Happy Fourth!!

"Vincent and the Doctor"

No wonder Doctor Who was so good last week.
Richard Curtis wrote it.
He, along with Rowan Atkinson wrote some of the Blackadder series (maybe one of the best things ever on TV), Four Weddings and a Funeral along with Love Actually and Pirate Radio which are two of my favorite movies. He also directed the last two.
And Bill Nighy is in both of them.
Of course he is...



Really, Pirate Radio is just a great flick with a fantastic soundtrack...if you have not seen it go rent it.

Harry Potter Y'all

Bell's Day

Making sure the perimeter is safe (she is looking out the window) from strange cats, bunnies and squirrels.

Protecting Jim's chair from intruders....

Yawning and then sleeping....it was a busy day.

(and yes I know my pillow covers are very winkled, I took them out of the dryer and then balled them up...and NO I do not iron pillow covers)

Starry Night

#1: I really, really enjoy Matt Smith as The Doctor.

#2You know how every once in awhile Doctor Who is just brilliant and there is a scene that you won't forget like the one in Family of Blood when John/The Doctor holds the watch with Joan and they see what their life could have been?
This one from last week with Bill Nighy and Van Gogh... was one.

Juliana Earrings and Serendipity

I bought these gorgeous earrings sometime last year for myself at a garage sale, but I've yet to wear them so I decided to list them on Etsy. I had a feeling they might be Juliana (D&E) because of the brightness of the stones, the open rivets on the back and the smoothness/quality of the gold plate.
I inquired over at the Vintage Fashion Guild for a bit more information and low and behold I was right.
Not only right but the response came from the always knowledgeable Linn of Linn's Collection who has the matching brooch listed on Ruby Lane.


How cool is that?
You can see the rivets on the back picture of Linn's brooch. Juliana jewelry was not marked so the rivets are one of the hallmarks looked for to help identify a maker. Also from Linn's listing on RL:
" A variation of this brooch in another colorway appears on p. 45 of "Inside the Jewelry Box" by Ann Pitman. The brooch also matches earrings that have been confirmed by Frank DeLizza."
Frank DeLizza was the owner of DeLizza & Elster which manufactured Juliana (Frank's mother's name) costume jewelry.

All in all a nice surprise...

Pie

Told ya.

That's It

I've had it.
Sales suck worse then I have ever seen, I'm broke and feeling depressed because I may need to get an actual job thus admitting that I am a failure running a business.
I'm going to make an apple pie.

I've also decided that I'm done with any news source/pundit/columnist that is shrill.

No more Olberman or Matthews.
No more Huffington Post.
Daily Kos is off my radar.
I'm just sick of the whiny nit picking or the over the top freak outs.
(My God the man said "small people"...Jesus people English is a second language to him.)
I think I'm going to limit myself to the evening news, Balloon Juice and Wonkette.
That's really all I can handle.

(and it was nice to know that I'm not the only person who just thinks this country has totally lost it's collective mind...so thanks for the comments.)

National Emo Heart Attack

Really people.
Calm down.
Oil spills take a long time to clean up.
Oil corporations suck and cut corners.
The President is not "big daddy" come to make us feel all safe and happy. He can't invent a time machine and go back and warn us all of the impending oil spill and stop it before it happens.
He's not the fucking Doctor.

Our National "Freak the Fuck Out" Heart Attack is not becoming at all.

Calm down folks....

New Layout

Pretty colors.
What do you guys think?

Pretty Dresses

I love this picture I picked up a couple of months ago.
I wonder if she is on her way to a dance or maybe it is her wedding dress.
Vintage prom dresses make are a great way to have a unique and fun wedding dress.

Kerrybrooke Vintage Prom Dress

Pink and Silver Lace Prom Dress

Vintage 40's Wedding Dress

Night Garden

The Callas always seem very 40'sish and tropical to me.
Must be all the barkcloth.






Plants on the deck last night.
Alley Cat was not pleased...not at all.

New Feature

I've added a "newly listed" page to my website for the most up to date information from Damn Good Vintage and Sew Retro Vintage Patterns.
You can find it here.

