feeling dark?

Crafty tutorials are taking much longer than expected.

In the meantime lets enjoy some beautiful black fall

vintage fashions.

I have been feeling a bit dark lately. I am going

use this energy to find excitement for dark fashions.

From the always beautiful AllenCompanyInc.

Ok, its impossible to be in a bad mood knowing that this muff exists...

amazing.

I think Cats really are the tackiest most wonderful creatures.

back to school!

Finding a lot of fun at the Reform School online shop.

The shop has much random goodness and a flair

for the crafty and abstract.

This Jenny Pennywood print is awesome.

It also comes in fun little cards.

K studio 'everyday people' purse

Maxine Sutton heart sachets? yes!

featured artist Christine Schmidt's honorable ordinaries..

this one has a special place in my heart; I grew up with a saggy

lopsided badminton net in my back yard.

You know.. the more I see fun crafty nonsense online, the

more I think that my own craftiness needs to be dropped on

the world. I am slowly learning that people love crazy poppycock.

So, starting tomorrow, I will subject people to my mindless craft

interests and tutorials. Consider yourself warned!

must haves

I have slowly been working myself into a frenzy

over the two sided American Apparel leggings.

I still have not had a chance to pick a pair up, but

I wanted to share their loveliness with you.

This shot is from the Zanita blog, which is a

darling blog where a beautiful model takes completely

stunning pictures of herself. Why not?

Love this blog and this legging. And, blue lips.

Cannot wait for October.

amazing dimension

In need of some sexy fall dimension for

those preppy fall outfits?

LOVE these new necklaces from jcrew.

These are darling..completely.

Although, there are some amazing vintage

guys available for adopting.

Adopting jewels is doing something good

for mankind, after all.

[ from EBfinds]

Last night at another super fun Ambiguous/Active paddle

show(possibly more comments to come later),

I resurrected the excessive vintage pearl wearing

that I used to do quite a lot in my early 20s.

I am now very interested in this heavy rhinestone wearing, however.

I'm going to make it happen.

Happy weekend!

sweetie and sweetie

In Spring 10 runway I have found the

younger more expensive versions of sweetie

and sweetie. The tacky layering and

over accessorizing...this is exactly what

I look like in my own mind.

[from marc by marc jacobs ]

This is how I imagine sweetie

sees himself.

Cool hair, effortless awesome.

Oh to be seventeen and dripping in

designer clothing!

[man look from Shipley & Halmos]

Pretty

I am really missing the non reality of staying in a

super groovy suite, with nothing to do but swim in an

infinity pool and enjoy delicious food.

Pretty pictures will carry us through.

That breakfast!

Photos from our recent 'spa weekend'.

boo time

This weekend the sweeties were lucky enough to visit

Roger's Gardens not once, but twice.

Roger's Gardens is honestly the home of all things

good and inspirational.

To my delight, they have an exciting Halloween exhibit,

which was called mournful Morris' basement.

Basements are creepy! We came away completely

inspired to scare the pants off of all of the little kids in

the neighborhood.

Can I just say that sepia colored old time photos are

the coolest and I will never pass up

another opportunity to take them at the county

fair again.

The dummy of Morris, whose name is apparently Morton.

Morton rambles on insane nonsense, sounds like he has smoked

5 packs a day for twenty years, and has a real penchant for

the eyebrow raise.

The mad laboratory. Why? because Morris dabbles in mad science.

Odd magic corner. Paging Dr. Hyp?(inside joke.. sorry)

Let's get to the main event...

The wall of clowns.

Why is that clown called Terrible Timmy?

Look closely..

I love that his eyes still look completely indifferent.

You guys still like me, right?

The highlight of the basement was these changing pictures,

like our friend Timmy above.

They are available to buy at Haunted Memories Changing Portraits.

Black and White photos already scare me. The fact that a

baby in black and white is actually a 90 year old woman can

haunt me for days. But, this(below) is ridiculous.

These photos take it to the next level, with a peaceful humble

woman or child changing into a fanged monster or

flaming corpse with a sideways glance.

