Rambling and Wishing You Were All Near

Morning lovelies.

how was your weekend?

mine was sort of blah again, as some of you know we had lil' cheesy, and was sick again, in fact she had just been released from the hospital on Friday shortly before we went to pick her up. Again, I am mortified that Keith's ex did not bother to tell him.........

I could scream, in fact I did scream, you see his ex likes to keep all the misery and heartache to herself, it gives her more attention that way...

ok, sorry, this is not a place for talk of "her"...this is a place of beauty.

Needless to say the mean cheese was still not doing well, and that made for a very stressful and tiring weekend, so by the time we dropped her off I think my bubs and I both needed to get out of the house for a bit.

We went to Barnes and Noble so I could look though the magazines...Oh, it was a treasure trove of new imports, I almost died...I had a pile of magazines all around me, over $100, but then I realized...wait, what are you doing, you have no money...

so I had to tone it down, One of the Magazines I had a was a little import called "Flair " the problem was that is was wrapped in plastic and I could not see what was inside, I would have risked the Barnes and Noble gestapo and ripped the beauty from the plastic, but that's where the price was...and it was only $6.25....much better than the $18.50 for the new issue of Muse.

So I went for it and went home with Flair, all in all it was worth $6.25...though now I am aching about going back to get some more.

When out I also picked up Columbus Alive, one of the city's artsy newspapers...while reading I stumbled upon an article about Columbus Fashion Week.....

what????

Columbus Fashion Week, that's right...we have a fashion week now, this is the first one. It is all week and there are fashion shows every night.....

but here's the problem, they start at 10:00pm each night and they are $20 to get in (per person, per night). That is way too late for my poor bubs as he has to get up early, early to get to the restaurant, and I don't drive....so there's no way to get there, I especially wanted to go to Friday Night's show...

sigh....

It is time's like this that I really wish I had some friends that lived close by (that were interested in this), I have a couple friends out here, but no one that would go to a fashion week anything with me....though I am sure all of you would just jump at the chance...well, maybe not all of you, but most of you would.

right?

Oh, speaking of fashiony things, I bought the most ridiculously adorable skirt on etsy from rebecca, I can't wait to get this and wear it with a little pair of black tights!!! her skirts are adorable and they are priced so wonderfully....I could not stop myself from buying one...

It was beyond my control completely.

ok, well I really should be getting to work, I have a zillion things I feel I need to do, and a zillion more that I actually have to do, I have photos to take for crap to put on ebay (comics and such), I have to call my landlord to come and fix our dishwasher, I have packages to package, and I really need to somehow get past the creative rut I am in...somehow.

I am going to try something new perhaps...at least that is the plan. I am going to try and do a series of collage blocks that will make a mix and match piece of artwork that you can put on a desk or shelf, I am also thinking of making more match boxes, it has been ages since I have made any of those.

I do have one cool piece that I have not listed in my etsy shop yet, I love it it's called BecomingMata Hari...and I will probably list it sometime late this morning, I have been holding off listing it all weekend because I really wanted to blog about it.

ok, must dash.....I need to get of this done during the day as tonight I am having dinner with fellow mixed media artist Jennifer Kerr...we're going for cheap Mexican food...

yummers.

until tomorrow.

xoxo

Saturday Night Special Sales

Once again, it is time for my Saturday Night Special...this runs until 6:00am EST


Please put SNS in the message to seller section and wait for a new invoice!

*******
Art Cards and Pendants BOGO SALE- buy one get one half off, mix and match if you want.

25% off all work in the sale section! I recently added new pieces to it.

Happy Shopping

xoxo~ Jenn

lots of words

good day to you all

so yesterday I woke up only to find that most of the lights in our apartment had burned out...I swear i think our sockets or outlets or whatever they are just "burn hotter" than they are supposed to, our lights are always burning out...

so why am I giving you this pointless information....because of all the lights being burned out, that made taking new photos of pieces to list on etsy...well, just impossible.

So today, I will be taking a million photos and listing a boatload on etsy, we have the mean cheese this weekend so there will be no "work" time for me.

I also really, really, really wanted to thank everyone for their comments yesterday, it really means a lot. My mom and I have had our fair share of issues in the past and there were times when I have sworn off her completely...but the past few years have really opened my eyes to so many things.

She was diagnosed with Breast Cancer almost 3 years ago, she beat it, but it was still in many ways a wake up call...more so I think for me than her.

My mother, in all her ways...just wants to love me, that's all nothing more and nothing less...my problem is letting her love me. I used to think my problem was letting myself love her, but I don;t think that's it, I think I just need to let her love me, the way she can.

I think I will write her a letter, and send her a little package of stuff...though even typing this I know just that process will be hard for me, letting her in, letting her see that vulnerability that I try so very hard to hide.

wish me luck.

ok, wow again this post is all over the place, that's what I get for sitting down to blog with no clear idea in my head about what to write about...

I do need to say a bunch of stuff that I know no one cares about but me.....but I need to get it out.