New Vintage Blog Added

Today I added The Vintage Lesbian Project to the blog roll.
Cute and cute.
And did I mention how adorable she looks in vintage?
I love blogs of folks who buy and wear vintage.
Plus she proves that you can be slightly plus size wear vintage garments and look quite fab doing it.

Clowns Suck

This post over on The Girl Can't Help It reminded me that I had forgotten to point y'all in the direction of Glurpo the Clown.



Yeah.
I have no words....

New Lower Prices

I've lowered prices on almost all items at Damn Good Vintage and Sew-Retro Vintage Patterns.
Here are a few of the newest offerings.

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They Gave Their All

LOST 3

Great comment on Pijaba.

"LOST has always had its sympathies with eastern religious tradition, namely Buddhism and Hinduism. A big part of that religious tradition is the focus on questions and questioning and less on universal answers. The belief is that there are very few, if any, universal answers. LOST seemed to hammer that point home over and over again. Locke wants answers, thinks first the answer is in the Hatch and then with Ben and then with Jacob. Each time, those potential sources for answers prove not to have answers at all. Jacob was set up as a Jesus Christ figure and then was revealed to be just a man who had a task to do that he didn't even really choose to do. Meanwhile, the tragedy of Locke is that he couldn't simply appreciate the fact that he was a paraplegic who was now walking around. The obvious contrast was Rose, who simply lived in the moment. No need for answers. She was alive and with the man she loved. That was enough

I found that this was implicit in the LOST story, but unfortunately we have had a lot of shows that fixed on setting up mysteries and then trying to reveal them in somewhat lame ways (X-files and Twin Peaks come to mind). This may have set the expectation for LOST and the writers didn't do anything to dispel that. Let's face it - if Cuse and Lindendorf said, "Hey, LOST is a Buddhist pulp fiction." they could have kissed their shrinking audience goodbye. And so here we are. Anger, confusion, feelings of betrayal. That's what you get if you try to go subtle with a mass medium that's intended to entertain.

I enjoyed the ride, but I also expected very little by way of answers.

Posted by: eastwest at May 26, 2010 1:04 AM"

ALSO this on Little Green Footballs.

And does this look familiar?

LOST 2

I also think the writers learned a lesson from the finale of Battle Star Gallactica.
While I enjoyed it and was satisfied my one quibble with BSG was that the need to answer every question gave us an ending that was more then we needed and not as character driven as the show itself had been.

You just can't answer all the questions.

LOST 1

I loved the ending of LOST.
Just wanted to get that out there first.
This is probably the first in a series of posts as things come to me.
There will be spoilers so if you have not watched your Tivo'd show, don't read any further.
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* VINCENT! I was already tearing up when Jack laid down to die, but when Vincent showed up and laid down next to him to provide comfort and companionship I just began weeping...I'm doing it right now.

* How did they make me like Jack and Kate? That's some damn fine writing.

*In the end the show was about the people and not the mysteries. They were just the hook to get us involved in the lives of the folks on the island.

*And the show was really about Jack's journey to the point where he could let go and tell his father how much he loved him.

*Jesus I cried a lot last night. Each time someone found the person they loved and waited for caused more tears, but maybe Juliet and Sawyer was the best. Though I thought it was so sad to know that Kate must have never loved anyone else but Jack because of how she said she had missed him so much. Everyone who made it off the island alive had a chance to go on and live long lives, but Kate must have always pined for Jack.

*Hurley was always my choice to protect the island and I love that he is always able to look past people's actions and take them "in the now" even with Ben who always just wanted to be respected and special and to belong. Ben was the perfect choice for his #2. Plus Ben has super sekrit spy skills. I would watch a show about their time running the island especially with Hurley making the rules. (in the end Jacob was kind of a dick.)

*Remember that the Dharma wheel of life includes a form of purgatory.

*And since my personal question has always been "what's up with Eloise" I think that all of her shenanigans were in the end about trying to keep herself from killing Daniel and/or figuring out a way for him to have never come in contact with her on the island. It also seems like the "sideways LA" was her construct and everyone else was in her and (maybe) Charles Widmore's purgatory where Daniel is alive and happy and will soon be with Charlotte. The only question is why she was aware of what was going on and no one else was.
I need to watch that episode she was in with Desmond so long ago.

That's it for now.