"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Hair issues, Holidailies 2012, meh, nostalgia, Photo entries on Dec 13th, 2012
Well, hell. I’m getting that mid-winter hairdo restlessness once again. Right now, my hair is just about jaw length. Basically, it is like this, but with bangs, and brown instead of red. This is an old picture, but I can’t be bothered to take a new one, so imagination will have to suffice. I am […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, bike commuting, Holidailies 2012, nostalgia, Sewing on Dec 6th, 2012
IMG_2718, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. Because I was working on this You may well ask what in the name of heck it is, and I will answer that question right away. It should be, with a bit of good fortune, a waistcoat made out of six neckties braided together. To make it, you […]
Posted in Delight, Kansas City, nostalgia, Ruby the Dog on Jul 8th, 2012
Day! I’ve been getting up with the crack of dawn voluntarily lately in an attempt to beat the heat. The dog needs her daily constitutional, and the garden needs to be watered. It’s been blazin’ assed hot lately and there’s no way I could get the dog’s run done in the evening – by the […]
Posted in Fashion, Fashion/Sewing stuff, nostalgia, Sewing on Jul 7th, 2012
As far as I’m concerned, this is pretty much a perfect outfit. DVF-style wraparound dress, big-ass brass cuff bracelet, tri-tone (brass/copper/stainless) earrings, black-patent wedge sandals, red nails. I’ve been really into this sort of 1970s glam thing lately and have a hard time making myself wear anything that isn’t a wrap-around dress and wedge-sole shoes. […]
In my junior year of highschool, a neighbor lady recruited my sister and I to play Easter Bunny to her three kids. The set-up was simple. She left the key under the mat, bags of candies in the cupboard, and took the kids in to town for Easter service at church and brunch with Grandma. […]
Posted in Delight, Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Take A Look At This on Nov 10th, 2011
I was thinking about the Victorian & Albert Museum earlier, and especially about a particular section of the costume collection: the Heather Firbank dresses. She was of a well-to-do family and was quite fashionable and chic in her day. For example, this is a mourning dress. An extremely stylish, even kind of sexy mourning dress. […]
Posted in Fashion, NaBloPoMo 2011, nostalgia, Shopping on Nov 3rd, 2011
Once upon a time, I owned the most awesome, perfect, kick-assedy boots that ever kicked ass. They were fuckin’ rad, and I wore the everloving crap out of them. My classmates at school thought they were awful, and I took a lot of guff for my big stompy boots (oddly, during an era when it […]
Posted in Distractions, nostalgia on Jul 14th, 2011
Once when I was about 14, I guess, my family went to Hay Springs, NE for some errand. Hay Springs is a little, shabby town of no especial distinction. You can find towns of similar stature and countenance pretty much anywhere in the central United States. Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, South Dakota, Ohio, Minnesota, Illinois…you […]
Posted in dumb things I have done, nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Jan 7th, 2011
I’m given to understand that pica, the compulsion to eat non-food items, is fairly common in children. Sometimes it is a symptom of a dietary deficiency, but sometimes it falls into a very broad category I like to call, “little kids are inscrutable little weirdos.” I should know. I was an enthusiastic little weirdo myself […]
Posted in nostalgia, Utter Silliness on Jan 6th, 2011
I distinctly remember the point in my life at which I became aware of the concept of “free time.” It was in the first grade. I’d taken to school with a typical childish exuberance. You got to be amongst other kids, eat as much paste as you could snaffle unnoticed, and learn stuff. Somehow, the […]