Again..keeping this really really small, just thinking of really tiny things to start....reasons to get out of bed. A sort of blogging of gratitude, as a way to combat my melancholy nature. And tiny things are easy-to-have things, therefore easy to enjoy.

 

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 I am going to attempt to do a series of things that are "Reasons to Get out of Bed"....a true heads on approach to the parts of my depressed mind that are in my control to change.

Keeping it simple, to start...

For example:

 

I think this is the… Read full post »

 

_{Original Collage by Myself.}

 

 

1. I'm always late to the party. Especially Open Calls.

2. I have been well and deeply kissed by a very famous person. No, we were not acting. When I see him in movies I feel a pleasant sort of zing to… Read full post »

 

 

 

I have seen two dead bodies in my life. Both were men I loved. One experience so different from the other as to be incomparable, but a corpse was involved. And horror. And love.

 

This last week was, I worked it out, the Third Worst… Read full post »

 

 

 

My Dad died yesterday.

 

He died across the country in Los Angeles, and it happened so much faster than we thought, and my sister (You know. The sister with the brain tumor..fucking awesome) must be psychic now... because in spite of the fact that my dad… Read full post »

 

 

 

 Today, a couple of hours ago:

 

 

 "Hellloooooooooo?"

"I'm up here, love!"

"Helloooo.....My sweet red petunia? ....Move cat, I have groceries."

 (MAOR. meow meow MMAAARROOORR.....sniff sniff sniff)

 

"Where are you?"

 "I'm in my studio… Read full post »

 

 

 

...and lazy self absorbed blitherings (see my posts) .

 

....and trite observations (I also help here).

 

....and  more crazy (me, not so much. Rather sane. Little drama, but man, there is a lot of it here).

 

...and then there is just...the  mean… Read full post »

 

 

I have NOTHING against people who don't wear makeup. Nothing at all. Groovy on ya and enjoy it!

...But I am tired of being told that wearing makeup is like wearing a mask.

 

It's as tiresome an argument as the one  that suggests women who shave their… Read full post »

 

 

 

 

I dunno if many remember me here.

Some do, I think..who knows?

Hi. If yadoo.

I didn't flounce exactly...I just....disappeared. Into my messy life for a while. And I didn't respond to emails, and I am a bad, bad person.… Read full post »

Josie was fascinated with my company logo, for reasons she never really said, but she peppered me with questions about it.

 My company logo is interesting in that I created the image from an Italian Renaissance portrait of an aristocratic young lady...I took out the color,then hand colored her f… Read full post »

 

 

Ok, so I am SO freaking proud of how my "Leda and the Swan" earrings came out I have to show them off...

 

 

But seriously....when you think about it...

 

 

You better be one hot fecking monkey lover to be able to… Read full post »

 

 

The woman who claimed her necklace arrived "broken"...(but not in ways she could describe), but is unwilling to return it, and just wants another.  The  same woman whom I instantly refunded, AND within two hours sent out a replacement necklace, priority...(so, you real… Read full post »

Because I needed to post something lighter on top of my terrible post from earlier.

Here is some selfishness.

 

A view from my front porch last week...

 

 

And the view from this same porch last April.

 

I have THIS to look forward to....

 

I… Read full post »

 

 

So I am sitting here getting ready to write this and I am wondering what possible purpose it will serve.

It won’t make you smile, it might upset you, and I am not sure what the point is of sharing this, other than being insanely proud…

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I can resist everything but temptation.

 

 I understand, Oscar...I do.

 


I have, at this moment in time, about........300 or so yards of fabric in my studio.

It looks smaller than it sounds.

80% of it is velvet.

50% of that is either Iridescent Velvet: velve… Read full post »

 

 

 

Hi there.

 

 

 

 

 

As a life long non-Christian, I find my fascination with the myth of the Morningstar to be baffling even to myself.

But it’s true. I love Lucifer. He fascinates. He’s hot.

Where to begin.

Well...first I guess I shoul… Read full post »

 

What to eat after the ravishment.

 

 

 

 

So, you have just been ravished by a god with a big beard. You're in a new place, its dark, the people are kinda...passive. What's to eat?

 

Rack of Lamb, baby! Easy, yet impressive. 

Much… Read full post »

 

 

Manly.

 

 

 

Middle aged white guys get a lot of crap these days.

Oh, they whine too, some of them...Joe the Plumber types who speak of being emasculated every time they are asked to pick up their underpants. You know the type...pouting about the “feminizati/… Read full post »