Skirts, skirts, skirts..

[thrpschr]

Nearly finished with my larger bag for heavy school books - it's starting to look rather, I don't know, expensive. Which is nice, I guess; decent finish, no loose threads or frumpy frayed edges of anything like that. And it has a tassel on it - naturally. Large and black with black seed beads covering the top of it - I do love upholstery supplies

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[0taxidermy0]

I know the feeling you're talking about, when something is either the most hideous thing you've ever seen, or the most beautiful, you just can't decide wich it is.

It's just that I don't get that feeling when I look at that fabric. I just think it's freaky. I trust you to make a lovely skirt out of it. But I will always feel like I am in Krazy Kat's world when I look at it ;)

/L.

[thrpschr]

Well, try to think of that quality as a good thing! :D

[0taxidermy0]

babylove, du vet de där svarta pilgrimsmyckena de hade i en affär här? du sa att du antagligen ville ha ett? Det fanns ett som såg ut som ett radband och ett som påminner om dina örhängen/brosch.
Anywho, ajg fick satans mycket stålars idag.
Så ajg köpte båda två, för de hade liksom bara en av varje kvar.... du ville ha radbandet va? jag tänkte det iaf,
Så du kan ta det och betala mig lite då och då när du vill (om du vill ha det alltså, annars behåller jag det själv...) Det kostade 600 spänn.
Just wanted to inform ya that there is a pilgrimsmycke to be had if you want it! :)
Annars är allt bra. Är hos sandra och lånar internätet :9 hälsa A.

/L.

Oooooooo,

[thrpschr]

du är inte klok! Men allra bäst! Klart jag vill ha det! Ska kolla med pengar, men det är nog inga problem att betala hälften nu och hälften nästa månad, i alla fall, om det är ok?

Hälsade på K med Å idag, Daniel dök också upp. Var trevligt, men man känner sig rätt skum efter fyra timmar på psyket, kan jag ju säga - satt på String med Å och D ett tag efteråt och funderade på vilka störningar folk hade där, liksom... :) Man betraktar alla som dårhusfall eller mentalskötare efter en stund.

[halobat]

Hmm. At least in the US, red/pink/purple and sky blue/light green are very trendy color combinations. You'd be hailed as a trendsetting color guru if you wore that here. I find that most people here don't really understand color or know what to do with it. They're comfortable if things "match", but most of the "matching" has to do with conventional rules and very old approaches to color. I always appreciate it when I see someone using color in a way that is interesting but still tasteful.

I can't wait to see that anemone skirt! (and you get a gold star for using the word "anemone" in a journal entry....)

[thrpschr]

I think the thing is that I like the kind of colour combos that make may eyes water a little, or something...

Speaking about colours, I saw an amazing documentary on TV last night, about a South African artist called Yinka Shonibare, who has recently made a dance film based on the murder of the Swedish king Gustaf III in the late 18th century. Yinka Shonibare directs the movie and he has also made the costumes - historically authentic clothes, but made up in bright, colourful African print fabrics. They've shot the movie at a theatre from the same period. I couldn't find many pictures, but here is one: http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=10828&a=252612

I'll try to post a pic of the skirt when I'm done with it. The cloth really is something - it's a love/hate thing, everyone who has seen it has a very definite opinion on it.

A gold star, really? Now I feel special! :)

[0taxidermy0]

I have a very classical training in mixing colours, because of my artsyfartsy childhood, with artclasses and oilpaintingclasses and aquarelleclasses and what have you, that my mom put me through.
Therefor I completely LOVE to break the "rules".
Anywho, most of the rules are just old conventions and really, somtimes conventions really should go to hell.
Pink and red, lovely.
Green and blue, fabulous.
Brown and turquoise, brown and pink, great.

But dark blue and brown, nono.
Dark blue and orange, noooooo.
Yellow and blue, nononooooooo!

But ofcourse, I only dress in black and black. I think that's why I try to compensate by having a home full of kitsch and colour.
I want my homw in light lemonyellow and black, in red and pink and in dark reds and browns and lush pinks and here and there, a small splash of powderpink or lightlight green.
Like twenties and thirties and fifties mixed ;)

/L.