Made from tiny whispers of the past, this fairytale cream mink fur collar has a red silk droplet where the hunter has pierced your heart on a full moon, revealing your true form. A Victorian cream silk and lace pleated ruffle forms an epaulet over one shoulder, with a wee fleur de lys pattern and [...]

So besides the fact that pretty much every band these days has a name that sounds like a Kate Wolf lyric, there are some good things coming out. I’ve been super into sludgy folk psych (uhhh, like everyone else) and if anyone wants to start a band with me, let me know. I HAVE A [...]

Here’s a secret: I love Valentine’s Day.  When I was little, we’d wake up on Valentine’s morning and my mother would have tiny gifts on our breakfast plates. They were always red or heart themed, I remember one pair of red leather gloves I loved to bits. She’d make heart shaped pancakes and send us [...]

from hijirik.etsy.com I need to get a frame & hang this where I can see it when I wake up. Though I’d still have to go to work, which puts a wee damper on living purely what I love. For now!!  In a dream world, this is how I’d live what I love ~ from [...]

Some amazing updates to the shop, including 2 of my favorite finds ever! A grey wool 1970′s princess coat, and a 1940′s dress with ruching and pockets and puffed sleeves & oh oh oh perfection. Click the link to the left or visit Etsy! Saturday afternoon tea and cookies dress! I got this one in [...]

New wig! On the way home from cake times I stopped in a wig shop. It was filled with some pretty fabulous Oakland ladies, and a tiny wee girl who sat with me at the boudoir table and asked all sorts of questions about why anyone would have wigs. She also let me know that [...]

I was feeling a bit down yesterday afternoon so I took a lovely walk in the sunshine to Crixa Cakes. It’s one of the very strong benefits of my neighborhood (along with Ici, Tail of the Yak, & Ital Calabash) & a cozy place to sit and draw. To be honest, the walk itself cheered [...]

1. Aspen ~ A multimedia magazine of the arts published by Phyllis Johnson from 1965 to 1971. Each issue came in a customized box filled with booklets, phonograph recordings, posters, postcards — one issue even included a spool of Super-8 movie film. Be sure to read Letters from Vali in no. 9. 2. Annie Besant ~  [...]

Growing up in Vermont meant summer at Bread & Puppet’s Domestic Resurrection Circus. It was an important part of the formative years of my life, visually, politically, and socially. I was exposed to communal camping, food, working together, art on a scale I hadn’t imagined before, and life life life. We’d camp all weekend, bring [...]

I love coming across groundbreaking female artists from the past, it’s so refreshing and inspiring! By 1921 Madame Yevonde had become a well-known and respected portrait photographer. In the early 1930s, Yevonde began experimenting with colour photography. The introduction of colour photography was not universally popular; indeed photographers and public alike were so used to [...]

I spent the long weekend in San Diego, as my mother is there for a month taking care of her parents. For me, being around family is surreal – we are not “family people” inherently, and witnessing behaviours and being around this curious tribe that looks like you and acts like you is strange but [...]

I’ve already posted my love of handmade houses, and so many of them are made of salvage. While the cabin I’m building does have some new materials for warmth, I am using all salvaged windows and doors, and any fabulous elements I find. Aurora pointed me to these amazing photos of the home of art [...]