Bonjour tout le monde! Je suis en Paris this week but I shall keep you up to your ears in kissing film stills, nonetheless!
Louise Brooks pulling back from an embrace. I think that’s a balloon she’s holding!
A kiss captured among decomposing nitrate.
I think this photo hints at a lot more than kissing! Meow!
James Cagney under the full force of the flower girl.
I love it when I can capture them in a full on face smoosh. Baby Take a Bow (1934)

• It was so beautiful out this week! I biked past a street corner where a man was selling sno-cones to quite a crowd. Oh, Texas weather!
• Stitching off a batch of Tidy Cloths to send out to the Museum of Sex – they will start selling them in their gift shop in April.
• Getting tattooed by Nick Baxter – packing my vegan picnic lunch and preparing for rib work – eee!
• Listen to Sophie Madeline play the ukulele and you will heart it too!
• Reading “Lost Princess of Oz” in the original 1913 edition.
• Seeing a live-action Silent Movie acted out by a group of amazing Austin artists. I saw it not once, but twice. Once on a date with a super cute boy and once with my bff on a lady date.
• Taking a shower and setting my hair for the morning to the beat of the metal band playing in my living room.
• Literally just wearing vintage lingerie to work to protect my fresh tattoo and I kept getting compliments on my “nice dress!”
• Whiskey, fiddles and red head girls.
• Looking forward to getting tattooed in Paris, also.
• SXSW is so soon! I get to see all my favorite internet people in the meat world! Anja, Gala, Chad, Laurel, Molly Crabapple, Angel and so many more! Also… all of the cuteable crust punk boys who migrate from Colorado and always end up staying in my co-op and filling up the commons with their dirty feet and piles of candy – LOVE IT!
• So excited about my sxsw waffle & jam party!! Got so many gumdrops and tea cups and glittery things to gather as soon as I get back from ….
• GOING TO PARIS ON FRIDAY!!!!

1. Giant Dwarf // Starlette Crown, 2. Flippedy Doo-Da: Style Inspiration, 3. Madeleine mini bloomers, 4. Tattoo 001, 5. sshot-1421, 6. vintage velvet mustard dress, 7. Teacup and Roses, 8. Cheap Frills, 9. tea, my dear? <3

We started on my new tattoo piece last Friday. I tried to take photos of it but it’s in such a unique angle that a video did it the most justice. I’m so excited about it! You can see Nick’s work on his wonderful website.

One thing that I was going to say (that got cut off in the video) is that I got the “Lost Princess of Oz” primarily because I saw it in the Henry Darger documentary and I loved his little frog feet.

Mine is a reproduction phonograph, but I hope someday when I have a proper career that I can get a giant one for my sitting parlor that is hand painted and ridiculous.

Phonograph Player – Dancing Feet

1. Phonograph Cake, 2. music to my ears, 3. Thanks, Mr. Edison! (Steve Jobs), 4. pavillon horn pathephone n12 – 28, 5. Evelyn Wonders Why Ghosts Appear Every Time She Plays Her Favorite Records, 6. phono, 7. colorific, 8. Dish antenna that yawns, 9. Edison’s Phonograph

• Purple beret – military supply store, Seattle
• Flapper headband from Louise Black
• Damask earrings
• Black sweater – Express, had it since 1998 when I went clothing shopping for my sophomore year in high school
• 1950s plaid dress
• White slip
• Purple stockings
• Brown/Black t straps

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

The blouse I’m wearing is from Jitterbuggin’ on etsy. It’s so cute! All handmade and they come in bigger sizes, too. I ordered one more just like it (it has kittens on it).
I’ve been needing some more blouses that don’t button up the front. My buttons have a habit of unloosening themselves. Can’t have that! When I saw Drew Barrymore in Grey Gardens last week I knew what I wanted the basic shape to be.
I got these glasses a few years ago when I first moved to Austin, on my first trip to Uncommon Objects. They were a bit crooked, but I took them to an eyeglasses shop and they heated them up and put them right. However, they told me it would be a $70 charge to simply put glass in the frames, so I just wear them plain and hope that no one thinks it strange.

Today I had to fight off Harry Potter references at work. They’re more like Harold Lloyd, anyways!

I don’t mind overloading on stripes.
Tonight I’m going on a date to see a live-action silent movie.
I think this is an okay second date outfit? I never know what to wear!

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!