Picked this up last night: Marion Peck's I Cari Estinti (The Dearly Departed). Sentimental portraits of small children and pets.
You can picture how fast my little legs took me to the check out counter at the downtown Berkeley comic shop. Weeeeeeeeeeeeee! The little girl above is how I picture Imogen. Just perfectly. I even have a wig similar. Sigh. I lurves her so much!
Marion Peck favorites: Hair, Divine Swine, and The Happy Captain!
I just bought this sweater. Because it looks like the Musedoll.com collection and now I can dress like my dollies.
Stab me now. *falls over dead*
Teehee. Regarding this post.
I'm the luckiest girl in the world! The very nice technician doing my eye tests asked if I liked vintage frames, since they had unearthed a couple boxes in the storage rooms, all in their original plastics and entirely virgin.
Zounds! Says I.
Low and behold, they pull out a tray of very lovely vintage frames, some with shiney stones, some without. I ask them how much they are, since the price will greatly effect my decision making, and my insurance will only cover the first $100. He says, what the lady wants methinks the lady should have. Does a little fake math, proclaims them covered, and the frames are FREE to me. So I picked out a lovely pair of rootbeer frames with pearl & opalescent rhinestone accents, very much in a similar shape to my current pair and AM HAPPY.
So happy I could peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Going to get my prescription updated for the first time in 2.5 years. I need it! But my glasses... wah. I've been wearing this same pair for SEVEN YEARS. They're vintage and technically holding up really well. The hinges and rhinestones are all intact... but the old style plastic has turned all frosty on the arms and nose bridge on the inside. We've tried everything to restore. But they look embarrassing when you take them off.
So I'm thinking it is time to retire them. Sigh. I have a pair of Oliver Peebles that I barely wore that I might go back to. Get my monies worth out of them. But it is like cutting off my hair... will I still be me? Duh, of course, but... different. Bleh.
I skeered.
edit: also, vote! go vote or I will stab you. I'm so serious.
...as the glamour-pusses of my inner circle are used to call it. The Velvet Season is begun.
Move over Torrid. Lane Bryant has got their legions of leetle sweat shop women pointed right at you, and they have far superior quality too.
Woot! Finally... Lane Bryant announces it is adding a Juniors dept.: LBMix. I'd noticed some rather young prints the past few months. Not that they appealed to me much, but it is a nice turn! Hopefully they'll get rid of some of the GOLD shiney silkscreen though. *squidgy face*
I wrote in their feedback form: "yay" and "more casual dresses with SLEEVES, please!"
However I really like these:
Polky dots!
one of these cute Blythe bags!?!?! You'll have to scroll down on that link. Please someone give me the scoop. *runs off to yjp* I'm desperate for a new purse. The floppy cheapo target bag I bought last week JUST ISN'T DOIN' IT FOR ME. I need the cute, the functional, the versatile.
Also, I am pining for a skinny white dollstown body. I love the fairy body! but at 53cm (w/ head) I think she'd be too small for Ginevra, who has a large noggin. Huge, really.
Where's my chriseunusosomanais!?!?!?
Also, Cola gave me a Vox invite (it's in beta). As nifty as it is it makes me jump up and down and clench my leetle feeests. Why don't they just update livejournal!?!? Why don't they allow cross posting from MT (they do from typepad)??? I love having my homepage website blog, I love MT, I love the community of livejournal. Can't I have all that??? Will I get stabbed for all the !?!?!?!?!?!
I've spent the past bloody week trying to get Media Manager (amazon plugin) to work on MT 3.3 and have failed, failed, failed. Vox has it all plugged right in. I want booklists and galleries. DAMNINT. Why can't I have all that with the flexability of an independent installation. And don't none of you mention wordpress, that is not a proper answer. Rawr.
I'm "blastmilk" if anyone wants to add me. Hahahah. Cranky pants.
Take the Blastmilk Tour! Kinda fun, I could get lost in there.
I found DeeDee Ramone's guitar pick in my jewelry box the other day. It has made me... melancholic. I picked it up off the stage at Berkeley Square in '83 or '84. Perhaps the same concert as the ticket in my scrapbook.
And to make matters even more poignant, R.I.P. Cody's Books. Oh, how my formative years have slipped away...
I looked up a past acquaintance. He was the suave King of New Wave in Berkeley circa 1984, after being the Prince of Punk Rock a few years previous. Once I shocked him by appearing in public without make-up (at 16 I wore a lot, a la crazy new wave influences). Startled, he suavely blurted "Oh my god. You're ugly!" I wasn't and I'm not, but it is amazing how these things STICK in your head. I saw him again ten years later, it was laundry day and I was in these huge awful pants and my hair was unkempt (so what else is new?). He was in fucking birkenstocks and I still wanted to crawl in a pit of shame and die. In any case, it looks like he's written a book about his young Berkeley Punk Rock exploits, pdf on Lulu.com. Mr. Sunshine is all hearts and flowers now. Irony! Sigh. Oh, the assholery of youth. How thou doth scar.
I'm 37. Imagine the meandering mind at 86! Guh!
It is all Mythosidhe's fault. But holy cow! Tonner is determined to win me over to the dark side. First with their Alice line which I am still resisting reluctantly... but this... THIS! I don't think I can resist.
The Elves.
Mrs. Claus Basic and one of her outfits. Squee, veritably. I love her face actually. Which is a first for me and Tonner. Aieeee! I just noticed she's on the Emme "plus sized" body! Hardly pudgy, just more girl-sized really. I love it. Emme has a fugly face, which makes me sad. Cuz it is a great idea. *bounce*
Which brings us to... their Cinderella series! Hortencia is also using the plus sized body. She's lovely, but the series doesn't impress me as a whole like I feel it should. I like the stand alone outfits though:
My mother in law is in for the Mother's Day weekend from Michigan. Best excuse evah for dumb tourist tricks and downtown shopping. So I dun headed over to the Old Navy website.
Some cute:
Took the day off today. Finished production on yet another iteration of the corporate website and I'm totally beat. I had to work through some pain and illness so I was pretty ill tempered at work. Just hoping it didn't show too much :p
my fat ass is all over Haute Doll. HAHAHAHAHA!
*falls over*
I'm all aflutter. I'm about to spend a lot of money... on myself! Lane Bryant has a spring line called "la Belle Epoque." And while I've never gone in for taupe before (eeep!) these are so awesome! And usually of the style that only tiny Anthropologie girls can wear.
So meet my new *cough* interview *cough* suit.
Dude. Check out the detail on the skirt:
Um. More money than I've ever spent on an item of clothing I think, but I have a phat coupon that should ease the pain quite a bit.
