 🗡

I saw a youtuber I follow wearing similar sunnies and I was obsessed, I wanted them! I was super happy when I found them online. These bat sunglasses could've been a hit or miss cuz I wasn't sure if I was going to look good wearing them. I call them my Lydia Deetz sunnies cuz I feel it's something she'd defo wear. 

And since I got the sunnies, I had to get a case. It's barely big enough for them, but it's ok. If they didn't fit, I was planning to us them for my regular glasses. It is a soft case tho, thick but soft. Love the ink and black combo.

I thought this sign would be a funny thing to add to my bathroom. It's made of thin wood and it's not too big really, about 10x20cm. I just love it way too much! It could've been part of the Witchy Haul I shared last week now that I think about it...

And to finish this haul, we have some bat nails. I thought the design was really pretty and they aren't exactly Halloween nails so I can wear them anytime. They are longer than I thought tho~

I promise this is the last haul this month, hehe. Can't promise anything for next month, especially with Fall and Halloween getting closer and closer. 

See you next time~!💋

Bat Glue-On Nails🦇

Excuse the cat hair, oops!

If you've been here for a while, you know I am glue-on nails queen. They are fun, convenient and cheap. And the cool thing about buying some online is that you can find spooky designs or seasonal ones all year round.

As I have mentiones before, I've been obsessing with bats lately, it is the year of the bat for me, haha. These do-it-yourself  nails are from Temu (surprise, surprise!) and I think they are really pretty and magical somehow.

This set comes with 24 long, almond shape nails, a small file and some some sticker glue kind of thing. It's nice that they actually came with some glue since others I've gotten for more well-known brands haven't but, I'm always more comfortable using liquid glue and keep the stickers around in case of emergencies, I usually carry one set in my bag.

The desing is really pretty but they do look "printed" when you look at them closely. Nothing too bad really. I love the fact that they have this nude, natural color along with the black and white details. Especially because they are on the longer side. At least longer than what I'm used to wear.

Closer look to the bats and the design in general.

I know the design is upside down here but I wanted to show you how the nails look on my hands, they look so long, haha. But I kinda really like it. It took me a while to get used to doing thing with these longer nails tho.

I like them a lot ❤

Something I noticed is that the design doesn't fade and the tips still look good after weeks of wearing them (Yeah, these have been on for a few weeks now, hehe) and that is something that has happened with more expensive nails in the past. 

Checking the other nails that were left, I was able to save another set for the future so, I might actually wait until October to wear them this time, hehe.

That's it for this post so, I'll see you next time~!! 💋