As a minor update, last night I added a new feature to my blog. On the sidebar, there will be a featured cool artist. I’ve thought about doing that- keeping a however infrequently rotating link/info/maybe a picture/whatever to some brilliant artist who has caught my eye, and now I’ve finally started doing it. I haven’t worked out the bugs, but whatever. I added a new category for “Cool Artists,” to go with it. While posting about Vhils two days ago, I decided I just needed to start doing that- there are so many of them, it seemed appropriate to have their own category. Now they’re organized into a category and will get rotated on the sidebar. Currently it’s Giuseppi.
Another thing that probably should have it’s own category is “Projects I pick up and will most likely never finish in this lifetime or at least not without a few months of being picked up and put back down for weeks at a time.” There would be a lot LOT LOT of entries. A depressing lot. Never mind.
I’m mentioning it though because I’m getting the sewing bug again, and I believe I will make the dress pictured above. I got it in a sale bin at JoAnne Fabrics for three bucks. It was one of the more pricey ones- they were all in the price range of $1.99-$2.99. Yaaaay. I got four of them! And then I took them home and put them in a pile and there they remain to this day, but I believe I’m gonna give that dress a shot.
I need to pay more attention to Viktor & Rolf. The Spring 2012 collection is really quite beautiful. I read a post today (yesterday, by the time this publishes) on RCFA about Jessica Chastain (pictured above) with one of the dresses wearing her. It’s kinda sad, because it doesn’t exactly fit her and doesn’t exactly suit her and the colors are like bleach on her skin.
That’s not very nice for me to say, but I love the dress and I do hope this line gets some better showings. The color scheme for the whole line is vibrant and the structure of the different looks is so unique. I just posted my favorites on Giraffodilly, and you can check out the whole line on style.com.
I got the She & Him Christmas Album about two weeks ago. It’s rich and creamy and sounds like an old dusty vinyl record. I tend to cringe a little when I hear a musician is putting out a Christmas album, as it seems to me that this is a sign of someone who has run out of ideas, but these two seem perfect for Christmas music, whether they have or not. (And I hope they haven’t.)
This has been Zooey Deschanel’s year. Suddenly everyone is listening to her music and watching her on tv and commenting on what she wears, and can you blame everyone? She’s a darling. Aside from her music itself, which is like hot cocoa for the ears or something anyway, she’s one of those people who can wear unique and slightly quirky clothes without coming off as attention grabbing. She’s cute, she stands out, but she isn’t a clown about it.
Her red, black and white Moschino dress was adorable at the World Series.
I’ve had these makeup brushes that keep falling out of the little vinyl bag thing where I keep them, plus they’re getting smushed in my ridiculously oversized handbag, and I thought a hard-shell box for them might be a good solution. Thanks to a wonderful (free) software application known as Lego Digital Designer, I was able to put together a good sized box idea, with the exact number of pieces and their product numbers. It used to be (and still will be until Jan. 16, 2012) that you could finish a project in this sorta lego cad program and then order the set, but that is going away now. Sad, sad thing. Well, you can still build virtual lego buildings, and you can still make your own designs, and this is mine. By the way, it’s been rendered over a desert background.
This box is going to be about 5″x7″x2″ and I will use this plastic adhesive by Testors to keep it from coming apart. Rather than take advantage of the few remaining days of the Designed by Me shipping program, I am gonna just search for all these pieces in goodwill toy aisles and lego stores, because this thing would cost me a fortune. Also, in a fit of economizing religious ferver, I made a hasty promise to quit buying legos for the rest of the year. That would still give me about two weeks to buy the set, but I could probably find most of these by rummaging through extras I’ve got and looking through used toys stores. I just took some medicine that is supposed to make me sleepy, and sure enough, I’m starting to droop over my keyboard. I hope this post makes sense.
I made some arm warmers last year and was very happy with them. I have since attempted to make another set for a friend, but I haven’t found the right fabric, although the onslaught of cold weather has made me renew my efforts at hunting down the material I will need. They’ll probably never get done at this rate, but oh well. Meanwhile, Burdastyle has some other really nifty winter accessory DIYs that I can distract myself with…
I wanna make some spats. Definitely spats, but maybe also the headwrap and that awesome bomber hat. I think the spats are actually gonna happen.
The fashion-forward femme fatale with little ears and Louis Vuitton Mary Janes that don't quite fit. (Why is it that her shoes never fit?)
I bet this is something people will either love or just not get. I happen to love it. It’s avant garde meets cute, and it’s Emma Watson who can really do no wrong in my book. I can’t wait for this issue to come out (are those bunny ears? deer ears?). Here are a few of the pics:
The subscriber cover. I would subscribe just to get this. Love.
I cut out an ad for Tiffany’s Jewelers from a magazine and put the doll on top of the text for the picture
The Mae West paper doll is complete! You can download it by clicking here. I considered making a color version along with the B&W, but it was taking too long and I thought this would be sufficient. After all- I mostly remember her in black and white, so that kind of justifies my leaving it like this. You’ll have to color them yourself if you want them otherwise.
I haven’t constructed one yet, so I’m not sure how well the doll works, but at least I made one and it’s just fine and there’s an awesome pdf to download if it doesn’t, and that really is the key to happinness in life anyway.
I think if she were alive today, she would wear Alexander McQueen. And it would be a fabulous combination.
Stylelist published this article pointing out how Anna Dello Russo looks a lot like Big Bird in her yellow feather dress. I agree completely- check out the picture they included with the post:
Hee hee.
Ladies, feathers on dresses need to be very strategically located, or they make you look like you skinned a muppet.
Now this is just my humble opinion, but I do believe they kind of lend an old Hollywood glamour to a gown, if they’re not plastered over the bodice like a suit of armor. I keep thinking of Eva Gabor (I gave up looking for a better picture of her). Feather boa on the shoulders? Um, okay. Vittoria Puccini was amazing at the Venice film festival in her white Versace gown, and she didn’t look she had just gotten mugged by a technicolor ostrich. It can be done. The feathered evening wear look can work.
They are fake, in fact they impair my vision, but who could possibly care when they’re as cool as this? I’m going to start making everyone at work call me “Frenchy.”
Some other things that are making me happy:
British fashion magazine Tatler has a cool jewelry promo they’re trolling right now. They’re calling it “augmented reality,” and it works like this- you wrap a strip of printed paper around your finger, go to their website right here, (and download a bit of software, ack), then you can hold your hand in front of your webcam and see a rendered 3D image of your finger with one of their rings on it. You have a list of different rings you can try out, and they cost a few million dollars, so I think the idea is to “try before you buy.” Yeah right. Anyway, it’s cool gimmick advertising.
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At Paste online, I found out about this great bad movie called Troll 2. It is competition with Plan Nine, folks. It’s really bad. This I know because, while I had not ever heard of this movie before, my husband and I found a copy at a DVD resale shop on Friday! We brought it home and watched it that night, and I can verify- it is a turkey. It’s worse than a turkey- it’s like a whole month of Thanksgiving dinners every single night. By the way, there are no trolls.
Looookie what I got today! Movie wedding dress paper dolls!
This is a set from a beloved publisher of mine, Dover Publications. They make sticker books, activity books and other cute things like that. Now you can even sign up for free email samplers. I’m having fun.
Giuseppi Giraffe
My first featured artist will be a personal favorite. This young giraffe has accomplished many great works of greatness and makes an excellent placeholder until I decide who's going to go in this spot in his place.
Here he is pictured with one of his mosaics. If you squint, you can see it's his name.
