Does anyone possibly still have a copy of Phantasm from 1998? I threw mine away years ago and now have use of something in it.

http://luxirare.com/thanksgiving-part-i/

Luxirare's Thanksgiving post is a pumpkin pie that looks like a pumpkin. She shows how she made the silicone mold, and I think the technique is easily stealable for cosplayers who want to make props and resin stuff that isn't flat on one side.

I caved last night and bought the blazer I've been ogling since September. It's awesome. And for some reason I needed a blazer. It is strange, because I am pretty sure I have many blazers. Hmmrrr. Though the only other black blazer I own is an adorable LAMB one with a pleated back, but I wore it so often the elbows are getting a bit shiny. So it might have to be retired.

I'll be selling some stuff over the weekend. I'll be letting go of a lot of vintage clothes and Takarazuka DVDs, videos and magazines. As soon as the sales start, I'll post about it. If you're in to looking like Dita von Teese or a girl-next-door style pin-up, be sure to check in. I've been collecting vintage for more than 17 years, and it's all really good stuff.

Stumbled across this photo the other day and think it's a fantastic idea.


I'd love to implement it, but have no room for an enormous armoire. Besides, finding an armoire with glass doors seems to be tough, but those are key to this idea. I think it would be great to be able to see everything, or at least the daily-wear dresses. I'd probably want to keep the sweaters and stacked stuff in a dresser, and special-occasion clothes in the normal closet. (Though I tend to get a lot of use out of my cocktail dresses, because I wear them to work and everywhere (just add jacket or sweater or something) so my "special occasion" clothes are pretty much a small pile comprising mostly evening gowns, costumes and riding clothes.)

I have a problem, maybe this isn't normal, where if I can't see something I forget it exists. Consequently, I wear the same 3 dresses and 1 pair of pants every week since I basically moved to Nick's closet. So glass doors on an armoire would be a good solution for me. Also, I think if I could see in it, even I would be less likely to just hurl things in there and leave them in a taller-than-I pile in the closet.

ROME MOVIE ROME MOVIE ROME MOVIE! AAAAAAAAAAH!



http://www.nypost.com/p/blogs/popwrap/rome_call_of_duty_movies_in_the_GHenHLj7kJLTHaO3FiNIcL

http://racked.com/archives/2009/11/13/above_the_fray_chaos_reigns_at_hms_jimmy_choo_preview.php

Went to the Jimmy Choo H&M preview last night, and avoided falling into the temptation of over-the-knee boots by not getting within 15 feet of them before they disappeared. It was madness.

I got the sequin tank and the black leather leggings, both of which will be returned to the store today for being uncute. Also expensive. The tank looked so cute on the mannequin, but I have to learn that I don't look good in drapey things. The leggings I got because they looked really cute on the shorter, more muscley of the PR girls, so I thought they'd work on me. They don't work on me. They make me look like a short sausage that is trying too hard. Back they go! I also got the gray suede one-shoulder dress for my sister. It's very cute and the suede is surprisingly quality.

Maybe I'll go through my closet and do another ebay blast. I seem to make more on manga and geek things than on fashion. But I've got some Lolita and Black Peace Now left over from Japan that I haven't worn in many years.

Our Xbox broke and we were devoid of DVDs, but Nick found a guy on craigslist who fixed it for $40 and now it is fantastic, and we can play Hulu and Netflix and Youtube on the TV, which is awesome.

I'm now contemplating seeking out some mint julep cups. I ordered a julep at PDT last week, and the cup was awesome.

Argh! Sea of Shoes looks so cute in her leather over the knee boots that I am seriously considering getting the H&M ones after all.

Here are the H&M ones on M.I.A.



Hmrr. Not sure, though. I would probably need longish avant-garde shaped clothes to wear over them. (I think they look best when basically treated like pants and worn with something long enough that you don't really see skin.)

Sadly, Luella is out of business and the Spring 2010 orders won't be shipping. Sorrow!

And now everything on the website is half off, but everything is still out of my budget. Even for really cute dresses from a critically acclaimed line that shortly won't exist anymore.

