Long necklace thoughts
January 28, 2012
I’ve been wearing my necklaces kind of wonky for the last little while. I have a couple extra long silver chains that I’ve been looping around my arms or wearing crossbody – like a purse without the purse. I’ve also been wanting to experiment with some sort of harness thing, so I’m thinking of easing in via the necklace route.
Put the long necklace (or a normal necklace) around my waist, twist it (or loop a second necklace through) and put the other half over my head. Then for something more dramatic, add a second one of a slightly different length.
The nice thing about my silver chains is that they can be pretty subtle against light colours, so it won’t be too in your face if I don’t want it to be. Oooh – that would be sexy under a blazer worn runway style i.e. with nothing underneath.
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alternative,
chains,
silver necklaces
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Design/DIY
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Meet the parents, or whoever!
January 27, 2012
Tomorrow night The Princess and I are going out for a ‘meet The Littlest Princess’ almost fiancee’s parents’ dinner. I’m sure they’ll be nice people, and I expect we’ll have a great time. I’ll be careful not to make too many obscenely dirty or horrendously morbid jokes. I won’t even accidentally on purpose have the parents overhear me asking The Littlest if the ointment took care of everything.
As far as I can tell, between the 6 of us there will be:
- 3 men
- 3 women
- 3 people under the age of 35
- 3 people over the age of 55
- 5 Jews
- 6 brunettes
- 3 doctors
- 2 guitarists
- 2 bassists
- 3 singers
- 6 bleeding heart Liberals
- 1 lactose allergy
- 3 potheads
- 1 nicotine addict
- 2 shoe addicts
- 2 chocolate addicts
- 6 foodies
Should be good. There’s no reason for them to be, but I think I’ll really enjoy it if The Littlest and his gal are incredibly nervous. Like, fidgety, laugh too loud, sweating through the jacket nervous. And then they’ll have to do the whole thing again with The Littlest’s mom and stepfather!
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family,
food,
parents,
relationships
Category :
Small World
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Fit and Flare Coat project
January 26, 2012
For a few years now I’ve been wanting to add some chain toggle closures across the chest of a black coat. I have a black winter coat but it doesn’t have the detailing that I had been envisioning – also, I didn’t want to ruin the damn thing. I stumbled upon a black coat with these sort of shoulder/chest flap things, which give it a bit of a military vibe, but the fit and flare silhouette is pretty girly. A nice combo, so I grabbed it. The coat is from ASOS and is the ASOS brand, which can be pretty cheap. This actually works for me: it’s almost felt-weight, so I’ll be able to wear it in the spring, and it’s cheap enough that if the additions look bad or damage the coat, I won’t beat myself up over it.
The left is the coat now: black, brown buttons. The right is what I’m going to add: 3 thin silver chains with toggle closures across the front flap thingies, 1 more in the back where there’s currently a pair of buttons, a long chain loop from the front to the back (where there’s currently another button), and bracelet type chains from the sleeves. Oh, and replacing the round brown buttons with long metal ones. And, depending on how it looks at this point, possibly adding a chain edging across the shoulder flaps.
This should be pretty easy to do. I have the chains, the toggles are in transit, I need to find some buttons, and then I’m good to go.
** This is the ASOS image of the coat, photoshopped with the photocopy sketch filter (filter, sketch, photocopy!) and then coloured in and doodled on. **
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chains,
coat,
diy
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Design/DIY
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Accidental Nudity: Crotch Circles
January 22, 2012
“Yes Steven, aliens are responsible for the crop circles in your pants. And no, do not post pictures of them on Facebook.”
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parents,
sex ed
Category :
Accidental Nudity
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