What a bid week in my little world of comics....sigh...I know, I know I am a huge geek, but please I have not gotten a new fashion magazine in ages (like almost a week)...

ok so there are only two more issues of Strangers In Paradise left before it is done forever, I really, really don't think I can handle it, every time it comes in I start crying before I even open the book, needless to say the book it all heart wrenching and intangible ache at this point...damn Terry Moore for being so talented.

also.....in the DC Comics world....F*#K!!! They killed off Isis in 52....I am not happy.

oh and in the Marvel universe, they killed off Captain America, which has been all hyped in all the damn newspapers, I believe the local paper out here actually somehow tied the death of Captain America in with America's War on Terror...like it was damn Osama that shot him...whatever, I know he's not dead, and technically I don;t even like him, but come on!!!

ok, I am done with the comic stuff, thanks for reading it, but I just have to get it out or else it will make my head actually explode.

And, last but not least...I am at 749 sales in my Etsy Shop, which means my 750th sale will be getting not one, but two free art cards (they are a set and they are adorable), so whoever buys the 750th piece sold will get extra goodies.

I like to give stuff away, it makes me feel like Elvis when he would give away Cadillacs...

ok, that is enough ramble for this morning, thank you all for listening/reading...I love each and everyone of you for it, if I met you in "real life" I would give you each a big squeeze and kisses.

the piece I am featuring today is a new Marilyn Collage...it is Called "This Was All She Wanted"

Things I Can and Can't Say

morning!

So yesterday didn't go according to plan at all, it was supposed to be the day that I work at the shop, but of course, UPS missed one of our boxes on the loading dock and the books didn't show up...so yesterday just became a confusing mess of yuck, with a little more yuck thrown on top of that.

(sigh)

Also, because it snowed (AGAIN) yesterday we decided not to travel to Andyman's Treehouse for Keith to play, the roads were bad, so it is postponed until next week. I am so sick of the fact that it has snowed every Wednesday for the past two months, that is our day together and we are sort of trapped in our neighborhood when it happens.

You see, in Columbus, they don't plow 90% of the streets they just wait for it to either melt, or become a giant thick layer of ice, which is what it usually turns into.

I feel bad for the Somalians (we have the second largest population of them in the country) most of them have never seen never mine driven in the snow...it makes for more car accidents than I have even seen in my life.

Last year a woman drove into the house across the street from ours, yes...INTO the house..I always see it on the news but I actually got to see it in person.

So I talked to my Mommy the other day, and it was wonderful and altogether sad all at once. My mom is one part Forest Gump and the second part Blanche Dubois...which makes any conversation with her sweet and a little sad all at once.

I know I have talked of our conversation about watching tv, and how she doesn't understand that I watch 2 shows...that's it.

When I talked to her she went on and on about Anna Nicole Smith...she is now totally obsessed with the whole thing, I haven't seen her this wrapped up in something since the OJ Simpson Trial, I let her go on about it humoring her and chiming in when I could...but when she was talking about how she could relate to Anna....that I had to change the subject.

The strange thing is, is that I miss my mom, so much sometimes. I mean really, it's almost a tangible thing. I don;t tell her though, and my question is why? Why don't I tell her?

Why is it that I can not express this to her, am I afraid that she will cry, yes, that's part of it. I know I am afraid I will cry...I try to be strong for her and everything, and try so very hard not to think of her being all alone, I try not to think about the fact that I have been a horrible daughter and at times she has been a horrible mother. None of that matters anymore, it's just us, it's just who we are.

She is the only family I have left in this world (besides my bubs of course) and I am so far away...

I need her to know that I love and I miss her, but for whatever reason I can barely say those words and I don't know what to do.

Wow, where did all that come from???? Sorry, I did not intend to write about that, I was oging to write about the fact that my bubs made Mexican food last night and the "cheese" we bought was called "Mexi melt" and it was advertised as imitation "cheese food"...cheese food, that can't be healthy, can it?

Oh and I also wanted to talk about the fact that I saw "The Departed" which I was dying to see because it was just so very "Boston" I also have a total need to see Oscar Winning movies...

Anyway, The Departed was incredible and so deserving of Best Picture this year. I would say more about it but I think I might save it to write in a letter to Martin Scorsese next week.

I spent an awful lot of time working on this piece and I finally listed it for sale in my Etsy shop

I am very proud of it, I just loved the composition of it, I actually sketched it out before I started it, I very rarely do that, but this time I did and it was well worth it I think.

ok, off to the races, I have a million little parcels to package up and more vintage lady art cards to make, as I am so in love with them.

Monday, Monday...

morning loves

I hope you all had a a wonderful weekend. I survived the comic show yesterday.

(I know, I know you were all really worried about me)

It was long and arduous at times and the only thing that got me through it was my bubs, and the fact that I said over and over again in my head "thank God I'm not in Cleveland". That really helped, also the fact that when it was done I got to eat a grilled cheese and French fries off the kids menu at the restaurant...

it was Yum-tastic, but frankly I believe that grilled cheese makes anything better.

