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clevermanka) wrote2015-01-01 07:52 am
clevermanka) wrote2015-01-01 07:52 am
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Happy 2015
Here's hoping anyway, right?
Two besties came over last night. We ate, chat, and polished off a couple bottles that had gotten lost in the wine collection and were, miraculously, still good. I was pleased and relieved since one of them was a $40 bottle of Pineau des Charentes. We planned to watch a movie but, as often happens when we get together, spent five hours talking instead. The were gone by 10:45 and I was in bed and asleep by 11:15. Ahhhh.
New Year's resolutions were never my thing, although I think they're great when people use them as a tool to improve their lives. If you're making resolutions this year, I wish you all the best! And also, I'm nosy, so feel free to share them in the comments.
I suppose I can consider my Intentional Movement program a new resolution that I got a head-start on it last week.
Recently I've been incorporating a new style aesthetic into my wardrobe. It's a sort of post-apocalyptic look, but wearable. A little more thrift store punk and less Burning Man. In my head I think of it as "delicately grim." I made a Pinterest account to track ideas for it if you're curious. Because of that, I've been pondering another 365 photo project: taking a photo of my outfit every day. I'm worried I'll be exhausted of that by March, though. Maybe I can aim for three outfit photos a week or something? It would certainly motivate me to be more imaginative and daring with my combos. I'm always inspired by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
splix's fashion choices and combinations. It looks fun, but I don't have that varied of a wardrobe. Well, I can at least try it for a couple months and if I'm not enjoying it, nobody is going to force me to continue. One side benefit would be that the only appropriate mirror for such self-portraits is the one in my sewing room and taking a photo in there every day would certainly cause me to keep it a bit tidier.
In other news, the due South Sekrit Santa creators were revealed yesterday, so I can post a link to the piece I did for it this year: A Second Chance. I'm really pleased with this one. It used up the last of my maps of Chicago, though, and my last atlas entry for Canada. So if I'm going to continue doing these, I gotta go buy some more paper Chicago and Canada maps, which ugh. Not that they're expensive, but it seems ridiculous to buy new ephemera for my collages instead of finding them at the library book sale or thrift stores. I guess if anyone has old maps of either that they'd like to send me? The older the better, actually. Not like I have to worry about updated roads and such.
A list of all the works for the challenge are here.
Anyway. Happy New Year! I certainly wish a happy year on all of you still here and reading. I know at least a few people keep up with me here who don't even have LJ accounts so can't comment (hi, E-Dub!) and it's nice to know that I'm not shouting into a void. LJ is getting smaller and less active all the time. I know it's going to stop being a viable community eventually, but I'm sure I'll be one of the last hold-outs and I appreciate all of you who are also sticking around to the very end. Big, sexy kisses to you all.
Two besties came over last night. We ate, chat, and polished off a couple bottles that had gotten lost in the wine collection and were, miraculously, still good. I was pleased and relieved since one of them was a $40 bottle of Pineau des Charentes. We planned to watch a movie but, as often happens when we get together, spent five hours talking instead. The were gone by 10:45 and I was in bed and asleep by 11:15. Ahhhh.
New Year's resolutions were never my thing, although I think they're great when people use them as a tool to improve their lives. If you're making resolutions this year, I wish you all the best! And also, I'm nosy, so feel free to share them in the comments.
I suppose I can consider my Intentional Movement program a new resolution that I got a head-start on it last week.
Recently I've been incorporating a new style aesthetic into my wardrobe. It's a sort of post-apocalyptic look, but wearable. A little more thrift store punk and less Burning Man. In my head I think of it as "delicately grim." I made a Pinterest account to track ideas for it if you're curious. Because of that, I've been pondering another 365 photo project: taking a photo of my outfit every day. I'm worried I'll be exhausted of that by March, though. Maybe I can aim for three outfit photos a week or something? It would certainly motivate me to be more imaginative and daring with my combos. I'm always inspired by
splix's fashion choices and combinations. It looks fun, but I don't have that varied of a wardrobe. Well, I can at least try it for a couple months and if I'm not enjoying it, nobody is going to force me to continue. One side benefit would be that the only appropriate mirror for such self-portraits is the one in my sewing room and taking a photo in there every day would certainly cause me to keep it a bit tidier.In other news, the due South Sekrit Santa creators were revealed yesterday, so I can post a link to the piece I did for it this year: A Second Chance. I'm really pleased with this one. It used up the last of my maps of Chicago, though, and my last atlas entry for Canada. So if I'm going to continue doing these, I gotta go buy some more paper Chicago and Canada maps, which ugh. Not that they're expensive, but it seems ridiculous to buy new ephemera for my collages instead of finding them at the library book sale or thrift stores. I guess if anyone has old maps of either that they'd like to send me? The older the better, actually. Not like I have to worry about updated roads and such.
