Mission

I've had this green, polka dot fabric for so long and finally put it to use.

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Revelation that came through doing:


I can't expend so much of my energy/effort towards the aim of upholding an unmotivated individual. It leaves me depleted and feeling hopeless. Not healthy at all.

And that's that.

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Groovin' to Teena Marie while ripping and running all over town today trying to take care of business before moving up out of here. (More on that later.)





Every time I hear it I think of my mom. I just have an image in my head of her dancing around to this at one point during my childhood. I can't recall the specifics exactly, but I'm sure it happened. She was/is quick to cut a rug at any party, family get together, or just around the house. Now I'm realizing where I get it from.

peace!

Spirits

Nice and comfortable.

I hadn't measured this yet at the time of posting, but I thinking it's be best for a large.

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Friday night I actually got out of the house and went to Baton Rouge for a "Rock & Soul" musical event. My author-sistafriend Olympia Vernon (who was celebrating her birthday) and another sistafriend, Nikki, and I met up at Nikki's place before going. Y'all. I can't even express in words how wonderful it all was. We had so much fun! And the music! The music!!!! From EnVouge, to Al Green, To Run DMC, to Terence Trent Darby, to Morris Day and the Time, to Arrested Development!!, to Prince, to Montell Jordan, to on and on and on. They had the place rockin'. We danced/sang so much I was wishing I had a wheel chair to take me to the car. Soreness all over.

I only managed to get one photo of one of the bands early on (was groovin' too much to take pics), and it in no way captures to vibes that were flowing through there as the night progressed.



And the singer in the blue dress?? What a voice!

See them on myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/themichaelfosterproject

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A few shots from later that night:


Nikki, Olympia, Me

Crackin' up trying to get a shot. Has anyone else ever laughed so much that you felt like your, liver, spleen, stomach, kidney, or something was gonna burst if you didn't stop? Where you're laughing so hard that sound ceases to come out, and it's just deep inside? These ladies had me in tears laughing with their hilarious stories. I have little control when the laughter sets in. I seriously thought I was dying at one point. Couldn't breathe, sit/stand straight, nothing. Just debilitating laughter



Me teary-faced and in pain from laughing excessively. I eventually had to remove myself to another area to try to regain my composure. Apparently Olympia--the perpetrator-- thought it a great time for a photo. Please pardon the cleavage.


Ziggy Marley the cat making a toy out of my leg. Nikki's got one of the most sociable cats I've ever met. Reminds me of a little puppy with all his playfulness.


Me and the b-day woman.

So I ended up getting back home in Lafayette at 2:30 am only to have to go to bed and wake up a few hours later to be somewhere at 7:30. But it was absolutely worth it.

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Eden

You can read more about Olympia and her work via the following links:

http://blog.nola.com/newsouth/2008/01/pulitzernominated_olympia_vern.html

http://www.countryroadsmagazine.com/ViewArticle.php?articleid=679&page=1

http://www.collegenews.org/x7589.xml

Or just check out a post I did in October:

http://flytieonline.blogspot.com/2008/10/sensations.html

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With the help of Chrisette Michele I was able to make it home safely. I finally got her new album and have been listening to it repeatedly. It kept me awake on the 45 minute late night/early morning drive.

She's a superstar as far as I'm concerned. I can't wait to be at another of her shows to sing these new songs at the top of my lungs like last time.

Some of my favorites from her latest release:


"Fragile"



"Porcelain Doll"



"Another One"




An of course, "Epiphany".

Yes, yes, yes!

peace!

The Right Way

I was commissioned by my blogger sistafriend Sewl Sista #1 to make her one of my reversible hoodie dresses in colors of my choosing. (The same Sewl Sista who sent me the wonderful fabric out of which I made the striped dresses seen here and here.)

You can check out a collage of different views on flickr.

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Tea and Honey Bread Shutter Click & Chat Sundays
(Umm, yeah, the Monday edition. )

"What would you do with an extra $100?"



I always find it difficult to answer questions like this for one reason or another, but I finally concluded that I'd put most of it towards the cost of new fabric and supplies and make a whole bunch of new garments that I could sell and increase my riches! But not before I use some of it to see if I can get my flickr/etsy friend moonstr to do one of her (above) "Frenching Moons" prints for me...since somebody else bought it before I could get to it!! So precious. :-)

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Yesterday I whipped up this lil number.

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I'm big on flared dresses with tie around belts.

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Smoothness, man. Just pure smoothness.




I've had this in my head for a few days now.


Hope y'all are doing well!
peace

So Alive

Newness.

(Heart next to "L" and drawstring at center)

So I've made the decision to go ahead and combine my sewfly shop with my fly tie shop on etsy. Yeah, the shop's been empty for months, but I was preparing to add new artistic items to it when it hit me that I no longer feel the need to separate my 2 styles of clothing. So now garments that are painted or that utilize patches like the one above will be mixed in with all the other garments. I've already added one of the art tops to the shop, and it seems to fit in just fine. :-)

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Artwork that I really adore by my sistafriend Plantfolk.


"Connect"

Check out more at: http://plantfolk.wordpress.com/maart/


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Today I was given a lovely award by my blog friend Juana of Gallery Juana.



I always enjoy visiting her blog and am grateful for her visits to mine as well. :-)
Now,to list 10 honest things about myself...


