posted by Gidge Uriza
As long as I have been fashion blogging Abraxxa Anatine of EarthSTones has been creating festive holiday jewelry.
This year is NO exception. The gorgeous and fun Fireworks necklace and earrings really have to be WORN to be appreciated, stop action pics just don’t cut it because they sparkle and twinkle like real fireworks. They are AMAZING! Continue reading
Trubble in Mind.
I’m blue,
but I won’t be blue always.
Sun is gonna shine in my backdoor someday.
Did I ever pretend to be above bad puns and shallow word play? No, I did not. Of course, the entire song is a heartbreakingly sad song expressing deep despair – nothing like the light, romantic emotions generated by the lovely, colorful Pandora dress from Tracy Rubble of Trubble, the store name that always sends my brain running down Tin Pun Alley.
I love the name of the store Prelude. It conveys the role of clothing as prelude to a party, a date, an adventure, a kiss. Choosing the right clothing for the day is the proper prelude to that day. Choosing tough durable clothing for a hike or soft, sensuous clothing for a dance – all preludes to the event that put you in the mood for the event. So what is this dress from Prelude a prelude to?
Generally speaking I choose what clothes I am going to wear before I choose my jewelry or my shoes or anything else. That went out the window the other night when my friend Abraxxa Anatine of EarthStones sent me the new Tiana necklace and earrings in coral. The instant I saw it I knew what I had to wear with it – a dress I had seen at Modern Gypsy the week before but had not purchased in a futile attempt to manage my budget. I tp’ed over to Modern Gypsy and checked out the dress to see if I remembered correctly. Yes! It was perfect for highlighting the marvelous necklace as you can see here.
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Reasonable Desires has WORLD CUP FAN outfits out at their mainstore location for 1L a piece. I just had to break out this TEAM USA outfit that my friend Austie dropped on me in honor of a wager I have going with Prad Prathivi!
I’ve offered up some genuine Georgia Praline Pecans if England kicks the ass of Team USA. I’ve suggested he bring me the heart of Adam Ant if we win. But I also said I’d accept some candy instead. Continue reading
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Yes, I’m still a kitteh. But I thought I’d take this opportunity to dispell a weird rumour I heard going around. It’s about photoshop, and bloggers.
Some bloggers do use it, I know for a fact and hell, even my best friend and blog partner Cajsa uses it on occasion to artsy up her shots. There are a lot of uses for it that improve the quality of our pics, and I gotta say……….
I wish I had it. Continue reading
Long ago and far away I read a book called The Octopus by Frank Norris – a story of the exploitation of the wheat growers of California. It’s central truths, though, were as applicable to the farmers of the Midwest that I knew and their history that lead to the creation of the Grange and the Farmers Union – so I have a soft spot in my heart for that book, even though it is not very well written. One of the most memorable things about the book for me were the occasional bits of expository meanderings that began “The Wheat! The Wheat!” I saw those four words and knew it was here-we-go-again time. “The Wheat! The Wheat!” has forever been able to send me into a fit of giggles ever since. So, of course, this post featuring the lovey butterdish sim and this glorious combine has that phrase running through my head.
You might wonder what wheat fields and countrified clothing have to do with Adam n Eve’s glorious gold metallic skin with the face a motherboard must love, but I posit that for a wheat farmer, the techno-riffic skin is a better match than the League’s booty shorts – no matter how cute they are with the paint splatters and the too long pockets. Threshing is dusty scratchy work and anyone operating a combine in their right mind would wear long jeans. Farming, on the other hand, demands an immediacy of information that makes farmers some of the most wired people you can find and that skin is wired.
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Anyone who has read this blog for any amount of time knows that I am FROM Indianapolis and that as far as I’m concerned the only reason the month of May exists is so that cars can scream around the Speedway for my pleasure.
I dug into my closet and came out with this excellent Seaside Sweetie set from 5th and Oxford to wear today to celebrate my favorite racing event. You gotta wear black and white, there are rules – especially if you are going to any sort of GOOD party. Plus, you may not know this, but the good people of Indianapolis cannot SEE the race, which starts in 31 minutes AS I type this.
Nope – they are blacked out. Can’t watch until about 6pm or so tonight. Isn’t that lame? Continue reading
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While exploring rocky terrain, I think that it’s better to protect my pretty pixel feet and thus was completely stoked when my girls at A-Bomb brought out these AWESOME boots!
They are unisex boots with the excellent color change feature I love in all of their shoes. You can click HERE for their blog to see all the goodness. Yay for options. Continue reading
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The lingerie from Reasonable Desires has been sitting on my bedroom floor, as my friends can attest, for quite a while. I just couldn’t decide what to do with it. I really liked it but wanted to do something different than my usual with it……….
and then it hit me. GIDGE KITTY! Continue reading