A list of all the works for the challenge are here.
Anyway. Happy New Year! I certainly wish a happy year on all of you still here and reading. I know at least a few people keep up with me here who don't even have LJ accounts so can't comment (hi, E-Dub!) and it's nice to know that I'm not shouting into a void. LJ is getting smaller and less active all the time. I know it's going to stop being a viable community eventually, but I'm sure I'll be one of the last hold-outs and I appreciate all of you who are also sticking around to the very end. Big, sexy kisses to you all.
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I don't do resolutions either, but I like to think of goals for the year. I know, pretty much the same thing, but just different way of putting it. 'Goals' seem more solid to me than 'resolutions.' Intentional movement is one of mine, for sure. This week has not been good for that, so I have some hard mental work ahead of me.
I really like your Pinterest boards; my style needs a major overhaul as well and I want to find my own new aesthetic. I have a very small wardrobe too and it's boring as fuck. I have used my weight as an excuse for years to avoid buying more clothes; I need to get over myself and start properly dressing the body I have and not the body I hope to have.
ANYWAY Happy New Year! I'm so glad we've gotten to know each other and I can't wait for 221b Con!!
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HmmmmmmMaaaaybe we can hunt down some Atlanta thrift stores while we're at the con! That would be sweet. God damn I wish the Chevelle would be ready by then and I could drive down.
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Love,
Gansje
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Happy New Year
I read your blog and enjoy following your ups, downs, goals, and humor. I like hearing about your yoga goals as I practice it every day. I've taken classes for years and at one point considered taking teacher training. I try never to leave the house without having done at least 10-15 minutes of some pose combinations. Even traveling, I take a foldable, old yoga mat. It's helped my shoulders or back when I've had to lug bags or sleep on planes and trains. Strangely, it also bonds me with the space I stay at because of laying on the floor, etc. to do yoga. :)
I'm pretty quiet here, but I like LJ's format for word expression better than tumblr.
Enjoy your day and year,
ruth
Re: Happy New Year
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A) I have *got* to watch Sherlock season 3!
B) I hope recipient really dug the collage--looks like it was a lot of work.
C) I love pinterest. I have ups and downs of use, but it takes up so much less space than my actual paper notebooks of tearsheets. Which I still have.
D) If you are worried about getting tired of the photo a day, could you do once a week? photo a Monday? I generally only take photos of outfits that I really like or that I can't figure out what/how to fix it. I suspect lots of those will happen with my new saddle shoes that look like bowling shoes. I've been wearing the crap out of my cloth timberbland boots though, and I am a little surprised at how easy something is to wear when you just insist on wearing it. Attitude matters.
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You really kind of don't. =/ The more time I spend away from it, the more the whole season just irritates the shit out of me. *sigh* I mean, I guess if you intend to watch Season 4 (whenever it comes out), you do need to see it, but...well. Best not get your hopes too high for it.
Picking a couple good outfits a week is a great idea! And I'm not gonna be able to start today even if I wanted to because I tried to get a pic of today's ensemble (which I only put on because we went out for lunch) and the sewing room needs a LOT more/better light to get a decent photo in that mirror. So I'm either going to need to figure a new lighting arrangement in there, or get a little tripod for the camera so I can stand it up and set it on a timer.
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I do like the Pins. Sock Dreams has sets of great heavy industrial-looking garters!
I'm falling into jeans and sweaters lately because .. COLD, even at work inside, and I need to wake back up. I like your ideas.
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But those garters ROCK!
If you found some super socks with them, share, baby!
The ones I bought aren't soft or stretchy, and they shrunk up badly :(
Oh, and I have a Seattle 70s map postcard you can have for ephemera.
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http://www.sockdreams.com/products/m-squared:10255
http://www.sockdreams.com/products/diamond-rib-knee-highs:4171
http://www.sockdreams.com/products/cotton-slouch-socks:1415
http://www.sockdreams.com/products/military-bootsocks:5741
It's been so long that I bought any for me that they're no longer carrying them, but I've never had bad luck with them. I don't wash anything in hot water, though, except whites and I don't own any white socks...
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I don't wash in hot water either.. except for Jbirds white socks and my sheets. I may have just gotten a bad pair for me. I'm really one for the softest of the soft.
ETA: LJ is up to its tricks again, I replied under your comment!
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I'm so happy that your art turned out so super!
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