Halloween-ing
A few months ago, my mom and I were sorting through some old family photos and I stumbled upon these gems of my grandmother and her twin brother in their Halloween costumes. The photos weren't dated, but I am guessing that these were taken sometime in the early to mid 1930's. What better day to share them than today?
Don't they look great? I am particularly enamored with the beautiful eeriness of their masks. Although the sepia tone of the photographs surely has something to do with the eerie quality. If I know my grandmother, I am sure she was excited and probably had some devilish little tricks up her sleeve :)
Happy Halloween!
Color Studies: Red and White
My love affair with red happened slowly. Stealthily. Like a crow with shiny objects I began gathering little things here and there until all of a sudden I took a look at my desk where all the evidence had piled up. I'm still a little timid when it comes to wearing red (working on that), but it definitely makes me happy to incorporate it into my creative space.
Trinkets
Anthony had to go to Switzerland all last week for work. In between moping and eating lots of candy corn and spending an unspecified number of hours watching embarrassing tv shows, I managed to get some photo editing done and traveled far and wide across Atlanta and South Carolina for a birthday-wedding-family-friend-weekend-extravaganza.
Little trinkets from A's trip have been sprinkled across our apartment since his return home. While the Swiss have a reputation for being reserved, they certainly don't hold back when designing currency. I burst out laughing the first time I saw the wildly colored notes with pictures of such stern looking people on them...they look like monopoly money! And the coins go up to 5 CF...looks like a massive Robin Hood style coin purse is necessary to tote all this around.
Oh yeah, and a tin appeared, filled with lots of little chocolates that come individually wrapped in the most awesome little packages.
This picture is from yesterday. The volume contained within the tin displayed below has diminished greatly since as I performed a series of quality tests to ensure that Swiss chocolate is really all it is cracked up to be.
Schlappyfendsdarymurmfurnsmaaaufsfulrarvscnoklarfvevnoizarnflyfernszduhbfrkst.....
Translation: happy Wednesday from one whose mouth is filled with chocolate even though it is only breakfast.
on the devil being in the details
All these pieces are handmade and were rescued from being thrown out (Sacrilege!) by Anthony's mom who now keeps them safe and sound.
When we were in Providence, she brought them out and we spent the afternoon admiring the hours and hours of hand work that must have gone into making them.
I literally cannot imagine doing this without the aid of a sewing machine.
Can you imagine putting this level of handcrafted detail onto what is essentially underwear for a toddler?
The photo below is my favorite piece: a teeny tiny skirt of cream cotton covered with a pattern of cornflower blue. If the waist wasn't all of about 10 inches, I would be wearing it all over the place.
on a good looking dude
After our last show on Sunday, fellow Wishbone member Brandon and I headed out to take some photos for an event he is participating in this week.
Brandon heads up most of Wishbone's sketch comedy revues and with good reason - he's a pretty hilarious guy. I think we were able to capture that in the above photo. On a separate note, not many guys could pull off a bright orange shirt and suspenders, but he totally makes it work!