I don't think I will ever tire of dresses/skirts with boots...and really cute sandals.....especially if they have buckles and straps........
A Blue dress for the Alice in you.......on etsy....
A tailcoat of ivory with toile, crochet and shells....and lots of lace......with a blue silk party dress....... fairytale.........
................................................................................................................... and this song was playing last night in the "new" Thriftway...as I was shopping for pie and lotion kleenex for my husband......I sometimes forget that I love Christine McVie
Remember when my car had it's inner guts tampered with? Yes. good. While it was being repaired at the Mechanic it developed this horrific putrefying baby-Bambi-and-a-herd-of-lemurs-killing... odor inside the car ! Yes. bad.
Big Lebowski reference #1... [after recovering his car from the Auto circus] The Dude: Oh, Jesus, what's that smell, man? Auto Circus Cop: Yes, probably a vagrant slept in the car. Or maybe just used it as a toilet and moved on.
Mark and I traced it down to the front passenger floor mats and long story short....they are now buried in the Tacoma Dump for some future digger to discover...(sorry.) But the carpet held on to the stink...like a baby grips your lips and won't let go until you break/unwrap his fat little fingers from your mouth......
We sprayed it with that Cat Puke digester stuff you buy at the Fred Meyer, the one you mix with warm water just Seconds Before You Need To Use It... weird. Nope. Still STANK.
Then we tried Forest Flowers of Mars scent Lysol Spray in a can........ That helped. I hate Lysol. It smells like a decaying stomach operation and a demented grandpa TV chair...... So I like to avoid Lysol. Mark and I even had a bit of a "dust up" over my sensible/crazy hatred of Lysol.
But while perusing the line up of Products To Make You Impressive To Others (aka...Scent Products For Your Home and Car) at the Albertsons... I found this pretty can of spray Lysol that doesn't smell like Lysol, or a surgical procedure from the 1920s or a dog urine chair/potty.
So I sprayed my carpet ...again and again....and again. The smell was quite masked. But. Still. There.
I just gave up for 2 weeks and decided I was just gonna have to pretend my life was going just fine despite having a Toxic Bomb for a car.
Mark had a secret weapon....Why did he save the Best for Last?
A couple of years ago he took possession of a "used car" and in the back seat was forgotten bottle of KARL LAGERFELD men's cologne. So. f'n. Trashy. But, hey it smelled good !
I mean, it's Karl f'n Lagerfeld ....(you can buy it at Sears)... Every once in awhile we'd squirt a bit in the bathroom for "those special occasions".. Hey, it smelled good !
The other night Mark and I decided to drive my car to get some viddles Jethro, and he carried a small black vial of some mystery substance with him........ He showed me the KARL...
...and said this was a last ditch effort before we pay Mr. Bueno a small sum to steal the car and light it on fire.
I told Mark that KARL was superspecialchilipeppercoagulated, and to please, only splash a drop or 2 on the carpet for fear of burning the carpet right then and there, without the benefit of Mr. Bueno "stealing" the car for "show business" At first my eyes burned and my nose dripped, and my ears rang as the KARL seeped into the putrifying carpet....
Big Lebowski reference #2... We started joking about "Karl"...and since my car sports at least 2 Big Lebowski bumper stickers, our jokes also included "Karl" the man who comes to fix the cobble. [Maude shows the porn video starring Bunny to the Dude] Sherry in 'Logjammin': [on video] You must be here to fix the cable. Maude Lebowski: Lord. You can imagine where it goes from here. The Dude: He fixes the cable? Maude Lebowski: Don't be fatuous, Jeffrey. It's all about Karl ! Even A Dress A Day bows to the greatness that is KARL !!
We rolled our windows down as we drove my hooptie to North Compton to have a nice dinner of Harbor Lights martinis.
On the way home, a tidy little jaunt of just a mile or 2 down Ruston Way to Pacific Ave, and to home......a Miracle Occured.
I have sold many things to famous or not so famous very talented people...when I was in High School (2 1/2 years) I made tons of things that I sold at a Head Shop (name escapes...) on Jefferson Street near the Liquor Store, Lawlers, if you must know....
and I met lots of "Rock Stars".....ha ...and I got a lot of commissions to embroider groovi things on their jeans...... I also made a tidy little lump of cash cutting up jeans and making tuxedo morning coats for fancy boys and girls..... Well, that's the kind of thing that happens to a girl that lives near a world class city......
Lynne plays the banjo and is pretty and she sings. I feel so lazy! Well, I'm really happy to do my part to help performers, The Real Talented People of the Planet ..look good... Because when you look good ...You feel good...and when you feel good, You Look and Sound FABULOUS on stage......
Neil Gaiman is singing (he says) on this new album EvelynEvelyn with Jason Webley & Amanda Palmer and more.......according to this blog post by Neil's lovely lady friend.....Amanda Palmer...of Dresden Dolls.....
Jason is this cool guy...who ...along with......Andru Bemis........made this right-on song about Tacoma....
Shot on Super 8 in Tacoma by Oliver White and Jason Webley.....
Boating Seafaring and the men and women who take to the seas.. ...is always on my mind... Here's at least 2 versions of the melancholy classic about sailing... Sloop John B... Johnny Cash, and Okkervil River. Then the 1953 1st film of a series of 3 by Stanley Kubrick about the Seafarers International Unions. You remember. Organizations of working people who banded together for safer working conditions and fair pay from The Man, for the privilege of making The Man rich.
If you watch closely at the beginning you can see the KALAKALA at .20....... then links to the 2nd & 3rd in the series.
Right now on etsy...some of my faves..Navy pants !! I have Tacoma Vice Mayor (not the mayor of vice), Jake Fey...'s Uncles WWII navy felted wool pants.....
But This pair is on etsy......for you !
Here's my latest find......is this a WAVES jacket ? more research needs to be done......meanwhile.ain't she pretty?
Not that Tacoma isn't a swell place to visit...what with the MOG, the Point Defiance, the water....all.that.water.
mountain and bridge...Glen on the roof of old City Hall.
But I like to travel a tiny bit. Mark hates all travel. He drives for a living. Ha ha.
I think we should pack it in..... Ralph Lauren...I got your prop right here buddy...
But what to pack? Where am I going?
Some good walking shoes... that will go with jeans and skirts...
a pretty skirt.....perfect at the park or out to dinner...
always pack a good pair of leather boots....you may want to walk thru the forest or a pretty park for a picnic....
a sensible dress that has pockets, that looks good pressed or wrinkled....good cotton khaki will do........ a suit is a great idea, if it's in excellent fabric, like wool, for instance......it packs, it's versatile and easy to care for.....wrinkles fall out.....and it classes up a simple skirt or a pair of jeans......