So if you popped by the ye olde blog sometime this weekend you know that I spent a ton of time this weekend all cuddled up watching movies.

I am a movie junkie, I just want to clarify that in case you didn't know, I also get "overly involved" when watching a movie...like there have been "situations" when watching a film that I have become so distraught...that people I was with actually feared for me.

When I was 4 or 5 and saw ET in the theater I actually had to be taken out....after ET turned white, I had a meltdown, it was near catastrophic, there was screaming, crying...I believe there was even dry heaving.

When I saw Return of The King (poor aaron & ben can attest to this) I cried from beginning to end...audibly sobbing, not just silent girlie tears...big bad tears.

I can't even begin to describe what it was like to see Cold Mountain and The Notebook, that god I was with bubs who very sweetly just rubbed my back and said (in regards to Cold Mountain) "How could you not see that coming?" and (in regards to the notebook) "if you read the book and knew this would happen, why did you watch it?".

So the point I am trying to make, is...I watched the BEST movie ever this weekend.

The Prestige.

It was brilliant from beginning to end, just flawless, I don;t want to write too much about it because I don't want to spoil it for those who have not seen it...

At first I thought I would like it because it had a comic book and pop culture cast to die for...Hugh "Wolverine" Jackman, Christan "Batman" Bale, Michael "ALfred (Batman's Butler" Caine, David "Goblin King" Bowie, Scarlett "I am Flawless in Jenn's Eyes" Johannson, and the guy who played Golem in Lord of The Rings....sorry I don't remember his name.

The movie did once again make me totally obsessed with that time period...and magic.

I went out last night and rented a wonderful/horrible shark movie called "12 Days Of Terror" it is about shark attacks in 1916, I also rented The Illusionist which I will watch today while I am "working".

So please bear with me...if I fall into an odd speech patter and start saying things like "Watch out for the horseless carriage", or "let's go sea bathing, it is supposed to ward off Polio", you will have to just cope with that.

Did you all know that I used to be a magicians assistant? It's true, it was one of my strangest jobs, though he hated being called a magician and only referred to himself as a "psychic entertainer"...it was equal parts fun and so NOT FUN!!!!!!

And for the record, I never got to wear amazing things like Miss Johannson wore in The Prestige....

Oh, and I watched Hollywoodland this weekend, which was...ok, like if it were a TV movie I would think it was awesome, but as a real movie, well it just had way too much Ben Afflect in it for me, though I do like the time period it was showing off, which was 1950's Hollywood....though again, I am a total sucker for that stuff.

The piece I am showing off today is sort of inspired by the whole film noir old Hollywood thing, it is available for sale in my etsy shop.

It is called "Before She Goes On Stage"

Stay tuned for more "Prestige" inspired items, I have a feeling there will be some coming.

until then...

xxooxxoxoxoxoxoxo

Snowy Saturday Night

Hi darling ones...

well, it looks like we won;t be going to Gallery Hop tonight as it suddenly got dreadfully cold and altogether yuck out side...

so, we instead are going to curl up with some movies....something we never ever get to do, we will be viewing The Prestige, which I am ridiculously excited about, and Hollywoodland, which I would be very excited about, but there is the Ben Affleck issue.

I will also be taking place in the Saturday Night Specials on Etsy!!!

The specials in my Etsy Shop will be...

30% off all items in my SALE section
20% off all paintings
10% off all pendants and art cards


Please write SNS in the message to seller section and wait for a new invoice….

I am adding new pendants and art cards tonight too!!! Here is my latest Marilyn Monroe card...isn;t she lovely?

Long Lost Twins?

is is sad that this is what I am doing on a Friday Night?

(sigh)

I have no idea where the morning has gone...already it is quickly approaching 9:00am...

I have spent the morning pouring through the new Etsy Constitution and rules, and then all of a sudden on my second cup of coffee...I remember I had not blogged yet.

eeep.

ok so my morning started out like this...My bubs gets up a little after 6:00 in the morning, I sleep on the outside of our bed, so he has to climb over me to get out. Normally I can feel him coming over me, and I just lay back as he kisses me on the head.

This morning though, I must have been deeper asleep as I did not hear him, and just as he was crawling over me, I turned over and elbowed him right in the eye.

I am an asshole, the poor guy....he just sat there clutching his eye...and of course everyone knows of my eye phobia, so just elbowing him in the eye made me feel like I was about to throw up.

what a pair we were.

SO that was the beginning of my day, in all it's glory.

So, how are all of you? I could be better, eye incident aside, I am still fighting my way through this creative block, I have not been able to do anything for the Creative Challenge yet this week, which I have never missed.

I think I am going to work on some pendants today as I have not been doing those lately and I am almost sold out of them completely.

