Tag: fashion

Strike a pose


I picked up this coloring book back in 2017, but I’ve never colored anything from it. Mainly because the drawings are on the front and back pages, so I don’t want to pull them from the book the way I do single-sided pages I color from other books.

Most of the things I color I put on Instagram instead of here, but tonight I wanted to do a quick coloring session while I worked out something in my next chapter in my brain. (I color A LOT to prepare for writing fiction.) So I grabbed this book and fell for this picture. Didn’t photograph it before I colored it.

Here’s the blurb. The drawing is based on a photo in Vogue from the September issue, 1955.

For fun, I did some research. The model–actually a supermodel of her time–was Anne St. Marie, who was married to renowned photographer Tom Palumbo. He took thousands of photos of her, and she was truly sensational. Here’s the original Vogue photo taken by Henry Clarke.

Tiny Tuesday!

Recently, during research I was doing for my work-in-progress, I thought about the old TV show “The Wild Wild West.” We did watch it when I was a kid, but I fear a lot of it was over my head. (I’ve never seen the Will Smith movie.)

Anyway, the show is often credited with helping create steampunk. Though steampunk is a fashion trend that mostly slipped right by me, I’m fascinated by it.

If I were sewing, which I’m not, I’d be daydreaming about how to make doll fashion from what I already own, including these little charms. Not pictured here are a bunch of keys. I love keys and locks.

Sad but not too sad

Over on my sidebar, I’ve long had a link to Polyvore. I loved using the site to make fashion boards for my characters or just of things I liked.

I decided to go back and look at some of them, but when I clicked on it, it took me to a new site: Ssense, which apparently bought the site and then shut down everyone’s accounts. In doing a little research, they did provide the option to users to download their stuff by May 15. Let that sink in for a second, as today is May 16. And I thought, I missed it by a damn day?!? Well, no. The deadline was May 16, 2018. Another freaking thing I was too busy to be aware of.

A reasonable person would say, “Becks, if you haven’t used it in two years…” Except, now I’m writing some of the characters I used it for, and their boards are gone, and I no longer have an account to create more.

Anyway, I’m experimenting with a new site, Fashmates. Here’s a first attempt.

That’s not a baseball jersey, but he’ll allow it.

Transport Thursday!

No animals in the photo today except unicorns. This is Lynn who does the same job I do for our rescue. Completely independent of each other, we ended up wearing identical sweaters on Ugly Christmas Sweater Thursday. We take the word “team” to new levels depths.

She keeps me sane EVERY day, and I’m pretty sure we are the two tiredest people in Houston.

Tiny Tuesday!

Not too long ago I shared this book on here, saying I wanted my own copy. It arrived, and sometimes I may use it, sometimes not, to start a new weekly feature on the blog, “Tiny Tuesdays!” This is for the little things that make me happy, and I’d love it if you used the theme on your own blog or Instagram (I mean, you could Facebook it, but I’d never see it, because I don’t Facebook). But I’d enjoy seeing the tiny good things of your world.

I wish I had a Barbie doll in my house right now to show you the scale of this. It’s too big to be a Barbie briefcase, and maybe a little too slender to be a Barbie suitcase, but I’ve long wanted to use it in a Model Muse photoshoot.


It was a gift from my mother many, many years ago. What is it?


Tiny but practical.

What’s tiny in your Tuesday?