"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Fashion on Feb 25th, 2009
My fashion sense…it’s sufferin’! I’ve got this habit, probably formed in childhood, of not wearing nice clothes at home. When my sister and I were kids, when we got home from school, we changed into our “play clothes.” Usually it was old jeans too shabby for school, sweats, or some other oddments of attire that […]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing, Utter Silliness on Feb 13th, 2009
Well, I had a couple of really, really nice surprises this morning. #1 is that Joel thought today was Valentines Day, so I got a lovely treat of LUSH goodies a day early. I’ve now got a selection of lovely soaps (ice blue, sexy peel and yay! karma) and a fab shower gel called Flying […]
Posted in Fashion on Feb 11th, 2009
Talk about totally random. I’m going to write about this ancient-history shirt that is probably one of my favorite items of clothing (and that’s saying a lot, because I have kind of a rota of faves that get more or less play depending on season, mood, and occasion). Anyway, this top…well, it wasn’t mine to […]
Posted in bike commuting, Fashion, Playing With Weather on Jan 15th, 2009
typical cold-weather gear, originally uploaded by Meetzorp. My cold-weather biking gear has gotten a little more sophisticated since my early days of year-round riding, though it is still quite a hodge-podge of thrifted clothing, cycling-specific clothing, and whatever the heck else I can pile on. At least I no longer wear the goggles or the […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Oh, for fuck's sake, Sewing on Dec 20th, 2008
So…I started making this suit on May 30, 2006. That’s when I started cutting it out. I bought the fabric sometime in late ’05, I think. I finished it, down to the last button this afternoon. Is that ridiculous or what? There we are WAAAAY back then, after laying out and pinning down, the cutting […]
Posted in Fashion, Hair issues on Sep 15th, 2008
You know…now that I’ve almost recovered from my last disastrous hair experiment, I want to try having a perm. I know, I know…a perm? But I never had one back in the day, because back in the day I was ridiculously vain about my godawful ass-length hair and was afraid that a perm would wreck […]
Posted in 2008 Coast-to-Coast Adventure, Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Sewing on Sep 14th, 2008
Front! Back! Pockets! More pockets! More, more pockets! This is my second pair of pants for the cross-country trip. They’re a durable polyester blend, same as the other pair. They’re based on the same pattern, though I eliminated one set of pockets because the other pair fits a little bunchy with that much fabric across […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, Fashion, Recommendations on Sep 2nd, 2008
A while back, I realised that I no longer owned any mascara, and I wanted some. I knew that MAC cosmetics doesn’t do animal testing and that they had a shop that was within reasonable cycling distance and is situated smack in the midst of the Plaza, some of Kansas City’s most supreme people-watchin’ turf. […]
Posted in Fashion, Photo entries, Utter Silliness on Aug 24th, 2008
I remembered I own the PERFECT dress for our “hippie wedding.” This is basically my favorite dress that was ever made. I’ve thought this dress was beyond awesome for many, many years. I used to wear it in highschool to gross out the more fashion conscious girls who did not wear orange polyester, thank you! […]
Posted in Fashion, nostalgia, Photo entries on Jun 27th, 2008
One of the “new” tops I bought for myself last weekend is one that I bought because it reminded me of a sweatshirt I had when I was a kid. Initially, I HATED that sweatshirt as hard as a 9-year-old could ever hate an item of clothing. Mom made me wear it to school one […]