This weekend is preparing itself to be too chaotic. Keith is working tomorrow and hopefully tomorrow night we can go to Gallery Hop in the Short North, this is something in the 3 years that I have lived here that we have only been able to do one time, as we always have the mean cheese, or the weather is awful...so cross your fingers for me. It's not really Keith's scene, but he likes to go and be with me, plus, I go to Punk Clubs with him, places where the girls actually make out with the homeless people that they let come in and drink for free...

so yeah, we each make our little "sacrifices"...lol.

Then on Sunday we are doing a comic convention, it is small and local which is good, I was so not in the mood to have to make a 2 hour trip to Cleveland....It has been ages and ages since we have dine a convention as dealers (selling crap that's not our art), but it will be fun in a freak watching train wreck kind of way. Comic conventions are where all the pretty people hang out, right?

ok, I really must get some work done now, I am featuring a slew of my new art cards today, these are all available in my shop.

xoxoxoxoxoxo

Where did all the models go?

morning love bugs!

I want to say a huge thank you to all of you who humored me and wrote letters to your celebrities...it was awesome! The strange thing is, that you ALL picked someone I almost wrote to as well, oh and if you all get the chance you have to read Aaron's letter, he posted in on my myspace blog.

it almost made me pee my pants, it was that funny!!!

Stay tuned next week, as this is going to be my little ritual, seeing as I am totally obsessed with most celebs it was really only a matter of time.

Yesterday as you know I had to go to the shop, it made for a very hectic day but It was good because I totally got to geek out and go on and on about Heroes and whats been going on in my comics ( I know I am a lame-o...but you have to understand...THE MULTIVERSE STILL EXISTS IN THE DC UNIVERSE!!!!!!!!!!!)

yes, totally shouting, and I am pretty sure only 1 or maybe two people reading this will get that, but it's ok.

I went to the post office yesterday, and I had such a good mail day!!! First I got this totally cute t-shirt in the mail that I ordered from Etsy Heart Throb Matt, then I got the 2 amazing slumber party illustrations from miss Fanciful Twist, Vanessa...I am in love with them, what a fun world she created for us. I also got not one, but two new magazines....

though this is where it gets a little melancholy....on the covers of these magazines was Kaite Holmes, and Jennifer Hudson.

not that I have anything against either of them (well, I hate Katie) but really, I don;t want to see them on the covers of fashion magazines, where the hell are the models? I can't remember the last time a model was on the cover of Vogue, I really can't.

Say what you want about fashion models, trust me I love and hate them, but I really think they are important to the very art of fashion (and yes, I do think it's an art) as having an almost anonymous looking model really allows the viewer to really see the clothes, and not the personality in the clothes, like for example, on Vogue, Jennifer Hudson is wearing a beautiful dress, but I barely took notice of it until just right now, I was too busy being dissatisfied with the cover choice.

oh well, who am I to say right? I mean I have only been obsessed with Vogue since I was 6...

Oh, I am so excited, I finally have gotten more of my acrylic cases for my art cards, I have been without them for almost 2 full weeks, so that means later on today I will be updating my little shop with a ton of new art cards, with many more on the way!!!!!

The piece I am showing today is this beautiful little 6x8 collage and I could not be more thrilled with how it turned out, I have to say I think it might be one of my most favorite things I have even done.

It is called "She Stopped For a Moment And Then..."

ok, enough rambling for now, I will chat with you all later.

xoxoxoxoxo

Dear (Insert Name Here)

Hi loves

First I need to thank you all for all your nice words yesterday when I was in a cranky state, it really helped, so thank you, thank you…a million times over.

Well if you are keeping track, it’s Wednesday which means I have to rush off to the shop in just a few minutes…

(sigh)

I hate that Wednesdays seem so rushed and frantic, I really enjoy my blogging time, so that being the case, I am going to start a tradition, every Wednesday will be “write a fake letter to a celebrity day” here at Stiletto Heights…

Yes, you heard me, we’re going to write to celebrities, and no….we are not going to really mail them, we’re not stalkers after all, right?

Please feel free to post your letter in the comments section of my blog, as I will so very seriously LOVE to read them, we don’t all have to pick the same one, I think it will be fun….

Ok so my first letter will be to Reese Witherspoon…

Dear Reese

Hey, what’s up? I have been meaning to write to you for so long…I am really sorry to hear about your divorce. You guys always seemed so sweet together.

Though, he did always sound like he had a stuffed up nose, what’s up with that? Did he have seasonal allergies? A Coke problem?

I know, I know….none of my business, you’re right.

Anyway, now you can join the chic and elite group of young divorces, I’m one you know, we’re a very elite squad, like cheerleaders.

I also have to ask, what was going on with you at the Oscar’s? Your dress was fantastic, but really, what was that thing you were doing with your hair? I think you were trying to do a sort of Jennifer Anniston thing with it, but it really didn’t work, your face is just not shaped the right way to wear bangs.

You probably think I am just being jealous and snotty, after all you are my bf’s “movie bubs” and you did get to make out with my “movie bubs” Joaquin Phoenix…but please know I only have your best interests at heart.

Well gotta go Reese, hope to hear from you really soon

Love, your bff

Jennifer Gordon

And So It Is

morning.