1. I'm seriously infatuated with a certain somebody...
2. When I get books and dvds from the library, I renew them over and over via the internet even if I'm done with them to prevent having to take them back before I absolutely have to go that way. (No worries. If someone's waiting on it, they let me know, then that's a motivator for me to go over there.)
3. More often than not I live on the edge where finances are concerned. I'm pretty used to it and find it exciting at times and stressful at others.
4. I'm contemplating a move to another state in the next couple of months.
5. I recently had a conversation with a friend about finding someone with whom I can engage in a summer fling. (But knowing myself it wouldn't work, cause I'd get way too passionate and attached if it were someone I was really into. And it couldn't be with someone I wasn't into, so...)
6. I often have something random (or not so random) to say, and do so via posts on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/flytie
7. I still am not always clear on the correct use of who/whom and lay/lie and look them up whenever I need to use them. (However, I just took a guess at the use of "whom" in number 5.) Most things stick with me, but for some reason I can't internalize these.
8. Most of the time I just want to be cuddled up in my bed. (And it'd be nice if it could be with the certain somebody from number 1...at least some of the times.)
9. If it were economically feasible, I'd go to Jason's Deli everyday and eat off of their wonderful salad bar.

10. My father's birthday is either May 15 or May 16, I'm not 100% sure which. Despite inquiring about it numerous times, I can never keep it straight. Kinda like that who/whom, lay/lie thing. But either tomorrow or Saturday he should receive the card I sent. And I'll call Saturday, cause I've got a strong feeling that that's when it is.

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Last night I was sitting here thinking about this song, "U and I" that I really love by Emily King and wondering what's going on with her. When I first heard it in early '08 it was an instant fave. Then shortly afterwards I came across this abbreviated acoustic version on youtube and listened to it repeatedly. Chiiillls. What a great wedding song. Or just together song.

You can hear the complete version here

or via her MySpace page.

peace!

By Now

Will definitely have to make some of these for myself.

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Purple/black denim with a lil bit of stretch.

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School's over for me, and I'm so thrilled! I feel pretty confident that I'll get a's in both classes. Man. Linguistics is no joke, but I really enjoyed the class. At times I had to stop and be like, "Wait, wait, wait...lemme just...wrap my mind around this. Let it marinate for a bit." Really had to internalize a lot of it. Very involved stuff.

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I never did show y'all the outcome of that dresser I was gonna decoupage.


Still haven't done the top.

And yeah, the beads do get in the way when I open and close the drawers, but I like them there. Plus I needed to do something with my abundance of Mardi Gras beads.

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Stuck in my head.
(I sure know the feeling...)


T.O.N.Y. - Solange
(lyrics)


(And I just had a realization. This song and video remind me very much of Amy Winehouse's "Tears Dry On Their Own", a song that I've always liked. Something with me and these types of songs...)

See, when I first heard and wrote about "I Decided" by Solange I knew that I'd have to get the album. I still haven't, but I will soon. Cause I'm 3 for 3 on the songs I've heard through the grapevine by her. The one above along with

"Sandcastle Disco"

"I Decided"

So, I can only imagine that her album will work for me. I like what she's got going on.

Have a great day!
peace!

Unspoken

Blue.

lrg-xlrg

Didn't mean to look gangster-ish in the photo. Tiredness translates like that for me sometimes.

And on Flickr you can see a collage of different views.

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A final exam Monday night. Another Wednesday. Then it's over!! I just need to collect my thoughts on characters and themes from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, The Vicar of Wakefield, Pride and Prejudice, and Northanger Abbey enough to write 4 well-developed short essays and answer some identification questions. Then look over the chapter on semantics in my linguistics book. Yep. That's all.

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Tea & Honey Bread Shutter Click and Chat Sundays

Theme: Prom


Click here for a clearer photo.

Long stories short: It was a last minute decision to go, and my general attitude towards it was, "Eh..whatever" Seniors were supposed to wear white, but I wasn't into that. I found that shimmering little red number for 60 bucks in Frederick's of Hollywood at the Mall in Irving, TX. Didn't have a date, so I went with to 2 friend (who didn't have dates either). The guy who I was into and had shared mutual flirtations with ended up going with someone else (see photo bottom left). That someone else was/is like a little sister to me. My mom babysat her for yrs. Well, he didn't know that and she didn't know about us (and since there was noting really concrete between me and him, I guess there wasn't a whole lot to know). By the time I'd decided I was gonna go and was eying him as a potential date, I got word that he already had a date (found out later that he'd gotten word that I wasn't going.) We had sort of a "You like me and I like you, but you make me much to giddy most of the time to talk to you directly, so I'll just have to hear through the grapevine what's going on with you" type relationship. In the end, prom was wack, and I wish I'd stayed home and watched Food Network. About the guy--really nice and respectful individual who I still wonder about from time to time.

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Sweet song to tie it all together:



Man. I won't even go into my love of and for Lauryn Hill (at least not in this post...my blog friend Jewelry RockStar did a great post that expresses many of my own sentiments about Ms. Hill), but after all these yrs. that I've been a huge fan and all this time that she hasn't really been on the scene, I still feel the same strong connection to her and her music that I did as a teen.


Peace!