"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in dumb things I have done, Oh, for fuck's sake, Up The Pole on Apr 27th, 2013
Yesterday, for an entire day, I wore my trousers backwards. As in Ass-to-the-Front. Unintentionally. I am not now, nor have I ever been a member of Chris-Kross. I just, apparently, have forgotten how to put my clothes on. Seriously, I go pee like 47 times a day, and I never noticed my britches were on […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Notions and Rants, Oh, for fuck's sake, Super-Short Entries, Up The Pole, Utter Silliness, Weird as Hell on Apr 26th, 2013
Comes away with: In order to re-charge the Baby, make sure that the charging equipment is plugged in firmly. Failure to ensure a proper junction between charging equipment and docking station can lead to insufficient charging and damage to charging equipment.
Posted in dumb things I have done, Food & Snacks, Up The Pole, Weird as Hell on Apr 18th, 2013
Ahem. One day you may be very hungry, awash with strange hormones, and absentmindedly considering what in the cupboard you could eat at the moment. In that moment, do not get any blinding brain flashes which lead you to concoct a beetroot smoothie. It will not be nice. It will not be good. You will […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Sewing, Up The Pole on Mar 13th, 2013
Yesterday, I was grousing on Facebook about having an episode of numptiness wherein I assembled the sections of a shaped waistband upside-down and stitched them to the bodice that way, then wondered why the waistband looked like the top of a tent. So, this morning I sat down, fixed the cursed waistband, re-installed it, did […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia on Mar 7th, 2013
(NB: This is expanded from a comment I left at Fussy.org) Look at this kid? Does she look to you like a young’n whose métier is selling crap, or does she look like a kid who’d slink off to one or another of several semi-secret hideaways and draw paper dolls or read Little House Books? […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Sewing, Up The Pole on Feb 24th, 2013
Well, I made a bit more maternity-appropriate clothing in the past week or so. The following dress was made up from some fabric that is so pretty I may well wear it even after the baby is born. The pattern is Simplicity 5034 from 1973. With sleeves ganked from another pattern contemporary to it, as […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, dumb things I have done, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Dec 30th, 2012
“I wish the diapers came with poop already on them..” Said no parent, EVER. So, of course, I had to make one! Apologies for the doody sloping downhill – I should have pinned it rather than free-hand stitched it in place. Then again, how anal do you really want to get about something that’s only […]
Posted in Costumes and disguises, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Fashion, Holidailies 2012, Utter Silliness, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 22nd, 2012
This dress. I own it. I have worn it in public. I found it in an enormous trash heap under a bridge in the West Bottoms. I think that pretty much says it all. Oh, not quite. Actually, I have another, worse dress, but in order to spin out this Holidailies thing, you have to […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Holidailies 2012, Kansas City, Other Bike Stuff, Party, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Dec 3rd, 2012
I’ve been just rotten with the follow-through on this blog. Seriously. Couple of days ago I promised to rant about meditation, and there was something else I planned to write about and forgot to. Anyway, since I’ve got a lot of writing ahead of me, and my ideas have been a little thin on the […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, dumb things I have done, Dumpster Diving, Utter Silliness on Oct 7th, 2012
Some vehicles were built for beauty: the Jade Idol, for example. Others were built for speed. The legendary and record-setting Bluebird was a byword for speed. Yet others, like the Pierson Brothers’ iconic ’34 Ford dry-lakes racer, managed to marry both beauty and speed. Then again, there are some that manage to bring you neither: […]