Shoes and Pie

Feb 1: Two Months to Viva!

AAAAAAAaaaaaaaAAAAAAAA!
Whew. Okay. As many of you know, my Biggest Event of the Year is the annual Viva Las Vegas rockabilly weekender. I first attended VLV10 in 2007 at the urging of (and spending all of my time with) my friends at Peek Photo and a mutual friend of ours. They were absolutely sure that VLV [...]

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Oh, Drat.

I sold a dress from my shop!
Oh, but I’m out of town and the buyer needs it by Thursday.
But I can actually be home in time to meet the Express shipping deadline!
But that will cost $15 more.
But the customer is willing to pay it!
And my flight isn’t delayed!
And my car isn’t buried under snow in [...]

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My Autumn Vacation

Warning: The following post has nothing to do with sewing, cooking, or vintage shopping. I took the weekend OFF, yo.
If you read me regularly, you know that my darling boyfriend lives in Sacramento, while I reside in Denver. This, as you might imagine, leads to a lot of travel back and forth. This [...]

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This (was) Halloween

Present at the “The Future” themed Halloween party:

Ripley and Kane (Alien)
Obama Christ
Dr. Who
Axiom passenger (Wall•E)
Miss Galaxie 1959 (yeah, that was me)
Star Trek TOS and TNG
Terminators
Jayne, Inara, and the “Two by two, hands of blue” guys (Firefly)
Seth Gecko and Santanico Pandemonium (From Dusk Til Dawn)
OctoMummy and her archeologist
2012, uh, “ascenders”
My New Bikini Body (STAR magazine cover)
Illegal [...]

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And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for those meddling kids!

Ah, Hallowe’en. The most wonderful time of the year. The time when I run around trying to put together no fewer than three costumes EVERY SINGLE YEAR. But no, not this year. This year is easy. One party. One. No separate costume for work, because I now work from home. No costume for answering the [...]

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