I am feeling a bit "off" today, not really sure what exactly it is, just one of those days that I feel so very unlike me.

I think Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's called them the "mean reds", though as I just typed those words it seems like the phrase "mean reds" could also be 1980's cold war lingo for those naughty communists.

Do you ever have those days when you feel all jittery inside? Like your heart is all a flutter, and not in a first love kind of way, but in a about to go to the doctors kind of way.

well that is how I am feeling, just anxious I guess, but anxious for what I have no idea.

I am feeling like I have too much to do....or not enough to do, it's hard to tell, anyway...I feel like I am floundering a bit.

Yesterday I worked for the majority of the day finishing the two pieces for the commission project for Tanekeya, I am really proud of them, I have enough materials to do a couple more as well, maybe to list for public sale in my shop, for some reason I was feeling very drawn to these pieces...

ok, now I am going to do something I hate doing but I just have to....I have to blog about TV for a minute....

Heroes was so good last night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can;t stress that enough, I actually found myself clapping at one point and getting all teared up at the end. For those of you who don;t watch the show, you really need to, though it will be impossible to catch up now...so wait for DVD.

It really is like watching a wonderful comic book come to life on the screen each week, just fantastic, plus check out the picture of my new boyfriend....um, is it me or is he just the most perfectly crafted person you have ever seen?

I mean seriously he looks like a piece of art.

There is one giant draw back to watching Heroes, is that before it is on...you have to suffer though Deal or No Deal (or as my bubs calls that show "Fat People Getting All Jazzed Up), now I am sure you are thinking, why do I have it on, why not keep the tv off until 9:00...

well you see, I tried that, but I am very anti clock, we have one in the bedroom but that is it, and without a clock I always was missing the first 10 minutes at least, so I always end up watching abit of the Deal show (which I loathe).

A way to get through that show though is every time they pan over to one of the "models" I make up what their career was before they hit it big on "Deal"...

like, Oh she was a hostess at TGI Fridays or she did nails at a Korean run salon in a strip mall next to a Fashion Bug...

I think my Bubs thinks I have some sort of Turrets Syndrome, but usually he just smiles and nods.

well I will leave you with that, I must get some work done...(by work I mean read a whole bunch of blogs), I am not feeling very inspired today, last week everything was inspiring me...and now I feel like I have nothing left to give.

It will change, it always does.

thanks for reading this, I will try my hardest to be a little less whiny tomorrow...

oh, and I am still on the Etsy Showcase today, so I am running a little surprise sale in my shop because of that...

15% off your entire purchase today, you just need to write "Showcase" in the message to seller section and I will send you a new invoice.

As The Oscar High begins to fade...

Morning strangers.

How was your weekend????

As you know we had the lil cheesy herself, the one and only mean cheese...and let me just say for the record that this weekend she was all mean and all cheese (also 100% adorable so that makes up for it).

She has been sick for the past week and in the hospital so I think she was just feeling stir crazy and all fired up with "piss and vinegar" and my Dad would have said.

She was on a rampage through the house, like Godzilla....it was almost frightening. This weekend Keith and I were hit, things were thrown at us, I had food and medicine spit onto me, oh and she got up at 3:00am on Sunday morning....

so needless to say when it was time for the Oscars last night I did not have it in me anymore to get all glam for the event, though in my head...well I was just fabulous.

My bubs watched the awards with me, and the strange thing is...that just him being there meant the world to me...sure he was working on stuff but just having him there making fun of everyone, made me realize yet again how we are supposed to be together.

I had the bubs on Bradgelina look out, as I was prepping some canvases for work today...sadly they appeared to be a no show.

And I hate to say this as it is against almost everything I believe in, but Penelope Cruz looked Beautiful last night, her Versace gown was like something ripped from a fairy tale, normally I loathe her as I can never forget the horrible relationship with Tom Cruise or the fact that it appears to me that one of her eyes is larger than the other...like a Picaso painting....

sorry, I digress.

she looked beautiful, much to my chagrin I cannot say the same thing for Nicole Kidman, or Anne Hathaway, even Cate Blanchet seemed slightly "off", it made me feel better for not dressing up.

As a special treat during the ceremony I drank Cherry Fizz wine coolers...lol, can you believe it? Wine Coolers!!!

I felt like I was in high school again and had snuck out to the cemetery to drink wine coolers and just lay in the grass and look up at the clouds and just let my mind get all dreamy and slow...thinking about how all I ever do is feel like I am homesick for something that does not even exist.

Does that make sense?

probably not, but then again, I can seem senseless at times.

I have a bunch of stuff I need to get finished today, a beautiful commission project that I am doing for the talented Tanekeya, as well as photograph and list some new pieces for my shop, as it has been a while since it was stocked up full, I have some wonderful new little lovelies today, lots of vintage ladies and some other beauties...maybe later I will add some photos, or I will list photos tomorrow....or if I am too lazy you can visit my "ye olde etsy shoppe" to see them.

