This past weekend, Lady Gaga got into the holiday spirit with a reindeer hat, her trademark fishnets and a see-through rubber coat-dress to have drinks at London’s Mayfair Hotel.
Strange? Yes. Shocking? No.
Much stranger are the necklaces at Miller Park Zoo’s ZOOtique gift shop. They’re made with reindeer dung!
Each “Gem,” as the Bloomington, Illinois zoo refers to the droppings, is dehydrated, sanitized and painted—and it’s developed with a tale from retired zoo superintendent John Tobias. It’s a pretty cute story:
John’s grandmother use to gather her grandchildren and take them outside on Christmas Eve to scatter homemade chocolate chips. She would tell the children that the chips would attract Santa and his reindeer to their home, because the reindeer would know that other reindeer had already visited and left droppings…
I just don’t know how I feel about wearing feces around my neck.
I much prefer wearing a beaded reindeer on my chest. The J. Crew reindeer tee is sold out online, but I saw a bunch when I was at the San Diego store last weekend. Now I regret not buying one.
Patience is something I always have to work on. Standing in lines absolutely kills me. So spending 3½ hours on Sunset Boulevard waiting to get into H&M isn’t exactly my ideal Saturday morning. I don’t know what came over me yesterday when I decided I had to shop the Jimmy Choo for H&M collection. But the longer I waited, the harder it was to give up and leave. Little did I know that the wait at the registers was just as long as the line had been outside.
Once my friend and I made it in, the gray booties I wanted were gone, as was the diamond bracelet set. But after wasting my entire Saturday morning, I was not going to leave empty-handed. I found these patent sandals in my size. They’re not the most comfortable things in the world but at $129 I’ll deal. I also picked up the chain crystal necklace, which I didn’t even like at first but ended 
