"If you can't be pretty, you might as well cause trouble" – Florence King
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 11th, 2006
The belt is the main attraction here, but the skirt is pretty new, too. The belt is all out of old bike parts, except for the eyelets that the buckle-prong goes through. The studs are bits of old chain, the main “fabric” of the belt is a blown out innertube, and the buckle was fashioned […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 11th, 2006
I filthed out my mountain bike yesterday riding around muddy construction sites and so this afternoon after work, I took it out to the backyard and did a proper job of cleaning it up. I de-mudded, de-greased, and generally primped and polished it up a bit, then felt that it looked so pretty that photos […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 10th, 2006
This past weekend, we went to a showing of “Pirates of the Caribbean,” which had a significant weakness in being very obviously a bridge between two thirds of a trilogy, and could not stand alone in any way. It had a few very snappy lines, some neat fight scenes, a really hot kiss, and good […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 10th, 2006
On the evening of Independence Day we went to the movies, because we're Patriotic like that. Todd and Joel went and saw the new Superman flick, Rob and I went and saw “A Prairie Home Companion.” Normally, I like SciFi/Fantasy/Action/Superhero movies, but I was still feeling a little gunshy after having suffered through the most […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 10th, 2006
War, Lowrider Check out those old-school hotrods and lowriders.
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 10th, 2006
I made a new shirt yesterday.It fits nicely into my philosophy that “good taste is somebody else's problem,” being kelly-green and trimmed with green-and-orange rickrack. Rickrack, if you ask me, is a sadly under-utilized trimming in these modern times, and I felt that it was my duty, as a rogue seamstress, to represent the rick-rack […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 5th, 2006
I'm apparently going to be having one of my phases where nothing gets a chance to heal before I injure it some more. I have these phases from time to time, where I'm never without hideous, blothcy purple bruises, or crusty scabs, or crosshatching cuts. Where I keep dropping soemthing on that one sore toe, […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 2nd, 2006
I woke up a lot earlier today than I'd reckoned on doing, and after making blueberry muffins, just because, and downing my fair share of the coffee, I had a lot of morning to kill between then and meeting up with Rob, Joel, Chris, and Maureen for the afternoon, so I figured I'd take my […]
Posted in Imports from old blogs on Jul 1st, 2006
I was goofing around downtown today, and saw, in the dress shop Spools, a couple of suits of terrylcloth rompers. That sort of strapless sunsuit, all-in-one shrots-and-tube-top sort of thing…worn in the late 1970s, I think. Heinous in any decade. I hate to ill wish a small business, ever, but I seriously hope nobody buys […]
Posted in bike commuting, biking, Distractions, dumb things I have done, Fashion, Imports from old blogs on Jun 29th, 2006
As some of you might have gathered, I like to ride bikes…a lot. Having and riding a bike has been a pretty big component of my life for most of my life. And I think this has given me a different relationship with my body than many women have. I started really riding with a […]