| fashion schmasion |
[24 Aug 2006|05:04pm] |
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Oh the upkeep. Instead of skimming fashion blogs, which right here and now I vow never ever to do again,I just watched a bunch of inspiring Tom Waits clips on YOUTUBE. I imagine the house where his muse settles in smelling stuffy, of daily fried bacon and friendly old dogs, just the wise dank essence most style/design blogs try so hard to eradicate. The truth is, my life, probably the majority of hard worked honest lives, are lived dodging(oh it can wait til morning) & repeatedly cleaning up the piss puddles of old beloved house pets that you cant stop loving just because they’ve become inconveniently IKEA contrary. Listen kids, and remember this, let's all try real hard not to compare our insides to someone else’s trendy gadget blog.
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| dog days 2 |
[15 Aug 2006|08:53pm] |
What Ive been doing to lubricate the long, claustrophobic days of summer….
**Watching re-runs of That 70’s Show**
**Volunteering at the Chamblee High Library as a master laminator**
**Visiting childhood giants**
**Nursing my little dog Jacky , she had a bout of AIHA but is on the mend!**
**Eating lime popcicles**
**Making a winters worth of pesto from our bustling basil patch**
**Drinking gobs of icy Big K lemon-lime seltzer**
**Mainlining IFC and Sundance Channel**
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| dog days 1 |
[14 Jul 2006|08:36pm] |
Summer is not my best season, me being a snowflake and all. Inspiration seems to be taking a nap under a shady tree far, far away. So today I resumed my alphabetical search for the muse with the letter B. Bouffant was the first word that came to me and then Cameo. Through a logic process I will NOT attempt to explain (and chance) this is what my search unearthed, Victorian mourning jewelry made with human hair.
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| cake party |
[29 Jun 2006|12:43am] |
It's not my birthday, but I love this card. It's written in Spanish and plays a song when you open it.
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| tattle, 2 |
[23 Jun 2006|02:43pm] |
I have A LOT of guilty pleasures but Oprah is definitely not one of them. I just found this paperback while I was vacuuming. Looks like I clumsily tried to draw a swastika over the Oprah Book Club seal. It’s not drafted very well. Dropping out of art school must have been a mistake.
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| tattle |
[23 Jun 2006|01:08am] |
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I have things in a shop that has a more conservative clientele than is ideal for selling my reclaimed ragamuffin, occasionally exquisite wares. I find myself tonight trying to worry my muse into designing for them. This is wrong and not working out well at all. So there, I’ve just told on myself before the whole world which hopefully will nip that poo in the bud. The ladies atop the impressive skyscraper will just have to deal with me as I am (edit: Oprah hater and all!)…=)
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| bummin', but i'll survive.... |
[21 Jun 2006|02:13pm] |
I'm bummin now that I've just realized that the Beehive sponsored arts event I'm participating in on July 6 is NOT in the blue dome atop this building:
This was the tallest most modern skyscraper downtown when I was a girl and I have never actually been up there. All that blue glass as the restaurant spins slowly and you eat your shrimp cocktail!Thinking of being a big shot craft seller up there was a dream come true!! It turns out the event is really in one of the new skyscrapers(purple arrow) that so rudley dwarf my beloved Polaris Restaurant & Lounge(pink arrow). Oh,bother....
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[21 Jun 2006|11:51am] |
What I’m thinking about this morning…
And apparently I’m not alone. Searching the web I found many reflections on what is called “the great sign”, a legendary American marketing icon. This is how it is etched in my memory, thru sleepy eyes, in 1974, slightly carsick in the back seat of my moms Chevy Nova:
The last time I stayed in a Holiday Inn, 5 years ago, is a gross, gross memory. We were driving back from Utah, through St Louis and had been looking for somewhere to stay for hours. The Little League Championships were going on and places were booked endlessly in both directions. 90 minutes past St Louis we found a high rise Holiday Inn with a couple of (expensive) rooms left. It reeked of mold, like it had been recently flooded. I could not bare to breathe thru my nose so I breathed thru my mouth which made my mouth taste like mold!!!
Still, even the brief glimpse I get of the homogenized, updated version of "the great sign" driving back from having dropped my husband off at the airport is enough to soothe me and relax the hackles provoked by whatever episode of modern chaos is currently fucking with my serenity.
"Holiday Inn's sign was a prop in a play," says Andrew Moore, professor of communication studies at San Jose State University and an authority on motel history. "It communicated the playfulness, fantasy and optimism of the American roadside. And it meant safety for the [traveling] middle class."
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| best feedback ever! |
[14 Jun 2006|12:30pm] |
A very valued customer, Shari, sent this to me. It's a charm with a picture of my beloved Angel who passed away last year. She recently lost her doggy Scooter and had written me that my tops had been part of her "retail therapy" and that she wanted to send me a token of appriciation. What a good lady!