Thanks to the lovely Tara and Michelle who bought some of my new vintage image pieces just mere seconds after they were listed, you are both so adorable.

The piece I am showing today is brand new and just listed last night right before the Oscars...It is called "Such a Long Way From Home"...please note that the color is eerily similar to Cherry Fizz wine coolers....

coincident? I don't think so.

here are some pretty things...

happy Saturday...

I am engrossed in a mean cheese weekend, and there is an ice storm coming.

I told you yesterday, it seems ominous...

I am taking part in the Saturday Night Special Sales again at Etsy, this week my specials are 20% off all collage paintings and 15% off anything in my sale section.

here are some of my latest pieces....these are all up in my shop right now. The last two pieces with the women with the flowers in their hair are actually part of a Gypsy Girl art card set.

chat more on Monday with you all...

xoxoxoxo

The French make Lindsay Lohan seem less trashy

Morning my dearest most darling ones!!!

So as I sit an d type this I once again am enjoying the solitude before.....MEAN CHEESE WEEKEND!!!!!

yup, she is on her way (well, not really we pick her up tonight, but it seems strangely ominous if I say she's on her way...never mind).

Where the hell did this week go? First it is Monday, and then next thing I know it's Friday, and the entire week has been a blur of paint covered hands and packaging parcels and secretly watching General Hospital.

I need to say how adorable you all are, there were several of you who after reading my last post about the non paying buyers who sent me the most adorable little messages asking if I was referring to them.... of course not!!!!!!

No my non paying buyers I believe are not even real people, just imaginary names and address which have been a plague to many lately.

So yesterday I very briefly got to see my friend Diana, she is an amazingly supportive woman, she is the one that got Keith the "in" at the magazine for a possible monthly comic strip (I am so excited for him I could almost burst), also if I ever have the money I am going to hire her as my agent!!!

She hosted an amazing party for my art back in the fall, and next week we are getting together because she wants to work on framing some pieces for a boutique she has talked to about me...yay.

and.....she brought me the most glorious pile of magazine's last night when she came by to pick up a painting and so Keith could give her little boy guitar lessons....

The best part of the magazine pile was a breathtaking magazine called L'Officiel, which a friend of hers picked up for me a couple weeks ago when he was in Switzerland, he is now roaming the world buying me fashion magazines at every location.

OMG!!!! How cool is that? I took a photo of the cover, please note how pretty Lindsay Lohan looks, not at all like the trashy street whore she looks like right now, also the awesome fashion photo shoots inside are breathtaking, this is why I love everything French (like me..oui).

I think it might be my new favorite magazine of the moment...besides Vogue of course, but hello...that's like my bible, so that's a given.

my shop has been bustling the past several weeks, and because of that I am proud to say (drum roll please) that for the first time in the history of me living in Columbus, that I have paid my electric bill down to zero dollars!!!!

Now that may not be huge to most people, but to me....well it's a moment to celebrate...ok celebration over....time to giddy up and go get some work done and the house tidied up before meany cheesy gets here. I am going to be on the Etsy Showcase on Monday and Tuesday so I really need to get some things done today as well as Sunday Night...

I have 4 amazing little pieces to list today that I am just love, loving!!! One is pictured above and it is called "If All Ladies Leaving Left Like Her" it will be for sale in my etsy shop at about 9:30 am EST. I love it, I used a vintage fashion image taken by Horst. P. Horst that I absolutely adore.

Oh and you should all know that the collage that Gillian is using in her corset project sold yesterday!!

I have Bon Jovi Stuck in my head

Hey Busters

OMG, so yesterday was comic day at the shop and I was there all day, I forgot how sleepy and drained it made me...

though I am glad I was there as I got to see a few of my most favorite people on the planet, one being my friend Ryan, and one being my friend Steve who is just the most wonderful man to gab about Heroes, comics, and boys with....

Awesome.

though, I missed my little Stiletto World yesterday, after all I was up and out of the house in the cold bright air while I am usually here, sitting and sipping a mocha and chatting it up with all of you....

which I just love, well what a few weeks it's been, everything is a big fat blur to me, I can't believe it's already Thursday and we are getting the mean cheese this weekend...oh and the Oscars are Sunday. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

eep. But what to wear???????

I wanted to wear my Oscar dress...but sadly too many mochas and cakes are still preventing me from squeezing myself into it.

maybe I will do understated, very fab skirt with a plain black top and then spice it up with some jewelry.

Can I tell you, I think I am feeling that spring is in the air because I just so very badly want to go shopping, we also have our big trip to Pittsburgh in April and I love to have new cloths for that, oh that reminds me, I need to get a hotel for that weekend.

Damn, I thought we were very ahead of the schedule, but now I realize no hotel, no good.

Here is where I need to take a minute to vent, first I need to add the disclaimer of I love 95% of the wonderful people who buy from me at Etsy, I have chatted with the majority of them and they are all fabulous. That being said, I have been drowning in a sea of non paying buyers at the moment.

sigh....I feel like a thug from the Sopranos sending out invoices and "demanding my money", I am like a collage pimp and my "bitches" aren't giving me my share.

