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Pictures from this weekend

Mirrored Box Seats

Imposing Against The Sky

Theatrical Light Rigging

Everyone Is Welcome To Stay Forever

A Most Elegant Pianoforte

Waiting To Be Filled With Souls

Follow The Yellow Brick Road I

Follow The Yellow Brick Road II

Follow The Yellow Brick Road III

Encroaching Blackness

Two Sketches

The Way Is Blocked

Descent Into Shadow

Beautiful Friday

I went out with Patrick after work yesterday and picked up my pill refill plus some nail polish. I got two shades, gold and a dark grey. They are called Nefertiti and Stormy Weather, both by Deborah Lippmann if anyone is interested. I love them! I painted my nails last night while Patrick played through some pieces on his trombone. Stormy Weather went on my toes, and Nefertiti currently graces my hands.

I tried taking a picture of my toes with the polish on them, but it is very difficult to get a flattering photograph of your own feet. I gave up. Just pretend you can see the dark grey polish on them. It's quite lovely.

An awful lot of next week is going to be dedicated to various types of therapy. Massage, physical, doctor visits, etc. I hope all this helps. I had a killer headache last night, but it finally went away. Probably stress and muscle tension. Glad that's gone.

In other news, I've discovered 750 Words, which is basically a site dedicated to getting you to write more. What about? Anything! It's free, and it's sort of fascinating. After you've written stuff, you can look at the various statistics it compiles about your writing (subject, focus, mood, etc). Some of the algorithm's conclusions are ridiculous, but that kind of adds to the fun. For example, yesterday I wrote my first three pages (that is approximately what 750 words works out to), and it informed me that I was a negative introvert who was upset about death. It exaggerated a little bit... I AM NOT UPSET ABOUT DEATH, DAMN IT! Ahem. Anyway, it gave me a chuckle. Your writings are completely private unless you choose to share them. It's an interesting idea if you're looking for something to motivate you to write more often.

Without further ado, this week's beautiful picks (click on each to be taken to its larger version):













Beautiful Friday

Various things on me hurt today, and both pipetting and bending down really hurt my back, but I was able to shower by myself last night. So that's an improvement. On Wednesday I couldn't even have done that. I took some pills for my back this afternoon, and I hope they help. I kind of wonder if massage is going to be enough. I don't really think so. We'll see.

Today's pictures are all of one item, "Wild Roses" by Royal Black. This house of couture corsetry is based in Vienna, Austria. If I could afford this piece of art, I would definitely wear it. Here is what the artist says about her creation:

Luxurious couture outfit, including an underbust corset with suspenders and neckholder strap, neckholder bra and draped skirt piece.

The corset is made from shantung silk and is decorated with french lace appliqué, PVC cutwork and 3D roses, leaves and tendrils. The PVC ornaments are self designed lasercut motifs, carefully arranged by hand. Also each rose is decorated with Swarovski crystals.

The bra is covered in handpleated silk organza, decorated with PVC tendrils.
The skirt piece is a delicate drapery of the same silk organza.







More new art!

I blame Emilie Autumn.





Deathcake & Teacup




New art!

Drawn while listening to Emilie Autumn's awesome new album Fight Like A Girl.

Beautiful Friday

I think I'm going to start a tradition wherein every Friday I post pictures of beauty in its various shapes and forms. Some of these I want to wear, some I want to be, and some just make my eyes and soul happy.

Enjoy.



















Art in progress

Trying some more new stuff. I think I've decided I shouldn't ever try to draw things that actually look like something (i.e. anything other than abstracts). I drew a swing on this one to see what I thought, and I am still not that great at it. Maybe if I drew 1000 swings I'd get really good, but I don't think I care that much.

This is on the same paper as the organic French curve, and that is what you see little bits of on the left. My canva-paper is kind of huge. And yeah, I know I screwed up the 3D on that one thing at the top, but that's the problem with doing things in Sharpie. Once wrong, gotta live with it! Or completely cover it up... Anyway this is just what I've been up to lately. Not meant to be a final product.

Observations

  • I was going to wear my awesome new fascinator today, and I even brought it with me, but halfway to work I decided I felt too tired and ill to deal with being stared at and poked by curious humans, so I left it in Patrick's car. I'll wear it when I feel like I can better handle the extra attention.
  • The neighbors next to us have this infuriatingly perfect-looking Stepford house and yard, so I was delighted to see that their current lawn ornament, supposed to look like a rustic homage to western wildlife, got sort of angled incorrectly and now appears to be a rusted-out buffalo taking a dump on their front lawn. It's the small pleasures, you know?
  • I finally managed to rid myself of this bag of junk from the attic I've been driving around in my car for approximately a month. I wanted to throw it away but I didn't want to get arrested for illegally dumping it, and we only have one 32-gal garbage can removed per month, so I had been looking for a good place to throw it away. I found to my surprise that I could cram it in the can for this month's collection, so I'm very pleased to have that gone. Just 350 more pounds of loft stuff to go! Sigh.
  • This cold at least isn't in my lungs, which is a good thing, but it is making my sinuses feel like they're stuffed with cement. I can't wait until this crap is gone. SO tired of being sick.

Been a bit ill

Sorry I've been absent from the blogging world. I got a cold and I've been under the weather. Bleah. Anyway, I felt a bit better today, so my sister came up after work and we had a shopping trip! Super fun and bought the most amazing head thing. Fascinator? Quasi-hat? Whatever. It's made of rad. The gays in Westlake loved it.

Pictures from today

I have been so up and down and all around. Two days ago and most of yesterday I was extremely hypomanic, then crashed (emotionally) on the way home from visiting my sister and sobbed uncontrollably for about half the trip. SIGH. No reason other than the crash from the hypomania. Fortunately Patrick was driving. Today I was back on the high end of my mood spectrum, so we got gussied up and went out to indulge my craving for attention in a safe fashion.

We went to a store called Otherworlds in Edmonds, and it was amazing! So much steampunk stuff, I nearly had to lie down. Sadly I was unable to find a suitable tophat or blouse, but I did find some amazing earrings. I tried on a bunch of hats, and they all looked awesome (I am a hat person), but were too expensive. After we came home, I worked on some more art. Pictures are below:
Before we went. 10% off if they like your outfit! That streak is our mirror being dirty. Sorry.
Clockwork earrings I got there. Super light and they actually turn when you touch them!

I know these are probably repetitive for y'all, but they are oddly cathartic for me.
And by the way, that isn't a break in that one curve. There was evidently some lint on the canvas, as I discovered after looking at the picture. I wasn't inclined to retake it, so apologies for that.

As Maurice Herzog so memorably said, "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men." Indeed there are. My Annapurna is madness. 

I would wear the hell out of this.

From artist ukapala, in Ireland.
I love gothic heart jewelry. It's just lovely. I think my friend Jenn was right a year or five ago when she said the closest word to describe my weird-ass style was probably "steampunk". Although I also favor "profoundly insane". Anyway, I love ornate things, red, black, green, blue, black-and-white stripes, clockworks mixed with organic designs, frilly things, flowy things, and so forth.
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