Tied up and Flowerdy

I wanted to do the style challenge at Two Birds this week because they finally had something I could wear to work. Unfortunately, Monday was a holiday and I barely even put pants on. (don't worry. I didn't leave the house) But today I worked and used the inspiration photo to try to update this 50's or early 60s dress I got at a yard sale for $1. (don't be jealous)

Here's the inspiration photo from two birds btw 

Kiera Knightly is kicking herself that she has to be so skinny and not as voluptuous as me.

This dress is so cute. It has little rhinestones and beads sewn on the skirt in the flowers. It's homemade and very well done. I wish you could see the sparkles.

Here's some extra sparkles I added. I think this ring is part of the jewelry I started collecting from yard sales in the 80s when I was a punk rocker and costume design student in college.

Dress-(vintage)

White shirt-(thrifted)

 Shoes-(DSW)

Bracelet-(b'day gift from daughter <3)

Ring-(vintage)

Nail polish-(Loreal-Minted)

8 Irresistible Principles of Fun

I found this cute video not long ago and wanted to share it with you.  Hope you had a great long weekend.



The original website is here

Grown Up Room

My daughter's sixteenth birthday present from me, aided by my Mom and sister, is that we are redecorating her room. Today we spent a lot of time going through everything and removed a lot of stuff to sell or give away. I was really proud of her for being clear about what she wanted and what she could part with.


 It's still too much of a mess to show off but I saw this article today that's kind of related and pretty profound.
The full story and more pictures are here.

Photo essay: Where children sleep

Recently, the charitable organization Save the Children asked documentary photographer James Mollison to come up with an idea to get people thinking about the rights of children around the world. What he came up with was an unusual, but powerful project: a photo essay of more than 200 children and their bedrooms, called "Where Children Sleep."

Four-year-old Kaya lives in Tokyo, where her mother spends $1,000 per month on her wardrobe:

James Mollison

A Romanian four-year-old living outside Rome, Italy with his undocumented family:

James Mollison

A 7-year-old Nepalese girl who works in a quarry and lives in a one-room home with her parents and siblings:

James Mollison

This photo essay made me feel so fortunate. My daughter and I live in an apartment. She has everything she needs but knows I have to work for it. I raised a really great kid who is talented, compassionate and funny. She has her own room. And thanks to Craigslist and my sister's ninja "finding furniture at reasonable prices skills", that room is going to be amazing.

 I have strong memories of my childhood bedroom. We didn't have a lot of money so to carpet my bedroom, my mom and grandma pieced together carpet scraps that had been thrown out by a store. They worked their butts off and there was a lot of giggling from the glue apparently. It was a psychadelic mix of orange green and yellow (this was the 70's) I thought it was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. What about you? Do you remember your childhood or teen bedroom?

About A Belt

It took a while to get a post up tonight. Couldn't take pictures until after dark. I wore this to go to the campus and get stuff to grade. I actually got a compliment from a cute, stylish young FIDM student about my belt. Hey hey hey, yeah. I still got it!

I got the belt and these skinny jeans from Goodwill yesterday. Yum! These are my first skinny jeans. Can you believe it? I think that means they're about to go out of style. I like them anyway. They are Tommy Hilfiger and I got them for $4.

This belt is one of my new favorite things. It's like tapestry or needlepoint. Can you tell? I kept trying necklaces on and taking them back off. Everything competed with the belt. Sometimes you have to know how to say no. Right now I'm about to say no to still being awake. zzzzzzz

Shirt-(thrifted)

Jeans-(thrifted)

Belt-(thrifted)

Bracelets-(vintage, FIDM Scholarship Store, LA County Fair)

Shoes-(thrifted)

100 Years of Fashion (and Dance)

This is so cute!



"To announce the grand opening of Westfield Stratford City, which will soon be “the largest urban shopping centre in Europe”, Westfield created this fun short film, 100 YEARS / STYLE / EAST LONDON. The film, directed by Jake Lunt with The Viral Factory, amazingly gives the run-down of 100 years of East London fashion, dance and music in just 100 seconds."

Why Yes, I Do Think I'm Some Kind of Model or Something

In honor of the September fashion magazines, or as I should say, weight lifting weights, I decided to do some Editorial type poses. You know, the real professional type stuff that you shouldn't try at home.

So far so good

Now we're talkin'

That's right, put your back into it

Okay, now it looks like you've gotta pee

Umm...

Okay...

Can you hear me now?

Whoa! That's it! Nailed it!

Top that, Kate Freaking Moss!!!

Every awesome quasi-professional model needs an awesome photographer. It helps if they are also wearing leopard print.

Oh and if you're still reading:

Top-(FIDM Scholarship Store)

NY& Co trouser jeans-(thrifted)

Tank undershirt-(Target)

Shoes-(thrifted)

Visible Monday-Bea Young

Today was so hot and I couldn't find anything to wear that would be comfortable enough. I thought "Man, if I just had a cotton shirtwaist dress, then...you know...that would be great." Alls of a sudden I remembered I already had one!

I got this vintage dress from the thrift store for a few dollars a couple of years ago or so. I was going to sell it because I thought it looked frumpy on my. But that was before this look had come back in style and I also lost a few pounds and now I like it!

So then I came home for a few minutes between my two jobs, bent over to feed the cats and rrrip. The dress ripped at the back of the armseye. Not on the seam, in the fabric. Waaah. Well, I guess it'll make a good skirt.

I threw on some arm business, too. Here's that.

Dress-(vintage thrifted)

Belt-(oldie but a goodie)

Slip-(thrifted)

Bracelets-(vintage thrifted)

Shoes-(thrifted)

While you're looking at things, please go on over and visit the lovely ladies of Visible Monday.