Thursday, July 30, 2009

pie in the face

before m's little one moved away to kentucky there
was a list of things he and m decided to
do before he left. one was to live his
dream of a pie fight. i was lucky enough
to stay behind the camera:


pie in the face

m's surprise 40th birthday backyard bash

before m's little one was swept away to move to kentucky,
he and i threw m a 40th birthday surprise backyard bash:

m's surprise 40th backyard party

m's surprise 40th backyard party

m's surprise 40th backyard party

m's surprise 40th backyard party


we snuck off to the dollar tree for decorations
and snacks. taco bell burritos. we threw it
together and sent m an invitation. when - now,
time - now, where - back yard. goodie bags,
too.

softspoken baby baby scarf in vanilla cream

softspoken baby baby scarf

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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

freudian slips

remember these? well, they're back!


freudian slips!

freudian slips!


how i wish that wig were my true hair.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2009

baby ripple

baby ripple

started a blanket today for my nephew on the way.

Sunday, July 26, 2009

bowling

bowling alley tales



and these, too

white boots

white boots

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new! vintage in shop

it's been quite a bit since i've added vintage
to the shop which is a shame since there're so
many piles of it lying around. these shoes
are in the shop tonight:

purple suede

purple suede

purple suede

purple suede

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little house : behind the scenes

i loved little house so much and read all of the
books with my mom and even the others that weren't
sold inside the boxed set and the ones written by
rose, too. once on family vacation my parents went
out of the way to take me to tour laura and almanzo's
home in missouri where all the books were written.

ontheset

dressrm

little house


laura and nellie flickr

laura nellie

nellie trailer

nellie and mrs olsen

sibs

bighouse


mostly found on the hallmark channel forums and alison angrims site.

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

worn - july 22, 2009

july 22, 2009

zip up top - goodwill by the lb
tank - f21
cropped jeans - guess
shoes - payless
necklace - trade w/ mozui.etsy.com

new! softspoken flannel totes

softspoken flannel tote

softspoken flannel tote

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Tuesday, July 21, 2009

worn - july 21, 2009

july 21, 2009

this dress always reminds me of klimt.

necklaces - goodys and walmart
dress - ebay
shoes - kmart
bangles - target

klimt

klimt

new! softspoken honeycomb beret in apricot

softspoken honeycomb beanie

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one last babble

i'm so tired, i've been up making these chain scarves which
are so tedious because every little thing has to be counted
over and over again so that everything's as even as it should
be. i have a lot of work to do this week and there are a lot
of turns and events to handle, too. we'll see. i got a letter
from the irs because i forgot a form. now i owe something like
$500+ more. great great great. back in the hole, chump.

Monday, July 20, 2009

worn - july 20, 2009

july 20, 2009

minidress - white house black market from when i once
worked there. it's too short to wear anywhere without
pants or tights, but at home it's like this.
necklace - goodys
shoes - target clearance, ages ago

new! softspoken open mouth scarf in crimson

softspoken open mouth scarf

frances helped me out by modeling some new items i've had
lying around, but were still unphotographed. she did
such a great job!

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Sunday, July 19, 2009

weekly exercise log - monday 7.7 to sunday 7.19

Mon.: 30 min walk at park w/ m

Tues: 1 hour walk at park w/ m

Fri: 30 min walk at park w/ m


Weekly Total: 2 hours

Friday, July 17, 2009

patchwork girl

patchwork girl

i lived there for a while but never saw her

virgin mary in alabama 2

when we were driving back from mississippi after
my last visit to my parents we stopped at an alabama
rest stop and i picked up this brochure about how
the virgin mary comes to alabama every july! awesome!

end

i searched when will the world end on google
and it said 2012. i'll be 31, but it'd make
more sense to end when i'm 30.

i'm just kidding
!

charlie saved this to our computer and it makes me laugh so much

glasses glove

what is the connection i don't know?!?

mjet

are poems on your blog still ok, where is livejournal.com?