Seriously scary.

check out this amazing 16x20, 'The Restless Spirit'

Perfectly innocent from the front.

From the side, Blair witch caliber.

Happy Monday!

no rest for

..pretty pastels.

I am going to pair them with darks this

Fall/Holiday.

And that is pretty much all I want to say about that.

Happy Weekend!

[cutest shirt from prettytalitha]

holy cuteness!

This show looks like so much fun!

Dying over the fabric and color from

the Proenza Schouler Spring 10 show.

Whatever this tiered nonsense is, I love it.

That purple metallic color!

This hem is darling. Another amazing

mystery fabric peeping out.

To die for!

Seriously can't believe I have to gear up

for tights and sweaters after seeing this!

obsessed!

Sorry to subject everyone to my love of small creatures

and my twisted sense of humor. But, I have been craft

book shopping for the last week (in preparation for

the upcoming classes) and I am dying over how many

amazing felting books there are?! I have NO idea what you

do with a small felted creature. I may have to fight my

inner nonsense collector on this one.

Look at these amazingly funny felted friends from the luckyd

shop on etsy. In a sea of people felting their

dogs, this shop is perfectly silly.

Manny the miserable monster.

Butterscotch the baby guinea pig.. the best hot mess.

Hampa and Hamma the hamster felted grandparents.

Hampa has a totally awesome baldy bowl cut.

And, apparently, they can felt your likeness, so you can keep a

small felted you in your pocket.

I just love how they are all sitting on the same creepy green

chair. It is almost like they are waiting in the doctors

office. Perhaps a felting class is in my future.

For the moment, I am seriously obsessed..

gloomsville

It's gloomy, I just ate a pumpkin shaped sugar cookie

and I smell Cinnamon. I have been praying for

fall (aka my birthday season)to

come for so long and now I kind of just long for those

goofy glasses wearing days of summer.

I always love the layered fashions of Fall.

Tights are so heavenly.

See what I mean, though? Sun on your crazy glasses wearing

face and lightweight, albeit sheer, jersey are so nice.

Someone has a case of the Mondays!

[fab fashions from the Orion London Fall and Summer

lines... can you tell which is which?]

Happy weekend.. get busy!

Not to stress anyone out, but if you are going

to fashion your own fancy Halloween costume,

the time to get started is now.

Let me offer you a few costume ideas..

Dangerous love: sheik plus

geisha = witchy love child.

Hammer pants clown family

80s moon people.. who love their sneakers.

An easy sell: we love america!

Big love.

And, for your sweetie...

Disco cowboy

A onesie that is likely to creep up? Obvious good times.

Civil war/Halloween party?

Now this is an unlikely bunch.

What are they up to? No good.

[buy these patterns here - from top..

lindapaloma,vintageurbangirl,

rosesvintagesewing, siobhansfancies,

jodelicious,thevintagedresser,

dianadwain,prettypatternshop,

allpatterns]

Happy weekend!

like candy

After a trip to Williams Sonoma last friday, where I went

crazy purchasing WS's new stackable cake decorations,

I am totally into cake making. I made a cake on Friday,

and another on Sunday.

A seriously brilliant idea : making your

own personalized cake decorating tower.

Mine consists of Halloween pearls(I love Halloween),

hot pink sanding sugar, GOLDEN cake duster,

and genuine sugar pearls.

**sadly, these are not available online!

My beautifully sandwiched chocolate cake.

So many delicious things in one picture...

Home grown tomatoes, a giant glass cloche,

a dollop of crema on a nice cup

of Nespresso, 2 cuddly bunnies, a fantastic

vintage lurex stripe dress, and a stack of

apparel mags. ahhhh.

Anyway.. enough ramblings. Onto the main event..

the reason behind the 'like candy' title,

the most incredible random cake kitsch from

my new favorite HEYYOYO store on etsy.

These images of small vibrant plastic goodness

make me insanely happy.

CUPIE!

Seriously!

It is worth mentioning that these amazing backdrops are

all paper from the Martha Stewart collection. The best.

get yours here.

Lie to me and tell me how much you love plastic miniatures!