"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Delight, Fashion, Holidailies 2012, Photo entries, Take A Look At This, Well I'll Be Darned on Dec 5th, 2012
Thanks to the kindness and generosity of Ms. Jacquie, I am now in possession of a mysterious Jacques Fath suit which probably dates to the early or middle 1950s. I make this estimate because Fath went out of business in ’57 and didn’t have a US-based boutique until after WWII. As you can see, the […]
Posted in Holidailies 2012, Imports from old blogs, Photo entries, Super-Short Entries on Dec 4th, 2012
Before. Progress continues over at my mother-in-law’s house. Pretty soon we’ll be able to begin on re-configuring it. I’ll try to find my grid paper and draw out the original configuration of the house, how it was before I began demolition, and how it will be when it is done. But for now, feel free […]
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 bike commuting, Gratuitous Cussing, grumbles gripes and pointless bitching, Kansas City, meh, Notions and Rants, Photo entries on Jul 18th, 2012
Let’s just clear the air and start with “animosity,” since alphabeticaly it’s the first, and it will be the predominant theme of this entry anyway. I feel a lot of damn animosity toward taggers, especially those who just scrawl gang tags, names, or slogans all over the place. And I double-hate stencillers, especially those who […]
Posted in Adventures, Art Projects & Making Things, Delight, Distractions, Dumpster Diving, Kansas City, Party, Photo entries, Trashboat Shenanigans, Trek 800, Utter Silliness on Jul 15th, 2012
Saturday, July 14, 2012, I was up and at ’em at the crack of 7:00 a.m. By golly, I had shit to do, and a finite amount of time in which to do it. I had provisions to lay in, prizes to prepare, and most importantly, I needed to go scavenge up a few more […]
Posted in Art Projects & Making Things, Home Improvements, Photo entries, Ruby the Dog on Jan 2nd, 2012
What you see before you is my “new” stove, a 1950s-era Magic Chef gas range and oven which pretty much outclasses everything else currently residing in my kitchen. Never mind you that the new stove is currently residing on the back porch. It’s in good company. It’s got a disconnected Swedish woodstove and a mysteriously […]
Posted in Fashion/Sewing stuff, Photo entries, Sewing on Dec 18th, 2011
I made a new dress today – it didn’t pan out quite as well as one might have hoped, and it is, of course, my fault, as I did a piss-poor job of matching fabric to pattern design. I’d bought this fabric with an eye to using it with McCall’s M5974, which is a pattern […]
Posted in Photo entries, Sewing on Dec 3rd, 2011
Never let it be said that I am a wasteful woman. From 1.5 yards of 60″ wide woolen jersey, I wrought: 1. One 3/4 sleeved pullover top. 2. One lace-trimmed tank-top/camisole. 3. A sports-bra. All for under $40.
Posted in Kansas City, NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries on Nov 15th, 2011
Kansas City(s) (both of them) are river cities, though much less so than many other river cities. KC hasn’t embraced the riverfront; most of the levies are closed to public access, and the riverfront parks that do exist have traditionally been woefully underutilized. Nonetheless, KC is a river city, and the river plays significant roles […]
Posted in NaBloPoMo 2011, Photo entries, Urban Photo Highlight Rides on Nov 14th, 2011
IMG_0148, a photo by Meetzorp on Flickr. This fire escape is on the back of the old Advance/Rumely building in the West Bottoms. The link above is to a photograph of this same alley in 1951, after the big flood. And this is the same alley as of last year’s haunted house season. I was […]