Tag: fashion

Various whatever kind of stuff

First, this photo makes me SMILE until my face hurts.

I love to see my friends laugh, and that’s a genuine Tim laugh happening here even though I was tormenting him with my camera.

Second, Wednesday, something rare was spotted in the Galleria:

Yeah, flowers, that’s nice, but there are always flowers in the Galleria.

Um, no, although this Nordstrom window IS the inspiration for a scene in Someone Like You, a title that makes me think of Mark G. Harris for some reason, and although it IS the place where I fell in love with a mannequin many years ago, I didn’t find it very exciting on Wednesday.

Speaking of things that remind me of Mark G. Harris, while I was waiting for my glasses the other day, I shot a photo of this spot in the Galleria.

The ice rink where friends Alex and Aaron from The Deal like to go to get in touch with their inner Tonya Hardings children.

Will I ever get to the point?

For Mark G. Harris

Here’s a story of a host moment gone wrong:

On this date in 1822, Scottish poet and novelist Sir Walter Scott played host to George IV when the king visited Edinburgh. The king gave Scott a glass goblet in honor of the occasion. Scott put it in his pocket and later sat on it and crushed it.

On the plus side, Scott popularized the kilt during that visit, leading to modern-day visions such as this one:

Hubba. Which I think is Scottish for “Damn!”

I’m sure it will come as no surprise that kilts are mentioned in my new novel. Next book, instead of spending hundreds of hours researching and plumbing my imagination for ideas, I’m just putting together stolen quotes from everyone’s LiveJournals. It should save a lot of time.

Button Sunday

I’ve always envied people who are clever with a needle, whether they are sewing, quilting, cross-stitching, embroidering, crocheting, or knitting. I don’t have the patience for that, but it’s very calming to watch people do it–and I assume calming to do it, as well.

I have a lot of embroidery work from my mother and Tom’s grandmother that I treasure. And I also have many examples of Lynne’s talent with a needle. Whether I need a quilt mended, or curtains and throw pillows made from favorite Ralph Lauren linens, she’s the person I call. I also have cross-stitch pieces she’s done, which I should put on here one day, and an afghan she crocheted and gave me as a wedding gift nearly two decades ago. (I was a child bride.)

Saturday, Timmy told me he’d been knitting recently. A lot of men knit these days (Joel Derfner even wrote a story about knitting for the anthology that Tim and I edited, which I’m sure you’ll be reading one day). My friend Geraldine is a gifted knitter, although I don’t have any of her work to photograph and share. Many celebrities have been spotted knitting, as well. I think it’s wonderful when these traditional crafts are taken up by new generations.

Back in 2005, Lisa knitted a couple of scarves which she sent to The Compound, and either Tim or I published a photo of River and Guinness modeling them.

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And something that can cheer us all up…

Have I mentioned lately how much I love this man?

Before Christmas, Tom and I decided that a great gift for Tim would be a case of Moxie. I called the Catawissa Bottling Company in Pennsylvania to place an order. The woman who talked to me was SO FREAKING NICE. I also ordered a T-shirt for him. When I told her that Tim was from Maine, she suggested a different T-shirt, not shown on the web site, that she was sure would be more to his Maine taste.

Why? Because of this.

She even called me a week or so after delivery to make sure we got the Moxie okay. Very cool. =)

For Greg

A little Project Runway chat. I like this season and think it includes more experienced designers than any of the other seasons. Though there are a few quirky people, right now, there are no standout talents to me. I know that will change.

I was talking to Tom after last night’s episode about something that surprised me and why I think all the designers were so freaked out. Not one of the designers–at least after the “you’re in” group was moved off the runway–had applied his or her individual vision to the challenge. They were all freaked about doing menswear and freaked about Tiki Barber instead of figuring out how to put their particular spin on it. As my example, I talked about what Uli would have done last season. She’d have played to her strength and done a design she might have described as:

I pictured Tiki doing a pre-season interview on location with several Miami Dolphins players. Because he’s out of the studio and in south Florida, I wanted to put him in softer colors but with classic cuts that (blah blah blah), and I made this tie to add a little tropical element (blah blah blah).

None of last night’s designers really combined their strengths with Tiki’s profession and barely even took into account the things HE told them about what he liked or how he liked to conceal his flaws. While they were working, they barely mentioned Tiki at all.

They did, however, like those male models. So did I!

These shoes rule

I don’t know what you’re talking about in this post, but one of the most exciting things that happened in my little part of Houston on Saturday night was that Guinness…


apparently fell in love with Lindsey’s shoes. In fact, I think we all did, because it seems that at one point or another during the night, I saw each of us stick a toe in them.

I’m pretty sure these are the kinds of things the Bloomsbury Group used to do on Saturday night.