Don;t they realize that this is my job...don't they realize they are depriving me of purse money...or better yet, Shoe Money????????

I think they are most likely savages, after all who but a savage would deprive a girl of pretty little things to wear.

Oh, totally off the subject, my darling bubs might be doing a comic strip for a magazine!!!! It's a kids and teens Martial Arts magazine, they are working on the first issue now. I don;t want to say too much, but he was hard at work last night on ideas, all of which were ridiculously hilarious.

Some of you might have seen his cartoons in the back of Stiletto Heights #2 and 3, he does the little gag strip called "Petite Heights" which is based on me and my family when I was a little girl, sadly people have called it "Peanuts on crack" before they knew it was about me...lol.

well, I must dash, I have blogs that I am dying to read, pictures to be taken and a bunch of stuff to be listed and packaged up.

The image shown today is one of the pieces that I will be listing a bit later today, it is called "Icon" and it features my very favorite image of Coco Chanel....I will also be listing some new collage slater that are very different and cool for me. My shop is totally depleted right now so I am hoping to get some really great stuff in there today.

keep your eyes peeled for them.

until next time...which you know, means tomorrow or later on today via the comments.

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

I Love Everything In You That Hurts...

Have to dash to the comic shop today, so sorry loves...no really long and beautiful blog today, may later I will surprise you all with stories.

Until then or until tomorrow, this is the latest piece in my shop, I totally snatched the line away from "Closer"...

I'm in a plain Jane Jones mood today.

it is called "I Love Everything In You That Hurts" and it is available for sale in my etsy shop.

xoxoxoxox

a little of this and a dash of that

hello strangers

how are you all today? have you all gotten your senses back from our weekend long slumber party???

I will say with all seriousness, that I had a lot of fun, as you all know since moving to Ohio a few years ago I have been all consumed with work all the time, so making friends and "having a life" has sort of been low on the priority list...so this past weekend was a most welcome distraction, it was also fun for me to "introduce my boys" Aaron and Ben to my world of mad cap internet divas!!!

Oh, and for those of you just watching from the sidelines who didn't participate....please do next time, even if it's only a comment....

I know who some of you are.......Michelle (Manxxie), Debbie, Clemencia and on and on...don't just be silent stalkers!!!

lol

oh, now to get back to the "real world" or as real as my world gets these days, I feel as though I am so very dreadfully behind on things, though I know I don;t have a schedule to really adhere too.

My shop on etsy had very few items in it at the moment, far fewer than I have had since before Christmas, but I am not stressed about that at all, I have some wonderful small pieces that I will be listing today.....I am so excited about them!!!

Oh, and yesterday I got to my 700th item sold mark...crazy......

ok so yesterday my bubs and I were able to gout for a brief bit and grab a bite to eat, again there was just an overwhelming attack on my senses by just being out of my little cocoon of a work space and house...

I was just flabbergasted and left wondering...what is wrong with people????

don't they have mirrors??? I know, I know....I always go on and on about the same thing, why are people wearing their jammies outside, why are they all disheveled....why, why why?????

Well yesterday I see this young mom, with her babies daddy and she was wearing these giant rubber galoshes / boots and they were bright pink, with like ducks and stuff on them, and they matched her baby bag perfectly....

they were like the boots your moomy forces you to wear when you are just small and can't fight back.

well she was wearing these things and carrying the baby bag and I noticed...she had no purse with her, assuming then that she held all her personal things in the baby bag, so lip gloss, cell phone, wallet, powder...all in the same bag with the baby butt pants.

now, I am not a mom (full time) so I do not claim in the very slightest to understand how how hard it is (and I KNOW it's hard, we have the mean cheese for 3 days and I fall into a coma of exhaustion when she is gone)....but is this what happens...when you have children, you just stop carrying a purse all together and start wearing galoshes???

I'm sorry but you never see Angelina Jolie wearing galoshes...what about Sarah Jessica Parker...galoshes and no purse...nope.

oh and you have to understand, that there was no reason to be wearing bad shoes yesterday, I was wearing 4 inch heels on knee high black boots...and it was fine.

ok, sorry...I had to get that out....I guess I am just so into having cute purses and shoes that I can't imagine forsaking them like that, I mean, purses and shoes have always been there for me...

ok, moving on.

So did you all see the collage I featured on yesterdays hot boys blog??? I believe that will be the collage that the beautiful Gillian will be using in the "corset project" for the upcoming "Ooh La La Burlesque" exhibit.

I am ridiculously excited that she asked to use on of my pieces in her corset, she will be printing the collage onto leather and making a corset out of it....

Oh my god...see to me, this is a dream come true, fashion and art....oh, and England and a lovely costume designer.....

I wish I could fly there for the exhibit...in my mind I am jet set enough to do that, and by jet set, all I mean is I would have enough money to do it.

