I Don't Care What You Are, I Care What You Did

This is brilliant...how to point out that what someone said is racist without calling them a racist:


Via Balloon Juice

Why You Should Always Have Lemons

Because you never know when the blueberries will be ready and you can cook up a nice Lemon Blueberry Coffee Cake like thingee.

Done:

Commie Lemonade

Remember kids There is no "free" Lemonade.


Wonkette's take:Evil Communist Youths Refuse To Let Financial Columnist Pay For Lemonade

Best comment on Ballon Juice:
"Thanks, you shit little communist girls, for ruining this poor free marketeer’s July 4th holiday, which we celebrate for the launching of the first stock market independently of London.

It’s tough having to fight soshullism left and right and vanquishing its young troops in every neighborhood, even the nice rich ones, but somebody’s gotta do it.

The lady must be a fucking riot on Christmases and birthdays—“No I didn’t bring you a god-damned ‘present’, you worthless little 5 year old leach!” “Who invited crazy Terry again?”

hahahahahahaha

Dear God, Not Another LARPing Weekend

The teen is off with some friends this weekend and I assume he will come back missing a fingertip since each time he hangs out with his LARPing group (which he does twice a month...maybe) he comes home sick or injured.
Last time it was bronchitis he is still on meds for and the time before he twisted his ankle so bad he had to wear a boot and not work for 3 weeks. The total price for the medical bills for his LARPing weekends this year have been about $1200ish.


I guess this is payback for a relatively healthy and injury free childhood...

And the reason I say my son (he's 18) will be missing a fingertip is because this was the bottle rocket conversation the other day.

ME: Jesus, be careful
HIM: I am
ME: Put the damn thing in a bottle or can
HIM: NO I can hold
ME: Oh, for fucks sake (I said this as I walked away muttering to myself how I was not paying for it if he put his eye out and how hard it is for a guy missing an eye and a front tooth to get laid unless you are a really hot pirate.)

He has now shot off a few. I am on the deck. He comes up and turns ways from me.
ME: What's wrong
HIM: Nothing
ME: Bullshit, what did you do
HIM: Nothing (while he rushes into the house and into his bathroom all the while avoiding looking at me)
He came back out after a few min and he has a burn mark on his right eyelid where a piece of the burning paper had landed.

ME: Jesus Joseph and Mary.....I told you you would put your eye out
HIM: I blinked in enough time....

*BTW I stole the pictures from one of the guys Facebook pages, hope they don't mind, it is fun to see them in action.
EDIT:The sword he is using is from a couple of boxes of supplies that a wonderful reader sent for free!

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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