Because you always have a clock
strapped to your body, it's natural
that I should think of you as the
correct time:
with your long blonde hair at 8: 03,
and your pulse-lightning breasts at
11: 17, and your rose-meow smile at 5: 30,
I know I'm right.

-The Shenevertakesherwatchoff Poem by Richard Brautigan

richard brautigan...

brautigan

i rarely think of you in color. is this you?

ok, maybe that one wasn't as good as i remembered, but this one...

I thought of killing myself because I am only a bricklayer
and you a woman who loves the man who runs a drug store.

I don’t care like I used to; I lay bricks straighter than I
used to and I sing slower handling the trowel afternoons.

When the sun is in my eyes and the ladders are shaky and the
mortar boards go wrong, I think of you.


Bricklayer Love
-Carl Sandburg

i always think of this sometimes... if you know what i mean

I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny
blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny
they are small, and the fountain is in France
where you wrote me that last letter and
I answered and never heard from you again.
you used to write insane poems about
ANGELS AND GOD, all in upper case, and you
knew famous artists and most of them
were your lovers, and I wrote back, it’s all right,
go ahead, enter their lives, I’m not jealous
because we’ve never met. we got close once in
New Orleans, one half block, but never met, never
touched. so you went with the famous and wrote
about the famous, and, of course, what you found out
is that the famous are worried about
their fame - not the beautiful young girl in bed
with them, who gives them that, and then awakens
in the morning to write upper case poems about
ANGELS AND GOD. we know God is dead, they’ve told
us, but listening to you I wasn’t sure. maybe
it was the upper case. you were one of the
best female poets and I told the publishers,
editors, “print her, print her, she’s mad but she’s
magic. there’s no lie in her fire.” I loved you
likea man loves a woman he never touches, only
writes to, keeps little photographs of. I would have
loved you more if I had sat in a small room rolling a
cigarette and listened to you piss in the bathroom,
but that didn’t happen. your letters got sadder.
your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all
lovers betray. it didn’t help. you said
you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and
the bridge was over a river and you sat on the crying
bench every night and wept for the lovers who had
hurt and forgotten you. I wrote back but never
heard again. a friend wrote me of your suicide
3 or 4 months after it happened. if I had met you
I would probably have been unfair to you or you
to me. it was best like this.

An Almost Made Up Poem
-Bukowski

these are the things i used to scare my brother with when we were children

1. large marge

large marge 1

large marge 2


2. edgar winter


edgar winter cover

shure shot little miss!

annie oakley movie

when i was a kid i used to always watch this vhs someone
recorded for me off of satelitte in the 80's of jamie lee curtis
as annie oakley. brian dennehy too, but honestly i had no idea
who that was until i just googled him now and oh yeah that
guy
as buffalo bill. what does shelly duvall have to do with
anything.

When Annie was eight or nine years old, she was put in the care of the superintendent of the county poor farm, where she learned to sew and decorate. She spent some time in near-slavery for a local family where she endured mental and physical abuse (Annie referred to them as "the wolves").


poor annie oakley.

also,

In 1903, sensational cocaine prohibition stories were selling well. The newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst published a false story that Oakley had been arrested for stealing to support a cocaine habit.

and

Oakley continued to set records into her 60s, and she also engaged in extensive, albeit quiet, philanthropy for women's rights and other causes, including the support of specific young women that she knew. She embarked on a comeback and intended to star in a feature-length silent movie. In a 1922 shooting contest in Pinehurst, North Carolina, sixty-two-year-old Oakley hit 100 clay targets from 16 yards

lame billy ray frank butler no
billy ray cyrus as frank butler = totally lame.

on the horizon

July Flier

i think howard the duck was the first time i ever saw a condom

howard the duck

howard the duck

howard the duck

this came out in 86 when i was 5. what the ever in the whole
world? pg movies were so much all the sexier then. and duck
tits too.