So thinking of costumes and everything got me thinking about when I was doing a ton of theater in New Hampshire, and it got me in my head reminiscing about my past...and you know what is strange? Besides a few people in particular the only things I really miss about "back then" are all strangely material, or they are places.

Like I miss the Thai place down the street from the Palace Theater, and I miss going to classes at the NHIA, and the Currier Museum, and I miss the old mill buildings...but I also miss some of the stuff I used to own, 98% of which was left behind in my mad dash away from the ex, one thing in particular that I miss was the beautiful gold velvet ornate chair that I git at a thrift store when I moved into my first apartment in 1995....I got the chair for a mere $5.

I have no photos of it, but when looking through a stack of old torn out images I found one that was similar so I did this piece with it...very different than usual, but I think it still tells a story.

It is called Diary Of This Room, and I have it listed in my etsy shop.

Swoon...and a thank you

this is how I spent the rest of my weekend....watched Justin on SNL, watched Inventing the Abbots, listened to some Chris Isaak...and of course, painted a little....and made a bunch of stuff to re-stock my etsy shop.

(check out how hot Joaquin is in that picture...)

Tomorrow (monday) there will be no blog from me, as my bubs has the day off, and now...so do I.

thanks to everyone for making this slumber party weekend a total blast....we will do it again!

love you all, lots and lots.

xoxo

Pointless quiz time from the Snow Bunny

1st here's the business....

tonight I am running a Saturday Night Sale on Etsy, my specials are......

30% off all items in my SALE section

20% off all paintings

10% off all pendants

Just write SNS in the message to seller section and wait for an invoice....

ok, done with that. I am so excited for Saturday Night Live tonight, it's not even funny!!!!!! I have posted a quiz, thanks to lovely Karin Beth for sending it to me, this is only half of it...yes, it's ridiculous and maybe a bit vapid, but.....we're having a slumber party for F's sake...

please answer questions in your comments on this blog.


1. How do you take your steak?
Meatless.

2. When was the last time you took a nap?
2 weeks ago

3.Whats your favorite soda?
low carb monster (does that count?)

4. What was the most exciting thing to happen to you in the last month?
Sold my comic shop and started to do art full time

5. Who was the last person to call you?
The woman who runs the Pittsburgh Comic Convention

6. To text you?
I don't text...

7. To send you a Myspace message?
clemencia

8. Do you still talk to your ex?
No...he's still pissed about me divorcing him

9. Last person you rode in a car with?
bubs.

10. Ever kiss anyone in your top friends?
yes, like a jillion years ago, and only once.

11. What kind of underpants do you wear?
Thongs.

12. Do you have cingular?
no

13. What's your favorite thing to do?
kissing the boys and making them cry...actually just kissing my bf

14. How old will you be on your next birthday?
32...ouch

15. Have you ever eaten dog food?
No.

16. Do you paint your toenails?
No.

17. Do you like to ski?
Me and winter don't get a long so good

18. Ever meet anyone famous?
the guy who payed Parker Lewis hit on me once, I have met Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters, Margot Kidder, the guy who played Darth Maul, the big goon from Ocean's 11, the girl who played Glory on Buffy, Noel Neil- the original Lois Lane, The Soup Nazi from Seinfeld....um, joyce Dewitt from Three's Company...

19. What instant messaging service do you use?
none...but I used to AIM

20. Have you ever been out of the country?
Yes.

21. Who is your 5th contact in your cell's phone book?
No idea...

22. What is your favorite number?
7

23. Most hated food?
meats and strawberries both give me hives

24. How many animals did you pet today?
0

25. Who was your favorite teacher when you were a freshman?
no idea...

26. What are you worried about?
the mean cheese

27. Have you ever had a panic attack?
YES!

28. Do you like anyone?
I like a lot of people but I "like" like my bubs

29. What color is your hair? brown, with too much grey

30. What do you smell like right now?
wet wool sweater, please see picture (I snuckmout to put the shovel up against my neighbors place, hoping to trick them into shoveling)

later loves...

oh, and stalk the following people.

aimee
aaron
gillian
ben
evil kate
tara
michelle
vanessa
karin beth
jungle dream pagoda
rebekah
Kandeedo Bandeedo the artist formerly known as Cinderella's Revenge

Morning sunshines

You will not believe it...it is SNOWING again, damn it....

luckily I have all of you to keep me company....

speaking of that...we have more blogs that are feeling the party...including...the BOYS....

Aaron and Ben have jazzed up the blogs...with photos, and let me tell you, they both brought alcohol, just what kind of girls do they think we are?????

Also, lovely miss Vanessa has also joined in the fun.

also, make sure to catch up on the rest of the blogs too, Gillian, Aimee, The Artist (formerly known as Cindarella's Revenge, and Karin Beth are all slumbertastic too.

here's the complete list, I will be back later, perhaps with photos of me in the snow...

aimee
aaron
gillian
ben
evil kate
tara
michelle
vanessa
karin beth
jungle dream pagoda
rebekah
Kandeedo Bandeedo the artist formerly known as Cinderella's Revenge

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxxoxoxo