Song Sharing Sunday- Make it Good by The Little Fish

Visit this myspace! This person happened to be my best friend back in elementary school. We met when we were three, then re-met in kindergarten, became inseparable. She moved, and we kept seeing each other a few times a year until sometime in high school, when we lost contact. I'd love to catch up Claire!

New School Girl-crush of the Week- Nora Arnezeder

This girl is seriously bad for my self-esteem. I want to see her movie, Faubourg 36 (also called Paris 36). It looks super-cute and whimsical. Oh yeah, and she sings!

She is also fronting a Guerlain campaign, for a new fragrance called Idylle. Her mother is Egyptian and her father Austrian; she is French. Makes a strong argument for spreading the genes apart!

A love letter into the abyss

I may remove this post later, so any die-hard romantic bad love prose collectors out there, get your copy and paste on now... Also, I would prefer if any people who know who this is meant for didn't direct that person toward it. He's done hearing this shit from me.

Dear ----

I wish I could undo the damage my depression had on my life over the last eight years. More than anything, I wish I could (in the unlikely-really-written-by-Toni Braxton words of Toni Braxton) unbreak your heart. It would be so wonderful if you could see me for who I am now, a much more formed person, a much better person (even though I know you loved me for who I was), a woman who made her mistakes and figured out what matters and has been there and back again. But no amount of wishes can help someone who had to experience some terrible things to understand them, undo them. No wish can make someone who has moved on give you another chance.
I know all my friends want me to say that it's your loss. Really, it's our loss, and I'm so sorry for the part I had in it. I wish you could let me love you as an adult now, but I know you can't for the girl who was so careless and sick.
I love you forever, and I'm working on growing bigger and stronger around the scar tissue in my heart for future loves, even though they feel impossible right now. I know I love my friends, my family, animals, so I hope I can learn to love someone else to the same degree I love you. I can only wish the same for you. I hope when you meet another woman you forget every way I hurt you, and love boldly.

Just checking...

Anyone out there know anyone in Fort Worth who could/ knows someone who could hire me??

Question: is this funny? (see lower right of picture)

Okay, offically NOT FUNNY!
Zodiac and daughter at Lake Berryessa

Look to the right of the Zodiac, guess who's having a picnic?? Okay, so the humor is very questionable. As some of you may have noted, there's a woman named Deborah 'Little Debbie' Perez who is claiming that her (step?) father was the Zodiac Killer, and that he also had her ride along in the car during the murders.
I admit to a slight fascination with the Zodiac (mainly based on my less-than-wholesome interest in seeing Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Mark Ruffalo in the same movie...), my repulsion about directors who like to restage murders as accurately as possible (see In Cold Blood for another example), and, um, yeah I thought it was a cool name. I like reading my horoscope!
What do you think of the image above?

Song Sharing Sunday: Soy tu aire by Labuat

Go here, and make a pretty music video and play it back:)

Etsy Finds of the Week; Vamp, Gorgeous, and Kitsch

I LOVE this dress from gracevintage. It's vintage from the forties, but to me it screams Alaia. and since it is sheer you could have a lot of fun pairing it with different slips (or, against my advice, leotards from Am Apparel). It would look awesome with black, nude, metallic, red... The list goes on. If you snap it up tell me! It would look so pretty hanging in my closet (I say that with similar smarminess to guys saying the line "Nice shirt. It would look great crumpled up on the floor in my bedroom).

I would wear this vampy 1930s dress from designarchives etsy shop to get married. So pretty, the flowers are stunning. The details are right on, dark, feminine, for Olivier Theyskens-era Rochas. LOVE!

Hm... maybe this one doesn't fit with the rest of the post? Oh well! This pig pitcher from neatcurios is so cute and fun, great for a kitschy country kitchen, and other alliterative decor.

Fun with Photoshop

When I was maybe 13 my dad took me with him (to work, not strip clubs or something...) on 'take your daughter to work day.' I had just been to Paris for a week with my family, my only time to Europe so far. Anyway, he took me around to talk with a bunch of his coworkers, and one of them told me that when he went to Paris and visited Notre Dame or St. Chapelle, his camera had, unbeknownst to him, stopped moving 'forward' and stayed on the same exposure. This was back in the days before everyone had a digital camera, and when he got the pictures developed, he ended up with only one picture, a layered mosaic of church glass. What a happy accident! He didn't have the picture with him, and I'm sad to say I never saw it, but I created my own version today on photoshop with some church images from flickr.

Ebay Dream Dress

I don't generally fall for overtly feminine fifties prom wedding cake dresses, but for whatever reason I haven't been able to get the one Lorraine wears in Back to the Future out of my head. This dress is sort of the beautiful bastard child of that and Marc Jacobs' famous Fall 2007 Vermeer collection for Louis Vuitton. WANT!

Sigh. There should be more occasions to wear a dress like this. Maybe we bloggers should pick a destination (obvs NY or Paris) and throw an Enchantment Under the Sea Dance... do they make DeLorean stretch limos?

In case you love my pink I Glove MJ shirt...

Rad designer Alex Aranovich left me a comment that he just opened an etsy shop selling his shirts independently. They were originally at 2kt-shirts a few years ago. Available in pink, blue, grey, and black! Check em out!

Ebay/Etsy Obsession of the Moment: Repurposing Over the Top Antiques as Planters

I adore the gorgeous plant and vintage silver combo of monkeysalwayslook etsy shop. I started messing around on Ebay and Etsy looking for fun silver, silverplate, and pewter pieces to use as planters. Probably simple creamers and sugar bowls are better, but I fell for a few samovars (didn't know that was what they were called either!) and teapots that would do the job nicely, although someone who seriously collected such things would probably wring my neck for planting a peace lily or cactus in it!

Antique Victorian/Gothic Samovar

Antique Egyptian Revival Teapot

I can't say I know where my recent 'more is more' aesthetic bend is coming from, maybe I've finally been saturated by all the 'OMG the eighties are back' stories that have been going on for years. And there's something perversely fun about it!

Old School Girl-crush of the Week: Elizabeth Taylor

It isn't just that her good friend MJ died this week; Elizabeth Taylor has been on my brain for a couple of months. As I have mentioned previously, I'm watching all the AFI Top 100 Films (Regular, Comedies, Thrillers, Romances) this year. I tend to group my viewings by theme or actor, and I watched a bunch of Elizabeth Taylor movies a while back. Perhaps it is because she didn't die young ala Marilyn Monroe, and also maybe because she retired relatively young from acting, but I believe she is one of the most underrated actresses. Ever. Nothing better than being gorgeous and courageous. She looks stunning from teen to today. I envy her coloring, she looks amazing in technicolour brights. Random facts: she has a strange mutation- she has double rows of eyelashes (eat your heart out Lohan and other false-lash aficionados!), and her eyes were actually blue, not violet.

Wowza in Yellow...

And Green...

And Black and White!

Check out Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf for a truly brave performance, and Giant for a bit of James Dean eye candy on the side. I also love Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. And National Velvet if you've never seen it (gotta plug the horse movie!) Ack, just rent a bunch and weep over her eyelashes!

Saturday Outfit: Baby Shower

Not the most jubilantly feminine thing to wear to a shower, but it fits me better. Loving all the Mineral and Gem inspirations for Fall 09 (ala Graeme Black, Josh Goot, etc) and was playing with that idea. American Apparel shirt, F21 Belt, Vena Cava skirt, vintage patent Evan Picone heels, geode druzy necklace from Ebay. Yes, I know I need a haircut!

Song Sharing Sunday- The Girl Is Mine by Stephen Colbert + John Legend Version

Other recent purchases

Oh etsy, what would my closet look like without you?

Not nearly so gorgeous and appropriate for a range of occasions.

May someone offer me a job to support my spending!Chanel Style Jacket, from Sauvages

Upholstery Skirt from MaidenRaptureVintage

Vintage Bottega Veneta heels from GoodEye
Lilac Grey Cardigan from LadyFrostedCupcake
Don't worry. I bought all these things over the last couple months!

MJ 1958-2009

Michael Jackson was a talented man, despite whatever else we thought of him. His music will always be remembered. I'm gonna wear this shirt tomorrow. I Glove u!

Is it really bad if I wonder what will become of his Givenchy and Balmain clothes??

Things I shouldn't have bought because I'm unemployed

This jacket and skirt on Etsy, from thevintagecloset.

I couldn't help myself, how could anyone?