• Headband with vintage millinery flower, electric blue lace and maroon accents by Louise Black
• 1950s style electric blue lace dress – Buffalo Exchange
• Black stretchy belt – American Apparel
• Alice in Wonderland brooch – gift from my sister when she was in England
• Locket – my 6th birthday present from my grandfather Burch
• Maroon flats – Target

Before I get to work, I need to arrange the wall of Ugly Dolls! I realize that I always take outfit photos outside of the toy store, but I hardly ever show the inside. It’s very colorful and hard to focus on just one background. I like this dress, as I feel it strikes a balance between my vintage style and the colorful background in which I work. We have a selection of vintage photographs, including my boyfriend Clark Gable and a charming poster for Waring’s Pennsylvanians.

• Red ribbon in my hair
• Ruby Woo on my lips
• 1950s creme dress with lace inset – Buffalo Exchange, ATX
• Vintage red slip underneath – Buffalo Exchange, ATX
• Red stretchy belt – American Apparel (by way of a free box at my house)
• Black knee socks
• Red reproduction 1930s dance shoes – Dance Store

Today was B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L! After work I went on a long bike ride and sat under some windy trees that were in full bloom with jasmine and honeysuckle scents wafting in. Spring! You are so short, but so so sweet!

Bellewether wears

• a yellow rosebud dress
• with peach cameo
• yellow hand dyed vintage slip (embroidered by me, it reads “C’mon sweetheart, show me yours!”)
• and her little butterscotch shoes.

• 1940s blouse with vegetable print – Amelia’s Retro Vogue, ATX
• 1950s sheer dress (worn as skirt) – Buffalo Exchange, ATX
• Sheer stockings with cuban heels and stripe
• Green bead earrings – made by me
• Remix Vintage Shoes in Avocado

My curl is looking specifically geometric this morning.
This is the face of staying up dancing until 3 am at Azz Everywhere.
I nearly passed up this blouse when I first tried it on… because although I do like novelty prints, I feel kind of corny when I wear them. This blouse is so darling, and it matches my avocado-colored shoes in an uncanny way. Speaking of novelty prints, I have one dress with perfume bottle print and one with rooster print that I wear on heavy rotation. Other prints I have include:

• Renaissance men and women holding pitchforks
• Kittens lapping creme from tea cups
• Patio furniture and flower pots
• Smiling clovers

As fitting, I ate a whole tub of guacamole from Torchy’s for my breakfast and lunch. I love bein’ fat with some avocados and coconuts! Oh, and the best news to happen this month is that my corner co-op grocery started carrying Daiya cheese so now I can have cheeze sprinkles on everything. I <3 cheese as a garnish and it’s so wonderful to have it back in my life (in facsimile) on pizzas, chilis and toast.
This outfit reminds me of Mrs. Frizzle from the Magic School Bus series:

I think I’ve subconsciously adopted Mrs. Frizzle’s attitude toward teaching in my own teaching philosophies. Of course, I won’t have a flying talking school bus, but I know how to make history more alive. Last week I worked on a lesson plan that involved listening to Woody Guthrie and Rudy Vallee tunes from the Great Depression and defending their importance for a new (fictional) CD box set put out by the Smithsonian Museum.

• Lace/Grey dress – Buffalo Exchange
• Necklace – from www.etsy.com/shop/swanbones
• Gold/Creme bow belt, from a 1950s dress that fell apart several years ago
• White/Black polka dot stockings (I think from H&M)
• black flats

Today is the day after 5 hours of tattoo work on my phonograph lady… I was a little disoriented this morning and didn’t realize that the tights aren’t quite the right shade!

• Ric Rac as headband
• Art Nouveau-ish earrings – Urban Outfitters
• 1950s? Strawberry House Dress – Ebay
• Strawberry bank
• Vintage slip
• Remix Vintage Shoes “Greta” in Green

Today was so pretty outside! I sat on my porch for a few hours and glued photographs into an album. At sunset, I went on a long bikeride over the bridge to eat Blueberry Oven Cakes at Bouldin Creek and recount my Parisian adventures to a friend.

This is one of those dresses that I seem to have a million of: 1950s silhouette, plaid, kind of brown. I swear I have at least six. I picked this one out because it has purply undertones and I like to haul out my purple accessories every once in a while.