Now I'm gonna show a glimpse of the un-cynical half of my ass. Above is a thrift store painting that hangs over my bed. I imagine that there is a hobo camp in these woods where every creature who I've ever loved that has died hangs out and parties on hotdogs and whiskey and Little Debbies. Ha! the price is still marked on the glass! Party in peace: Scooter, Angel, Pepper, Big Daddy, Benjamin, Todd, Deacon....
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[13 Jun 2006|02:14pm] |
I did my first real live Indie Craft event last Saturday. It lasted eight hours and I was afraid the time would drag but it did NOT. I got me a folding butterfly chair and a little cooler full of Diet Cherry Coke at the CVS and hunkered down. People told me I would meet many cool designers and those people were right! But rather than cleverly embed their links in this paragraph I’m just going to list links below, ok? It was hosted by I.C.E. Collective (Indie Craft Experience) and the MC of the fashion show was Mr. Extreme Craft himself, Garth Johnson, who’s intermission slide show of extreme knitted cozies (which included a motorcycle cozy and a missle cozy) confused some of the parents and yuppies in the house yet delighted me. Faythe from Paper Boat Boutique in Milwaukee was there filming for her Indie Craft Documentary. The volunteer models were paid in free champagne, oops! Fun was had in spades…
Faythe from Paper Boat Boutique
Shannon from Revamp
My sisters from the Beehive….
Shelley from Relic Boutique
Katresia from Olive
...way cool this and that...
Youngblood Gallery
Sweet Kellie from Peppermint.net
Mary from Pear Threads
Freaky Extreme Craft Boy Garth
I'll add more as they free themselves from the blur..
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| pint sized hipster patchwork on eBay! |
[13 Jun 2006|02:34am] |
on eBay now!
Little Lila wearing the first ever Snowflake66 Kids top to make it's way into the BIG WIDE WORLD.
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[06 Jun 2006|11:32pm] |
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I’m thinking I’m way too stingy with my stray thoughts. Pathologically private. I read many a blog, daily, yet never write in mine. Right now the bulk of my design influences are gathered in a great tangle rolling around in my head (and on my sewing room floor). No sketch book. Barely documentation of the things I finish and send out the door. I’m vowing NOW to corral and articulate, or at least post in picture form that which inspires me. I’m gonna start with A and hope she will kick start some kind of cascade. Apples. Candy apples. I use lots of vintage buttons that are dark in color yet have a lacquered opalescence, like the coating on a candy apple.
Also, I'm way inspired by the washed out technicolor palate of 1970's snapshots.
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| .....buzzzzzzz.... |
[23 Jan 2006|02:42pm] |
Saturday afternoon I was having a burger and a diet coke alone at a bar near where my husband had An Appointment and ran into a girl I had not really seen in lots of years and she was kind of harassing me about why I didn’t write dark incest-porn art stories anymore like I did when I was in my twenties and very lost. I told her I was sewing now and she let off a huge frown, as if to let me know that sewing is considered not very IMPORTANT. I pretty much just ending up saying, if it’s any consolation, I’m happy. I had an awesome appointment with Petra Geiger today at Beehive Co-op and come Feb. 1st will be selling items at her shop, as well as working a 4 hour shift on Monday mornings. She and a couple of other designers I met this morning were very encouraging and I left with a big ole buzz (Beehive hahaha!)…..So, if you decide to leave the house chances are 50/50 something affirming will happen and about 90/10 that something informative will.
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[20 Jan 2006|08:21pm] |
...everyone says so!.....
- During World War II, Americans tried to train snowflake66 to drop bombs.
- A sixteenth century mathematician lost his nose in a duel over his love for snowflake66, and wore a silver replacement for the rest of his life.
- Four-fifths of the surface of snowflake66 is covered in water!
- Some hotels in Las Vegas have snowflake66 floating in their swimming pools.
- American Airlines saved forty thousand dollars a year by eliminating snowflake66 from each salad served in first class.
- It's bad luck for a flag to touch snowflake66.
- The National Heart Foundation recommends eating snowflake66 at least three times a week!
- Without snowflake66, we would have to pollinate apple trees by hand.
- All shrimp are born as snowflake66, but gradually mature into females!
- Marie Antoinette never said 'let them eat cake' - this is a mistranslation of 'let them eat snowflake66'.
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[19 Jan 2006|12:31pm] |
...oh, how i <3 dqe......
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[18 Jan 2006|05:36pm] |
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I can be a lady of very few words and I'd like to update more often so let me be known as a lady of a many pictures. I saw an awesome show on TV called Pastry Daredevils that lead me to an epic online blown sugar search that sadly only turned up one deserving pic....
....but that happily paved the way to my new www.CakeCentral.com membership where I now have unlimited access to homemade cake porn...
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| ...coming soon |
[27 Nov 2005|06:13am] |
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