nursing myself back to health

bandaid necklace by pinktophat

partied a wee bit too hard this weekend. feeling like dirt. be good as new tomorrow, i promise.

60s paperback from vvpaperemporium

red cross earrings from steampunkjunq

say ahhhhh pocket mirror by sweetperversion

vintage play boxes from goodandplenty

red nursing shoes from VintageDove

j'aime [bow]coup

this bracelet is so whimsical and fun. don't know if i'd marry it, but i'd certainly mess around with it a bit.

hair today...

i am in serious need of a haircut. i'm trying desperately to grow it long again, but the middle stage can be so awkward and excrutiatingly boring. while pondering my coif dilema, i was reminded of my childhood love of Crystal Gayle's shiny mane.

does anyone else remember that? as a very young girl, i thought her hair was the most beautiful thing on earth. i would dream of someday having hair as long as hers. now? ...not so much. bit horsey. neigh. still love that duet with Eddie Rabbit though. Just You And I-I-I....

tiny wee street art

Slinkachu's Little People project has reached new levels in Grottaglie, Italy, with his largest piece yet. so charming :)

all the king's women #8 - dolores del rio

in 1905, Dolores Martínez Asúnsolo y López Negrete was born to an aristocratic family in Durango, Mexico. the family lost everything they had in the Mexican revolution of 1916 and emigrated to Mexico City, where Dolores became a socialite. in 1921 she married Jaime del Río, and the two moved to Hollywood to launch careers in the movie business (she as an actress, he as a screenwriter). Dolores made her first film, Joanna, in 1925, and the couple divorced shortly after.

during the silent era, Dolores' career soared. she became the first Mexican movie star with international appeal and was often hailed as 'the female Valentino'. Orson Welles, with whom Dolores had an affair that would end her second of three marriages, referred to her as "the most exciting woman i've ever met".

with the advent of sound, however, came many forgettable roles for del Río, who eventually left Hollywood for Mexico in 1942. at the age of 37, filming in Spanish for the first time, del Río was partly responsible for creating what is referred to as the Golden Era of Mexican Cinema. with films such as María Candelaria (Xochimilco) (1944), Las abandonadas (1945) and Bugambilia (1945), she became the prototypical Mexican beauty in foreign countries.

in 1954, she was set to appear in the 20th Century Fox film Broken Lance, but was denied permission to work in the USA, accused of being a communist sympathizer by the U.S. government. it wasn't until 1960 that Dolores finally returned to Hollywood, playing the part of Elvis' native american mother in Flaming Star, Elvis' sixth film, costarring Barbara Eden.

del Río continued making films in both Mexico and the U.S. until 1978. On April 11, 1983, she died from liver disease at the age of 77, in Newport Beach, California.

if polygamy were legal #22

if polygamy were legal, i would marry this dress at city hall and buy her an apartment in manhattan. :)

video vendredi - red riding hood reinterpreted

above is Tomas Nilson's answer to a school assignment calling for a reinterpretation of Little Red Riding Hood. were i his professor, i'd've slapped an A+ on this fer sure.

yesterday's muse #8 - dorian leigh

Dorian Leigh (born Dorian Elizabeth Leigh Parker, sister of the afore mention muse Suzy Parker) was another of those considered to be among the first 'super models'. Dorian worked from 1945 until the early 1960's, and is rumoured to have been the inspiration for the character of Holly Golightly in Truman Capote's novel Breakfast at Tiffany's.



Leigh was married five times and mothered as many children.
two with her first husband, Marshall Hawkins, whom she met in college. this marriage ended in divorce.
next, she married a US Navy officer with whom she had her third child. they also divorced.
Dorian's third marriage was in Mexico, to a Spanish marquis/race-car driver, who turned out to be married at the time. he died in a crash during a race. the two had a son, Kim de Portago, who later became addicted to drugs and at age 21, jumped from a window to his death.
marriage number four was to Serge Bordat. during this marriage, Leigh had her fifth child with another man.
her fifth and final marriage was to playwright Iddo Ben-Gurion, from 1964-1966.

in 1980, Leigh published an autobiography, The Girl Who Had Everything, which she dedicated to her late son Kim. in Leigh's words: "I really wrote it for Kim, who will never read it. But perhaps other Kims and their parents may learn from my unhappy experiences ".

Leigh lived to be 91 years old, eventually succumbing to the effects of Alzheimer's disease in a Virginia nursing home.

table top innovation

the table dish cover by design studio MAEZM is a flexible tablecloth that renders dishes unnecessary. when eating is finished, table cloth and built-in dishes are simply removed and washed, all at once. ingenious, really. yet so very odd. [hun, can you pass me the - oh, right - never mind.]

t[ea] bird

this project was designed by Nathalia Ponomareva. the origami tea bags take shape gradually as the tea infuses. so charming, no?

moonmilk

Ryan McGinley's new exhibit, Moonmilk, takes his trademark nudes to primeval caves in this series of desperately striking photographs. the figures seem to me to be alternately melting into and growing out of the landscape. i can almost feel the cool damp stone against my skin when i look at them. magnificent.

me(ring)ues!

check out these nifty little silicon meringue rings available here. so tasty lookin'.

morr-ets-sey

limited edition print by AutumnAndEve

any Morrissey/Smiths fans out there? i dare say there are. here's a sampling of what's available for you on etsy. i'm particularly enamoured with the wall decal.

earrings by tweerific

wall decal by Drawnmorrissey

letterpress poster by YeeHaw

books print by theblackapple

Tshirt by puncontrollable

there is a light print by onetwofivego

tshirt by popdestroy