This seems to be the formula for my outfits lately:

1. Headband from Louise Black and/or a beret
2. Light Cotton dress (with lots of underslips)
3. Black cardigan
4. Colored stockings
5. T Strap shoes

• Cotton collar with embroidery I did
• Vintage navy sweater with rhinestones
• Bow belt – lost from another dress
• 1950s printed floral skirt
• Remix vintage shoes

It’s raining! I know you can’t really tell from these photos. That’s why I have my hair in such a tight set in these photos. It reminds me of of octopus tentacles or curly fern leafs. I didn’t want the rain to ruin it before I went to see the Pretty Things Peepshow tonight!



This collar is listed on etsy!

• 1920s Cloche – Ebay
• Faux Fur Stole – Coquette Faux Furriers
• 1960s creme coat – St. Vincent de Paul
• Fingerless knit gloves
• 1940s suit top
• Green belt – Decades Vintage, PDX
• Green and creme lace dress – Buffalo Exchange, ATX
• Striped Stockings – Sockdreams.com
• Brown and Black t strap shoes – Target

After a few days of 70F weather, the arctic winds have shifted and now it’s 30F in the mornings! I’m taking this last chance to go all out with my winter accessories. Stay tuned for the Shocking Pink faux fur stole and matching muff tomorrow!

Oh little cloche hat! I got it for a song on ebay forever and ever ago. It was one of the first things I ever got from the 1920s and I’ve treasured it ever since. It’s got it’s own little hat stand (a taxidermy bell jar, see below) on my dressing table. This shot below is from when I lived in Oregon in 20o6.

• 1930s angular beret – Alexandra’s Vintage, PDX
• 1950s? Cotton Dress with leaves and rooster print – Buffalo Exchange, Austin, Texas
• Yellow hair facinatior I’ve worn as a brooch – www.etsy.com/shop/giantdwarf
• Yellow ribbon as belt – I think this was tied around something I got from etsy!
• Black patterned stockings
• Yellow road stripe heels

I look pretty wholesome and sweet, save for the black, pointed nails!
It’s so very windy outside today! All of my wind chimes woke me up this morning!
I love these garters! I bought them from an etsy store that only had one thing for sale, EVER, and it was this pair! They are hand-painted little flapper girl faces. She’s perfect: reddish hair, blue eyes and red lips! I’ve emailed the company several times to see if they were going to make more but I’ve never gotten a reply. Etsy is like that sometimes!
There was a band playing at my house until 3 am so I’m a bit tired. It was difficult to sleep.

Have a nice Sunday, everyone! I hope it’s sunny where you are.

• Red Bandana
• Necklace from Kelly L Judd of Swan Bones Theatre
• 1950s sheer red dress – Cheap Thrills, Fay. Arkansas
• Vintage scarf around waist – Estate sale I think?
• Brown knee socks
• Brown/tan shoes from Secyhelles

Sorry, no close-up today. I was up late late late working on issue #5 of Doublespeak, which is SO long over due it’s not even funny. I drank loads of coffee and ate too much sugar and ended up not letting up until around 3am. I tell you all this because I didn’t wash my hair, hence the teased nest+bandana combination. While I was biking to work this morning a homeless man yelled “I LOVE LUCY!” and also one of my customers asked me if I liked “I Love Lucy.”
Okay, I see that we both have blue eyes, red lipstick and red hair, but there are more subtle differences: my eyes are more teal, my hair is less carroty (and floofy, usually), my lips have a different silhouette.

Here is Belleweather again. I think we are going to craft and watch bits of Carnivale, Season 2 tonight. I love the production design of this show and I love the The Dreifuss family: their style, their story, everything.
This is from Wikipedia:
To give a sense of the dry and dusty environment of the Dust Bowl, smoke and dirt were constantly blown through tubes onto the set. The actors’ clothes were ragged and drenched in dirt, and Carnivàle had an estimated 5,000 people costumed in the show’s first season alone. The creative team listened to 1930s music and radio and read old Hollywood magazines to get the period’s sound, language, and slang right. The art department had an extensive research library of old catalogs, among them an original 1934 Sears Catalog, which were purchased at flea markets and antique stores. The East European background of some characters and Asian themes in Brother Justin’s story were incorporated into the show. Except for the show’s supernatural elements, a historical consultant deemed Carnivàle’s historic accuracy to be excellent in regard to the characters’ lives and clothes, their food and accommodations, their cars and all the material culture.
8 million USD were the budget for each of the episodes! No wonder they look so amazing!