Friday, November 28, 2008
It’s the official start of the holiday shopping season, which means you should be thinking of holiday cards. I wanted to support a small business, so I ordered these beautiful and nondenominational Red Blossom cards from Nouveau Designs on Etsy earlier this month. Noveau Designs did a custom order for me in a larger-than-normal quantity, [...]
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Gorgeous blogger ENC has created some new dress-based art for me. In case you don’t know the back story, it is as follows: I found an Alexander McQueen dress on eBay that looked like modern art; then Jill put me and the dress into some art; and then Danielle made another contribution. And here are [...]
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Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Gorgeous blogger Danielle of Sexie Time has added to the WendyB art collection started by gorgeous blogger Jill. Where’s WendyB? Thanks, Danielle!
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Gorgeous blogger Jill from Trend de la Creme is too good to be true. Yesterday, when I speculated that a dress I saw on eBay MUST match a work of art, she came through with multiple suggestions. Today, she topped that by Photoshopping me and the dress into the art. “Where’s WendyB?” Clearly, if I [...]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
My birthday is coming up in December. I’m sure many of you are reacting to that news by thinking, “I only have $15,000 to spend on Wendy’s birthday present. What in the world will I get her?” Not to worry. I would be thrilled to get a needlepoint pillow by Brigid Berlin, and what do [...]
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Monday, November 17, 2008
I would like to wear this dress to a modern art museum and attempt to blend in with a painting. Maybe Jill at Trend de la Creme can find the right painting for me. The shapes remind me of this Picasso but the color scheme is wrong. UPDATED TO ADD: Jill came through for me, [...]
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thanks to gorgeous blogger Chic and Charming for introducing me to the work of Lisa Perrin. Lisa sells her amazing paper dolls on Etsy. Of course I love her Anne Boleyn and Marie Antoinette dolls. But Lizzie Borden is my favorite. Nice axe! Check out the rest of them here.
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Monday, October 13, 2008
I was fascinated by yesterday’s New York Times story on artist Jamie Livingston, who took a Polaroid every day for 18 years. He started in 1979 when he was 22 and continued up to (and including) Oct. 25, 1997, when he died of cancer on his 41st birthday. Livingston’s Polaroid from August 31, 1997 Livingston’s [...]
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Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Not long ago, photos of “hair hats” went viral, showing up on numerous blogs and websites. Hair hat But I didn’t know till I read it on Fashion Hayley that the artist responsible for the hair hats, Nagi Noda, died on September 7 at age 35. The cause of death is said to be “surgical [...]
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Sunday, July 27, 2008
