Ghetto Home Fabulous: Don't Go Chasin' Waterfall Shower Curtains

This is the "Waterfall" shower curtain from Urban Outfitters. Guess how much it costs? Too much for Heezy Breezy.

More specifically: $68 (there's a similar [quite lovely] model at Anthropologie that costs $118 - ouchie).Being kind-of-poor-but-not-really-poor-enough-to-justify-complaining-about-being-poor-all-of-the-time, I've got to decorate on a budget, and when I say that, I mean - make my own shower curtain and pretend it didn't cost me $50 (that's for twelve yards of muslin, two spools of thread, and eight yards of trim).

Here it is:
Here's what it looks like without the visual equivalent of auto-tuning:If you look really closely you can see my underpants still hanging from the towel rack. Isn't that exciting?And here is a close-up. I sewed a plain curtain first and then attached yards and yards and yards of pleated, trimmed muslin strips. That's about twenty hours of my life that I'll never get back (that I can fondly remember while I'm sitting on the toilet).

Two hundredth post, holla.

I'm just gonna regurgitate some fashion-weeky goodness today. How bout these bitchin' prints, huh? As I've mentioned a couple times before, it's my dream to dress every day like a cross between Ms. Frizzle and an oriental grandma. I think these duds fit the bill.

Charles Anastase:
What the heck is that thing? I'll call it: "Satanic Barrister Pony".

Jill Stuart FTW:

Mary Katrantzou BROKE MY RAD-O-METER
All images from Style.com


And in keeping with the theme, a nice song from Pattern is Movement. Love those dudes!

from the International Quilt Study Center and Museum

Not to, uh, advocate drug use or anything, but why doesn't anyone ever get high and design quilts? People paint or draw or whatever, but I want to see a quilt that looks like a trip. I'd sleep under that.

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Do like Breezy:
Read all morning about train wrecks and victorian fashions here.
Gaze all afternoon at photos of amazink quilts here.

The Were-Rabbit, Part II

Photos by Moko.

The Were-Rabbit, Part I

Moko, Tildar, and I had a photo shoot this weekend. Tildar thought it was pretty boring. She got some Cap'n Crunch out of it, though, which always makes her a little less cranky.

Moko & Me

He likes programming, anthropology, artificial intelligence, and experimental music.

And art.

Autoprints

Tommy had me make a woodcut for his papa's birthday last week. Mr. B-Bo likes autopoint pencils, so that's what we decided to do a print of.

Here are some examples of lovely vintage autopoints from the 1920's: I haven't done a woodcut print in three years! Somehow I remembered to forget all of the safety precautions, though. Blood was spilt.

Above are the four steps of a woodcut (slightly out of order).

1) Paper to transfer the design to the wood block.

2) The original drawing.

3) The carved block.

4) A final print.

And voila, the final product once more:

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The vintage autopoint picture is from here.