An escape into mindless frivolity is necessary medicine every so often, don't you think?
You see, it seems that unbeknownst to me, this blog has been overtaken by the nature that makes up our parcel of land in the country ;) There are many many tales I spare you from. But in the past few weeks, I have had my fair share of mother nature tending to. Like doves getting their necks stuck in pin holes, trying to get more seed, more seeeeed!!! So, I have to save them, and sometimes, the outcome is not so rosy, yet more often than not, it is a good outcome and we all breathe a sigh of relief.
We have had helpers here working like crazy, we do this a couple times a year. Trimming trees, filling giant dumpsters with brush etc. etc. So, I took this as a perfect chance to escape into the wonderland (to me) of my in town house...
Where everything is over the top, and girls are free to be girls, to shameless extents. I ask you, don't we all need that sometimes?
Little faces that are part of my Russian Matryoska doll collection, greet us...
I am also greeted by my sister and her furry creature boy, Douglas. My sister Kristen (the Bobbypin Bandit) is the upstairs sprite and my partner in crime in the little city house adventures. She inhabits the sunny upstairs, which was the perfect place for me to go and play...
These are some snippets of her lovely space.
Anyhow, our frivolous fun started with these boots. As you know, I have no idea (I used to) what is "in or out." I just wear what I like, whether wrong or right ;)
My sister wears 1.5 - 2 shoe sizes bigger than me, darn darn darn!! But, these boots, fit her very small. She suggested they could be mine - AS I slipped my foot right in, she had to pry hers on like Cinderella's evil sister. The mad giggling amongst us, didn't help her getting the blasted thing on either...
I looooved them. I twirled and swoooooned...
Then, guess what? Yep, that lil' whippersnapper took them away from me. We tackled over them, I tried to make off with one of them, she held me down, "Giiiive meeeee thhheeee booooooooot...."
I lost.
I left bootless.
But not before we played with some of her shoes. Next time we'll do mine... We laughed and chatted, and carried on...
I wanted the peacock feathered platforms, but as you can imagine, she wouldn't part with them, and they didn't fit me anyway.
Oops, Blurrrrrry.
Wholey Guacamole, what about these bad boys? I put them on, mind you, I used to wear shoes this tall, now all I could say was, wowe wowe wooooooohhhhh, as I dragged them around...
Why is it so much fun to play in someone else's closet???
Oolala...
Lovely...
Funky fun...
I really really want these below...
Then, she started pulling out stuff from highschool. Some things you just can't part with...
Even her rainboots are fun!
But I ask, where on earth is she wearing these? Goodness knows, we don't get any rain around here, ever. Ever.
Oh, and I love how she includes gold dinosaurs in her decor ;)
Kristen let me take a photo of her wall, with her collection of The Black Apple and A Fanciful Twist prints. She gets brownie points for liking her sister's work without having to involve bribery ;) (oh wait, I spy an AshleyG in there too)
I think she is the only person that has Hector Walks Astrid's Poodle on her wall :) (bottom left - little illustration I did about a real Hector). Plus some delightful AshleyG, and on the upper left, an amazing original paper cut gifted to her by her beyond talented friend Nadia, whom we scream at to open an etsy shop. NADIA!!! Open your shop, your papercuts rock!!
I tried to conjur up some magic with these over-sized ridiculous spectacles, but it was all too silly for words...
Then Mombie (my Mom) and Dadly arrived for a visit with Tacos and Easter baskets and doughnuts. I gave Mombie some streaks and coifed her hair. I streaked her hair with foils and all. I know how, I just am not a real hair dresser. Will she smack me for putting this up? (weird night lighting)
I played with some of my own shoes that I found in a box. The girl Mister Lovee met almost 10 years ago used to wear shoes like these all day to work (below). I was in my early to mid twenties. Pain was part of the package in shoe wearing, and I easily accepted it. Can you imagine???
They are higher and pointier seeming in person. I could never do it today. At 33, my view on pain and beauty has changed. A little pain is okay for an evening, but all day, no way... (my flip flops are already getting tanned onto my feet, oh no!! ;)
Thennnnn, the HBO movie of Grey Gardens came on. Dadly-o kept asking, where is Vanessa? Where is Vanessa? I was sitting on my bed, watching GG. Alas, I couldn't watch it all. I LOVE Drew Barrymore. I think she is amazing and delightful and charming. But, for 15 years, I have loved Little and Big Edie. And, I guess, I just didn't feel the vibe. I don't see them as they are portrayed in the movie, at all. And I don't see Big Edie as cold and stern as she comes across in the movie. So, it was a tough movie to be made, to satisfy the die hards. I don't know. I might watch it in the future.
I returned to the country to an over-night house guest and my duties as the mother nature of our little space in the world.
Baby rabbits turned up in a pile of brush going to the dump. I saw 3. One is hiding too hard for me to reach under some tires. These two were slower, seemed to need me...
I hollered for one of the men to lend me their gloves. I wanted to put them somewhere where the mama rabbit could find them, but I didn't want to leave my human scent on them. So, big man gloves were worn by me.
I cried. I couldn't help it. They inspired a deep emotion in me, these little guys.
I fell in love.
I am a rabbit in the Chinese Zodiac. I live surrounded by rabbits. Funny right?
I put these two guys safely tucked in a giant pile of twigs we have, where lots of rabbits and birds like to hang out.
I hope their Mama found them. Sniffle sniffle...
Now I am back in the studio. Back to work. So much to do, so much to do...
I am saying goodbye to this partial view out my double window for the summer. It will be 100' F this week. It is either that or no A/C in the studio. I will forgo part of my view for A/C any day ;)
When and if it rains, the ground out back is green and lovely. Monsoons are only a few months away...
Oh and, by the way, guess what my sister gave me after our play date? A bit of her vast Antique Mexican Earring collection. This pair of beauties. Thank you sister!!
So, there is my silly frivolous story for the day. Off I go, I have a long list to tend to...
♥,V
ps: I netflixed The Divine Bette Midler. I just LOVE her! I watched it twice. We saw Ghengis Blues, I enjoyed it so much.
Right now I am watching the Illustration packed film called, Fear[s] of the Dark (not for kids). I am loving it.
pss: I checked on the rabbits 5,000 times. I think the Mama found them. I can't see them anymore...
psss: Have you seen the daily ditties at Wickedly Chic?? So much fun!!
Have a lovely, superb & terrific day!!!
