"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Feb 6th, 2007
1. I have hand sanitizer on my desk at work which smells just like a margarita. It was some sort of freebie, and I tend to drop out little beads of it on my desk, then push them around with an ink-pen cap until they evaporate, leaving just a little film of sanitizer scum. I […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 27th, 2007
1. The day after a day upon which I have worn nonstandard pants, I will continue reaching for a zipper where none is. For example, I have a couple of pair of home-made pants made from an old 1970s pattern which has a back zip. This particular cut is extremely flattering, so I buck up […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 25th, 2007
Mari Sandoz had left from there, had been away for quite some while before she wrote the books that put her on the literary map as a Nebraskan author. Something about being away from there makes you think about it more, appreciate it differently, makes it make sense when you meet other ex-pat Nebraskans and […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 22nd, 2007
Around this time of year, the cabin-fever sets in. People are wont to get a little kooooky. A little crazy around the edges. They start thinking whacky things. Like, “What if I took an old, shitty bicycle, threw away the wheels, and bolted on some skiis in their places?” Lo, the Ski-bike was created, and […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 17th, 2007
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frQrarGkRHM] a Japanese girl group, Petty Booka covering “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini.”
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 16th, 2007
I'm splitting this up into enumerated blocks because I can't comeup with any sort of useful narrative structure, but I have two things I wanted to post about. 1. I am wearing red canvas high-top sneakers today, in the style of Converse All*Stars, but union made, with a portion of the purchase price going to […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 16th, 2007
We finally got some actual, honest-to-goodness snow. Yay, snow. Unfortunately, I'm a dumbass, and left my fendered bike over at Joel's house, because we're going to work on it later this week. This means that I get to test out my snowpants today on my fenderless mountain bike. I rode the mtb on Saturday when […]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on Jan 15th, 2007
I am still sewing like a madwoman. Today’s count includes half of a suit jacket and most of a skirt (waistband and hem pending) The half finished jacket, with the skirt I started yesterday (no, I haven’t finished stitching down the appliques yet…I wanted to test out this jacket pattern, because it is an experiment). […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Imports from old blogs, Sewing on Jan 13th, 2007
More photos and detailed images can be found here. I totally lost interest in the other suit I was making, so it sits on my modern dummy, mocking me. The skirt is lined, but not hemmed. The jacket lining is halfway put together but not installed, nor are the buttonholes and buttons done. I’m sick […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jan 12th, 2007
I bought too much fabric for my new helmet crest, so I used the extra to make a tutu. Why not, eh? I made a different, longer, fluffier, more bouffant, and browner tutu as part of my Fart Fairy halloween costume, so I used the principles learned then to construct this newest abomination. Observe: Obviously […]