Like this one, marked down from $1038 down to $518.70

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-holt/dispatches-from-the-whole_b_353252.html

If making your own clothes, speaking 5 languages and liking Russian novels makes you a hipster, the let me be a hipster, because it doesn't sound so bad at all.

I really wish I could go back to school. -_-

Bleh.

So I've really been wanting the Christopher Kane embellished bodysuit from Topshop, $160:


I saw it in some pictures and it looks amazing on.


( Madonna, Lady Gaga, dresses and leggings this way >> )

God, sometimes I really wish I were rich. How awesome would that be?

I would definitely buy at least one of these:




They're bracelets by Delfina Delettrez. The gold one is about $2,500, and the silver hand bracelet is $8k. (Though she has a silver ring that looks like a finger that I am genuinely considering. It's only about $300. Though I still probably won't, as soon as I remember how much I actually make in a month. -_-)

So the SciFi channel (I swear to god I am never going to be able to call it SyFy) has commissioned a US remake of Being Human. Rumor has it they've hired the show's writers to just write up a new version that is the same, but different.

I'm a bit worried about the casting, because the real cast is so very good. I assume we'll get some people who are really, really ridiculously good-looking.

I don't really know why this would make sense for SciFi, when they could just buy and air the original version. It's not like SciFi audiences can't deal with watching BBC shows. The only thing I can think of is that BBC shows have really short seasons, like Being Human season 1 was six episodes. Doctor Who got 13, but that was a really strange deal that it got because it was Doctor Who. Six episodes is really awkwardly short for an American show and would leave the channel with an empty spot with no new episodes in it for half a season. The Being Human remake purchase was for 13 episodes.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/nyregion/thecity/25feat.html?pagewanted=1

That's the place I lived in college when I came to NY to intern at Betsey Johnson. It was really strange.

Also tiny! I couldn't do crunches because there wasn't floor space between my bed and the wall.

Rug by Maison Martin Margiela 13. (13 is the new housewares and decor line).

Dammit dammit dammit! I fell in love with a loveseat and chairs, and then the seller sold them to someone else. Then I found another loveseat, similar, and it had gorgeous bones and a really pretty shape. The upholstery was heinous, but I could easily reupholster it, and that sounded like a fun project. So I bought it for $200.

Then it turns out actually getting the damn thing here would be $400. -_-

So now I have to try to cancel it.

And that's not even approaching my china cabinet trauma.

Dammit. I think I'm loveseat cursed. I really wanted that thing, too.

(I know, I know. 1st world problems.)

At India's birthday party on Friday, Anna and India told me that apparently there were fake nudes of me on the Internet. I was all, "Really? Awesome!" The story was that Anna had taken them of me when we were in Japan. That didn't happen, but it was kind of gratifying that someone was interested enough in me to go to the trouble of making fake nudes.

But then Anna looked them up on her phone to show them to me, and they're neither fakes nor nudes. They were just photos of another girl, and she had clothes on.



Damn! That's so anticlimactic. I was hoping for like actual nudes or something. Preferably ones where my head is shopped onto someone with enormous breasts, because that would be hilarious. ^_^

(That model is a Brooklynite who goes by Marlo Marquise. I'm a fan.)

I just ordered this fabric because it is hands-down the most terrifying thing I could imagine making clothing out of. ^_^



Maybe this is related to that weird thing with me and art classes. For years and years, I made tons of sculptures and my sculpture teachers and classmates would be like, "Wow, that's really creepy" even though none of them were supposed to be creepy, just pretty.

If that maintains, whatever I make out of this will probably wind up being interpreted as very cutesy and fun. But I really hate ladybugs (My mom thinks it's her fault, but really what happened was one day I got up really close in the face of a pet ladybug and was like, "Holy crap! It's a horrible insect with tons of eyes and mandibles and horrible little legs! WTF?" I hate butterflies for the same reason. They look pretty from far away, but up close they have the same horrific segmented bodies and glut of eyes as any other horrible insect.)

So when I saw this fabric on sale, I had to buy it. It's horrifying. I don't know what I'll make out of it yet. Possibly nothing.

I am pretty sure if I wore the Grace Coddington T-shirt:


Everyone would just think I was doing this:


Frankly, I think that 2nd look is hilarious and I totally want to make it happen.