I learned to crochet a few years ago. More than one person had tried to teach me prior to that. I ended up taking a class at a local yarn store, and finally something clicked. I have yet to make anything too demanding, because for some reason crochet and my brain just can’t get it …
Today I chose to paint some of my favorite Mary Jane shoes. Well, I started out to do that. My imagination quickly over took my paint brush and I sort of embellished them to create a few new pairs of shoes. I keep meaning to simplify my designs, but they are getting more complicated, not …
I know that Liberace was crazy. I have yet to see the Behind The Candelabra TV movie, because it will either be so wonderful that my head explodes or so awful that I cry. I love Liberace because he slid down the slippery slope of camp from a single gold lamé jacket to sequin capes …
I know that with this project I am going to be learning new things everyday. Today’s lesson was an easy one. When I am rushed, I have less fun and my work suffers for it. Today I had an appointment in the morning and in the afternoon. I had to run errands with my kids …
Today I did a painting of Shirley MacLaine from What A Way To Go! This movie! It’s high, HIGH camp and I couldn’t love it any more if I tried. The costumes are by Edith Head and are brilliant, the sets are magnificent, the dance numbers are spectacular, and the actors are mind blowingly silly. …
It’s hard to remember when I first started loving coffee. I’m sure it had to have been on those snowy days when my friends and I would skip school and head to a greasy diner to smoke cigarettes and drink bottomless cups of the stuff. In my late teens I worked as a barista. My …
Do you know that feeling you get when you see or hear something that is amazing and inspiring? Do you get that feeling like time is speeding up, where you hear a buzzing in your ears, and you feel like every molecule in your body has just suddenly sped up somehow? It could be a …
I started my first blog in 2003. Prior to that I had other websites. One where I sold things, one for my wedding, even a little e-zine. All of my previous websites had been created for something. To sell something or to inform someone. When I joined LiveJournal in 2003, it was just to bitch …
