In the garden and with the camera....

once I get things planted, I take pictures ....because it is so fun to see the growth as the season rambles on......growth is never, ever fast enough......

already the little alyssum and petunias in the pots are twice as big....that week of sunshine, 80 degrees and water really does the trick!

how easy are pansies to grow from seed? Well, these all seeded themselves from the pansies in my pots...here in the side yard....that is all...... scatter the seeds in the early fall, or start them in the late winter indoors....keep them watered, and that would be easy in the fall outdoors right? rain rain rain......

let the onions I planted last Spring to go ahead and blossom.......

work area......that rusty rake head....found that on the beach.
perfect.

Swiss Chard!

I'm not super happy about the shady garden near the garage....
once the flowers and things get much bigger....

butter my butt and call me a biscuit....

yellow fellow....the golden tone....silk and honey.....They call me Mellow Yellow.....quite rightly...

the california poppy and the pansy are this years girl......and the sunflower and the carwots are from last years model....

 pretty dresses....pale yellow with lace.... and a chiffon number with rhinestones!  

and the men folk....a 40s butter yellow shirt, a 70s USDA Choice Dad tshirt.......

A 60s button-down shirt, but with a cooler Tiki 'tude....

Hey Jamaica ! a very vintage 50s rayon Union Jack Pirate print shirt....and a butter and grass plaid LLBean 60s vintage wool jacket....

 
They call me Mellow Yellow......

spooky

sometimes things are obscured, are shady, are hard to hold on to......sometimes things are covered in dirt and rust, and are crowned by a crow. it's all the beauty of the decay....the floating fish bones, the long long shadow, the mist of pasts resurrected.
listening to now.....
"Jesus Christ, girl
What are people gonna think
When I show up to one of several funerals
I've attended for grandpa this week
With you
With me

Someone's got to help me dig...."

Father John Misty lyrics from....
www.songmeanings.net/songs/

Mamas and cowgirls

Mama Tried. So glad I really got to see Merle Haggard after spending my childhood with him on the Juke box in Lomita's Red Front. Yountville USA.
so Happy Mother's Day, all the mommies.....

...always have been, and will always be under the influence of Loretta....

I tried so hard to be a good mom....but all I can remember most of the time is all the times that I failed. I know my kids remember a lot of good times, though.

Vintage skirts are the issue

the navel to the toes, is the skirting area. Vintage GunneSax, marimekko-style, modern art, cotton sateen, chevrons, 60s southwest ethnic, 50s wool tweed, preppy plaid, stripes, pleats, micro-pleats, slim and straight, and ruffles.
clicky to see some newly listed vintage skirts, & what's cool, what's skirty, Flirty !!

Stripes...chevrons....vintage skirts

A very early GunneSax skirt
 

a 1970s vintage Levi's indigo denim overalls skirt

Pretty 60s modern art roses in black cotton sateen

Perma Pleats and Lilac Time...in 1954

For years, I've asked for a bouquet of lilacs for Mother's Day....and perfect behavior. Lilacs are always in bloom for Mother's Day in early May...so that Mother's request was easy to fulfill...and everywhere I have ever lived, has had a lilac bush. Lilacs grow like weeds...once they are planted and watered through the hot season, they will grow on their own for decades. You have probably seen a lilac blooming in a yard where the house has been torn down....years later, after the fashion of the times has passed by...the lilac remains faithful and constant, permanent and beautiful.


This is one reason I love them...oh the fragrance. I have a milk glass bowl of lilacs in the living room...and they are scenting this very post!

Permanence and beauty.....this is probably why I'm also KooKoo for perma-pleats!

They are made by laying a piece of fabric on a mold of corrugated metal and placing another corrugated piece on top, and pressing with heat, and sometimes adding a chemical to hold the pleats.... They can be crushed and wrinkled and they pop right back! Faithful, constant, crushed and wrinkled.
 This has got to be the story of my life.



Look...Perma Pleats!

from the Pittsburgh Press, May 9, 1954, via Google Images



Perma pleats....

Butter yellow chiffon dress has a perma pleated skirt, a fitted waist and bodice, and a wide belt with a big bow accented with a circle of sparkly rhinestones.

Fun and happy sleeveless cocktail dress is a great choice for all those fancy parties and weddings in the spring and the summer.

Perma pleats with lots of sparkly beading....
Ivory lace is sewn with multitudes of sparkling glass beads with little looped fringes. The dropped waist is easy to wear, and the pleated chiffon skirt is perma pleated.

Fun and happy sleeveless cocktail dress is a great choice for a non-traditional bride, and for all those fancy parties and weddings in the spring and the summer.

 

Stripes ! perma pleats in a skirt...is so fancy ...a soft sheer fabric, it has permanent pleats in a lightweight fabric. It's so right...goth, circus, traditional, classic Black and White stripe skirt.

Pair it with a print, as sweater, a corset, a jacket, a lace blouse....on and on....this corset is long gone, and not included with the skirt....

This dress is available right here on my blog....clicky Here to check out this gorgeous 60s olive green perma-pleat party dress!
Green Martini olive dress is ready to live the 60s party life ! Sexy chiffon mini, with millions of tiny pleats, it has a flippy fun full skirt with a frilly ruffled hem.

 In my etsy shop, you can take a look at this  vintage slip with perma-pleats on the cups and at the hem..Pertty!

These are all sold...but sure are cute!